My Coffee Name is Joe

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's, past and present, whether you're a grand, step, co, spiritual, zaddy, foster, godfather, dog father, or anywhere in-between! Go in peace, prosperity, and health!

YouTube video by Bob James - Topic Take Me To The Mardi Gras

Listen to this and prepare to have your mind blown.... music.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgE...

Memorial Day Parade 2025

I predict that views of DIY and "fix it" tutorial videos on YouTube are going to skyrocket.

"What a relief to have the weight of a life reduced to one sentence."

Darby Hudson
Artist and Poet

A Tuesday Treat for you

Spring is springin'

Massachusetts is leading the way with universal single payer healthcare.
masscare.org/legislation/

Fun Fact about me. In 2015, I was asked to identify M&A targets in the interactive streaming video space. My top two choices were BAMTech ($300M) and Musical.ly ($50M). You know the first as the tech that became Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ for $3.5B. The second is currently called TikTok.

Just took my daughter to the mall to spend some holiday gift cards. It was PACKED! From the parking lot to the food court and everywhere in between. Tons of teens, families, grandparents. Eye opening.

Spend shifts regularly. That's what happened with X. Everyone is rightly up in arms about the filter deprecation but the real story is AI profiles producing fake content. Literal bots.

Between Meta beginning the journey away from Brand Safety and the TikTok ban increasingly likely, Paid Social and Influencer budgets are going to take a massive hit in 2025.

Done with the one and on to the eight!

An image from the Sony PlayStation Blog about the latest content from the game Helldivers 2. The text reads: The Illuminate are spreading through mind control, abducting citizens of weaker dedication to democratic ideals and brainwashing them for a dark purpose which is still yet unknown to us. These mind-controlled citizens have been twisted and corrupted into a menace we call The Voteless-Super Earth's own people turned against the principles of Democracy and fair elections, losing their ability to vote entirely.

Interesting description of the latest DLC for the game Helldivers 2. The (incredibly awesome) game heavily riffed on the Paul Verhoeven film "Starship Troopers" and now takes inspiration from John Carpenter's "They Live" - both films were not so subtle jabs at "conservative" political movements.

Such a festive latte!

Yes, 'Ted Lasso' Was Inspired by 'The Wizard of Oz' — Brett Goldstein Explains How According to Brett Goldstein, Ted Lasso was inspired by the 1939 musical fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz. See what he said.

Wait...what?!?

three older women are standing next to each other with the words " reunited and it feels so good " ALT: three older women are standing next to each other with the words " reunited and it feels so good "

Hey ATG!

I think we have a binding commonality in that all of our civilian friends and family hate advertising. We know what it is to be loathed en masse. That makes us immune to criticism and stubborn in our determination.

State of Digital Grocery: In-Store Media Monetization Discover key insights on retail media networks in the U.S. grocery sector, exploring growth potential, challenges, and strategies for success.

Hey Folks - I'm the GM of nCountR. A purpose built in-store retail media platform. This is a wholly new medium, neither DOOH nor digital RMN, and already a global $8.5B industry. Learn more from our commissioned Grocery Doppio and incisive research study.

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The inside gears of an escalator instead Rockefeller Center.

NYC always reminds me of it's industrial era roots.

Thinking about the machine.

An amazing revival with a stellar cast! If you're in NYC anytime this holiday season, you don't want to miss this one. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Jake Paul didn't land a solid punch on a slow and unbalanced 58yo. I suspect he'll move on to some other YouTube hobby, like home flipping, clothing hauls, or crochet.

Netflix is starting to collapse under the load.

That was one heck of a fight!

This Tyson/Paul fight is off the hook! An ironically deaf Evander Holyfield and Rosie Perez color commentary...I can't wait for 80's TV legend Alf to come out of retirement for the play by play!

Unlike Jake Paul tomorrow, it will be fine.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

Good to be here!

QQ on Privacy - The last few years Gov't legislation has trended towards increased protections. With limited effect, so has the digital ad industry. Where do you think we'll be, as consumers and professionals, in four years?