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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (5/13/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! When Cookies Crumble 🍪 May 12 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 15:35 When Cookies Crumble 🍪 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Trade War Time-Out The U.S. and China just hit pause on their trade war with a 90-day truce that...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (5/06/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! Stop Yelling. Start Connecti... May 5 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 12:15 Stop Yelling. Start Connecting.🤝 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Trump’s Movie Tariff Sends Hollywood (and Marketers) Scrambling President Trump just...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (4/29/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! When Life Gives You Tariffs.... Apr 28 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 9:38 When Life Gives You Tariffs...Gamify Your Marketing! 🧩 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Trump Tariffs Throw a Wrench in Amazon Prime Day Prime Day...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (4/15/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! Skip the Commercials. Be in... Apr 14 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 14:16 Skip the Commercials. Be in the Content. 🎭 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Tariffs, Transparency, and Trust President Trump’s new tariffs are...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (4/08/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! What’s Your Brand Really Say... Apr 8 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 19:45 Reputation Check: What’s the Internet Saying About You? 🛑 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Trump’s Tariffs = Trouble for Small Biz President Trump’s...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (4/1/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! Severance’s Marketing Is a M... Mar 31 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 11:37 What Marketers Can Learn from Severance (Yes, the Apple TV Show) 🎬 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Apple’s Terminal Pro Campaign is Wildly Good In...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (3/25/2025) Presented by: Stop Confusing Branding with Marketing ❌ Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. This week? We’re clearing up a big source of confusion: the difference between marketing and branding (because no, your logo is not your brand). But first, let’s check in on the marketing streets… In The News 🗞️ Tesla’s Brand Crisis (Starring Elon Musk) Tesla’s...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (3/18/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! Newsletter Power: Why Brands... Mar 17 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 8:04 Newsletter Power: Why Brands Love Email Again 💌 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ PepsiCo Pops Open a Deal with Poppi Soda PepsiCo is shaking things up...

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Your Weekly Marketing Fix (3/11/2025)📰 Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! When Ads Become Entertainmen... Mar 10 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 10:03 When Ads Become Entertainment 🎬 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ How SNL50 Turned Ads Into Entertainment For SNL’s 50th anniversary, brands ditched...

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📰 Your Weekly Marketing Fix (3/04/2025) Want more insights? Check out The Ad Nerd Deep Dive! Why Short Videos Rule… But L... Mar 3 · The Ad Nerd Deep Dive 14:18 Why Short Videos Rule… But Long Videos Are Making a Comeback! 💥 Hey Nerds! 🎉 Welcome back to The Ad Nerd—where marketing feels less like rocket science and more like your cool friend spilling the secrets. Let’s dive into this week’s treasure chest of marketing wisdom In The News 🗞️ Ramen Goes Viral (Literally) When a TikTok video...