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Current events are not unlike those that triggered the Korean War in 1950.
- How Will 'Your' AI Agents Make Money? in
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Just like web and app services have been making their money over the past decade or two: Selling you, the user, as the product.
- Appeasement For Profit Is No Way To Drive Foreign Policy in
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12/04/2025
In 1938, Chamberlain "appeased to avoid"; today, the U.S administration wants to "appease to profit."
- An Unjust Peace In Ukraine Will Not Be A True Peace in
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11/20/2025
History is full of "transactional" peace deals that didn't fare well. Look at the Munich Agreement of 1938 that appeased Hitler.
- Saluting Doug Weaver in
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Now retiring, this pioneer of the digital ad industry helped set our first ad standards and was instrumental in talent development.
- Let's Drop 'Trading' From Our Industry Lexicon in
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Folks should stop trying to shoehorn financial market methodologies into advertising products and services.
- Is It Smart To Turn All Sports Fans Into Sports Bettors? in
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Is growing gambling's share of after-tax dollars of Americans a good thing for them, their families or our society?
- Do You Trust Today's Arbitraging Ad-Tech Industry To Be Your Agentic AI? in
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If your agent knows more about what it is doing, and not doing, than you do, you will be at risk.
- Reading Matters in
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Fifty-two percent of Americans hadn't read a book in a year -- a stat perhaps pointing toward a scary future in a post-literate society.
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- Appeasement For Profit Is No Way To Drive Foreign Policy
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
12/04/2025)
Great news Ed! You're such an important and relentless voice in our industry, just imagine what you can do in DC!
- Appeasement For Profit Is No Way To Drive Foreign Policy
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
12/04/2025)
My point is Ed that we can't always wait for leaders, or parties to lead us, but need to make our own imitative. Clearly, there are real problems on the Demcratic side, but the NJ and Va governor races were big steps. We can't wait for rumors or health issues or whatever to play out. I am a believer in Branch Rickey's saying that "luck is the residue of design." Our luck will need to be made; we can't just wait for it.
- Appeasement For Profit Is No Way To Drive Foreign Policy
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
12/04/2025)
Ed, I'm surprised by your passivity, or willful ignorance of what you can do. How about use your voice? Write letters? Support candidates? Work the polls?Is it really so hard for you to parse who and what are right in the issue of Ukraine right now?
- Appeasement For Profit Is No Way To Drive Foreign Policy
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
12/04/2025)
I totally agree Frank, and the loss of string, independent media at the local level is particularly problematic. They carried the reasoned voice with a local relevance into the home, day in and day out.
- An Unjust Peace In Ukraine Will Not Be A True Peace
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
11/20/2025)
The Coolidge speech link seems to have problems, but here is one of his relevant points:In 1926, in an address to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, then U.S. President Calvin Coolidge challenged ad industry leaders to accept responsibilities to society beyond the simple conduct of their businesses. “Advertising creates and changes [the] foundation of all popular action, public sentiment, or public opinion," he said. "It is the most potent influence in adopting and changing the habits and modes of life, affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of the whole Nation.”
- An Unjust Peace In Ukraine Will Not Be A True Peace
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
11/20/2025)
History has long born out that advertising and democracy are mutually supporting of each other. Advertising and marketing thrive in democracies and die in autocracies, and help free and capitalist economies grow. President Calvin Coolidge gave a great speech on it more than 100 years ago at the 4As: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-the-american-association-advertising-agencies-washington-dcAnd, most importantly, we as an industry can't operate well in our ad, media and marketing siloes if we don't also pay attention to and care about the issues in humanity broadly. Just look at how the global advertising and media market was impacted during World War II.
- An Unjust Peace In Ukraine Will Not Be A True Peace
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
11/20/2025)
Totally agree Jack. Putin will break promises, as always. And Ukraine needs strength, not handicapping.
- An Unjust Peace In Ukraine Will Not Be A True Peace
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
11/20/2025)
100% Ben. The peace needs to be just, and I believe that a just peace can only be achieved through strength. Putin is not winning the war. He and Russia must be held accountable for their atrocities, like kidnapping tens of thousands of children and now training them to fight against their families and homeland.
- An Unjust Peace In Ukraine Will Not Be A True Peace
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
11/20/2025)
I'm with you Ed. It's not pretty.
- Is It Smart To Turn All Sports Fans Into Sports Bettors?
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Dave Morgan
(Media Insider on
10/30/2025)
Ed, given the broader adoption and the prop betting on individual, atomistic events in games, I suspect that this is for sure only the tip of the iceberg.