Max Willens
@maxwillens
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Music, Sports, Bile. Not necessarily in that order. Senior analyst at EMARKETER.
Joined June 2009
Thibs really speed ran 4 months of experiments into 48 min and came out alive 😂🔥 this team defies comprehension
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Go buy this book immediately
I wrote a book with @Kansas_Press about how we're living in a world shaped by Jerry Springer, Beanie Babies, early online porn, WWE Attitude Era, Insane Clown Posse, & 32 bit video games. You can now pre-order it! https://t.co/7qdOY02Jyq
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Straw donations are at the heart of the Adams indictment. @THECITYNY broke 2 huge stories about straw donors to his 2021 and 2025 campaigns. https://t.co/YXLjl20KRe
thecity.nyc
A month after Adams supporters were indicted over illegal donations, a CITY investigation has turned up other instances of questionable contributions that his campaign submitted for public matching...
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Harris camp doing nothing wrong and Google, which is pretty strict about banning spammy ads, doesn’t see it as a consumer harm. News outlets just collateral damage in this weird ads tactic
Harris campaign has been editing news headlines & descriptions in search ads that make it appear as if major outlets support her —Google believes its sponsored disclosures are enough to keep voters from being misled, but media outlets may feel differently https://t.co/dU0KFhbeuy
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Seems like the sort of tactic a judge or jury might take a dim view of
New from 404 Media: hundreds of websites are trying to block the AI company Anthropic from scraping their content, but are blocking the wrong bots, in part because AI companies are constantly launching new scrapers. Cat and mouse game https://t.co/HwK51UB0re
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Lol at a pharmaceutical executive saying they're not going to keep Office 365 going because their legal department "is not all that interested in retaining transcripts from a discovery perspective of every meeting we have."
👀 Pharma CIO largely negative commentary on $MSFT Copilot Via today’s MS CIO Survey Transcript
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I see that The Information has embraced The New York Times's strategy of using its opinion pages as rage bait:
theinformation.com
In its first earnings report as a public company, Reddit last month said its average revenue per user in the first quarter rose 8% from a year earlier. The biggest reason: new deals in which Reddit...
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Scoop: Google's threatening to pause all new Google News Initiative funding in U.S. if a new California ad tax bill becomes law —It's been reaching out to outlets warning it may not be able to issue new grants nationwide if it's forced to pay the Cali tax https://t.co/wcrzSvDLoQ
axios.com
The giant opposes proposed California taxes on digital ads and links aimed at funding newsrooms.
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I’ll take three
Really hoping the bootleg shirt industry gets "I THINK THEY SAID, 'FUCK YOU'" up and running and on the streets of Midtown Manhattan before the night's out.
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Really hoping the bootleg shirt industry gets "I THINK THEY SAID, 'FUCK YOU'" up and running and on the streets of Midtown Manhattan before the night's out.
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I am excited for (and also dreading!) the stories that will surely come in a few months from reporters profiling/interviewing the people who are signing up for jobs like this one
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Extreeemely hard core thumbs down to whoever decided to run the Miles Bridges feelgood highlight reel during halftime
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To the extent that this happens at all, it will not begin until the advertisers fueling the commercial internet start to suffer from the changes they are presiding over. And that is nowhere close to starting
it's going to be hard and slow, but we have to rebuild our own networks away from the worst aspects and incentives of the internet
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