I just watched a video on YouTube in which a bloke went around a number of campervans, giving a short review of each eg price, size, how many berths, shower etc. He offered no opinion other than comments such as 'the kitchen area is rather small' that is; statements of facts.
In my eyes he was presenting the video ... but he was billed as an influencer.
He didn't influence me ... the facts did.
Ho hum.
When Apple don't want to let you use your [Apple] iPhone to log in to your Apple account. My phone tells me it is running IoS 26.5.
I could not access the actual report, so do not know the methodology, but these priorities all seem to focus on advertising - not marketing🤔
Which one of these do you think would be the best investment for your money?
OK, I get security, and I can live with having to access a code on my phone to get into a site, but they're usually four or five digits, not this ...
'Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 ... exempted online media from responsibilities that every other medium is subject to. In essence it told platforms they could publish virtually anything they wanted without liability. It was unprecedented in the history of the nation.
The fiction that 230 created was that online platforms were not publishers (in fact, they are the largest publishers in the world.) But the fiction has allowed them to accumulate trillions of dollars by publishing lies, porn, deep fakes, hate material, violent material, libels, and mountains of despicable trash without any responsibility or liability.
The judge in Germany ruled that by using their AI systems to produce new content, Google was no longer protected by 230 and were clearly publishers. The court said that displaying third-party links is "search," but having AI systems create and rewrite information creates new content, and that makes Google legally a publisher.'
Bob Hoffman in his Ad Contrarian Newsletter June 21, 2026.
I find this frustrating. The folk writing this stuff should know that ‘marketing’ and ‘advertising’ are NOT the same thing.
I was listening to a podcast sponsored by Shopify, and part of the introduction 'ad' the voice over said that - amongst many other things - the service "enhances product photography". I hope they just mean they improve the quality of pictures, because enhancing the product in a picture is illegal.
Google's main income comes from advertising.
Amazon's main income comes from advertising.
and now ...
When Uber started 'Uber Advertising' the company went from a $1.8bn loss to a profit of $1.1bn.
I'm not sure where to start with this email 'advert'.
1 I'm of an age that my own father is long gone.
2 I'm not a father. Furthermore, it might be upsetting for a father who has lost a child - or a man who wanted, but couldn't have, a child.
3 The prices are in dollars. It is a US company, but I bought a product in pounds from the company's UK outlet.
4 The products being sold are firmly in the 'one-off' category of purchase. How many motorhomes does the average person have? Even if the answer is not 'none' - few [any?] has more than one, so why buy two reversing cameras?
This is from the U.S. ... are the numbers the same for your country? One thing that is not in doubt is that 'mostly online' is the lowest in all categories.
