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Disney, Netflix, AI, MoreNew Winners In Digital Advertising
2025-05-11 03:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
The worrisome, repeat noise about the lack of aggressive competition in digital advertising just doesnt correspond to the reality of the industry. If you follow this column, youve know we cover the spectrum of ongoing dynamics in the field. For sure, there are complaints about news outrage fatigue, strangling AI slop, massive layoffs and odd doings at media companies owned loudly or quietly by billionaires (Hello, X, WashPo, LA Times and TIME to name just a few).All the handwringing couldnt be further from the truth in the real marketplace.A simple step back to look at the big picture shows the entire digital ecosystem is growing at an incredible clip. Massive sums are being invested in AI, with a record, eye-popping $40-billion funding in OpenAI just announced. On the advertising front alone, spending in the U.S. reached $309.3 billion in 2024, a 15.1% increase over 2023, and it is expected to reach $460 billion by 2028. Other industries would kill for that kind of growth. And its...
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Thousands of federal workers would be easier to fire under Trump rule change
2025-05-11 01:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
President Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Friday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to make it easier to fire some federal workers from their jobs, as part of its push to both shrink the federal government and exert more control over it. On Friday the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposed a rule reclassifying tens of thousands of career civil servants as "at-will" employees, the White House announced in a statement. Removing civil service protections would make workers easier to fire. The White House said the proposed rule would address "unaccountable, policy-determining federal employees who put their own interests ahead of the American people's." President Trump and his allies, including billionaire Elon Musk, have said they want to "dismantle government bureaucracy," which they criticize as a "deep state," and root out what Trump has called "rogue bureaucrat...
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Students to be able to watch drama Adolescence after Netflix announces huge news
2025-05-11 01:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with the creators of the crime drama Adolescence as Netflix announced it is making it free to all secondary schools across the countryNewsSophie Huskisson Political Correspondent13:36, 31 Mar 2025Updated 09:49, 01 Apr 2025Students will be able to watch hit drama Adolescence after Netflix today made it free to all secondary schools across the country.Keir Starmer met with the creators of the crime drama, which follows the story of a teen accused of murder, to discuss how to prevent young boys being dragged into a whirlpool of hatred and misogyny. The PM invited co-writer Jack Thorne and producer Jo Johnson to Downing Street as well as charities and young people, who shared their experience of becoming immersed in harmful online content.The PM, who watched the drama with his kids, said the show "hit home hard". After years spent working as the Director of Public Prosecutions, he has seen the devastation that misogyny and violence leaves behind, and how...
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