I start the day with a cup of black decaf, instant coffee. Marcus Johnson:. Instant, fine. Decaf? No Bill. People hate instant. By people, I mean Paul Verna. Favorite book, Bill, of all time. Bill Fisher:. It's one I've just finished reading. It's by a British comedian called Bob Mortimer. It's called The Satsuma Complex and it made me laugh out loud. Marcus Johnson:. Oh, he's fantastic.
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| Feb 27, 2024
Smart Performance’s results come out of a black box, but they measure up: Smart Performance Campaigns were 26% more efficient on a cost-per-acquisition basis, according to an A/B test conducted by Tinuiti. Publishers are getting a taste, finally.
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They're also serving a market that is still quite underserved for textured hair, Black hair, and bringing premium beauty products to that, and so I think they'll see strong demand if the products work as well as we think they should because it's Beyonce, of course, yes, the queen of great hair. Sara Lebow:.
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| Feb 28, 2024
Yeah, you'd have to go black on black to make it work, for sure. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Nice. Marcus Johnson:. Let's move on to the next question. Carina Perkins:. I'm not convinced. Marcus Johnson:. Sorry, Humane. I did my best. Let's move on to the second question we've got for you here. We're talking about shopping Amazon from your social feed.
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| Nov 30, 2023
Rates were higher among Black and Hispanic adults as well. Use cases endure. Many US states require stores to accept cash, and it’s popular in peer-to-peer (P2P) and personal services transactions. Checks. Though three-quarters of US adults said they still carry checks, just 46% had used one in the past 30 days, according to October 2021 polling by the Fed.
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So still not able to get themselves into black on the profitability side of things. Jasmine, let's end the lead by talking about their AR ambitions. Just last month, Snap laid off another 170 employees in its year old AR, augmented reality, enterprise division, so it could focus on AI and other services it says. What does this say about Snapchat's AR ambitions? Jasmine Enberg:.
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| Nov 6, 2023
Among non-white consumers, ownership is lowest among Black consumers (54%). And only 46% of consumers with less than £15,000 ($18,484) in annual household income have a card, versus 82% with at least £50,000 ($61,612). Cash remains critical to financial inclusion. The opportunity: Cash was used for £49.25 billion ($60.69 billion) in UK retail payments in 2021.
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| Feb 17, 2023
Then I can not go to any of the wood ones and go straight to the black ones or whatever it is, but at the end of the day, the basic search is not good. So they got to fix that first. Marcus Johnson:. Carina, you're up. Carina Perkins:. Sure. So I didn't realize we were limited to 2025 on this one. Oh, we won't. We won't, right? This was the future of search, right? Okay. I'm going to go for it then.
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| Mar 15, 2024
Black Panther. Carina Perkins:. Really? Marcus Johnson:. Yeah. Blake Droesch:. That was a good one. Marcus Johnson:. Iron Man was close. And Avengers, I think, End game was also really close. All right, folks. That's all we've got time for today's episode. Thank you so much to my guests. Thank you to Carina. Carina Perkins:. Thanks Marcus. Marcus Johnson:. Thank you to Suzy. Suzy Davidkhanian:.
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| Jan 26, 2024
I mean, you get this thing, this giant humongous black box that just sits on my wall. If that could look nicer while I'm not using it, I'm all in on that. Zach Goldner:. I'll tell you this, Ethan. With the TVs, I understand how more technology is turning into the ambient pictures where you can have a picture frame pretty much on your wallet as a TV, so it turns maybe to a nice flower.
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| Jan 19, 2024
Vision Dee even allowed drivers to black out their windshields to be immersed in a virtual world—though fully autonomous driving is still years away. Concept cars let users emote through their vehicles.
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It has also dabbled in video game-like mechanics in some of its titles, like 2019’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.”. The state of cloud gaming: Revenue from cloud gaming is expected to reach $4.3 billion in 2023, a 62% increase from $2.6 billion in 2022. This is the biggest increase in annual growth to date, per Gambling Insider.
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| Aug 10, 2023
Doctors are still puzzled about why a certain kind of dementia hits black people way harder and way more aggressively than white people. But the fact is, they've only studied mostly white people. They need to get more black people into these studies, and given how specific some of these conditions are that they're trying to study, that in itself is a tough lift. Marcus (09:40):.
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| Sep 19, 2023
A May 2022 Collage Group survey found Tubi ranked fourth in terms of usage among black audiences, behind only Netflix, Hulu and Prime Video. In 2022, 21% of Tubi’s total audience was Black. Roku, Pluto TV, and Tubi will account for nearly 4 billion in US CTV ad revenue this year. The ad viewing experience on FAST channels varies by platform.
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| Jul 19, 2023
So Danny, you were recently noting Netflix is gearing up to launch a number of games based on some popular IP, Stranger Things, Black Mirror, Squid Games, reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Where is Netflix at with its gaming ambitions if we zoom out? Daniel Konstantinovic:. So I would say that they're still in the early stages, but there finally seems to be some movement there.
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| Oct 26, 2023
He was known for having a black tongue and also for being quite cruel. People in Tibet have long believed in reincarnation. So to prove that you weren't the king reborn, you would stick out your tongue, and this later came to signify respect and finally a greeting. So I guess I should say, well not say, but Paul and Jason, I should stick my tongue out at you. There you go. Welcome to the show.
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As Jacob Kastrenakes of the Verge describes, the AI pin device is a small black puck that slips into your breast pocket with a camera, projector and speaker sticking out the top.
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| Oct 6, 2023
The 2012 Norwegian crime program predates early Netflix hits like “House of Cards” and “Orange Is the New Black,” and the program’s near removal underscored the flimsiness of being branded as an original.
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Black history isn't just relevant come February. And I'm astonished, and I'm curious your take as to why advertisers feel like they only need to concentrate on these different communities, but in particular LGBTQ+ folks in June. Why do they keep getting this wrong? Paola Flores-Marquez:. I think it's an easy win, right? To do it when everyone else is celebrating.
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| Oct 5, 2023
So the name originated from an incident on a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in November, 1902 when President Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt. Clifford Berryman, political cartoonist, white heartedly satirized the president's refusal to shoot the bear in a Washington Post cartoon.
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Source: Data for Progress; American Economic Liberties Project; Fight Corporate Monopolies
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Source: Data for Progress; American Economic Liberties Project; Fight Corporate Monopolies
Black. Marcus Johnson:. Black is second. Oscar Orozco:. White? Marcus Johnson:. And white is first, yeah. 26% say white. 22% say black. Gray, oh, 18%. So if you count up white, black, gray, silver, blue and red, you account for 96% of the most popular car colors. Humans are so-. Oscar Orozco:. So boring. Marcus Johnson:. -boring. It's awful. I'm surprised.
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