Andrew Rosener on LLMs & AI:

these things aren’t creating new ideas, they are really good at finding solutions from existing ideas.

And putting those things together in creative ways. And lots of different useful stuff.

But if we were to just get lazy as the human species and say “oh, AI is here, we’re done,” we just stagnate. Because these things aren’t creating that next frontier, they’re only remixing a static lexicon of art.

That heady brew of supply shock meets demand spike (free money!) caused the end of the free money train. But the buzz might finally be wearing off, prices came down for the first time since lockdown.

But will the shipping attacks at the Suez cause another supply shock?

Hamburger menu in the top right of the screen is one of the worst mobile UX implementations around.

If you sell a product for kids/families, you should be running podcast ads.

Because survey says:

seven in 10 parents whose children consume podcasts regularly say their child is most likely to seek them out, instead of the parents suggesting them.

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around 48% of U.S. children consume podcasts weekly, with around two-thirds (67%) listening at least monthly.

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Podcasts are family affairs…underscoring the importance many parents place on family co-listening and -watching.

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Kids’ interest is growing

Stories are in our DNA. And podcasts are screen-free entertainment. Win-win.

Evidence that podcast ads continue to work.

The Crucial Timing of Ads

Through the lens of podcast ads:

Budgets shrink in January as brands pull back from the holiday sprint and plan for the year ahead.

Things ramp up as the middle of the year approaches.

However, there is also a small dip in midsummer as these same brands are preparing for the holidays at the end of the year.

& then the sprint:

Brands have spent the year planning for the last few months and are committed to their campaigns. This part of the cycle starts to pick up in September and goes through the end of December.

Inverse budget pacing could reap rewards.

Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to merge with Paramount Global

Is The Great Rebundling about to begin?

Humans Prefer AI-Generated Content, New Research Suggests:

AI content - either written entirely by AI or with a final edit by AI - was preferred by readers.

I wonder how much of this is that LLMs are a reflection of how we speak online, so it probably feels more like a mirror than a lot of human-generated marketing copy.

At every step, fish are often being processed to some degree. The more processing you get and the more steps there are in that supply chain, the more likely it is that you’re going to have some sort of mislabeling or fraud because it becomes more and more difficult to identify what it is because it’s become progressively more and more modified as it moves along the supply chain.

This is about more than fish processing.

via the Search Engine podcast