This Old Marketing (content marketing)

The marketing and advertising recession continues on per a WPP earnings report. Is there an end in site? Will 2024 be better? The boys discuss.

Yuga Labs fights with Opensea about crypto revenues. Who is right? And...will crypto winter ever end?

Threads web version is "finally" here. Is it too little too late?

And finally, Elon scraps blocking in Twitter X. Does it really matter anymore?

Rants and raves include the ongoing writers' strike saga and the musical, Six.

This week's links:

WPP Lowers Guidance

Bored Ape Fights with Opensea

Threads On the Web

Musk Removes X/Twitter Blocking

Writers Strike Update

Six: The Musical

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

What do marketers and creators do about all the fake content?

Joe and Robert discuss a slew of AI-generated books, while an 80s horror film that never actually happened goes viral on TikTok.

And does Google care about your content as they employ more AI in their searches? The boys discuss a few ways to make sure your content continues to be found.

Rants and raves include a gender disparity documentary and a content marketing salary survey.

This week's links:

AI-Generated Books Are Fakes

Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires

Zephotha the Fake Movie on TikTok

The SEO Apocalypse with Rand Fishkin

This Changes Everything Documentary

Content Marketing Salary Survey

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Big news this week as PENN sells Barstool Sports back to David Portnoy and (in an obvious move) partners with ESPN to create ESPN-branded sportsbooks around the country.

Could this be the end of civilization as we know it?

In other news, the "Apple buying Disney" frenzy continues. Joe and Robert argue about it for 10 minutes and both thinks they won the argument.

Spotify and NPR are killing off podcasts. Is the a good business move or a lack of long-term thinking?

And Kai Cenat creates a mob in New York City. Should Kai have known better?

In rants and raves, Joe raves about the Barbie movie while Robert rants about media's coverage of the recent Zoom news.

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This week's links:

Disney Sale to Apple?

Disney Beats Estimates

The Barstool/Penn/ESPN deal on Twitter

ESPN, PENN Strike Agreement

Why Publishers Are Reducing Podcasts

Kai Cenat and New York

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

This week Joe and Robert discuss how every piece of content created has "at least" a little bit of AI in it.

Meta blocks news links in Canada. Is this a negotiation tactic or a sign of things to come?

The movie Sound of Freedom continues to defy box office expectations. Is this because of a novel marketing approach or something different?

In rants and raves, Joe discusses a new content marketing game from Baseball Reference, while Robert talks about Joe.

This week's links:

Lulu Acquires The Tilt and Creator Economy Expo

Created By AI Warning

The AI Gartner Hype Cycle

Stanford Scientists Find that ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider

Meta Starts Blocking News Sites in Canada

Sound of Freedom Marketing

Sound of Freedom: The Full Story

Immaculate Grid Baseball

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

The boys go in-depth discussing the Twitter move to X. What's the future of Twitter X and is there a future at all? What does this mean for Threads?

Could there be a deal to bring the two together?

Rants and raves include the battle for CMS and Marketing AI Institute.

This week's links:

Twitter Rebrands as X

The Tranformation to the Everything App

Threads Unraveling?

Don't Count Out Threads

Vox Media Halts CMS

Marketing AI Conference

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

This week we cover breaking news from McGraw-Hill Education. MHE made the decision last week to kill their business book division. What does this mean for new business books and the future of business publishing?

Elon announces more problems at Twitter, including the fact that they keep losing money AND are cash negative.

At the same time, Threads engagement goes down. Does the initial data tell us anything about what will happen to Baby Zuckerberg?

And advertising continues to plummet. When will we hit the bottom?

Rants and raves include the writer and actor strike and a must-listen-to AI podcast.

This week's links:

Twitter Cash Negative

Threads Engagement Down

Advertising Continues to Plummet

Mo Gawdat/Prof G Podcast

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Disney CEO Bob Iger received an extension to stay as CEO until the end of 2026. Joe believes this is just enough time to sell the company to Apple (of course). Robert and Joe discuss what it will take to make that happen.

Threads starts laying out advertising guidelines, but should they even do it? Joe says no and Robert says wait.

Finally, the Morning Brew talks about what makes media success, but most of all, the advantages for content marketing are clear.

Rants and raves include Aretha Franklin's will and the new Star Trek series.

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This week's links:

Analyst Expects Disney to Sell

Threads to Launch Branded Content

Meta Is Pitching Threads Advertising

Morning Brew Breakdown

Aretha's Will Disaster

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

The big news of the week is Meta's launch of Twitter-competitor Threads in the United States. Is this finally the Twitter killer we were looking for, or just another also ran?

In other news, Snap continues to impress with its new subscription product. Could the company finally have found a paid social model that works?

Rants and raves includes Margot Robbie and Barbie with a side of advertising rant from Robert.

This week's links:

Meta's Threads Launches

Twitter Backtracks on Logging In

Unverified Restrictions on Twitter

Tweetdeck for Blue Check Only?

Snapchat+ for the Win

Advertising Waste

Margot Goes Barbie All the Time

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

A #ThisOldMarketing mid-year special episode where Joe and Robert cover what marketers and content creators should be paying attention to, including:

  • Creating Too Much Content (and not enough activation)
  • AI in Content
  • Taking Your Email Newsletter Seriously
  • What Is the Website?
  • The Video Strategy
  • The Job Market
  • Print Is Back
  • Here Come the Acquisitions

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

In this episode of #ThisOldMarketing, Twitter goes on a brand safety publicity tour, but it won't help their advertising sales. 

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk trade threats about an actual cage fight. If it happens, Joe is putting is money on the Zuck. Robert likes Elon's "walrus" play.

TikTok is booming with TikTok coins. Who knew?

InBev continues to chase mistakes as it just wants to create "beer for everyone."

Rants and raves include the US Open and the continuing saga at Reddit.

This week's links:

Twitter & Brand Safety

The Elon/Zuck Cage Fight

TikTok Coins

AB InBev Troubles

Reddit & the Protest

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Category:Content Marketing -- posted at: 4:30am EDT