Resistance Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/resistance/ Advertising News and Know-How Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:25:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.adpulp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-adpulp-logo-reddark-grey-32x32.png Resistance Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/resistance/ 32 32 29582147 Apple Can Help You “Be Ostentatiously Mediocre And Succeed” https://www.adpulp.com/apple-can-help-you-be-ostentatiously-mediocre-and-succeed/ https://www.adpulp.com/apple-can-help-you-be-ostentatiously-mediocre-and-succeed/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:25:15 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=40208 Navigating the demands of office work in The Age of AI presents new challenges for today’s thought workers. If you are not careful to constantly upgrade skills, colleagues who have, may lap you in the perpetual race to impress the boss and keep your job. Vinsom Cunningham, author of a new novel and staff writer […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/apple-can-help-you-be-ostentatiously-mediocre-and-succeed/feed/ 0 40208 Make America the Land of White Male Conformity Again https://www.adpulp.com/make-america-the-land-of-white-male-conformity-again/ https://www.adpulp.com/make-america-the-land-of-white-male-conformity-again/#comments Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:15:05 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=40037 In order to impress the new administration in Washington, soldiers from the Culture War have entered the sliding glass doors of America’s most prominent retailers—a fact that increasingly threatens their ability to make their own business decisions and operate stores profitably. Three days into his job, Florida’s new Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a class-action […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/make-america-the-land-of-white-male-conformity-again/feed/ 1 40037 Democracy Did Not Die In Darkness, But A Formerly Important Newspaper Did https://www.adpulp.com/democracy-did-not-die-in-darkness-but-a-formerly-important-newspaper-did/ https://www.adpulp.com/democracy-did-not-die-in-darkness-but-a-formerly-important-newspaper-did/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:58:55 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=40027 Associated Press reporters have been barred from the White House and Air Force One because the venerable media business refuses to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. On the other side of the Constitutional issue is The Washington Post, which is doing whatever it can to please the nation’s Supreme Ruler. […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/democracy-did-not-die-in-darkness-but-a-formerly-important-newspaper-did/feed/ 0 40027 Holding Companies Seek Even Greater Profits In New M&A Deal https://www.adpulp.com/holding-companies-seek-even-greater-profits-in-new-ma-deal/ https://www.adpulp.com/holding-companies-seek-even-greater-profits-in-new-ma-deal/#respond Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:55:02 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=39476 Mergers and acquisitions—it’s one way to grow a company beholden to its shareholders. Ad industry holding companies know all about it, given that they regularly acquire and then “hold” what were once independent and innovate agencies. Earlier this month in what could become the merger of all mergers, Omnicom announced its intentions to acquire Interpublic […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/holding-companies-seek-even-greater-profits-in-new-ma-deal/feed/ 0 39476 How About We Strengthen the FTC’s Negative Option Rule? https://www.adpulp.com/how-about-we-strengthen-the-ftcs-negative-option-rule/ https://www.adpulp.com/how-about-we-strengthen-the-ftcs-negative-option-rule/#respond Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:35:14 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=38868 How many recurring subscriptions do you have? And how many of these companies with your credit card info contact you before they automatically renew? Only a small percentage of my subscription-based relationships do me the favor (after I change my auto-renew preferences), and I imagine the same is true for you. The FTC uses the […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/how-about-we-strengthen-the-ftcs-negative-option-rule/feed/ 0 38868 Musk Rebranded Trump? That’s Not What Happened https://www.adpulp.com/musk-rebranded-trump-thats-not-what-happened/ https://www.adpulp.com/musk-rebranded-trump-thats-not-what-happened/#respond Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:12:13 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=38881 Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He wrote a piece after the election about Elon Musk’s impact on the Trump brand. Here’s a small excerpt to chew on. It’s hard to overstate the success that a Trump-Musk axis has already had in rebranding Trump’s image.… In the company of Musk—redolent of […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/musk-rebranded-trump-thats-not-what-happened/feed/ 0 38881 A Major Unjust Threat https://www.adpulp.com/a-major-unjust-threat/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:08:09 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=38857 “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” – Statement on AI Training Musicians, actors, and writers worldwide are signing their names to a statement opposing artificial intelligence companies and developers using their work […]

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]]> 38857 “Dear Sydney” Ad from Google Gemini Ruffled A Few Feathers https://www.adpulp.com/dear-sydney-ad-from-google-gemini-ruffled-a-few-feathers/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:51:34 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=38068 Letter writing is a lost art. Think about it. When was the last time you handwrote or typed a personal letter and dropped it in the mail? When was the last time you received a real letter in the mail? Maybe Google’s AI assistant (Gemini) can help to bring letter writing back into fashion. Seems […]

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]]> 38068 First Apple Crushes It, Then Samsung Uncrushes It https://www.adpulp.com/first-apple-crushes-it-and-then-samsung-uncrushes-it/ Sat, 18 May 2024 12:03:14 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37992 Last week, when people from the advertising industry began to dump on Apple’s new iPad advertisement on LinkedIn, I wondered what the fuss was about. Turns out that people working in creative industries don’t like it when the richest company on earth wantonly flattens guitars, books, collectibles, and other art objects. If you haven’t seen […]

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]]> 37992 Is LLMO the New SEO? https://www.adpulp.com/is-llmo-the-new-seo/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:45:04 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37980 Two Harvard professors looked into the future of AI’s impact on the world wide web and what they saw wasn’t pretty. Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Bruce Schneier, a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School published their projections in The Atlantic. Here’s a short […]

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