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Caesars uses a ‘looksmaxxing’ Clay Matthews to sell sportsbook upgrades
The internet loves a glow-up, especially when it is so exaggerated that you can’t tell if it’s serious or a bit. That is basically the whole joke behind a new Clay Matthews look that started circulating right before football season kicked off. In that context, Caesars Sportsbook is using Matthews’ intentionally over-the-top “looksmaxxing” makeover as…
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KFC Picklecore turns a food trend into a brand identity
Pickles have moved well beyond the side of the plate. Sour, salty and deliberately divisive, they have become the kind of flavour people can build a whole personality around, which makes them useful material for a brand willing to make the joke bigger than the food itself. KFC Australia is leaning into that idea with…
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Apple races to make iPhone Duo’s app ecosystem feel mature before release
Foldable phones are easy to compare by hinge thickness, screen size, and how many generations a brand has shipped. The harder question starts after someone opens the device: do the apps actually make the new shape feel useful? That is the problem Apple is trying to solve before iPhone Duo reaches buyers. On its developer…
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Amazon DSP opens a new buying path into ChatGPT ads
Amazon Ads is opening a new route into conversational advertising by letting select U.S. advertisers buy ChatGPT inventory through Amazon DSP. The pilot begins with Delta Vacations among the named participants, bringing a familiar media-buying system into an ad environment that is still defining its formats, measurement standards, and role in the customer journey. The…
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Shailene Woodley teams with Mars and Calm to spotlight pet adoption
There is a specific kind of calm that only pet people recognise: the quiet routine of feeding time, the grounding weight of a cat settling in, the way a dog forces you to go outside when your brain wants to spiral. That emotional reality is what Mars is tapping into with a new collaboration with…
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Apple’s iPhone Duo launch turns one event into weeks of demand
The most powerful part of an Apple launch is often not the moment a product appears onstage. It is everything that happens around that moment: the live blogs, reaction pieces, comparison stories, social posts, hands-on coverage, preorder reminders and second-wave reviews that keep the announcement alive long after the event ends. That dynamic is especially…
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LT.agency’s Jess Petersen: automate the work, not the judgment.
A creative refresh across hundreds of local ad accounts sounds simple until someone has to clone every ad, swap every page and URL, remember every location-specific exception, and then check the whole thing again. At LT.agency, that used to be the job. For one 200-plus-location franchise client, a seasonal refresh could mean checking as many…
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The US Open’s influencer problem was really a brand activation problem
The most revealing moment in the US Open’s influencer debate was not a sponsored post. It was a tennis match stopping while people in a suite filmed content with a bright ring light during Naomi Osaka’s first-round match. The scene quickly became shorthand for “influencers at the US Open,” but that framing misses the operational…
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How to announce an increase people won’t like: lessons from Singapore’s ministerial pay review
Every organization eventually has to announce an increase that some stakeholders will dislike. On September 8, the Singapore Government faced an unusually difficult version of that problem: it accepted recommendations that will raise political officeholder pay while households are still sensitive to living costs and job security. The merits of the pay system are a…
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The price-hike playbook: what the memory crunch is teaching brands about communicating cost increases
Apple and Lenovo offer two very different ways to tell customers that prices are going up. Lenovo reportedly warned buyers that existing quotations would expire on a set date. Apple spent nearly three months preparing the market before a single new iPhone price landed. Both were responding to the same pressure: a global memory shortage…