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Topic: marketing

"Skin-loving" cosmetics (Mininyx Doodle/Getty Images)

What the hell are skin-loving cosmetics?

Andi Zeisler
MLM network marketing chart structure (Getty Images/Love Employee)

The marketing scam we keep falling for

Daria Solovieva
Fashion blogger / influencer, showing off her belt and handbag (Getty Images/Tatiana Meteleva)

Tired of influencers? So is Gen Z

Jamela Adam
The McDonald's logo is pictured in front of a store in Dearborn, Michigan on October 17, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

McDonald's plan to win back customers

Michael La Corte
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on February 7, 2023 in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden's needed rebrand: patriot

Chauncey DeVega
Supermarket aisle, woman legs and basket for shopping in grocery store (Getty Images/Adene Sanchez)

Strategic branding at supermarkets

Melisa Mete - The Conversation
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Why you should be buying "ugly produce"

Narmin Tartila Banu, Aron Darmody, Leighann C. Neilson - The Conversation
"Civil War" movie poster (A24)

History of a defaced Statue of Liberty

Lisa Laman
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Stanley 1913, Lululemon, Coach, and Kate Spade logos, over Chinese lanterns at a temple on Lunar New Years Eve (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cruel joke of Lunar New Year cash-ins

Kelly Pau
Author Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love, Committed: A Love Story speaks on stage during the Opening Night of Texas Conference for Women 2019 at Austin Convention Center on October 23, 2019 in Austin, Texas. (Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Texas Conference for Women 2019)

Eat, pray, brand yourself accurately

Laura Guidry
Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro in "Air" (Amazon Studios)

"Air" fails Sonny Vaccaro & sneakerheads

D. Watkins
Strange World (Disney)

The not-so-queer case of Disney's flop

Melanie McFarland
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Colorful Cereal On A Computer Screen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The fall of a virtual cereal-themed town

Ashlie D. Stevens
Coffee solar system (Getty Images/Dina Belenko Photography)

Zodiac-themed food is having a moment

Ashlie D. Stevens
Teacher hosting online class (Getty Images/PhotoAttractive)

Influencer culture permeates academia

Brooke Erin Duffy
A screengrab from Tucker Carlson's Friday Fox News show. (FOX News)

Carlson bemoans "less sexy" M&M cartoons

Brett Bachman
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How Big Tobacco made menthol racial

Mary Elizabeth Williams
In "Ted Lasso," Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt) wears New Balance shoes, subtle product placement (until he later props his feet on a desk) (Apple TV+)

Why some product placement works better

Beth L. Fossen - The Conversation
(Photo by Annette Riedl/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Can ad campaigns help reduce food waste?

Jodi Helmer - FoodPrint
Registered nurse Darlene Dickens-Jeffers holds a vile of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine before giving the vaccine to healthcare employees of AltaMed Medical and Dental Group in Anaheim on Friday, January 8, 2021. (Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Companies pan for vaccine marketing gold

Sarah Kwon - KFF Health News
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Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Marketing-speak is bad for the planet

Kate Yoder - Grist
(Getty Images/tetra Images Rf)

Beware of "organic" nonfood products

Sarah Morath - The Conversation
Cosmic Crisp apples, a new variety and the first-ever bred in Washington state, sit on the tree ready to be picked at an orchard in Wapato, Wash. The Cosmic Crisp, available beginning Dec. 1, is expected to be a game changer in the apple industry. Already, growers have planted 12 million Cosmic Crisp apple trees, a sign of confidence in the new variety. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Cosmic Crisp apple is not the future

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/oatawa)

Political hashtags: Are they effective?

Eugenia Ha Rim Rho - The Conversation
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