Ana Milicevic @aexm
Wartime consigliere | Entrepreneur mixing media, technology, advertising, marketing, & commerce | Co-founder of Sparrow Advisers | I fix the hard problems sparrowadvisers.com sparrowone.substack.com Joined April 2009-
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Showed up for jury duty today and the court warned us not to check MySpace for information about the trial.
First there were "The Americans", now there are "The Czechs": Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe theins.press/en/politics/27…
Oooh, I wonder who that singer may be! Continuing #AdsInTheWild w/ more examples of weird airline email messaging.
The year is 10,191, the 57th year of the reign of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. Mentats from across the Imperium gather to celebrate the Postponement of the End of the Third-Party Cookie, the last ritual remaining from the forbidden thinking machines of old
business tip. INSTEAD OF SAYING “i work from home”: weak, lazy, does not sound productive SAY “i practically live at the office”: a real go-getter, dedicated to the grind, a worker bee
A truly amazing outcome 🙌
Possibly the first piece of media-related good news in a frighteningly long time 👏 businessinsider.com/twilio-founder…
I've asked Gemini for some ideas for a 90-minute session I'm leading tomorrow. Based on this image it provided, what do you think my session is about?
In light of Google's 3P cookie postponement (again) & to show off that I'm using my Midjourney subscription well, I proudly give you 'zombie cookies':
Cool launch from our team today: want to see what advertisers globally are doing w/their out of home (OOH) ads like billboards? This was impossible to see previously. We've put together a library you can sort by industry, media type, even advertiser. Should be a useful resource..
Cool launch from our team today: want to see what advertisers globally are doing w/their out of home (OOH) ads like billboards? This was impossible to see previously. We've put together a library you can sort by industry, media type, even advertiser. Should be a useful resource..
A very wonky modern internet experience is when you buy something & then for weeks see ads from that company's competitors, like ghosts beckoning from a different reality where you maybe bought a different product. Gonna call this alternate reality marketing/spend.
Hear, hear! We're like an ostrich w/ our heads in the sand here: third-party cookies are largely over, there are entire commercial ecosystems where these have never been currency & yet we artificially cling to an architecture we all know is obsolete.
Hear, hear! We're like an ostrich w/ our heads in the sand here: third-party cookies are largely over, there are entire commercial ecosystems where these have never been currency & yet we artificially cling to an architecture we all know is obsolete.
"Like minded", "back up plan", "serene future", "fiscal benefits" if the election doesn't swing your way #AdsInTheWild
<$3 for urine analysis + making it into an easy and 'no big deal' kind of thing. I like. Next stop? Smart toilets at home.
<$3 for urine analysis + making it into an easy and 'no big deal' kind of thing. I like. Next stop? Smart toilets at home.
Found the Ted Sarandos episode of House Hunters
My Powerpoint is glitching so comically today: this is the only thing it can render off of a moderately complex process slide and... I'm just tempted to leave it as-is.
Terence Kawaja @tkawaja
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473 Followers 139 Following Chief Strategy Officer at Ebiquity Plc (LSE:EBQ) Kindness is a virtue. @ebiquityglobal / https://t.co/juv93Ymw63It seems that building in consumer is going to become even harder. The machine learning and data advantages are huge. Watching these advances every day inside a very talented big co is exciting, but I am a little sad for how hard it’s going to be for upstarts to break through.
Showed up for jury duty today and the court warned us not to check MySpace for information about the trial.
List of Big Companies that have successfully disrupted healthcare:
Having a productive convo with an Eastern European guy is functionally indistinguishable from having an argument
This cant be the reference for Kyle MacLachlan
LUCY’S DAD IN FALLOUT IS THE GUY WHO HAS DOLPHIN SEX IN SHOWGIRLS??
iOS 15 quietly contains the greatest upgrade ever. My phone now properly autocorrects 'ducking' to 'fucking'
Jutros nisu imali perece u pekari
Bili mi danas iz policije u iznenadnu proveru držanja oružja. Kaže tukli se ko će da dodje... 🤣 Ja im stalno nudim da ih odvedem na strelište da probaju moje igračke i da malo vežbamo tehniku, kažu ne smeju, sukob interesa... Ok 🤷♂️
Tim Cook has a whole team dedicated to creating new image formats that I have to resave as jpegs to be useful in any way
First there were "The Americans", now there are "The Czechs": Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe theins.press/en/politics/27…
Kako manifestujem odmor u septembru, izmaštano 2024 ☺️
The Trello product team
Off to an exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci drawings. I'm always amazed how ahead of his time he was. His rough sketch of a front-loading washing-machine, 1506 -
Balaji is Andrew Tate for people who are good at math but can’t read