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2024
327: Free: Inside The Black Box
325: The Trump-TikTok Connection
324: Reviewing The Rot
323: Super Bowl Super Con
322: MKTG STINX
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2023
320: Adtech And The Trump Effect
317: The Industrialization of Advertising
316: Conflict Between Brands and Marketers
313: The Fame Game
311: Dangerously Irresponsible IAB
2022
307: Fusked
305: Running from Musk
304: Musk Is Screwed (Or Maybe We Are)
303: Social Media Time Bomb
302: Zuckerberg's "Empty, Sad World"
301: Data vs Humans
300: Death Of A Giant
298: Best Media Strategy Is A Great Idea
297: Oracle's Dossiers on 5 Billion People
296: Bad Week for TikTok
295: US To Investigate Adtech Security Threat
294: Is Elon Musk A Bot?
293: Google Lies, Nobody Cares
291: Big Tech Owns The Ad Industry
290: The $120 Billion Question
289: Fraud Beyond Belief
287: The Year Adtech Self-Destructs
283: Leaked Facebook Document Reveals Data "Shit Show"
282: Netflix Goes Backward. Industry Follows.
281: The Other War: Apple vs Facebook
279: Trumpster In The Dumpster
278: The Three-Word Brief
277: Billions of Misdirected Ads. No One Knew.
276: The Invincible Arrogance of Tech CEOs
275: Google Con Game: The Sequel
274: It's All Illegal!
273: Side Effects Are The Real Effects
272: Allow All? You Have No Choice.
271: The Programmatic Poop Funnel
270: Interactivity: Advertising's Hidden Enemy
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Previous Years
2021
269: ANA: 70% of Programmatic Ad Dollars Evaporate
267: GOOG, FB Hiding Behind Skirts of Small Business
266: Question Everything. Including This.
265: On The Same Page? Not Even Same Planet.
263: Heads Must Roll
262: Zuckerberg and Sandberg MIA
261: Facebook Outrage Of The Week
260: Wall Street Journal Eviscerates Facebook
259: Integrity, Facebook-Style
258: Facebook's Tuesday Night Massacre
257: Tiffany Goes All Skaggy Disaffection
256: Millennial Meltdown
255: Amazon's Pay-To-Play Racket
254: Google Caves To Surveillance Vampires
253: TV Still Not Dead
251: Trump Threatens Zuck: "No Soup For You"
250: Usual Suspects Line-Up To Screw Us
249: On The Dangers Of Tracking
248: 200,000 Fake Amazon Reviewers
247: Zuckerberg's Big Lie Exposed
246: ANAs Rip Van Winkle Moment
244: Has P&G Gone Crazy?
243: Nike Pays No Fed Tax For Third Year
242: Commanding The Entire Ad Economy
241: The Road To Reality
240: Creativity, Bananas, and Moldy Whoppers
239: Facebook Corruption Never Ends
238: Super Bowl of Apathy
237: Next Generation of Horseshit
236: Guess Who's Dominating Online Shopping?
234: Top 27 Facebook Outrages of 2020
233: Top 10 Marketing Follies of 2020
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2020
232: Honey, Did You See My $400 Million?
231: World's Largest Advertiser?
230: The Other Pandemic
229: Facebook Never Fails To Disgrace
226: Drinking The Clorox
224: Confessions of a Fortune Teller
221: Old And In The Way
219: Bananas
218: Marketing's Stupidest Religion
217: Advertising And Free Speech
216: Facebook: Bullet Meet Toes
215: Facebook Boycott: Principles or Politics?
214: Zuckerberg Must Go
213: Off The Grid
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210: Social Media Hits The Fan
205: 5 Reasons Advertising Is Crappy
204: Out With The Old
202: More Elephant Advertising
201: Wired: "Ban Targeted Advertising"
200: FB COO Sandberg Implicated In Lawsuit
199: What Makes An Ad Memorable?
198: Facebook Gets It Very Wrong
197: Ad Fraud Solution Becomes Problem
195: How To Blow $120 Million Online
194: USA vs Google
193: The Privacy Charade
192: Google: Masters of Misdirection
191: Gwyneth Paltrow's Amazing Vagina
2019
#144: Everyone Will Be Wrong Again. Again.
#145: Sex Robots, Smart Toilets, & Sperm Trackers
#146: Toxic Pomposity
#147: "Greatest Con Man In History"
#148: "Is Facebook Crazy?"
#149: "Ad Fraud Hits TV"
#150: "The Answer To Everything"
#151: Gangsters, Pirates & Pedophiles
#152: The $50 Billion Swindle
#153: Zuckerberg Discovers Privacy
#154: Criminal Probe For Facebook
#155: Agency Trust At New Low
#156: Australia Threatens Jail For Tech Execs
#157: Another Nail In Ad Industry's Coffin
#158: Lies Of Our Leaders
#159: A Blog With No Name
#160: Facebook In The Cross Hairs
#161: PR Fraud About Ad Fraud
#161A: Fire Kim, Hire Bigfoot
#164: The Short, Sad History Of The Click
#165: VW Really, Really, Really, Sorry
#166: Clowns In Suits
#167: AdTech: "Illegal" & "Out Of Control"
#167A: Mark & Marty Won't Shut Up
#168: Influencers Pay Double
#169: FTC Kisses Zuckerbutt
#170: Prisoners Of Pop Culture
#171: Facebook Founder: Break It Up
#172:The Nightmare Around The Corner
#174: Online Surveillance "Staggering:" NY Times
#175: A Conspiracy Of Silence
#176: McDonald's Stops Lovin' It
#177: Agencies Get Slammed
#178: How Trustworthy Are Ad Execs
#179: Nike's Stunning Cowardice
#180: Zuckerberg And Free Speech
#181: P&G Dumps On Facebook, Google
#182: Google Demands Privacy. Laughter Ensues.
#183: Does Online Advertising Work?
#184: Google Begging For Trouble
#185: How Advertising Can Save The World
#186: The Problem With Bubba's Burgers
#187: Advertising's Untold Stories
#188: Facebook Exposes 1/4 Billion Users
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2018
#96: 2018: Everyone Will Be Wrong Again
#97: Super Bowl: Back To The Future
#98: Amazon's Year Of Advertising
#99: Fraud In Social Media? Get Outta Here!
#100: Super Bowl Needs Inspired Silliness
#101: How Not To Evaluate Advertising
#102: Dracula Guarding The Blood Bank
#103: You Can't Kill A Bot
#104: Bad Week For Big Shots
#105: The Fake News Factory
#106: Watch This Video And Shudder
#107: Advertisers Hate Old People
#108: Ad Fraud Off The Charts
#109: Zuckerberg Must Go
#110: Sorrell Surrenders
#111: Facebook's Brazen Duplicity
#112: Spies 1, Bloggers 0
#113: Agencies Still Getting Kickbacks
#114: Facebook Says FU to EU
#115: Chaos In Adland
#116: Simplifiers And Complicators
#117: Digital Discontent (The Grand Unified Theory)
#118: Facebook Lies, Nobody Cares
#119: Naughty, Naughty Marty
#120: Facebook's Creepy Plans For You
#121: Marketers Bluff, Media Giggle
#122: Even Orwell Would Be Shocked
#123: Ad Smackdown: Cats Vs Data
#124: Good Week For Paranoids
#125: "Alexa, Why Is Nobody Voice Shopping"
#126: The Good In Online Advertising
#127: Facebook Finds More Imaginary Humans
#128: Getting It From All Sides
#129: The Kaepernick Caper
#130: Online Tracking Of 5-Year-Olds
#131: Google's Dirty Tricks
#132: Feds Investigating Agencies
#133: Laughing@Advertising
#134: The Tone-Deaf Duopoly
#135: Clowns Sue Facebook
#136: $750 Million Stolen From Advertisers
#137: Strange Case Of The Invisible Woman
#138: Mark Z: International Man Of Misery
#139: Facebook On The Ropes
#140: Parliament Grabs Facebook Documents
#141: It's Piling-On Time
#142: Ad Of The Week
#143: Every Move You Make
2017
#48: Turning Ad Dollars Into Pennies
#49: When The Hell Is TV Gonna Die Already?
#50: Facebook Breaks Giggle Meter
#51: 2017: The Year It All Hits The Fan
#52: The Kickback Cover-up
#53: Earthquake In Adland
#54: Surprise! You're Paying For Terrorism
#55: Why I Lied
#56: Advertising Saves
#57: How Ad Industry Promotes Fake News
#58: Social Media Reality Check
#59: Is Google Facing A Revolt?
#60: Google Boycott Spreading To U.S.
#61: Google's Nightmare Continues
#62: How Bad Is Ad Fraud?
#63: Amateur Hour At Pepsi
#64: Join The Devastation
#65: Surveillance You Can Dance To
#66: Morphing Into A Monster
#67: Goobook Conquers The Web
#68: Trackers And Hackers
#69: Another Social Media Myth Evaporating
#70: Our Dangerous Obsession
#71: Fraud "Beyond Belief"
#72: Improving Something To Death
#73: The Face Of Fraud
#74: Who's Reading Your Emails
#75: The Goobook Duopoly Facing Headwinds
#76: P&G Dumps On Digital
#77: Is Programmatic Buying More Efficient?
#78: Pot Of Gold For Advertising?
#79: Google Proves You're A Liar
#81: Why Nobody Can Trust Facebook
#83: Apple Right, Ad Industry Wrong
#84: TV, Facebook, or YouTube?
#85: Creeps And Criminals
#86: Springtime For Hypocrites
#87: Clowns Being Clowns
#88: Wildfire Of Fraud
#90: Facebook Continues Its Shabby Ways
#91: Transparency: Phony Flavor Of The Month
#93: Television Blames Advertising
#94: Payola In Online Publishing
#95: Year In Review
2016
#1: Our Remarkable Year
#2: 10 Amazing Marketing Facts
#3: TV Isn't Dead. It Doesn't Even Have A Cold
#4: Why Do Marketers Ignore Their Best Customers?
#5: Why Is Online Advertising So Stinky?
#6: How To Watch Super Bowl Ads
#7: Advertising's Civil War
#8: 88% See No Return On Social Media
#9: Waste Not Grow Not
#10: What Is Brand Loyalty?
#11: Stay Foolish My Friends
#12: McLuhan, Gossage, Media & Advertising
#13: The Millennial Hustle
#14: Surveillance Disguised As Advertising
#15: Facebook At War With Itself
#16: YouTube Or Television?
#17: The Average Millennial Is Not A Millennial
#18: Apple Running Out Of Steve
#19: Life In McNever-Never Land
#20: And Now For Something Completely Different
#21: When Worlds Collide
#22: Well, That Didn't Take Long
#23: One Great Campaign
#24: Can These Numbers Be True?
#25: This Week In Mud Wrestling
#26: The Scourge Of Ad Tech
#27: Is Media Usage Exploding?
#28: Avalanche Of Ad Fraud
#29: How's Your Criminal Enterprise Going?
#30: The Harsh Reality Of Strategy
#31: Consumer Behavior And Sidewalk Psychology
#32: How Many Billions Have Been Lost?
#33: Waiting For Answers
#34: Disrupting The Disruptors
#35: Coalition To Do Nothing
#36: The Cesspool Of Online Advertising
#37: Everything But Advertising
#38: The Content Con Continues
#39: Marketers' Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
#40: Why Are NFL Ratings Tanking?
#41: Bewildering Confusion Among Advertisers
#42: Google Sneaks One By Us
#43: Reporters Are From Mars, Voters Are From Florida
#44: Olympics Video Voodoo
#45: Marketers Discover America
#46: My Favorite New Ad Fraud
#47: Visit To The Dark Side