The death of ad formats
People vs Algorithms
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The Unstacked: Substack Meets the Economist Meets Slick
There were some good lines last night, no Brian? Yeah. Snappy writing in that show. Sometimes it goes overboard. The Mad Men was done in 2007 when the party was basically over for the advertising industry. This is being done now when the party is pretty much over for the media industry. And so you have to go backwards. We're literally the Mad Men had to go backwards to 1960. They couldn't set it in modern times. But what's going on in succession to me is almost backwards, right? Think about all the quote unquote digital media stuff that they've been like dealing with on the show,. Walter, BuzzFeed, nonsense. And then what is the stream service
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