Duolingo, e.l.f., Netflix, 72andSunny, Whalar and More Are Up for a Shorty

New York, April 16, 2025 - The Shorty Awards, the premier awards program honoring the most innovative work across digital and social media, announced the finalists for its 17th annual season today.

With "Break the Rules" as this year’s theme, the entries showed a clear shift in how brands, agencies and creators approached digital storytelling. New voices, platform-native …

Does 80% newsletter open rates even exist? 🥹

Against all odds (and every industry report), Phoebe Bain’s newsletters are hitting numbers that make marketers do double-takes. (Yes, we triple-checked the math!)

The architect behind Morning Brew’s Marketing Brew and 1440’s Business & Finance newsletter reveals:

• The counterintuitive strategy that defies inbox fatigue
• Why email quietly dethroned social media for ROI (and how to capitalize)
• Why email is the …

The legendary builder behind VidCon (sold to Paramount) and Revision3 (acquired by Discovery) – who’s been right about every media shift for 25 years – drops another provocative take.

Jim Louderback – the media visionary who:  

• Launched TechTV before "streaming" was a word  
• Turned PC Magazine into a cultural phenomenon  
• Scaled VidCon to 8 global events before its Paramount acquisition

...now reveals why the creator economy has reached its tipping …

They say don’t meet your heroes. We say bullshit.

Imagine sitting across from the godfather of content marketing (🥹) and getting his unfiltered take on the creator economy. Spoiler: It’s inspiring, hilarious, and way too honest.

With 20+ years in the game, Joe Pulizzi, founder of The Tilt and bestselling author of Content Inc. and Epic Content Marketing, has seen it all: the rise of creators, the pitfalls …

If you’ve ever felt like change is happening to you instead of for you, here's the game plan.

Change is inevitable. But what happens when it punches you in the face? This week, we sit down with Teresa Caro, Founder & CEO of Luminist, to explore how leaders and teams can not only survive but thrive in disruption.

Teresa, an executive coach who’s worked with C-suites and high-performing …