Patrick Coffee

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Never read the comments… until the boomer rock historian logs on

Professional journalism is working three days to get Tom Cruise’s rep to say “no comment” about the guy who deepfakes his face on TikTok.

The future is already here and it’s one robot congratulating another robot for playing sia’s “unstoppable” on endless loop in every supermarket and pharmacy.

Did the producers of america’s funniest home videos realize they’d given birth to user generated content?

doing what you have to do to live that new york city middle class lifestyle every day

It’s generative AI! The last lines were great:

"This isn’t a future problem. It’s happening right now. But you wouldn’t know, because you’ve been covering crap that doesn’t matter.

Do better."

AI may not take over the PR industry after all.

This is very true… unless they’re describing ad agency employees.

best subway ad of the year. not even close. now where’s the QR code??

Fitter, happier, more productive, no apparent distress

I was ready to let go and trust my algorithmic masters until Spotify categorized mazzy star as shoegaze YET AGAIN. Everyone has a line and this is mine.

I must now retract any and all criticism of modern technology and apologize to the AI ego strokers.

ChatGPT is indeed the most important evolutionary development since man discovered fire.

My son appreciates the day after the super bowl.

Is it possible that we got through a whole Super Bowl without Kevin Hart in a commercial

Things I learned from the ads this year:

-celebrities still love randomly showing up together in strange places
-AI is taking over the world but it also kind of sucks
-there’s no escaping tom brady or snoop dogg, who happen to hate each other

My 10-month-old right before nap time

Venus Television · Marquee Moon · Song · 1977

Been listening to this album for 25 yrs and finally realized that “I fell right into the arms of Venus de Milo” is a joke bc of course she has no arms

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open.spotify.com/track/3x0iCz...

As the news cycle gets crazier every day, it’s time yet again to ask the year’s most important questions

-is it a Super Bowl ad or a SB-themed ad
-is it a national buy or a regional buy
-in which markets will it run
-will it air in-game
-is earned media your key KPI

And still the world turns.

New on WSJ: if the Trump tariffs go into effect, they’d be a big hit to… the ad industry.

China-based brands like Temu—which is the #2 Meta advertiser—would have to find new biz models.

Industries like auto that rely on imports would cut their spend to counter big losses. t.co/VaZatCa8xc

Your Next Apartment Rental May Also Be a Marketing Campaign Branded residences are expanding from multimillion-dollar penthouses to affordable rentals like New Jersey’s Fiat House.

Link: www.wsj.com/articles/you...

Want to live inside a marketing campaign?

Now you can!

“Branded residences” have evolved from $33 million Upper East Side penthouses to $2400 studios in the hills of New Jersey that come pre-furnished with foldout beds and a fleet of EVs in the basement.

the brand doesn’t even earn licensing fees

“I didn’t like how my dad annoyed me when I was 7”

The evidence:

My kid has a secret dairy and every entry reads, “I didn’t like it today when the people annoyed me.”

Clearly I’ve prepared him for adulthood.

deepseek can’t be a serious AI player until they make an uncanny valley ad that everyone hates on LinkedIn.

Ten Years In A Crumbling Industry There’s a screenshot from TikTok that recently caused me and a group of my writer friends to lose our minds.

I wrote about the early years
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Extremely depressing, i loved it

The best band name competition is over, we are no longer accepting entries.

What a century this year has been.