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I do almost all of my banking online or the drive-thru and rarely go into the lobby. Today I did...and what was before, every wall having a promotional poster written in Spanish language was gone! Not one! The last time I was in there...maybe 6 months ago...theres NO English posters. It made me think about me going to a Banco-de-Mejico in Cancun. There werent any english posters there. Of course not. Mexican businesses are there to promote the State of Mexico. Its was nice today to feel like Im in the USA again. Huntsville, Alabama.

Seventy-five percent of the revenue from Fox News’ evening news is from pharmaceutical companies…These pharma ads air during prime-time slots, and despite the decline in legacy media, as recently as April of this year, 1.9 million people watched Fox’s top hosts. Finding out how much money media outlets make off pharma advertising can be surprisingly difficult. However, in 2021, pharma companies spent $6.88 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising. And they spent (at least) $250 million to tell the public that the COVID-19 vaccine was “safe and effective.” It certainly helps facilitate deals and positive coverage when the two entities have common...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Health Secretary pick, just launched a bombshell move to ban Big Pharma ads on TV, and it’s a direct strike at the heart of networks like CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC—leaving Trump supporters cheering and the left in panic. In a video, Patrick Bet-David exposes the dirty truth: “Big Pharma is keeping Cable TV in business. 75% of ad revenue on cable television comes from the Pharmaceutical Industry.” That’s $4.5 billion in 2022 alone, per MediaRadar, propping up these networks while they push drugs like Ozempic.

YouTube, once a haven for video enthusiasts, has become a platform overrun with advertisements. It’s not uncommon for users to encounter multiple ads before, during, and after their desired video content. This begs the question: what’s driving the proliferation of ads on YouTube? YouTube’s primary revenue stream is through its Partner Program, which allows content creators to monetize their videos through advertisements. The platform takes a 45% cut of the ad revenue, while the creator receives 55%. This model has proven to be incredibly lucrative, with top YouTubers earning millions of dollars annually. However, this revenue-sharing model has created an...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will put immense pressure on the FDA to ban pharma ads on TV if he’s confirmed as HHS secretary. He has repeatedly advocated to ban drug ads on TV and radio, even as recently as November. The US is one of only two countries (New Zealand being the other) where D2C pharma advertising is completely legal. Kennedy believes lax pharma ad rules have led to an overreliance on prescription medications among Americans. He also believes pharma companies account for too much of TV ad spending, leaving media companies less likely to cover the sector critically. Prescription...

'Cecilia and I send our prayers and deepest condolences to First Lady Rosalynn Carter' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded to former President Jimmy Carter's death by sending condolences to the former first lady, although she has been dead for over a year. Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Sunday at 100, the Carter Center announced. He passed away peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, where his wife Rosalynn Carter died Nov. 19, 2023. That didn't stop Abbott from extending his sympathies to the late First Lady, according to a statement posted to EIN Presswire early Monday...

This is the opening number to a new musical set in the absurd world of an advertising agency. *Not an official Cheerios ad. In no way endorsed or supported by General Mills or Nestle Global.

In a time when so much of modern media feels disconnected from enduring values, Volvo’s latest ad for the EX90 SUV stands as a beacon of what truly matters: life and family. The nearly four-minute commercial tells a moving story that begins with a simple yet profound moment—a man learning he is about to become a father. From there, the ad follows the imagined journey of his child’s life, highlighting the pivotal role a parent plays in nurturing and protecting their family. With scenes of joy, curiosity, and togetherness, the commercial captures the universal beauty of family life. [embedded Volvo...

Your long-held suspicions are confirmed, according to a report: Your phone really is listening to you. A marketing firm whose clients include Facebook and Google has privately admitted that it listens to users’ smartphone microphones and then places ads based on the information that is picked up, according to 404 Media. Cox Media Group, the television and radio news conglomerate, admitted in a pitch deck to investors that its “Active Listening” software uses artificial intelligence to “capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations,” according to the report. “Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market...

Trump campaign releases new ad with audio from Ronald Reagan We haven't seen one like this before

President Donald J. Trump’s first television ad attacking his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, splices together footage of her dancing and images of migrants crossing the border as the ad accuses her of being a failed “border czar.”The 30-second ad aims to hold Ms. Harris responsible for millions of border crossings and a quarter-million deaths from fentanyl, which the ad says occurred “on Harris’s watch.” It closes with a new Trump tagline for Ms. Harris: “Failed. Weak. Dangerously Liberal.”The words flash on the screen as she dances, footage from an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.It is the...

The mainstream media has run amuck with Kamala Harris’s entry into the presidential race after Joe Biden stepped out. Despite all that the left is doing its best to push Harris on the American people, President Trump’s campaign is outspending hers, and it shows. [cut] He has been reportedly outspending Harris and her team 25-to-1 on television and radio ads. According to Breitbart, President Trump’s campaign and his allies are planning to spend $68 million between now and the end of August on advertising, whereas Harris is only spending $2.6 million. Breitbart reported that a Democrat insider is concerned about...

A top pro-Trump super PAC is expanding its ad spending against Vice President Kamala Harris and launching new ads attacking her record as a prosecutor in California and on immigration. The PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., is adding an additional $32 million of ad buys from now until Labor Day, totaling $70 million. The group is focusing its spending — totaling roughly $12 million a week — in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona, according to details shared first with POLITICO. Almost immediately after President Joe Biden announced he was stepping aside from the race on...

Another Trump ad on Kamala shows her bailing out dangerous criminals during the summer of 2020 with her promotion of the “Minnesota Freedom Fund”

The scandal-plagued Biden campaign has pulled all its ads against former President Donald Trump after he was nearly killed by a shooter on Saturday. Joe Biden is “pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible,” a campaign official told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday morning. The ads would have likely labeled Trump as an existential threat ahead of the 2024 election. Biden’s anti-Trump claims have rightfully led critics to question whether this heavily partisan rhetoric has incited violence against Trump.This rhetoric often conflates Trump with dictators, including Adolf Hitler, and suggests...

I live in a swing state. And sometimes I’ll have the TV on in the background as I do paperwork or housework. Well, today all sorts of ads for Joe Biden suddenly popped up. I’m not talking about ads for Democrats in general. These ads are praising Joe Biden, and only Joe Biden. I have not seen anything like this before today.

Human rights activist Martin Luther King III is slamming North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson in new ads accusing him of rejecting the Civil Rights movement that King’s father and others led. The ads that the liberal-leaning group Progress NC Action released show King discussing comments Robinson has made about aspects of that movement and his father, Martin Luther King Jr. Robinson, who is North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, is the Republican nominee for governor and is running against state Attorney General Josh Stein (D). In one ad, King rejects any comparison between his father and Robinson, saying the “blatant...

The advocacy group Republican Voters Against Trump announced a new six-figure campaign highlighting former Vice President Mike Pence‘s refusal to endorse former President Donald Trump in his 2024 campaign. The 15-second digital ad is set to run in five battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, while the billboard campaign will be featured in Phoenix, Atlanta, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee. “This is someone who worked with Donald Trump all four years of his presidency. He saw Donald Trump up close and personal every single day,” said John Conway, the group’s director of strategy, in an...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) seems to have disappeared from the airwaves in early primary states despite his commitment to stay in the 2024 race. After losing to former President Donald Trump in the Iowa Republican caucuses Monday, coming in a distant second, DeSantis does not have any ads running in New Hampshire, South Carolina, or Nevada, according to ad tracking services. Not only has his campaign apparently gone silent, but the various super PACs supporting his 2024 bid have also vanished from television in the early nominating states.

(this ad is from Desantis campaign).