Politics,
read clearly.
What’s happening right now — and what it actually means.
The Direct Message: The backlash is real, but it is happening at the margins of a system that, for now, remains mostly unchanged.
Indiana's data center sales tax exemption was pitched as a tool to attract a growing industry.
The Direct Message: An exemption written for a $50 million data center in 2008 has no honest application to a $5 billion AI facility in 2025.
The Direct Message: Marketing’s measurement problem wasn’t AI.
The number that changed everything was not a small one.
To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology.
On May 7, 2026, Cloudflare reported quarterly revenue of $639.8 million — up 34% year-over-year, the highest single quarter in the company's history.
Every June, the Croisette becomes a secondary market for advertising industry status.
Sometime before the Cannes Lions submission deadline in 2025, someone at the Brazilian agency DM9 made a decision.
In early 2026, Invoca published a consumer study on AI interactions that should have moved faster through marketing leadership than it did.
