Starting off 2025, we’re coming off the holiday season with family and friends, definitely got some Art Bell’s Coast to Coast and X-Files vibes for weird podcasting being something interesting for high schoolers. It’s nice to see a classic from your childhood reinvented for modern audiences. Last year we got to pick up the Why Files and circling back this year, wow…that show has grown in all the best ways to over 4 million subscribers from a few thousand. Good job. People talk about Joe Rogan, but the smaller ones out of the Southeast around Nashville, TN are more fun and push the limits: Blurry Creatures, The Confessionals, Ninjas are Butterflies, and Deep Waters are a few to get you...
After an empty scifi, futuristic, and fantasy slate for fall 2024, we’re seeing the spring 2025 trailers and it looks promising. Given not having scifi let me take up gardening, which resulted in losing 50-60 lbs over the past 6 months, but maybe we can do a mix of more active stuff with the media entertainment as the industry comes back from life support. The largest trend in Cary seems to be gardening fancy tropical plants mixed with English boxwoods. Might simply be a clever marketing campaign by nurseries to cash in since both can be pretty pricey, but hey. There are worse things than ad campaigns intended to make your neighborhood more beautiful. The best trailers are the indy...
Back from Thanksgiving break and walking around checking newspaper stands. It’s important to do physical research even if it takes a little longer to process because if you talk to rich experts they’ll tell you that the Walter is Raleigh’s most popular magazine, but walk around the city and you find the Raleigh Downtowner wins. Also, people love the Indy. It’s also a reality look into AI 2025 , as it has some serious pitfalls/grifting that are not being addressed which leads to a pre-Techbubble popping feel of the late 90s along with the magic. Obviously, we’re not God so this is more of a guess based on current strengths and weaknesses of the technology not we can see the...
It’s a perfect fall week in North Carolina. You’d never believe that a couple weeks ago we had a major storm come through. The pumpkins and mums are out everywhere and the NC State Fair is in full swing. For anyone who's looking for fun things to do in the Triangle, check out the Triangle Weekender, another great regional magazine. Which brings us to the star of the fall advertising campaigns, the Three Empires at the Museum of Art. Whoever is running the advertising for the show is doing an epic job. It’s $20 at the local museum and word of mouth buzz in downtown Raleigh just walking around is noticeable. For anyone who is not old enough to remember...
Hurricane recovery continues, but it looks like people are sorting stuff out and getting back to fall festival stuff with added food drives at events. Makes you feel good about the country seeing people come together. We’re also getting back to our planned blog posts. We got a huge number of print magazines and advertising in September which was nice, the clear winners were Jennifer Garner and Southern Living Magazine. For anyone who has not gotten to see America’s sweetheart mom, Garner is busy promoting her Once Upon A Farm family produce line in local grocery stores and doing a great job. There’s a lot of kids' stuff which will appeal to health moms, but the clear winner are the...
