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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model
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Don’t be fooled by his offbeat humor and style. Comedy musician “Weird Al” Yankovic has had an enduring career spanning over 40 years, topping the charts, winning Grammy Awards, and earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Like many others, Weird Al has a name and legacy to protect, which makes him the
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Investigating what he calls “capitalist fear mitigation”, Alexander repurposes extra-human sensory experiences of technologies like night vision and thermal imaging, aesthetics that instantly recall the internet’s “military death-cam footage”. Then, he encases them inside the otherwise harmless shop-bought sheet cake, creating an unsettling contradiction – it normalises the quiet but terrific violence of our media’s
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AI search has completely changed the way customers make decisions. If you’re still just tracking data instead of driving sales from AI search, you are missing out. Join Bart Góralewicz, Co-Founder of ZipTie.dev, on September 3, 2025, for an insightful webinar on how to map customer journeys in AI search and turn those insights into
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Photographer Vic Moy was raised in a belief system where children were seen but not heard: “So, part of my personal and creative journey has been about giving myself ongoing permission: to speak, feel, reflect, heal, and to grow,” she says. She looks forward to a future where “it’s safe to feel, somewhere frostbite doesn’t
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A vulnerability advisory was published for the Inspiro WordPress theme by WPZoom. The vulnerability arises due to a missing or incorrect security validation that enables an unauthenticated attacker to launch a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) A CSRF vulnerability in the context of a WordPress site is an attack that relies
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CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip earned a rare win on CNN as it was the network’s top show in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. Fox News’ The Five was the top show of the evening in total viewers, with Gutfeld! leading the way in the demo. Over at MSNBC, The Last Word with
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The best Unreal Engine 5 games demonstrate why Epic Games’ real-time digital creation platform has become so popular among devs big and small. Many of the best UE5 games showcase the engine’s ability to achieve impressively detailed 3D realism through its powerful physically-based rendering and features like Nanite virtualized geometry and Lumen dynamic global illumination.
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Patchstack published a case study that examined how well Cloudflare and other general firewall and malware solutions protected WordPress websites from common vulnerability threats and attack vectors. The research showed that while general solutions stopped threats like SQL injection or cross-site scripting, a dedicated WordPress security solution consistently stopped WordPress-specific exploits at a significantly higher
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Marketers love bold words. Radical candor. Radical transparency. Radical acceptance. They sound daring, but in practice, they’re often hollow — more performance than principle. In organizations where truth is bent to fit the storyline, “radical” language becomes branding, not behavior. This behavior is everywhere in marketing. We talk about candor but punish dissent. We talk
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With the aim to explore the social rituals that smoking creates through this humble and universal 3D form, the designers reached out to a range of creatives with a simple but open brief: “design an ashtray however you wish.” The pieces would then be put on show at a ‘smoking event’ at the classic old-school
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This week’s Ask An SEO question is about whether small brands should prioritize TikTok over Google to grow their audience: “I keep hearing that TikTok is a better platform for small brands with an easier route to an audience. Do you think that Google is still relevant, or should I go all in on TikTok?”
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Although the chance of a TikTok shutdown has a minority of marketers worried about their time and cash investments there, it’s still a key vehicle for organic social, particularly for brands pursuing trend-setting Gen Z audiences. That status is an important asset to the platform, given brands which devote more time to their organic activities
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Despite having made a series of games based on famous paintings, Thomas Waterzooi wouldn’t call himself a connoisseur of art. “I know art like the average person,” he admits. “I had a mother who was really into art and took me to art galleries when I was younger, but it wasn’t my passion either. Especially
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Google is adding agentic booking features to AI Mode in Search, beginning with restaurant reservations for U.S. Google AI Ultra subscribers enrolled in Labs. What’s New Booking Reservations AI Mode can interpret a detailed request, check real-time availability across reservation sites, and link you to the booking page to complete the task. For businesses, that
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Top of the Ticker: On Monday, CNN’s domestic FAST channel CNN Headlines debuted a new weekday schedule running from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET. Featuring a mix of live news and roundups of can’t-miss moments, CNN Headlines’ lineup includes news shows like CNN Headline Express, a live news program hosted by anchor Brad Smith;
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Across the stages over the three days, you’ll also find the likes of Studio Yukiko, Mindy Seu, Karlotta Freier, Dinamo, Stephanie Specht, Pablo Delcan, Nicole McLaughlin, and creative director Mandy Smith alongside lead designer Estefan Richter from the animation studio Buck, who will delve into the studio’s recent branding and design systems – and the
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Paid search professionals constantly debate the merits of running paid search campaigns bidding on competitor brand names. Questions such as the following may arise: Is bidding on your competitors ethical? Are the high costs-per-click (CPCs) worth spending the budget on? Are you actually reaching people with buying intent? In this article, I’ll talk through answers
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MarTechCharts regularly highlights data of interest to marketers and marketing operations professionals. One-third of consumers now regularly use AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude throughout their shopping journey, according to a report by Cordial. The report, “Brands Battle for Attention as AI Redefines the Funnel,” (registration required) found Millennials (33%) and Gen Z (11%)
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Restaurant chain Pizza Hut has announced a new logo design for its branches in the UK, Canada and some other markets. The new look moves away from the round background (below) – presumably meant to evoke a pizza – and has echoes of an older design originally introduced in the 1970s, which is still used
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Google just announced a new unifying identity for its Local Services Ads (LSAs) verification badges. Called Google Verified, the badge will replace several different trust signals that advertisers and consumers have been seeing over the years. This includes the Google Guaranteed, Google Screened, License Verified by Google, and the Money Back Guarantee program. Starting in
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