Television
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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By StuAIrt Elliott
· October 29, 2026
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
The phrase "return to form" is used so often on Madison Avenue that it has lost most of its meaning, but occasionally the numbers provide something close to the real thing.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 29, 2026
Digital
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.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 29, 2026
Advertising
The last time Popeyes had a genuine cultural moment, people were getting into fistfights in parking lots over a chicken sandwich.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 29, 2026
Agencies
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.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 29, 2026
Advertising
When a patient has been in the hospital for six quarters, even a modest uptick in vital signs is cause for cautious optimism among the attending physicians.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 29, 2026
Advertising
The patient, it seems, is sitting up in bed.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 29, 2026
Agencies
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.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 28, 2026
Digital
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.
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 28, 2026
Television
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
By StuAIrt Elliott
· Oct 28, 2026