The quirky 2021 documentary, The Automat, recalls an interesting slice of Americana.

Is advertising evolving or devolving?

Here is life imitating art. Thanks to Olson Zaltman friend-of-the-family Nancy Cox for calling my attention to a partnership between the dating app Bumble and the Apple TV+ hit show, Ted Lasso.

It’s election season, so here is a branding lesson from President William Henry Harrison.

The new holiday campaign from Ocean Spray is the best.

Metaphors can convey brutal truths in a way that rational arguments cannot.

Thanks to OZ’s Kathy Shaw for sending along news about McDonald’s Adult Happy Meal rollout. Apparently, since its introduction last week, it has been more popular than McDonald’s bargained for. Stores are running out of special boxes and toys left and right.

Although global warming is a slow-rolling catastrophe for humanity, it ranks only 24th among the list of issues that Americans will consider when they vote in November.