Does this include the spending done on AI and data centers? Imagine the state of the economy if there wasn’t a debt fuelled economic bubble floating around.

If the gross margins are higher on the GLP optimised Food options, the companies will be incentivised to sell more of those rather than conventional products. And more shelf space and ad space etc will be allocated to these too, making conventional products less readily available.

I believe all advertising exists to manipulate people. Behaviour change is a key aspect of marketing, from how things are kept at a store shelf, to putting the right hoarding on the right street, it’s all done to guide consumer choice in a profitable way.

Advertising was never about giving you information, it was to make you feel cigarettes are cool or you need an more expensive toothbrush to be more confident. Advertising moved away from giving you information to ‘connecting with consumers on an emotional level’ decades before the Internet.

While yes information age has made advertising a lot more effective than it was 25 years ago, but brands were still trying to get you get the most money out of you back then, same as today, only their tools of doing so have improved vastly.

While advertising for literal scams. About 10% of Meta’s revenue is from literal scams.

With all the layoffs right now, it’s a great opportunity for unions to make people aware about them and how they can be beneficial.

I wish unions were more active on LinkedIn, so that we could like and share their posts. Recent layoffs at Omnicom/IPG have led to people discussing unions in the advertising subreddit…

Everything on YouTube apart from niche special interest content creators has gone to shit because all these high viewership channels got bought out by private equity.

The choice of words is really off to me. Sounds too much like corporate speak I guess.

Because who uses “thank you for taking the time to get to know each other” in common everyday usage?