The Fat Jew, an avocado emoji, @Media__Steph: What was in and what was out this week
Here’s what’s in and what’s out for the week ending August 21.
It was a week of reckoning for the Fat Jew. The alleged comedian acquired a few cracks in his Instagram empire after more people caught on that he steals his content. Ashley Madison was the target of a massive hack that outed thousands of cheaters, er members.
There were many hot takes about it, so we’re sure our new favorite troll @Media__Steph had a few ideas how to repackage those. Former One Direction hunk Zayn Malik battled Calvin Harris on Twitter over music streaming royalties and the Internet discovered that its #PumpkinSpiceLatte season soon.
More in Marketing
‘A multi-model world’: Microsoft’s CEO says the future of AI is orchestration, not one single model
Microsoft’s CEO just handed ad execs a survival guide for the agentic era.
OpenAI is hiring engineers, not ad sellers, first to build its ad business
OpenAI is focused on constructing the machine before worrying about selling what comes out of it.
A step toward compliance: the creator economy addresses disclosure and liability risks
The Institute for Responsible Influence will offer a creator certification program to standardize disclosures and increase creator accountability.