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Is this the worst billboard of 2025?

We all love a good advertising fail, and no more so than on LinkedIn, where piling on to deride the latest from adland is quite the sport. The latest advert to get people talk comes from drinks brand Courvoisier. The advert shows band Ezra Collective sitting around in what I suspect is meant to be

What Yoga Taught Me About Intentional Communications

Yoga teaches that every movement connects to the next. Travis Claytor shows readers how intention and practice apply to communications. The post What Yoga Taught Me About Intentional Communications first appeared on Spin Sucks.

These Trends Will Define the TV Landscape in 2026, According to Experts

These Trends Will Define the TV Landscape in 2026, According to Experts Several trends will impact TV in 2026.ADWEEK, Getty Well, so much for that. In 2026, ad industry experts say the TV market will be more about execution, with advertising becoming more accountable and outcomes-driven as the industry adopts targeted, AI-powered, cross-platform buying and

This astounding optical illusion disappears in a blink

By now, it feels like I’ve seen every optical illusion under the sun, so it’s not often that one impresses me – until now. Recently, a fascinating illusion has been making the rounds of Reddit, mesmerising all those who gaze into it as reality appears to shift right before our eyes. The best optical illusions

The Visibility Engineering Metrics That Predict Demand

Visibility engineering that actually works. Discover three no-dashboard metrics to turn signal into sustainable pre-pipeline demand. The post The Visibility Engineering Metrics That Predict Demand first appeared on Spin Sucks.

2025 was a ‘vintage year’ for Christmas marketing, says Ipsos

Five of this year’s ads were recognised by over 50% of the British public during Ipsos’s ‘Race to Christmas’ survey, up from zero last year. As the festive period comes to a close, almost two months after brands started sharing their Christmas ad efforts, it seems 2025 was a blockbuster year. Five of this

The top art stories of 2025

It’s been a lovely year for art, in that some gorgeous work has been created and we’ve been lucky enough to cover some of it. Here are some of our top stories from 2025 that cover all things artistic (in no particular order). If you’re looking to get started with your own creations in 2026

Why Every Brand Needs an Awards Strategy

For many organizations, awards are a last-minute scramble. Brendon Shank shows how early planning and alignment PESO Model© turns awards into reputation drivers The post Why Every Brand Needs an Awards Strategy first appeared on Spin Sucks.

Free AI WordPress Plugin To Automate Internal Linking For SEOs

If you’ve been following this series of exploration of vectors and their application in SEO, we have covered the building blocks of the plugin I’m sharing with you: Understanding the basics. Solving content issues. Scaling up to handle massive amounts of data. Automating 301 redirects at scale. Running Python scripts in a terminal is powerful,

The anatomy of an agency chief client officer

Even in the era of the 20-person Microsoft Teams meeting, some advertising execs rack up the air miles. Andrea Timmerman, global chief client officer at media agency Assembly, heads out from her Minneapolis, Minn. base to the agency’s offices and those of its clients in Singapore, Dubai, London and New York between two and four

Fans won’t let the Stranger Things 5 logo blunder go

Part of the success of Stranger Things comes from the painstaking accuracy of its period setting. The Duffer Brothers packed the show with cultural references to the 1980s, from the mullets and scrunchies to walkie talkies and references to analog media and classic arcade games like Dig Dug. With such attention to detail, even the

A Checklist For Essential Year-Round Tasks

Planning is not an exciting topic, I admit. Yet, I wrote a book recently on the topic of planning, introducing a framework for doing it for digital marketing. Over the two decades of my career, I have found that the best and quickest positive outcomes nearly always came from a strong plan and a planned

Little Spoon’s Caryn Wasser on the Reason Brand-Led Growth Beats Performance Marketing

Brand marketing is getting its time to shine in the latest episode of the Marketing Vanguard podcast as we sit down with Caryn Wasser, chief brand officer at Little Spoon. Tune in for an energizing conversation on how a brand drives growth and revenue and why its place in scaling a business should never be

How to design fantasy architecture using Photoshop and Blender

This image was part of a community concept art challenge I created for my members on Patreon. Here you’ll see a method I use regularly in my professional work to quickly iterate and refine ideas, which can be helpful in a production setting. I’ll show my design process that involves developing a standalone architectural concept,

3 roles every marketing leader needs now

As organizations invest heavily in martech and personalization, marketing leaders face a familiar challenge — turning those investments into real business impact. Despite increasingly sophisticated tools, many teams struggle to realize martech’s full potential, often because critical talent and expertise are missing. The solution lies not in the technology alone, but in the roles and

Unofficial Trump Kennedy Center logo is the sharpest design trolling of 2025

So the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts is now the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. If it seems strange that a sitting president would create his own memorial antemortem, it’s perhaps even stranger that his team wasn’t prescient enough to secure the web

How ChatGPT’s Native Shopping Could Rewrite Digital Commerce

When OpenAI quietly added native shopping to ChatGPT – alongside a partnership with Walmart – it marked more than another AI feature rollout. It signaled a fundamental shift in how consumers discover, compare, and purchase products online. For the first time, shoppers can browse and buy directly inside an AI conversation – no search results,

Netflix’s VP of marketing on its goal to generate fandom

For most marketers, success is measured in sales uplift or return on investment. At Netflix, however, the streaming giant’s marketing teams are measured on their ability to build fan engagement and drive conversation. “Netflix is unique because marketing is tasked to generate fandom and drive conversation,” says June Sauvaget, Netflix’s vice-president of marketing for EMEA.

Creative Bloq’s most read stories of 2025

It’s been a varied year here at Creative Bloq. As ever, we’ve covered all things creativity including a mix of stories about art, design and technology. And what have people been reading? I hear you cry. Well wonder no more, because here is our list of the top 10 most popular news and features on

Review Of 2025: Highlights & Lowlights For SEO (& WordPress)

2025 was notable for GEO, Google patents, and research papers. WordPress entered the year with uncertainty and ended it roaring into 2026. The post Review Of 2025: Highlights & Lowlights For SEO (& WordPress) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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