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  1. coffee and cigarettes
    An Extensive Guide to the Surreal Commercials of David LynchFrom PSAs to PS2.
    By Rebecca Alter
  2. dystopia now
    2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field - Day 10
    Google Pulls AI Olympics Commercial That Everyone HatedNo one liked the search engine’s one weird trick to writing fan mail.
    By Matt Stieb
  3. screen time
    Instagram Discovers New, Annoying Place to Put AdsThis is the kind of behavior you’d expect from a SEO farm or a porn site.
    By John Herrman
  4. encounter
    Lord Maurice Saatchi’s Big Book of OrgasmsThe legendary British adman wants to blow your mind.
    By Carl Swanson
  5. today in dystopia
    Tim, Just Crush MeIf you’re going to make ads that are depressing, you should go even harder.
    By Nicholas Quah
  6. screen time
    How Product Recommendations Broke GoogleAnd ate the internet in the process.
    By John Herrman
  7. we’re talkin’ pull tab
    Richard Lewis Revisits His ‘Trippy’ BoKu Fruit-Juice Commercials“Quite frankly, I thought I was having a nervous breakdown watching them all at once.”
    By Chris Wendelken
  8. screen time
    AI Is Coming for the InfluencersNow, brands are paying to advertise with AI-generated content creators. Will it work?
    By John Herrman
  9. underrated
    Can a Boneless-Chicken Commercial Be Art?Late Night writer Ben Warheit shares his love for “I Ate the Bones.”
    By Bethy Squires
  10. remembrance
    George Lois, the Impossible Ad ManThe madman (but not a Mad Man, he was quick to tell you) behind Maypo, MTV, and Muhammad Ali’s Esquire cover has died at 91.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  11. political drama
    Disney Says It’s Cool With Political Ads on Hulu After AllBut don’t expect any on Disney+ later this year.
    By Eric Vilas-Boas
  12. tough breaks
    We Know a Little Bit More About Netflix’s Advertising PlanPrepare to be interrupted.
    By Eric Vilas-Boas
  13. buffering
    Why Commercials Are Coming to the Biggest StreamersHigher subscription rates for some, ads for everyone else.
    By Josef Adalian
  14. choose your own dystopia
    MoviePass Is Back, and This Time, It’s DystopianAnything that scans your eyeballs to make sure you’re paying attention to an ad … can’t be good, right?
    By Rebecca Alter
  15. advertising
    Megan Thee Stallion and Fast Food’s Ongoing Pursuit of Black Buy-inCan Hottie Sauce rise above the industry’s complicated past?
    By Jordan Taliha McDonald
  16. advertising
    Oatly’s Super Bowl Ad Was Awful — But Oat Milk Is GreatFeaturing Oatly’s CEO, the ad received instant backlash online.
    By Rachel Sugar
  17. black lives matter
    Lego Pulls Advertising for Cop-Related Toys, Donates $4 Million to Fight Racism“We stand with the black community against racism and inequality.”
    By Chris Murphy
  18. the zucc
    The Real Reason Facebook Won’t Ban Political AdsThe company has made it impossible for brands and campaigns alike to reach Facebook users through posts.
    By Brian Feldman
  19. books
    How Richard Avedon Shaped the America in Your HeadWe all know the his style of portraiture, but Avedon also shot thousands of advertisements, most very different from his editorial work.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. vision 2020
    September Democratic Primary Debates: Who’s in, Who’s OutThe good news is that there will probably be only one debate in September. The bad news is that there might be two in October.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. media
    Is Google Really Skimming Billions of Dollars in Revenue From the News Industry?A flawed new study claims that Google is raking it in while journalism fights for scraps.
    By Brian Feldman
  22. the city
    Barging In: City Suit Seeks to Sink Sailing SignageA new lawsuit from the de Blasio administration aims to ground a Florida company that has been floating billboards in New York waters since last fall.
    By Jose Martinez
  23. podcasts
    Are We in a Podcast Bubble?Podcasting is suddenly more than a mission; it’s an industry.
    By Boris Kachka
  24. life in pixels
    Can Subscriptions Save All Media Companies, or Just the New York Times?After weeks of grim news out of the media industry, the Times’ revenue numbers are a bright spot.
    By Max Read
  25. advertising
    MRAs Outraged After Razor Company Asks Men to Show Common DecencyThe brand’s new ad campaign asks men to stand up against bullying and harassment; MRAs are predictably not happy about it.
    By Ella Cerón
  26. facebook
    Facebook Risks Losing the Trust of Its Only Real CustomersFacebook can stand to piss off every group except one: the advertisers who actually spend money on the social network.
    By Brian Feldman
  27. good dogs
    Ranking the Very Good Dogs in 13 Ralph Lauren AdsIn honor of Ralph Lauren’s 50th anniversary, let us consider these sweet doggies.
    By Kelly Conaboy
  28. sports
    Nike Debuts Colin Kaepernick Ad, Conservatives Protest by Burning Their Own GearNike’s move appears less risky when you consider that Kaep’s protests are most unpopular with older white Republicans – not their core demographic.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  29. select all
    How to Succeed in Advertising (and Transform the Internet While You’re At It)Programmatic built the modern internet. And Right Media, inventors of the first ad exchange, built programmatic advertising.
    By Adrianne Jeffries
  30. select all
    You Can Now See Who’s Paying for Political Ads on Facebook and InstagramFacebook starts attaching disclosure statements to political advertising.
    By Jake Swearingen
  31. select all
    The Man Who Invented the Pop-up Ad on the Original Sin of AdvertisingA conversation with the inventor of the pop-up ad on the web’s lost decade.
    By Noah Kulwin
  32. Why Those Fake-Poetry Subway Ads Are So AnnoyingRoses are red / Violets are blue / Imitating poetry / Is a bad look for you.
    By Jesse Singal
  33. select all
    Did Facebook Really Charge Trump Less for Advertising?Did they?
    By Brian Feldman
  34. YouTube Reportedly Resumes Running Ads on Logan Paul’s ChannelEarlier this month YouTube suspended Paul’s ability to run advertisements due to a pattern of “unsuitable” behavior.
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. late capitalism
    15 Other Mascots We’d Like to See Turned Into Women, for Some ReasonNow that brands are obsessed with this move, we have a few suggestions. (For feminism.)
    By Gabriella Paiella
  36. things that happen in europe
    Stockholm Prepares to Ban Sexist and Racist AdsThe Swedish capital is the latest European city to tackle stereotypes in advertising.
    By Katie Van Syckle
  37. advertising
    Reba McEntire Is KFC’s First Female Colonel SandersThanks, we guess.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  38. advertising
    Peeing on This Ikea Ad Will Get You a Discount If You’re PregnantHere’s some, uh, innovation.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  39. horny elves
    Here Are the Dirty Holiday Elf Toy Ads That People Are Calling MisogynisticOne ad has an elf holding a tea bag over a lady doll’s face.
    By Lisa Ryan
  40. niche drama
    This Ice Cream Shop Is Changing Their Controversial Sexy Cow LogoTheir manager also quit over the whole affair.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  41. niche drama
    This Sexy Cow Logo Is Tearing a New Jersey Town ApartResidents are not happy with Dairy Air Ice Cream.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  42. Twitter Bans Marsha Blackburn’s Ad, Giving Her Senate Campaign a BoostThe company objected to a line about “baby body parts” because it’s “inflammatory.” The real issue is that it’s false.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  43. advertising
    Croatian School Hoping Everyone Wants to Grow Up to Be Melania Trump“Imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  44. whoops
    Walmart Is Sorry They Advertised Guns As Back-to-School ItemsWhoops.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  45. oof
    Spotify Admits Calling Justin Bieber ‘Latin King’ in an Ad Was a Bad IdeaSpotify says it wanted to “celebrate ‘Despacito’ as a key cultural moment when music genres crossover.”
    By Dee Lockett
  46. news you can booze
    Smirnoff Schools Trump on How to Handle ‘Ties to Russia’“Made in America, but we’d be happy to talk about our ties to Russia under oath.”
    By Clint Rainey
  47. badvertising
    Facial-Recognition Ad Assumes Men Want Pizza and Women Want SaladThe future of advertising, everyone.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  48. select all
    How Facebook Advertisers Exploited Teens Who Felt ‘Worthless’The company helped advertisers to target “moments when young people need a confidence boost.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  49. roll clip!
    Saturday Night Live Takes on Pepsi Ad, Kendall Jenner“We’re just kind of using them to sell soda? Right. Gonna be bad.”
    By Jenni Miller
  50. badvertising
    An Extra From Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi Ad Kind of Defended the Commercial“It’s like, I was just doing my job. They asked me to be in the commercial.”
    By Jenni Miller
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