Here’s an interesting list of 50 AI-related companies helping to advance America’s global agenda — as compiled by Andreessen Horowitz. Assume some of the 50
Investor Bill Ackman, who recently vowed to sue Business Insider, did some of the work for us, on who exactly BI laid off. Given BI
… that SWMS should “be careful about making generalizations” when we wrote this week that “social drives little to no meaningful traffic, especially in B2B.”
OK, so maybe the guest speaker would be of interest to our subscribers…. in any case, host Peter Jacobs took us to a lot of
Looks good, right? The new design organizes its news river into “the latest” and “the most popular.” Red is even less of an accent color
Says Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch: “Big tech companies understand that time is on their side, that litigation is slow, and, for many publishers, prohibitively
The business world doesn’t seem to believe in publishing the way it used to. Another Sara Fischer scoop.
If you don’t listen to five episodes of a given podcast in a two-week period, Apple will now shut off your automatic download of that
CNN (a competitor) has the story.
Nominations are open until Feb. 5. It’s a list of “The Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Startups.”
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Registration is now open for the ‘Bloomberg Tech’ F2F event, being held Jun. 4-5 in San Francisco. With the current early-bird discount, a ticket runs $1,500. There is no better way to build relationships with Bloomberg’s notoriously elusive tech reporters.
Well, for now it’s Jim Jordan… but such news illustrates the kind of world we seem to be headed for. Adweek has the details, subscription required.
No “predictions” post will appear on this site. That said, quite a number of subscribers have asked for a Zoom/MS Teams presentation on what 2025 will bring. A conversation is precisely the right tool for the job. After the election — and with AI transforming publishing and life — “2025” is best discussed among peers, not predicted. So if you’d like to have a confidential group exchange on what stands to unfold, and why, and how comms pros can come out on top in spite of it all, drop a line and we shall schedule something.
According to Adweek, Omnicom CEO John Wren and IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky were in merger talks for eleven and a half months before the transaction was announced this week. Amazing that it didn’t leak.
Should PR pros stop visiting X, with all its lies and hate? It’s only going to get worse. Or are tidbits from targets too important to walk away from? Click here to watch tech edit vet David Strom and I disagree (at high speed) about this, as one compelling visual after another pops up on your screen. In 2025, SWMS will officially launch “SWMS Sound Thinking,” designed to be “argumentative insight in six minutes or less.” Each segment will explore a timely and controversial topic of interest to tech comms pros. This prototype runs 5:25. Hope you enjoy it — feedback vital and welcome! –Sam
New EIC Jamie Heller has asked her reporters to start going on camera — for the BI TikTok channel — to explain the big, deep-divey story they just published. Other publications do this — especially archival Fortune. BI is now on that too. Game on.
