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Amazon EU: How European Antitrust Reshaped the Marketplace
Amazon UK launched online grocery in 2010. Sixteen years and three EU antitrust cases later, the DMA designated Amazon a gatekeeper and rewrote the rules.
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Craig Newmark of Craigslist: Good Guys Don't Always Finish Last
EPR's preserved 2010 interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark — and the 2026 context wrapper covering Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the CUNY journalism school renaming, the cybersecurity grants, and why Craigslist remains independent and profitable.
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Google TV: Big Bet, Big Problems
Google TV is the biggest swing anyone has taken at the television set since color. Networks block it, the keyboard remote is a problem, and the bet depends on three things breaking right.
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No Matter How You Sell it, Nexus One Webstore Was a Marketing Fiasco
Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Nexus One web store, just four months after it launched.
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Women in Mobile and Social Gaming — Spending Patterns, Brand Strategy, and the 2026 Landscape
Women drive billions in mobile-gaming in-app revenue across Candy Crush, Royal Match, Coin Master, Homescapes, and Roblox. The 2010 thesis that women wouldn't pay was reversed at industrial scale. The 2026 landscape, the operators, and the AI engine layer.
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The PR Industry Map: Global Holdcos, Leading Independents, and the AI Communications Challengers
EPR's canonical map of the PR industry — the global holdcos (Omnicom-IPG, WPP, Publicis, Dentsu, Havas), the leading independents (Edelman, 5W AI Communications, Finn Partners, Zeno, APCO, Brunswick, Sard, Joele Frank, Kekst CNC, Prosek), the category specialists, and the trade press that covers them.
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The 2009 Social Media Snake Oil Warning Was Right
The 2009 BusinessWeek "social media snake oil" warning, what it got right, how social media marketing matured, and why the same pattern recurs with every new marketing channel.
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The Free Playbook: From Gillette to ChatGPT
From King Gillette's 1903 razor to ChatGPT's 2022 launch, free has been brand infrastructure for 122 years — the playbook from Dropbox to SKIMS to Tesla to the Vatican.
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12 Marketing Terms to Retire — And What to Say Instead
Twelve marketing and PR terms to retire in 2026 — synergy, leverage, robust, seamless, best-in-class, cutting-edge, game-changer, unlock, disrupt, pivot, ever-evolving, at-the-end-of-the-day — and what to say instead.