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Fragrance check. Moonwalk Sea Cocoa — pineapple upside-down cake meets coconut, passion fruit, Italian mandarin, Sicilian frozen lemon. Ryan gives it a 10/10 for summer.
World Cup is a month out and… condoms? Toronto’s handing them out, fan-zone funding still hasn’t been dispersed in a bunch of cities, Houston traffic is already cooked, and LA looks unprepared from the inside. Meanwhile Mercedes-Benz Stadium is covering its logos for sponsor reasons — except the one on the roof, because skylight. Hello, “Edlina Stadium.”
Spotify’s “Party of the Year” — first song ever played:
* Ryan: We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus (2013, fresh off Groove Shark getting busted)
* Janine: Settled Down by No Doubt (Aug 2012)
* Benton: Paris in the Rain by Lauv (Dec 2017 — “sad and gay, 13 was not it”)
* Deja: Un Beso by Aventura (2015, recovering iTunes loyalist)
Instagram is in its flop era. Nobody posts publicly anymore and Meta did it to themselves with the finsta push. Lizzo went on TikTok Live to yell about the algorithm and honestly, fair. Public likes and reposts are pushing people back toward privacy — though the Scrub Daddy × Jeopardy comment-section crossover did go off. New “Instance” feature looks like Lapse, or Airbuds, or those old Messenger chat heads floating around your screen. Meta’s whole thing is copying competitors after the competitor has its meltdown — Stories, Threads, now this.
Threads is testing an ad-free subscription. Twitter Blue walked so this could… also walk, probably. Nobody at the table is paying.
AP x Swatch. People camped out for days based on AI-generated mockups that turned out to be nothing like the real thing, which is a pocket watch you can’t even wear. Bigger conversation: AI hype isn’t tanking brands, but it’s not moving the needle either. Everyone’s just kind of fine being mid.
PSA on mic setups. If you’ve got a branded mic stand, don’t let your DJI mic stick out the top. We see it.
New acronym just dropped: SPAM. Social, PR, Advertising, Marketing. Filed neatly under the Omnicom/IPG merger. Women in SPAM, rise up. Crab spam musubi is the official snack, pending recipe.
Brought to you by Ecamm
Multi-stream to Substack, LinkedIn, and Instagram from one app, different aspect ratios, and recording saved automatically. Worked great today, when used correctly. ecamm.com/silencebrand - that’s two Ms, Ryan.
Get full access to Silence, Brand! at silencebrand.substack.com/subscribe
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By 🦀 Anonymous Crab 🦀Fragrance check. Moonwalk Sea Cocoa — pineapple upside-down cake meets coconut, passion fruit, Italian mandarin, Sicilian frozen lemon. Ryan gives it a 10/10 for summer.
World Cup is a month out and… condoms? Toronto’s handing them out, fan-zone funding still hasn’t been dispersed in a bunch of cities, Houston traffic is already cooked, and LA looks unprepared from the inside. Meanwhile Mercedes-Benz Stadium is covering its logos for sponsor reasons — except the one on the roof, because skylight. Hello, “Edlina Stadium.”
Spotify’s “Party of the Year” — first song ever played:
* Ryan: We Can’t Stop by Miley Cyrus (2013, fresh off Groove Shark getting busted)
* Janine: Settled Down by No Doubt (Aug 2012)
* Benton: Paris in the Rain by Lauv (Dec 2017 — “sad and gay, 13 was not it”)
* Deja: Un Beso by Aventura (2015, recovering iTunes loyalist)
Instagram is in its flop era. Nobody posts publicly anymore and Meta did it to themselves with the finsta push. Lizzo went on TikTok Live to yell about the algorithm and honestly, fair. Public likes and reposts are pushing people back toward privacy — though the Scrub Daddy × Jeopardy comment-section crossover did go off. New “Instance” feature looks like Lapse, or Airbuds, or those old Messenger chat heads floating around your screen. Meta’s whole thing is copying competitors after the competitor has its meltdown — Stories, Threads, now this.
Threads is testing an ad-free subscription. Twitter Blue walked so this could… also walk, probably. Nobody at the table is paying.
AP x Swatch. People camped out for days based on AI-generated mockups that turned out to be nothing like the real thing, which is a pocket watch you can’t even wear. Bigger conversation: AI hype isn’t tanking brands, but it’s not moving the needle either. Everyone’s just kind of fine being mid.
PSA on mic setups. If you’ve got a branded mic stand, don’t let your DJI mic stick out the top. We see it.
New acronym just dropped: SPAM. Social, PR, Advertising, Marketing. Filed neatly under the Omnicom/IPG merger. Women in SPAM, rise up. Crab spam musubi is the official snack, pending recipe.
Brought to you by Ecamm
Multi-stream to Substack, LinkedIn, and Instagram from one app, different aspect ratios, and recording saved automatically. Worked great today, when used correctly. ecamm.com/silencebrand - that’s two Ms, Ryan.
Get full access to Silence, Brand! at silencebrand.substack.com/subscribe