Marketing Accountability Council
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I Wanted a Fishing Licence. New York Gave Me a Deer. ↗
AccountabilityI wanted to go fishing for one day.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Is This Really the Best Starbucks’ CEO Can Do? ↗
AccountabilityLast weekend at Fanatics Fest, I was handed a drink that looked less like coffee and more like the New York Knicks had been melted inside a clear plastic cup.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Memory Trap: Why What Used to Be True About Booking, Expedia, Priceline, and Kayak Is Now a Corporate Illusion ↗
AccountabilityThe Mirage of the Open Web:
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The age of the lazy assumptions is over. ↗
AccountabilityIt’s time to build for the reality of who people actually are.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Why Modern Mail is Broken and Needs an Overhaul ↗
AccountabilityDuring a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, bluntly titled “Reforming the U.S.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Syracuse University Deficit and the Great Higher-Ed Extortion ↗
AccountabilityMy alma mater, Syracuse University, simultaneously purged 93 academic programs, hiked total annual student costs to a staggering $95,676, and then admitted to faculty and staff that it had missed its enrollment targets and entered a formal budget deficit.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗GameStop's $56 Billion Prank: ↗
AccountabilityHow CEO Ryan Cohen Got Banned From the Company He is Trying to Buy
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Decade Meta Stopped Thinking and Started Copying ↗
AccountabilityDoes a company that has to buy or steal every new idea it deploys actually deserve to lead the next era of human connection?
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Accountability in the Age of the One-Way Mirror ↗
AccountabilityAfroman and the Moment Surveillance Became Accountability
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗You Found the Loophole; Congratulations, You Still Look Petty. ↗
AccountabilityThere is a version of winning that should make you embarrassed.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Bad Bunny, the Big Game, and the America That Refuses to Listen ↗
AccountabilityBad Bunny isn’t some performative diversity booking. He’s the most-streamed artist in the world for multiple years in a row. He’s already mainstream. The Super Bowl is just catching up.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Death of a Thousand Fees Economy ↗
AccountabilityWhen Government Gets Cornered and Everyone Else Gets Petty
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Thirteen Years, No Half-Stepping: What Jacob Sanders, Big Daddy Kane, and MAC Have in Common ↗
AccountabilityNo half-stepping shows up over time
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Careless People Gave Me PTSD ↗
AccountabilityBut Not for the Reason You Think
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗The Teleprompter Died and So Did CBS News ↗
AccountabilityTony Dokoupil’s Debut Didn’t Fail. The CBS News Model Did.
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Read on Marketing Accountability Council · External site ↗Can Mamdani and Khan Prove the Public Still Has Power? ↗
AccountabilityBehind the scenes, they mapped forgotten statutes and buried authority. If it holds, New York could become a model for rapid, people-first governance.
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