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Back in 2006, Publicis Groupe—one of the world’s most established advertising holding companies—shocked the industry with a ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Before it was a multichannel brand with ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. The announcement that UPS had launched nonstop flights to Guangzhou, China may feel like old news to anyone ...

Tension: We expect intelligence to look like order, discipline, and traditional success—but it often shows up in ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. It’s easy to spot toxicity in someone else’s relationship. Harder to spot in our own. Even harder when it ...

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I write this with urgency. We are living through a slow-motion cognitive collapse – a collapse of our shared sense-making in the face of AI-generated confusion and media dysfunction. Every day ...

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