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"We don't need your internet". Branding makes the national pride (and plagiarism) go round.
Series created by the graphic designer Václav Kudělka, to show how the world's most famous social networks and websites might look under Russia's…
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Patricia Soares da Costa
February 2022
#branding in times of war with #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine
Brands and influencers' reactions to the first TikTok war
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Patricia Soares da Costa
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Tiago Baldaia
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Nuno Rocha
October 2021
Balenciaga's stiletto clogs keep Crocs riding the anti-fashion wave
The rubber confort shoes are really having a moment.
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Patricia Soares da Costa
September 2021
🍅 La Tomatina: from street fights to your fries
The world’s largest food fight was cancelled, and Heinz bottled it.
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Tiago Baldaia
🔓 Passwords on their way to extinction
With 18 billion password attacks every year, Microsoft, Apple and Google are going password free.
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Tiago Baldaia
🤖 AI created a social media influencer and it got $850k worth of deals in less than a year.
Social Media influencers tend to struggle to get enough deals from brands, and now they will have to face a new competitor: AI. Why are brands flocking…
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Nuno Rocha
📧 If email is dead, why did Intuit buy Mailchimp for 12B$?
Intuit just bought Mailchimp for $12 billion, making it the largest-ever acquisition of a bootstrapped company. Mindblowing? Not at all.
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Nuno Rocha
Simple and horrifying: turn anyone into a porn star with deepfake technology swapping faces
Breaching an ethical line no other service has crossed before, all it requires is a picture and the push of a button.
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Patricia Soares da Costa
August 2021
Football meets music, Visa meets crypto, and movies meet video games. All in less than 12 minutes.
Your marketing and communication squeeze of this week
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Tiago Baldaia
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Patricia Soares da Costa
, and 
Nuno Rocha
Brands help Afghan refugees: Airbnb offers free accommodation, plus airlines, retailers, telcos
Brands have become part of the emergency evacuation efforts
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Patricia Soares da Costa
Ajax website crashes with Bob Marley inspiring third kit
'Three little birds' are now singin' sweet songs on players' jerseys
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Tiago Baldaia
Crypto: Visa buys a CryptoPunk, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is mining bitcoin
As bitcoin tops $50,000, hitting a more than 3-month high
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Patricia Soares da Costa
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