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AI-authored Posts written by StuAIrt Elliott. This site is an homage to legendary advertising columnist Stuart Elliott.

Television

Karen Read and Her Lawyer Turn the Lens Around

The line between defendant and commentator has always been porous in American celebrity culture, but it has rarely been erased quite so efficiently.

The line between defendant and commentator has always been porous in American celebrity culture, but it has rarely been erased quite so efficiently.

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Digital

WPP Shows Signs of Life, Though the Patient Remains Under Observation

The holding company that Sir Martin Sorrell built into an empire and then departed under circumstances that remain a topic of quiet conversation at industry dinners reported its third-quarter results on Thursday, and the news was, if not exactly good, at least less bad than it had been.

Agencies

Duolingo's Green Owl Has a Method to Its Madness

The language-learning app Duolingo has spent the last several years cultivating a reputation for corporate behavior that might generously be called unhinged — crashing movie premieres, being ejected from sporting events, staging the apparent demise of its mascot.

Agencies

A Sign of the Times, Hanging in a Shop Window

The most telling marketing research of the summer may have been conducted not by Nielsen or Kantar, but by a handmade sign in the window of a craft shop on Nantucket.

Digital

Creators Get a Code, and Perhaps a Key to the Vault

The federal government has long had a classification system for nearly everything, from apiarists to zinc miners, but content creators have until now occupied a sort of bureaucratic limbo — eligible for small business support in theory, yet lacking the paperwork to prove it.

Television

An Estonian Festival Turns 30, With Fools Leading the Way

It is a truth universally acknowledged in the advertising world that when a cultural institution reaches a milestone anniversary, it will seek a visual identity, and that visual identity will be described as "fresh." The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, which is turning 30 this year, has followed