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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
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
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
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
(Drew Angerer/Getty Images))

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
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
(Getty/HAZEMMKAMAL)

A regulatory haze

Shefali Luthra, Chaseedaw Giles - KFF Health News
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