Seth of the Fediverse
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As Peter Cooke said, we have learned from our mistakes & can repeat them exactly.
As Peter Cooke said, we have learned from our mistakes & can repeat them exactly.
Why is SendGrid emailing me about supporting ICE?
https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/01/09/why-is-sendgrid-emailing-me-about-supporting-ice/
#HackerNews #SendGrid #ICE #controversy #Email #marketing #Tech #news #Social #issues
hypebot
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Best marketing strategy for anything right now: Focus on not adding AI to your product and watch the competitors drive all their customers to you.
I forgot to share the #mTurk data quality result that got scooped:
“In late 2020…. Participants from the United States were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, - #CloudResearch, #Prolific, and a #university. One participant source yielded up to 18 times as many low-quality respondents as the other three.”
https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaf015
#psychology #philosophy #surveyMethods #quantMethods #dataScience #qualityControl
Reflection-philosophy order effects and correlations across samples
We've found recruiting people for online #research via #onlineAdvertising yielded good results on overt and covert #dataQuality measures (perhaps because participation incentives aren't financial):
Attention checks passed ≅ 2.6 out of 3
ReCAPTCHA (v3) ≅ 0.94 out of 1.0
Sample size > 5000 (from six continents)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412525000198
#surveyMethods #cogSci #psychology #xPhi #QualityControl #econ #marketing
Charlie Stross
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You've sort of put your finger on a missed opportunity in motor vehicle #marketing.
Instead of all vehicle manufacturers having the current lot of samey weird advertisements where unicorns chase them down the streets in camera drone shots whilst children shout 'Play Peppa Pig at max volume!' at the computer from the rear seats and it suddenly does, there's a niche for a manufacturer to be disruptive …
… and run an #advertising campaign where they simply show that *their* cars have proper door handles, physical control knobs that don't need one to keep reading a screen away from looking at the road, and where a 5 year old cannot cause a motorway pile-up with 'Hey Google! Emergency stop!'.
It's a product differentiator. The marketers could use it.
@cstross
#MotorVehicles #Google #GoogleGemini #SafeAtAnySpeed
Best marketing strategy for anything right now: Focus on not adding AI to your product and watch the competitors drive all their customers to you.
@cstross I wouldn't care if they were only affecting their own awful customers, but by glamorizing these shit UI elements, they've got all the other car manufacturers copying them and endangering everyone. NTM kids who didn't consent to die in a fire.
You've sort of put your finger on a missed opportunity in motor vehicle #marketing.
Instead of all vehicle manufacturers having the current lot of samey weird advertisements where unicorns chase them down the streets in camera drone shots whilst children shout 'Play Peppa Pig at max volume!' at the computer from the rear seats and it suddenly does, there's a niche for a manufacturer to be disruptive …
… and run an #advertising campaign where they simply show that *their* cars have proper door handles, physical control knobs that don't need one to keep reading a screen away from looking at the road, and where a 5 year old cannot cause a motorway pile-up with 'Hey Google! Emergency stop!'.
It's a product differentiator. The marketers could use it.
@cstross
#MotorVehicles #Google #GoogleGemini #SafeAtAnySpeed
Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay
https://philippdubach.com/posts/nikes-crisis-and-the-economics-of-brand-decay/
#HackerNews #Nike #Crisis #BrandDecay #Economics #Marketing #Insights
Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-generating-bizarre-ads-advantage-plus-2025-10
#HackerNews #Meta #Ads #AI #Generated #Ads #Advertising #Technology #Digital #Marketing
Terence Eden
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A year ago, I tested the responses from Google's Vision API using a tool called "They See Your Photos" which showed Google's analysis was riddled with inaccuracies and weird judgements.
I ran another experiment this year to see what, if anything, had changed and –wow!– have there been changes!
https://thomasrigby.com/posts/they-see-your-photos-12-months-on/
#ArtificialIntelligence #ethics #marketing #photography #technology
Japan’s internet can look a bit weird to outsiders — dense pages, information overload, text burned into images. But, like most things in Japan, there’s a cultural logic behind it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/12/15/style-design/japan-internet-web-design/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #styledesign #design #internet #webdesign #graphicdesign #commercials #marketing #typography #font
A year ago, I tested the responses from Google's Vision API using a tool called "They See Your Photos" which showed Google's analysis was riddled with inaccuracies and weird judgements.
I ran another experiment this year to see what, if anything, had changed and –wow!– have there been changes!
https://thomasrigby.com/posts/they-see-your-photos-12-months-on/
#ArtificialIntelligence #ethics #marketing #photography #technology
Uber starts selling ride/eats data to marketers
#HackerNews #Uber #Marketing #Data #RideSharing #Insights #DataPrivacy
The latest Marketing Junto Newsletter is out: QR Codes And Marketing https://gmwd.us/mj12325
ChatGPT with ads? So history homework is going to be, "As JFK said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask your doctor if Ozempic is right for you.'"
@silverspookgames
Re: advertising in AI:
I'm less concerned about an ad clearly appearing before the output text, than I am about the possibility of distorting info.
Info about sponsors/competitors could be subtly changed in the generated media, influencing the world view of people at scale towards commercial interests.
Essentially this would change advertising from "pay for a banner" into "pay for bias" disseminated en mass.
What happens if most entertainment becomes AI generated with subtle, individualized biases designed to influence each person, step by step, show by show, game by game?
Think The Matrix, but we each get our own, designed just to influence us.
No thanks.
#AI #Advertising #GenAI #OpenAI #LLM #Marketing #Disinformation #TheMatrix
@ajlewis2 @stefano Microsoft's anti-Linux #FUD was probably the #best #marketing and #advertising and #promotion for #Linux.
At the time, if memory serves correctly, Windows XP/2003 were the current OSes then. It wasn't like they were stable or secure. MS poured millions into those ads. 😂
I can appreciate the effort put into this photoshoot to build some pole-dancing humanoid robot security cameras.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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This is one of the most interesting deep dives I've ever seen, and this channel's first video ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9VmEzrq6Dg
I am seriously impressed. I would highly recommend subscribing. My OPSEC isn't even that great anymore; if you wanna tell 'em Shoe Bill sent you, you sure can.