During professional football’s 2022 “big game” (don’t try to say anything else, or you’ll hear from Roger Goodell and his lawyers), we saw Coinbase spend $14 million to run sixty seconds of weird music and a bouncing QR code (you can watch it on YouTube here). Viewers were transfixed – not by how awesome the… Read more »
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Over our history, Americans have mastered the art of “more.” If we go to a restaurant and don’t get a huge portion that results in us feeling like Violet Beauregarde until bedtime, we act like we got ripped off. If six episodes of a TV show we like is good, then twelve episodes must be… Read more »
I remember 23 years ago when the Red River flooded in Grand Forks. It was devastating. Homes and businesses were lost. It was a financial and personal tragedy of epic proportions. At the time, I was selling for a manufacturer, and I remember one of my lawn and garden retail customers in Grand Forks taking… Read more »
Now that Disney has its own streaming platform, I wonder if we are nearing critical mass for streaming services. In 2020, we will also get HBO Max and Peacock, NBCUniversal’s upcoming platform. I assure you that more will follow. For years I was part of the crowd screaming for al a carte television. After all,… Read more »
In college I worked as a bellman at a nice hotel. I carried bags, delivered room service, unclogged drains (as gross as it sounds in a hotel) and worked until 11pm or midnight. I am not a night owl, so studying was impossible after my shift. It only took a semester or so for me… Read more »
No summer can come and go in the United States without a movie about sharks. This year it was about a giant prehistoric shark called a megalodon (which also happened to be my nickname for one of our first writers here at Anchor – Megan has gone on to do just fine for herself, thank… Read more »
Recent events at Facebook have caused Americans to take a hard look at the big business of big data. As the saying goes, if you can’t identify a company’s product, then you yourself are the product. Facebook never hid that fact, but it took on a more sinister tone when Cambridge Analytics hijacked personal information… Read more »
