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Gary Grimes decodes the angsty cultural references within Romain Gavras’ Yung Lean-starring epic, Storm

Gary Grimes decodes the angsty cultural references within Romain Gavras’ Yung Lean-starring epic, Storm

Having said that, the video does culminate in a spectacular group performance of another kind. As the diptych transitions into Storm II, Yung Lean stands in a bloodied school shirt amidst his classmates gathered in a tiered formation, like that of a class photo. The star remains largely static, save for occasional puffs of his

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The Agent Runtime Wars Started This Week

The Agent Runtime Wars Started This Week

The agent runtime is the new browser layer, and your website is going to be evaluated against the runtime, not against any individual model. That’s a shift web professionals have not yet made. The conversation is still framed around models. Which model writes better? Which one cites more accurately? Which one’s API is cheaper this

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Nightly News and CBS Evening News Grow

Nightly News and CBS Evening News Grow

NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas and CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil will be happy with their individual performances as they finished the week of April 27 with gains in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. Nightly News, in particular, will be encouraged by its showing in the prized A25-54 demo, as it

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The KPop Demon Hunters comic is finally here, and you can order it today

The KPop Demon Hunters comic is finally here, and you can order it today

KPop Demon Hunters has been on a ‘Golden’ run, picking up VFX Awards and the Oscars for best animated feature and best original song. If you’re one of those fans who’s felt that the movie’s vibrant stylised animation made it perfectly suited for a comic, you’re in luck: it’s finally here! Netflix has announced the

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Community That Drives AI Visibility

Community That Drives AI Visibility

AI search doesn’t pick brands at random. They cite brands with trust signals across multiple channels. Are you building brand proof in the places AI actually looks to validate mentions? Do you know which community conversations are shaping what AI says about your category? Reddit is one of the most powerful and least utilized of

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Creating meaningful moments across the customer journey

Creating meaningful moments across the customer journey

At the May 2026 MarTech Conference, a panel of marketing leaders tackled a persistent industry friction: how brands can create personalized customer experiences without crossing the line into “creepy.” In the session, “Winning attention without losing trust: creating meaningful moments across the customer journey,” moderator Angela Vega, director of capabilities and operations at Expedia Group,

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Gestures two: art collection by Pablo

Gestures two: art collection by Pablo

This series explores organic synthesis, blending the fluid movements of marine life with the structural elegance of botanical forms. ‘Gestures’ captures the energy of hand-drawn lines within a refined digital environment. Each piece strikes a balance between vibrant colour palettes and flat colours, designed to evoke a sense of warmth and modernity. This collection celebrates

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The Reddit Earnings Story Most Marketers Missed

The Reddit Earnings Story Most Marketers Missed

I was walking over to take the stage at SMMW 2026 in Anaheim, California, last Thursday, listening intently to Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of Reddit, talk about the last quarter at Reddit, but more importantly, to get a sense of what the focus would be for the rest of the year. Question after question,

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inside the corporate scramble to understand meme culture

inside the corporate scramble to understand meme culture

Last month, a U.S. Special Forces soldier was indicted for insider trading — not on stocks, but on a prediction market. He had detailed knowledge of a military operation. He bet on it. The platform where he placed those bets responded to the indictment with something close to a shrug. That shrug tells you everything

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4Creative cuts out visuals from the UK’s most iconic TV shows to make its new identity

4Creative cuts out visuals from the UK’s most iconic TV shows to make its new identity

Designed to be buildable and perpetually ‘unfinished’, the new logo can evolve as “new team members add their bespoke 4C into the mix”, says 4Creative producer Jazz Stradling. Alongside this idea of a large scale collaboration, it was rmportant that each design was done with a humorous, sideways approach: “4Creative isn’t one thing, and it

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How Keyword Research Gets Local Businesses Into AI Search

How Keyword Research Gets Local Businesses Into AI Search

Keyword research has an expanded purpose in the world of local SEO. The keyword intent you’re already building for clients can now feed the trust signal layer that drives local AI recommendations, but only if it’s deployed in the right places. When AI tools recommend a local business, they’re not just reading the website. They’re

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Trade Desk Growth Slows to Lowest Rate Since Covid; Publicis Talks Ongoing

Trade Desk Growth Slows to Lowest Rate Since Covid; Publicis Talks Ongoing

The numbers $689 million: Revenue, up 12% year-over-year from $616 million, and beating Wall Street estimates. $206 million: Adjusted EBITDA, representing a 30% margin. The watercooler talk Despite the fact that revenue beat analyst projections, the 12% year-over-year increase represents The Trade Desk’s slowest revenue growth since the Covid-19-era ad downturn in 2020. Revenue rose

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Sorry to anyone who preordered the Anycubic Kobra X – It’s now $100/£100 less

Sorry to anyone who preordered the Anycubic Kobra X – It’s now $100/£100 less

For anyone familiar with Anycubic 3D printers, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we might have a new model on the way, in the form of the Anycubic Kobra 4, but the bad news? The Anycubic Kobra X is currently $100 / £100 off for a limited time on

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How To Control AI Answer Accuracy

How To Control AI Answer Accuracy

About a year ago, your job description changed without your permission. This on-demand session helps you catch up and take the lead. Suddenly need to track both SERP rankings and AI accuracy? How do you make sure AI is saying the right things about your brand? What’s the best way to transition from SEO to

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How to earn customer trust in the age of AI

How to earn customer trust in the age of AI

Without your customer’s deep and abiding trust, a long-term relationship simply isn’t possible. It builds confidence in your technology’s ability to deliver. It’s trust in you, the people behind your company, that sets the direction and creates the value. That kind of trust exists only between humans. This level of trust can only be earned.

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Integrated Marketing Is Like the Perfect Iced Coffee Order

Integrated Marketing Is Like the Perfect Iced Coffee Order

Key Insights A well-integrated PESO Model® marketing operating system is like the perfect latte Even with paid, earned, shared, and owned present at once, it won’t work unless they’re working together as an integrated marketing system To move from coordinated to integrated marketing, you need all of the teams to be on the same page

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Google Answers If Preferred Sources Overrides Low Quality Signals

Google Answers If Preferred Sources Overrides Low Quality Signals

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about whether Google’s Preferred Sources feature can override standard ranking signals in Top Stories. His answer offers some clarity about how user preference can influence visibility without giving preferred sites a free pass around Google’s quality systems. Google’s Preferred Sources Google Preferred Sources is a Search feature that enables

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Omnicom quietly moves Flywheel and Omni into the media group

Omnicom quietly moves Flywheel and Omni into the media group

Even though Omnicom’s commerce media unit Flywheel has been operating in close proximity to Omnicom Media since the parent company acquired it in 2023, the holdco quietly acknowledged on Monday that Flywheel has formally been moved under control of Omnicom Media global CEO Florian Adamski. Alongside Flywheel, Omni — the holdco’s operating system that connects

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Ollie Babajide Tikare on immersing himself in the cultures he photographs

Ollie Babajide Tikare on immersing himself in the cultures he photographs

Ollie Babajide Tikare is a multi-hypenate in the very definition of the word: he’s a photographer, writer, music curator and DJ who touches topics from socio-political essays to fashion, but Ollie maintains that it’s quite exhausting! The artist took to April’s Nicer Tuesdays to take us through his rollercoaster of a personal portfolio of photographic

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Google Says AI Creative Should Help Brands Differentiate, Not Blend In

Google Says AI Creative Should Help Brands Differentiate, Not Blend In

One of the more interesting moments in Google’s latest Ads Decoded podcast centered around a growing advertiser concern about AI-generated creative. As more brands gain access to the same AI tools, will advertising eventually start feeling repetitive? Ginny Marvin, Ads Liaison at Google, raised that question directly during the discussion, asking whether the industry was

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