Catégorie : Other interests
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Dentsu Can’t Give Away a $4.5bn Business. That Should Terrify You. Dentsu’s attempt to sell its international operations has collapsed. Apollo walked. Trade buyers walked. Only Bain Capital remains,… | Gustaf Wick | 193 comments
The global marketing landscape is shaped by five leading agency groups, collectively known as WIPOD: WPP, IPG, Publicis Groupe, Omnicom Group, and Dentsu. These companies excel in creativity, data, media, and technology, with prominent agencies like Ogilvy, McCann, Leo Burnett, BBDO, and Dentsu, respectively, each driving innovation and growth for brands worldwide through integrated brand-building,…
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Perfect design is dead. AI killed it. Now brands are paying premium prices for work that looks “worse” – grainy videos, hand-drawn illustrations, intentional flaws. Hermès commissioning… | Marc Steimer | 54 comments
The article discusses a shift in design trends where brands are moving away from AI-generated perfection towards embracing human imperfections in their content. With AI saturating the market with flawless imagery, leading brands like Hermès, Microsoft, and Patagonia are opting for grainy videos, hand-drawn illustrations, and raw aesthetics as part of a strategy to create…
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BREAKING: Google launched free AI courses. Here are 9 direct links to access them: (No sign-up fees or prior skills required.) [ save 🔖 this post for later ] 1 – Organize any project with… | Andrew Bolis | 186 comments
Google has launched free AI courses, accessible without sign-up fees or prior skills, covering topics such as project organization, marketing using Gemini Gems, customer insights, content generation, personalized and pro-level prompting, email writing, market research, and an introduction to Generative AI. These courses aim to help individuals upskill, boost productivity, and advance their careers, with…
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A ‘toaster with a lens’: The story behind the first handheld digital camera
In 1975, Steve Sasson, a young electrical engineer at Eastman Kodak, invented the first handheld digital camera, challenging Kodak’s traditional film-based photography model. Using a charge-coupled device (CCD) and various scavenged parts, including a lens from a movie camera and an audio cassette for storage, Sasson’s 8lb camera captured its first digital image in a…
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Liquid Death VP Andy Pearson: “Strategy is Partially Killing the Industry” | LBBOnline
Liquid Death, a billion-dollar canned water brand, is revolutionizing the creative industry by challenging traditional strategic processes, which Andy Pearson, VP of Creative, criticizes for stifling creativity. By adopting a lean, in-house model focused on speed, intuition, and humor, the brand has achieved remarkable success, including becoming the second most followed beverage brand globally, and…
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OpenAI Is in Trouble
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently switched from ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini 3, highlighting a significant shift in AI preference due to the latter’s impressive performance on evaluations. Released in mid-November, Gemini 3 has surpassed OpenAI’s capabilities, prompting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to declare a “code red” for ChatGPT improvements. OpenAI, initially leading the AI race…
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This isn’t a post to thank Verizon. In fact, after 19 years with them, I’m more disappointed than anything. Quick story… AT&T has been our internet provider forever. They upgraded our… | Scott Youkilis | 22 comments
After 19 years with Verizon, the author switched to AT&T due to AT&T offering a more appealing mobile deal and Verizon’s lack of effort to retain them as a customer. Despite the switch, the author encountered a frustrating experience with Verizon’s outdated billing process, highlighting the importance of customer engagement and loyalty in business. The…
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AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect – multicloud
AWS has launched the preview of AWS Interconnect – multicloud, which offers high-speed private connections to other cloud service providers, starting with Google Cloud and expanding to Microsoft Azure in 2026. This service facilitates multicloud strategies by allowing customers to establish secure, resilient, and high-speed connections between Amazon VPCs and other cloud environments, simplifying what…
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America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle
A new feature on platform X has unveiled that a significant amount of divisive and spammy content is generated by accounts pretending to be based in the U.S. but are actually run from countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Russia, among others. This issue, fueled by social media monetization programs and free AI tools, extends across…
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Wes Anderson: The Archives
The Design Museum in Britain is hosting a landmark exhibition featuring over 700 objects from Wes Anderson’s personal archives, showcasing the evolution of his films from the 1990s to the present. This first-time display in Britain includes original storyboards, costumes, and miniatures from iconic films like “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” with…