29-year-old marketing analyst repeatedly gets reported to HR by coworker for being ‘too quiet’: ‘I undermine team morale because I don’t send emojis in the group Slack’

The level at which you should fraternize with your coworkers is such a fraught topic that a big old chunk of employment law is dedicated specifically to it. While it is often true that a job can be made more pleasant and fruitful when an employee makes an effort with those they work with, it …
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How Apple TV+’s Severance taught us a valuable lesson on the importance of physical marketing in a completely digital world: ‘It’s irreplaceable by any ad on our screens’

We live in a world filled to the brim with innovations and technological advancements, that cause everyone to look for new ways to excite their audiences. When it comes to advertising, we are well used to a reality in which we’re constantly bombarded with products and content, each begging for our attention and our dollar …
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32 Marketing Memes That Know Every Launch Needs a Laugh

If you work in marketing, you know that keeping up with the latest trends is pretty much impossible, even if you’re chronically online. One minute, you’re brainstorming clever campaigns based on some viral meme you saw, and the next, you’re drowning in analytics trying to explain to your boss why that email didn’t convert. It’s …
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‘[They] don’t know better’: Overworked parents and their kids are being shamelessly victimized by corner-cutting YouTube celebs endorsing the barely-edible food kits ‘Lunchly’

Back when we were young, us lucky kids got our lunches made by mom or dad. We used to be embarrassed by the little hearts scribbled on the side of our brown-bagged lunch, but every day, we’d be excited to see what kind of sandwich we got, if they remembered the baby carrots we liked, …
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Memeifying Marketing: Why Brands Have Embraced the Meme, Flooding Our Feeds With Cringe for the Sake of Being Memorable

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A Portfolio of 28 Marketing Memes for Marketers Who Live & Breathe Content Strategy

Why didn’t anyone tell marketers that they’d have to be good at math? A bunch of marketing friends have mentioned that they were convinced it’d be an uber-creative position, but ended up spending more time with Excel than with their children. Creativity, but at what cost… You know, marketing is not for the weak. Specifically …
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25+ Grocery Shopping Memes That Know Not to Shop on an Empty Stomach

In the words of Carly Rae Jepsen, «I’m just going to the store to the store.» A truer sentiment has never been expressed. Going to the grocery store is an important ritual. It’s where we decide what type of person we’re trying to be that week. Am I shooting for the moon and only buying …
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27 Splendid Designs that Involve Superb Marketing

I’m a sucker for a good ad or design. I admit I’ll walk the streets consciously looking out for them. From big brands to small independents, I love taking the art in, soaking up the messages, trying to understand the ‘deeper meaning’. I’m not a snob about it, but I might be that annoying person …
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27 Marketing Memes for the Marketers Having a Metric Meltdown

Working in marketing is a constant battle between deadlines, trying to balance a million tasks at once, and dealing with pushy clients who think that once they sign the contract, hundreds of new sales will come flying in. To be a marketer, it requires equal parts creativity, strategy, and caffeine. And just when you think …
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Entitled College Graduate Gets Roasted for Complaining That Entry Level Marketing Jobs Pay Less Than Being a Server

As part of the generation that grew up during the 2008 financial crisis, I’ve spent most of my life with the creeping suspicion that I may never be better off than my parents. This feeling kind of softened the blow of doing one degree that any tech bro would sneer at as unemployable, then another …
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