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Exclusive: The Onion has opened a creative agency America’s Finest Creative Agency is “like a writer’s room and like a strategic and conceptual laser in your pocket,” The Onion’s CMO Leila Brillson said.

Very exciting news: The Onion has started a creative agency.

We've been doing this quietly for months, so if you've seen a funny ad somewhere, it may be us. But now it is a whole-ass company.

Anyway, we have killed Don Draper for a second time and revived his drunk ghost. Contact me to access him.

Exclusive: The Onion has opened a creative agency America’s Finest Creative Agency is “like a writer’s room and like a strategic and conceptual laser in your pocket,” The Onion’s CMO Leila Brillson said.

New from me: @theonion.com is now operating a brand copywriting and creative agency called, fittingly, America’s Finest Creative Agency

Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio "There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

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yeah, you guys remember the tuna melt moment? that big moment. online. that we all remember being viral.

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

Ahead of looming ban, TikTok creators resist the move to Meta Creators say “the vibes are not the same” on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and that monetization tools leave much to be desired.

wrote about the meta-averse creators speaking out ahead of the tiktok ban

bass pro shop pyramid and surrounding area/highway covered in snow

there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

AI-generated image of boxes of coats for donation with a caption that reads “kicking off the new year in service of our community”

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there

Bluesky has more than 21 million users. Where does it go from here? The platform won’t touch ads for now, and is instead focused on paid subscriptions, payments, and getting more people signed up, its COO said.

My colleague @katiehicks.bsky.social at Marketing Brew interviewed Bluesky COO @rose.bsky.team. "Bluesky has more than 21 million users. Where does it go from here?"

Bluesky has more than 21 million users. Where does it go from here? The platform won’t touch ads for now, and is instead focused on paid subscriptions, payments, and getting more people signed up, its COO said.

Love this @rose.bsky.team quote to @katiehicks.bsky.social:

“We’re not positioning ourselves against X. We’re positioning ourselves as the new social web.”

(And we figured out how to embed Bluesky posts into the CMS lol)

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