A claim about YouTube thumbnails is getting attention on X: that showing your face is “probably killing your views,” and that removing yourself will make click-through rates jump. Nate Curtiss, Head of Content at 1of10 Media, pushed back, calling that kind of advice too absolute and pointing to a dataset
EXCLUSIVE: How The Chernin Group’s Content-to-Commerce Bet Came Crashing Down In October 2024, after three rounds of layoffs and a desperate going-out-of-business sale, The Pro’s Closet finally shut its doors. The used-bike marketplace, once a pandemic darling, had grown from a garage eBay hustle into a venture-backed business that brought
In this workshop, we’ll explore the process of relighting a 3D environment in Unreal Engine, taking inspiration from Luminism and the Hudson River School. Rather than aiming for strict realism, this project focuses on translating some painterly qualities of light into a digital space, with attention to atmosphere, emotion and
As we head into the new year, the age of experimentation is giving way to the age of execution. The past few years have been about “Can we do it?” – generative AI, the decline of cookies, retail media networks (RMNs), shoppable video, immersive experiences. Now, the question is: “Are
Scott Brinker’s Martech for 2026 report offers a lucid map of the terrain GTM teams must now navigate: a marketplace no longer defined by sequential buyer journeys, increasingly shaped by agentic AI, destabilized by volatility and governed by nonlinear patterns of evaluation and decision-making. Yet during the same period in
To craft a letterset that did both – and in doing so sits as both a tool for display and body text – Thierry and the team at Grilli meticulously studied the curves of these older lettersets and whittled away at any letterforms that “were too awkward” to be transformed
Coursera has agreed to acquire Udemy in a stock-for-stock transaction that will combine two large online learning platforms with consumer and enterprise businesses. Under the terms of the deal, each Udemy share will be exchanged for 0.800 Coursera shares. Following the transaction, Coursera shareholders will own approximately 59% of the
The MAHA initiative has largely been pushed by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump Administration. It’s a broad slogan, and the MAHA movement has come to stand for different things in different people’s eyes, depending on which initiatives they most closely follow. For some, MAHA has been defined by
Disney‘s Olaf is a festive favourite. The lovable, optimistic snowman from Frozen starred in his own holiday special back in 2017 and he’s a popular choice for Christmas decorations. Now the animated character crossed from the screen into the real world in an impressive feat of engineering. Disney has created
Google’s Danny Sullivan discussed SEO and AI where they observed that their ranking systems are tuned for one thing, regardless if it’s classic search or AI search. What he talked about was optimizing for people, which is something I suspect the search marketing industry will increasingly be talking about. Nothing
