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This week the show takes its annual look back at the Super Bowl ad news coverage, complete with our own winners and losers, and a ton of AI chatter.

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The Best Ad Buy on TV

Continuity vs. Prediction

The LinkedIn Earnings Machine

Instagram Pilots Premier Subscriptions

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P&G on Data and AI

Distiguishing AEO from GEO

Abusing Your Mascot

Telly’s Mixed Success

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The “Like Recession”

YouTube and Controversy

Emotion vs. Persuasion

GPL-1’s Effects on Snack Industry

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Branded Entertainment’s Future

Gemini vs ChatGPT

AI and Rudeness

Dead Tactics That Live Again

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The Evolution of Social

Ethics for AI Use

Instagram’s Chief Shares an Opinion

Subscription Fatigue is Peaking

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AI blossoms into the fully disruptive force that we always knew it would become

The Omnicom+Interpublic deal

The Trump 2.0 administration

The battle over who will own Warner-Discovery

The TikTok ban that never happened

The growth of women’s sports advertising

Meta ends fact checking

Digital content creators gain the attention and representation they wanted from Hollywood

Amazon’s makes huge gains in their ad solutions

Cracker Barrel’s logo fiasco

Google and Facebook manage to avoid many of the worst possible outcomes in their antitrust cases

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Netflix to Buy Warner-Discovery

Omnicom’s Lastest Merger Spin

Political AI Agents Better Than Ads

Creating a “Truth” Moment For Guns

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Big Tech’s OpenAI Dilemma

Trusting Amazon’s Ad Platform

The Right Antitrust Remedy

Under Using Your Comms Department

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Using Humor on LinkedIn

Social Listening’s Bot Problem

Media Diversification Today

Creators Question Meta’s Reels