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The ad is real but people are judging a poorly selected thumbnail of a 15 second video. Of course I can’t find it anymore (after seeing it pop up on my feed a hundred times) but the video starts with Tiana in her dress acting all prim and proper saying “I, Princess Tiana, formally invite you…”...

This was brought up yesterday. Walmart literally stated "we've found other platforms better for reaching our customers.". Zero accusations, “blackmail”, or any mention regarding the recent drama. As innocent as innocent can get when making a statement about pulling ads. That hasn’t stopped...

Just to go back to the "Cancel Hulu" and "Cancel Disney Plus" graph on Google trends for a second - if you zoom into the graph they spiked a week before the Musk interview, during the Black Friday promotion where they were selling new subscriptions for 99c. So... people were searching for how...

In other news, Walmart is the most recent company to announce they’re pausing advertising, stating "we've found other platforms better for reaching our customers." Apparently this decision was in the works long before the drama, which gives more weight that companies are leaving because they no...

Are you replying to the wrong post? I’m talking in terms of data privacy laws, not the first amendment. Banning TikTok under the guise that it is harvesting data is a bandaid solution to the overall problem. Either pass a law that says no foreign firms can harvest data or don’t. Don’t play this...

It's bizarre that they even need to create laws about what should be accessed on a government-owned device. In all of the companies I work for, they were very strict to only allow software that was pre-approved by IT and Security. Why in the world people in the government are downloading...

In 2014 Facebook allowed the data harvesting of 87 million accounts, half of which were from the U.S., which were then used to impact global elections. Congress asked the dumbest questions imaginable, gave Zuckerberg a stern "don't do that again" warning, and basically let the company and all...

I actually prefer how it was during the early internet days before Facebook and Twitter came along. When there were thousands of separate websites and communities created by individuals to moderate as they saw fit. Heck, the website we're on right now is one of those. It was always a mistake...

It’s pretty common to delete live streamed videos so they can make edits afterwards (like removing the awkward pauses and minutes of nothing happening). Or knowing NYT they’ll put it behind a paywall lol

Yes, your logic makes sense, unfortunately, most people can't make that distinction. That said, most brands who try to appeal to a wide audience (especially kids) would not want to be associated with NSFW content. You might be able to make the conclusion that the two are unrelated, but for...

I never claimed that Disney endorses the content. The issue at hand is very adult content (potentially illegal, not sure what the exact laws of deepfakes are) are appearing on users' personal profiles where they are known for being family-friendly. This is not user-generated content that...

From a social media manager's perspective, I would immediately begin to question why this content is being served on my page and being associated with my brand, and if I should continue remaining on the website if nothing will be vetted anymore. There is a reason why you don't see Coca-Cola and...

In somewhat related news I just got an advert on one of my follower's (completely SFW) profiles for a website designed to generate deepfake adult content from images you upload. And no, I don't follow, like, or view anything like that for it to be a targeted ad. ;) I could only imagine the...

Nobody stays awake long enough to see that so it’s fine.

Some of the metrics that Elon/X has been reporting is somewhat shady, to the point where it’s downright misleading at times. For example, I’ve seen them frequently tout how many more views videos get when uploaded on X rather than Youtube or other platforms. The issue is, the way X quantifies a...

With the quality of advertising I’ve been seeing come out of Disney’s marketing department lately, not putting anything out would probably be doing the company a service. :)

I thought it was pretty shocking when NBCUniversal, the company where Linda Yaccarino worked as the head of advertising & partnerships for 12 years before taking the CEO position at Twitter, decided to pause advertising. When your former company is now in a position where they are doubting your...

Pretty much every social media company has a large sales team whose main job is to be on-call, 24/7, for their clients. Facebook, Tiktok, etc. all have hundreds, if not thousands, of people staffed solely to develop relationships with their clients and ensure their campaign needs are being met...

I mean, Barbie is certainly a movie that had a not-so-subtle political and social message and went on to receive critical acclaim and is currently sitting at #1 in the box office this year with over a billion dollars, so certainly your reasoning isn’t very foolproof. If you want to consider that...

I agree, some people are overthinking the references a bit, but at the same time, the movie did advertise itself as being “the origin story of the wishing star” that is featured in many other Disney films, so it’s understandable people might interpret the Easter eggs as being part of the “Disney...