Walmart on its reported (and now confirmed) interest in buying Vizio:
We believe VIZIO’s customer-centric operating system provides great viewing experiences at attractive price points. We also believe it enables a profitable advertising business that is rapidly scaling. Our media business, Walmart Connect, is helping brands create meaningful connections with the millions of customers who shop with us each week. We believe the combination of these two businesses would be impactful as we redefine the intersection of retail and entertainment.
via Walmart
If you want something to outlast a particular profit-driven business cycle, you have to make it yourself and you have to make it intentionally to not be part of the profit-driven business cycle.
This, to me, is the evolution of search.
The search engine naturally becomes a task execution engine—or a Task Rabbit engine—where you can search for something, have it do that thing for you, and never have to go do it yourself.
-Kieran Flanagan
Kipp Bodnar adds that this will happen via niche agents.
The classic search index isn’t king anymore and the classic 10 blue links have been enshittified.
Search is changing.
via the Marketing Against The Grain podcast (YouTube link)
You get what you build.
We wrote a dialogue with our music that was a continual growth.
We know what we’ve made and we know what our audience is building. They’ve helped us from the start.
We’ve been carrying each other from 2011. There’s no surprises. You get what you work for.
-Joe Talbot of IDLES
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