AI Deduces Personal Traits From Ad Exposure Alone
AI can infer personal traits from ad exposure patterns alone, turning everyday advertising streams into detailed profiles without direct access to private data https://t.co/2QKj8k2XtP
Show Declined After Producer’s Departure
The Shawn Ryan show went downhill the exact same moment his navy ship driver producer left. I said what I said.
Art the Clown Takes Over NYE Live From Andy Cohen
Just got word that Art the Clown will be replacing Andy Cohen for New Year’s Eve Live.
Media
TV Ratings Revolt: Big Media hopes this year's upfront is filled with drama that connect commercials to making advertisers' cash registers ring and puts a lid on being judged by Nielsen's count of viewers' eyeballs.... https://t.co/4qqfRnDXGf
Star Power and ABC Boost WNBA Viewership Surge
If you want an early line on WNBA viewership, as my guys @AustinKarp and @paulsen_smw will attest, watch out for the @IndianaFever-@DallasWings viewership number when it comes out next week. Caitlin Clark is back healthy. Paige Bueckers is a TV...
Treat Your YouTube Channel as a Business, Define Your Why
Treat your YouTube channel like a business from day one. 👀 Not a hobby. Not a side project. A business. Because your why shapes everything. Know your reason for starting. It's what keeps you going when it gets hard. 🎯 https://t.co/yVK0NH1UeH
Are AI‑narrated, AI‑written Audiobooks Truly Reading?
Do audiobooks read by AI count as reading? What if it was written by AI too?
Networks and Streamers Bring Plenty to Upfronts, Yet Need More
As Networks and Streamers Head to the Upfronts, They Have Plenty to Tout — And Just As Many Needs https://t.co/5wC7R4ltVC via @variety
Kellerman’s Ethics Claim Masks Real Benefits for Russini
Granted this is not the man point of Kellerman’s comments (using “journalistic ethics” as a guise to publish salacious material), but I strongly disagree with his point that Russini derived no real practical benefit from the relationship. https://t.co/D60d5CuvcT
Whistleblowing Today: Secrets Spread Instantly Online
Plenty to be unhappy about with the internet, but watching The Insider and if this happened today the tobacco company story would be out so fast. Jeff Wigand would have started a Substack. Or maybe Lowell or Mike Wallace would...
Journalists Prioritize Semantics Over Objective Reporting
What has gone wrong with the ability of journalists to report objectively on anything these days? “Pedestrian” as opposed to trespasser.
Brands' Secret AI Use Tops Social Media Sins
Brands hiding their use of AI in social posts is their biggest social media sin, according to a Sprout Social survey. 28% Unlabeled AI-Generated Content 23% Engagement Bait 14% Political Commentary 13% Automated DMs 12% Posting Too Much
First Amendment Lawyer Warns FCC's Disney Attack Violates Constitution
Famed First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams told @passantino that the FCC's attacks on Disney are "so clearly politically rooted" that basic Constitutional protections should protect the company from the agency's attacks. More in @statusnews: https://www.status.news/p/the-mouse-bites-back
Instagram Pivots to Champion Long‑form Creators for Next Years
Instagram’s VP of Product says she’s thinking about how the platform can best support long-form creators over the next 1-2 years — a complete reversal of IG's previous focus on short-form, shareable content https://liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-instagrams-return-to-long-form
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AI Founder Shows Personal OS for Emails, Content, Groceries
My next guest, @moritzkremb, is an AI founder who built a personal OS in Claude Code to help with emails, content, and even buying groceries. He walked me through his full setup including all the folders, tools, skills, and routines pictured...
A Live TV Blunder's 20-Year Cultural Impact
Decades before and better than the Ligma-Johnson interviews we have not a set up, but a genuine mistake. A Mistaken Guy: The 20-Year Legacy of a Live TV Blunder https://t.co/PMQxOWSX19
AI Will Separate Strategic Agencies From Basic Set‑ups
AI won’t kill Meta ad agencies. It will expose the ones that only sell basic setup work. Businesses still need humans for strategy, positioning, creative thinking, and profitable scaling. But agencies ignoring AI will absolutely fall behind, because speed and execution...
Elle Kennedy's Off Campus Premieres on Prime Video
The hit Elle Kennedy books series is finally getting its small screen adaptation. But when does Off Campus drop on Prime Video? https://t.co/InB2VTwDgs
Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 Arrives in 2027
Daredevil: Born Again season 3 will be released sometime in 2027 — here's everything we know ahead of its eventual release. https://t.co/TadjLvmt5V
Google's Illegal Monopolies Fuel Open Web's Demise
Google Inc, having been found in courts to have six illegal monopolies including search, continues to get away with a “delay, deny, deflect” approach as they accelerate their killing of the open web while surpassing $300 BILLION in ad revenues...
AI Media Blurs Reality; Trusted Journalism Becomes Essential Infrastructure
We are moving beyond the era of “fake news” into something more destabilizing. AI-generated content, synthetic media and algorithmic amplification are making reality itself feel negotiable. That is why trusted journalism matters more than ever. In an age of infinite content, credibility...
Why the $400 vSeeBox V6 Plus Isn't Just a Roku
This Android set-top box costs $400! Why? Because it ain't just a bigger Roku, as I explain in my review of the vSeeBox V6 Plus Android TV device. It's a grey market device, quite interesting, and probably illegal. Sort of......
Put Key Findings in Headlines, Not Just Actions
Kevin Rose @kevinrose started up https://t.co/qMvWnX9Rip tonight. It's very good. It competes with my https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ So I had my AI agents (made by Levangie Labs) that build my page go over and check it out and look for ways to improve. Here is its...
Goalposts Keep Shifting: Adapt, Persist, and Thrive
One thing I don’t think people talk about enough in publishing, business, or honestly entrepreneurship in general… is that the goalposts never stop moving. Ever. 🤣 You might look at my page and think, “Well, she’s had some success.” And yes, I...
China Needs a Podcast to Elevate Scientific Rockstars
“There’s no track in China that systematically enables the growth of star power for Chinese scientists, akin to mega mainstream podcasts like Dwarkesh or Lex.” Builders and scientists are rockstars and should be celebrated as such.
Disrupting Maritime Publishing, yet Still Blocked by Entrenched Power
Yep. Started @gCaptain 20 years ago confident we could close down incumbents that charged ship captains insane subscriptions for paper products. One, @LloydsList, was the longest running publication in print and I thought, we are young, we are California bases, we...
Fear Outpaces Context in Virus News Coverage
I ran sentiment analysis on top news coverage of the new virus. My conclusion: fear travels faster than context. The best public-health signal was measured. A lot of the media signal was amplified. This infographic breaks down who stayed grounded and who leaned alarm-prone. https://t.co/ZJP8ODS0Ft
Amazon Nails NFL, NBA Streams but Mismanages Crowd Noise
Amazon has overall done a great job with NFL and NBA. But I don’t think they’ve gotten the crowd noise levels right for either yet.
Perceived Platform Bias: Throttled Twitter, Silent Facebook Engagement
I didn’t get any backlash on twitter… my account was completely throttled. And I my company has 100k more followers on facebook than x and we don’t get any likes or comments. Zuck still uses the woke Wikipedia blacklist to shadow ban...
Gawker's Billionaire Battle Left Lasting Scars
Good story on Gawker. TIL Tim Cook killed a show based on it. Boo. Best quote: "Gawker eventually became like Lennie from Of Mice and Men, where it didn’t understand its own power.” At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years...
Built My Dream Content CMS in Hours with Claude
Weekend Project: Build the dream Content CMS I've always wanted... my own ContentOS I've been building with no-code tools for the past five years (Notion, Tana, Code, you name it). But there is always trade-offs. → Views that I can't get...
Competing AI Agents Accelerate News Platform Innovation
I'm real excited to see the new @digg that @kevinrose and team are building. His teases show it does a ton of stuff I haven't been able to do on https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ (and promises to do AI news from X too). The...
TV Producers Feel Squeezed Out, Not a Charity
“ A lot of our friends have been squeezed out of the biz… It’s not an NGO.” Howard Owens of Propagate dishing the truth on being a TV producer today. @TheWrap
Late‑Night Legends Guest‑Star on Colbert’s Final Episodes
Stephen Colbert’s Final Weeks: David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and John Oliver to Hit ‘Late Show’ Before Last Episode https://t.co/Hi8MvXkFUw via @variety
Programmatic Ads Now Drive over a Third of Spotify Revenue
Interesting data point from Spotify’s $SPOT earnings call last week: more than 1/3rd of its advertising revenue is now generated from “biddable” (programmatic) buying. https://t.co/iO6L7ngsmh
Twitch CEO: Embeds Account for Just 0.37% View Hours
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy says embeds are not a primary source of viewbots on Twitch. According to him, only 0.37% of Watch Hours come from people watching on embedded players.
CBS Evening News Falls Below 4M Viewers, Fourth Week
For the fourth *consecutive* week, Bari Weiss' revamped "CBS Evening News" averaged less than 4 million viewers—a once unthinkable situation.
Veteran Reporters Call for Reform in D.C. Journalism
“What would you change about D.C. journalism?” former Washington Post scribes were asked. (I’m included.) Source: NOTUS https://t.co/LBLK7GgLRo
WNBA League Pass to Offer Spanish Language Option
One interesting media thing: The league is working on getting WNBA League Pass in Spanish.
Chatbot Ads Slip By? Users Say They’ll Notice
This Article Claims You Probably Wouldn’t Notice if a Chatbot Slipped Ads Into Its Responses Well, I would certainly notice and would not like it at all https://t.co/aRMvQtJavM https://t.co/i2qsfiAfxf
Pick the Platform that Fits Your Audience, Not Hype
Every platform expert is going to tell you their platform is the most important one. TikTok experts will tell you TikTok is where all the growth is happening. LinkedIn experts will tell you that LinkedIn is where all the money is. Instagram experts...
Seinfeld Episodes Sped up 7.5% to Squeeze Extra Ads
Castle Rock also owned rights to Seinfeld. During re-runs, some cable networks actually sped up show’s episodes by 7.5%. Why? An episode on network TV typically ran 25 minutes with 5 minutes for ads. In syndication, sped-up run time was 22 minutes…leaving...
Don't Kill Ads by Ad‑level CPA Alone
I've audited hundreds of accounts in the last year alone. The single most common mistake I see, across budgets big and small: advertisers turning off ads based on ad-level CPA. It's not their fault. The data makes it look obvious. But...
FCC Defends Equal Time Rule, Reviews Disney's News Exemption Claim
FCC spox claims equal time rule "encourages more speech and empowers voters to decide the outcome of elections. The FCC will review Disney’s assertion that ‘The View’ is a 'bona fide news program' and thus exempt from the political...
YouTube Rolls Out Dozens of Creator‑focused Features Worldwide
Over the last month, our @youtube team shipped these products and features for our viewers and @youtubecreators: 🪟Fully custom multiview on @YouTubeTV ⏳Countdown stickers for mobile live streamers 🖼️Picture-in-Picture for non-music content globally 🔍Ask YouTube, a new way for Premium subscribers to...
BBC Question Time: Empty Talk, No Real Accountability
BBC Question Time was a London audinece watching a chair encourage Westminster squabbling. Policy free discussion and no real recognition of what just actually happened.
LinkedIn Article Hits Google’s Top Spot in 24 Hours
The pipeline from LinkedIn article to top result in Google is so real. This piece is barely 24 hours old. My god. https://t.co/GSluiMC2WK
Company Profited From Lies, Data Theft, and Hate
"This is the company that profited from trafficking in lies, that tuned its algorithms to boost hatred and division, that stole our data and used it against us, that created the culture of toxic memes that are now central to...
Ted Turner Exploited Government Competition Schemes Like UHF
I loved that Ted Turner made the most of random federal schemes meant to encourage competition -- (like UHF channels), and just went for it.