🤖 OpenAI adds product feed ads to ChatGPT.

🎧 Data: Spotify streams generate 1.5x more listening time than YouTube views.

📊 Survey: 15.3% of marketing budgets are directed toward AI.

⚫ An ink shortage from the Iran War forces this Japanese snack brand to nix color packaging.

💰 Priceline brings back “Negotiator” character.

This week on The Daily Carnage Show, we’re covering “Spirit 2.0,” the crowdfunded effort to purchase Spirit Airlines—in the wake of an abrupt closure—and operate it for the people.

Shannon breaks down a little Spirit Airlines history, what led to the shutdown, how the Green Bay Packers serve as a model structure, and what this cultural moment means for brands and consumers alike.

Will this petition for collective ownership lift off or crash land?

🎙️ Don’t miss “Spirit 2.0: Will It Fly?” (11:08), now streaming on:

• YouTube
• Spotify
• Amazon Music
• Apple Music

The Jotform Claude app generates, edits, and manages forms conversationally.

You can use it to create surveys, registration forms, onboarding workflows, feedback forms, and other data-collection processes without leaving the Claude interface.

Refine layouts, update settings, reorder questions, and analyze submissions through AI-assisted prompts, too.

Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, “Brand vs. Planet: The Marketer’s AI Footprint,” to learn more about the energy, water, land, and infrastructure costs behind the tech that powers your whole stack.

🎙️ Plus, catch up on Season 2:

• Our Picks for the 2026 Titanium Lions (13:06)
• Silent Spring: Is Rainbox Capitalism Dead? (11:41)
• The Future of Google Search (9:56)
• GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
• Spirit Airlines 2.0: Will it Fly? (11:08)
• Major Platform Updates (8:17)
• Nike Runs into Controversy (12:19)
• Transgressive OOH (18:45)
• Your Brain on AI (12:33)
• Meta, McDonald’s Mukbang, and The OpenAI Mess (14:41)
• Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)

🎙️ Now streaming on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music.

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Dave & Buster’s launched its first-ever “State of Fun Report” to expose a growing “fun drought” among Americans.

Based on a survey of 5,000 adults conducted by Talker Research, the campaign found that nearly half of Americans feel their lives are lacking fun due to stress, work demands, and financial pressures.

Completely coincidentally, Dave & Buster’s is launching 10 new arcade games and the return of its Summer Season Pass, positioning itself as an antidote to screen fatigue and social disconnection.

Who’s up for the Human Crane? It’s for your mental health!

Weigh in on The Daily Carnage Subreddit:

• The Daily Carnage Show Ep 2.9 Discussion: “If AI agents become the primary interface to knowledge, what happens to the humans and businesses that knowledge originally came from? What does it mean for the internet to quietly transition from an open ecosystem of destinations into a closed ecosystem of gate-kept answers? Are we speeding toward a future where people stop visiting the web directly? If that behavior ends, we ever be able to rebuild it?”

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