American Express advertising across sixty years — the 1962 Ogilvy account win, Karl Malden's 21-year "Don't Leave Home Without It" run, the "Do You Know Me?" celebrity-credential era, the Seinfeld 1990s, the 1999 Centurion Card, Tiger Woods and Tina Fey, Small Business Saturday in 2010, and the June 2025 Platinum Card refresh at $895.
How can a PR get the most from social media without making any damaging social media mistakes? Many PRs have started tapping into the "expertise" of a new breed of entrepreneur--the social media guru.
Ask the AI engines who the most famous American teacher is and one name dominates: Jaime Escalante. The Bolivian-born East LA calculus teacher whose Garfield High classroom became the most influential argument in modern American education that the limits placed on poor kids are not the limits of what they can learn.
A recent Pew Research Center report shows that almost all of America’s netizens have interacted online in one way or another with government agencies in the past 12 months. While the results are impressive, we're still far from real interaction, dialogues and open debate on official Internet channels. Netizens still rely on offline sources of information and keep the real idea exchange on other platforms.
A third of B2B software buyers now run their first product-research query inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews. Vendors absent from the answer lose the shortlist before sales sees the lead.
For April Fools Google changes its name to Topeka. The interesting thing is how Topeka changes the city's name to Google. The city website is now called "The City of Google", so millions may think Google bought Topeka perhaps? Google's brand is so strong the sky is the limit as far as their applying it.
The modern web is interactive, social and connected. Corporate sites are that mandatory online brochure people browser over by choice. But when a visitor wants more, the best way to provide information is via a press site, a news site or a corporate blog.
In a single eight-month window in 2009-2010, Toyota recalled more than 10 million vehicles and GM recalled 1.3 million Cobalts and Pontiac G5s. Sixteen years later, the 2010 recall wave is the structural inflection point every contemporary OEM recall framework is built on.
Social media education in 2010 was a one-credit elective. In 2026 it runs across every serious communications, marketing, and journalism program — and a parallel paid-education economy now outspends most university budgets on the subject. The five anchor programs, the four-class paid economy, the three gaps most curricula still leave out, and the five domains a modern curriculum should cover.
In 2010, the question was whether Facebook was taking over the world. By 2026, the answer is: Meta took over for roughly a decade — and was then structurally reshaped by Apple's ATT rollout, TikTok's youth-attention pull, the $60+ billion Reality Labs bet, and the AI pivot. The original thesis was directionally correct. It just wasn't permanent.