Bernard Urban

Looking for someone with timely data/insights into GenZ in the US.

Any suggestions…?

Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco — Bloomberg Businessweek A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.

This article hits me on so many levels

In store retail media can only work on a phone screen IMHO

And the slow payments are only extra icing on the cake

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Bit of a vibe shift at the @wsj.com lately — and it ain’t bullish. 👀

CES hot take - from the AI room service at the Cosmo to the badge check in - every technology interaction has been broken

Hello Las Vegas

Love this

Advertising, summarized in one post by a non-advertiser.

Haha okay

Like a high tech Tokyo style experience with an app

True. But Omnipublic isn’t as funny … is it?

Bernard Urban on LinkedIn: Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Adtech God, Arielle Garcia, and… Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Adtech God, Arielle Garcia, and Mike Evans about the OMC / IPG merger on The Refresh Podcast. Click here listen on…

Thanks to @adtechgod.com for having me on The Refresh to talk about the OMC / IPG merger.

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B of A DESK, on Omnicom/Interpublic:

".. Merger on the tape, Make Media Great Again. .. M&A restarting. .. My gut is that mergers are not surprising in this space as AI is coming fast .. and Advertising/Marketing is quite literally one of the biggest use cases thus far (APP, META, GOOGL, etc…).

Intercom

NEEDHAM: ".. We expect $ROKU to be purchased for a large premium within the next 12 months. .. there are several categories of potential purchasers including streamers (NFLX, etc), CTV ad buyers (TTD, etc), retailers (Target, etc), and LLMs .. hungry for billions of new data points .."

$100 tgt

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.

With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.

STILL A FEW HOURS LEFT FOR OUR MATCHING CHALLENGE!

It’s about damn time

“Black and Blue” / Blueberry pie

Current situation

Listening to old Rolling Stones and baking

Deleted “X”

C’est tout

IYKYK

It has been a while

And I’d never want to offend you

Both good reasons

I think you’re right!

I’m 50/50 on attending CES this year

Should I go…?

a man in a red suit and tie is saying `` assemble '' while holding a white object . ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is saying `` assemble '' while holding a white object .

Over the next week or so I’m going to go on a reshare blitz when I see AdTech, advertising, media, etc posts.

So if you’d like tag me on your posts.

I’m really just trying to get this place to be more active.

The only way that happens is if we find each other 😂

Have you tried suing her

Now it’s a party @uofdigital.bsky.social is here!

Such a great building - I know that block well

I hope no one was hurt

Could have a big impact on ad spend actually

Continuous glucose monitoring is amazing technology