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Bernard Urban
@bernardurban.bsky.social
NYC
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Looking for someone with timely data/insights into GenZ in the US.

Any suggestions…?
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This article hits me on so many levels

In store retail media can only work on a phone screen IMHO

And the slow payments are only extra icing on the cake

apple.news/A0GMb5gfcTW6...
Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco — Bloomberg Businessweek
A startup promised the pharmacy chain its high-tech coolers would track shoppers and spark an in-store ad revolution.
apple.news
January 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Bit of a vibe shift at the @wsj.com lately — and it ain’t bullish. 👀
January 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
CES hot take - from the AI room service at the Cosmo to the badge check in - every technology interaction has been broken
January 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Hello Las Vegas
January 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Love this
This year, the Department of Sanitation has added another shovel to its arsenal: a narrow-width snow plow that can drop normal road salt in bike lanes ... just as the agency does for car lanes. nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/19/t...
Thursday's Headlines: Snow and Tell Edition - Streetsblog New York City
The Sanitation Department is even better prepared for winter. Plus other news.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 19, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Advertising, summarized in one post by a non-advertiser.
December 15, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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B of A DESK, on Omnicom/Interpublic:

".. Merger on the tape, Make Media Great Again. .. M&A restarting. .. My gut is that mergers are not surprising in this space as AI is coming fast .. and Advertising/Marketing is quite literally one of the biggest use cases thus far (APP, META, GOOGL, etc…).
December 9, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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NEEDHAM: ".. We expect $ROKU to be purchased for a large premium within the next 12 months. .. there are several categories of potential purchasers including streamers (NFLX, etc), CTV ad buyers (TTD, etc), retailers (Target, etc), and LLMs .. hungry for billions of new data points .."

$100 tgt
December 4, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.

With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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STILL A FEW HOURS LEFT FOR OUR MATCHING CHALLENGE!
GIVING TUESDAY IS TOMORROW!! 🫶🏽

@uofdigital.bsky.social is still running our $10K MATCHING CHALLENGE to with donations going to Team Dayā ( दया) in building schools in impoverished areas.

Donations matched up to $500!

CLICK TO GIVE KNOWLEDGE:
supportteamdaya.com/donate/

CommunityIsKey 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽
Donate
Please contact Jay Sears if you would like to join a future school building trip, lead a regional or industry fundraising group, make a large corporate donation or provide us a speaking o…
supportteamdaya.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Current situation

Listening to old Rolling Stones and baking
November 27, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Deleted “X”

C’est tout
November 27, 2024 at 12:16 AM
IYKYK
November 26, 2024 at 12:15 PM
I’m 50/50 on attending CES this year

Should I go…?
November 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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Over the next week or so I’m going to go on a reshare blitz when I see AdTech, advertising, media, etc posts.

So if you’d like tag me on your posts.

I’m really just trying to get this place to be more active.

The only way that happens is if we find each other 😂
a man in a red suit and tie is saying `` assemble '' while holding a white object .
ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is saying `` assemble '' while holding a white object .
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Now it’s a party @uofdigital.bsky.social is here!
November 21, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Could have a big impact on ad spend actually
The RFK Jr. impact on Big Pharma has a second-order effect: Big Pharma ad spending:

(via MS) $CMCSA $PARA $DIS $WBD
November 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Continuous glucose monitoring is amazing technology
November 17, 2024 at 11:44 PM
I think it’s going to work
November 17, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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jake paul should make boxing history by fighting elon musk next
November 16, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Paris (AFP) – News outlets have begun quitting X, formerly Twitter, once a favourite of global media but now accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner, president-elect Donald Trump ally Elon Musk.

www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
End of a love affair: news media quit X over 'disinformation'
News outlets have begun quitting X, formerly Twitter, once a favourite of global media but now accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner, president-elect Donald Trump ally Elon…
www.rfi.fr
November 15, 2024 at 7:04 PM