Andrew Ross Sorkin during this convo

One tidbit that flew under the radar in SBF's DealBook interview: He called their marketing efforts "bullshit" and "unimpactful" adage.com/article/digita…

This is simp behavior

Nah

Ad agencies now face implication in crypto's consumer trust problem And there's precedent: in 2017, the FTC filed charges against agency Synergixx for creating deceptive dietary ads w/ spokespeople who had no expertise in the subject... Sound familiar? adage.com/article/digita…

In its lawsuit, CFTC accused FTX of using commingled funds to finance its marketing, including the Larry David Super Bowl ad I guess we now know how FTX managed to spend so lavishly on advertising: stolen money adage.com/article/digita…

So how did FTX pay for that Super Bowl ad and stadium deal? Illegally. With customer funds, according to the CFTC lawsuit. via Asa Hiken adage.com/article/digita…

One of the funniest videos of 2022 hands down 😂

Assuming Marszalek is telling the truth (which was not the case last summer), this would put Crypto.com’s current headcount at about half (little more than 2500) of what it was 8 months ago

I heard the place is overrated….cloudy

Looks like content farms are using AI-generated images in their ads...and not checking for terrifying discontinuity? Saw these melting grandparents on the side of a crypto news site

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In a rare spat among industry trade groups, CEOs of the ANA and 4A’s issued a statement today criticizing IAB CEO David Cohen for his tone, wording and some of the substance of a speech he made against privacy-focused critics of the digital media industry. ow.ly/KmLY50MFKpM

Ad Age's Web3 Marketing Trailblazers is picking up momentum. A first of its kind for our publication, and we are scouring all brands, startups and ad agencies for the builders who are toiling away here. adage.com/article/digita…

The fact that OKX was actually considering casting Jonah Hill as SBF in a Super Bowl ad, and now we'll never get to experience that, is one of the more poignant losses of the FTX collapse adage.com/article/specia…

“Boring is not bad”: crypto brands shake up their marketing post-FTX. New taglines for Coinbase (“Ignore the noise. Keep building.”), eToro (“Originality is overrated”), Bittrex (“Here today. Here tomorrow.”) OKX also cancelled an SB ad, h/t Asa Hiken wsj.com/articles/crypt…

QR codes, like the one seen in that #SuperBowl ad from Web3 gaming company Limit Break, aren't going away anytime soon, as Asa Hiken reports: adage.com/article/specia…

“About 80% of my creator friends are done [with Web3],” said Coco, a well-known NFT artist and founding member of the digital art collective Stardust Society. ow.ly/ihhr50N9FgE

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