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🛠️ Plus, Instagram opens up access to Creator Tools for all public accounts.

💬 Threads is testing a shortcut to quickly start DM conversations.

📢 Google expands beta access to text guidelines for all advertisers.

🎬 Paramount to buy Warner Bros Discovery in $110 billion deal.

✈️ Kayak pokes fun at millennial travel anxiety in new brand platform.

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✨ Welcome back to Season 2, Carnies!

Shannon kicks us off with an ethical discussion of ChatGPT’s decision to integrate ads, along with…

• How Australia’s recent youth social ban is reshaping youth marketing.
• Why some users are uncomfortable with TikTok’s new Local Feed.
• Why Meta’s facial-identification update is being called “sneaky.”
• The backlash and fallout after Ring’s Super Bowl campaign.
• Plus, a lot of …brotherly love in a couple of ads from CorningWare (1967) and Folgers (2009).

🎙️ Stream “Ethics in the AI Era” *(18:33) on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube — and let us know what you think.

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In NYC, an antisemitism awareness campaign by JewBelong was pulled mid-run after outdoor advertising partner SOMO cancelled the taxi rooftop ads, which had been scheduled to appear on about 4,000 Manhattan cabs through March 10.

The campaign featured the message, “Totally willing to hide my Jewish star for a free bus ride.”

According to JewBelong, SOMO was concerned that the creative was interpreted as taking aim at a free bus policy backed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. But JewBelong says there was no reference to him in the ads.

JewBelong declined to update the copy and the taxi ads were pulled without its consent. For now, static billboards with alternative messages are planned to continue in other boroughs.

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