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Amanda Mull

@amandamull
11 posts
2024-12-26
Credit to Netflix, these broadcasts today don't at all feel like the first NFL games they've ever had.  Amazon Prime meanwhile manages to make every broadcast feel like they're trying their hand at something new and seeing how it goes
2024-12-26 View on X
New York Times

Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches

I suspect they might have been compressing the audio track to prevent video buffering. Leo S / @yeeleo15 : Streaming to 10-15 million a lot different than the 60 million they claim...

2024-02-13
I wrote about why the shopping app Temu spent tens of millions of dollars running the same boring ad five times during the Super Bowl last night. (Gift link—free to read!) https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2024-02-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January

the results of running the same commercial 5 times Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC : Temu returns to Super Bowl ad slate as lawmaker ire swells X: @tayredacted : Temu used y'all's credit...

2021-03-26
It's one thing for Amazon to systematically choke to death the American retail and labor markets, but it feels altogether darker that they also insist the general public regards them as benevolent and generous for doing so, and that they are insulted by implications otherwise.
2021-03-26 View on X
The Intercept

Internal Amazon documents show Amazon was aware of the practice of employees using pee bottles, identifying it as a “Tier 1” infraction that can lead to firing

In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders's scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive …

It's one thing for Amazon to systematically choke to death the American retail and labor markets, but it feels altogether darker that they also insist the general public regards them as benevolent and generous for doing so, and that they are insulted by implications otherwise.
2021-03-26 View on X
VICE

Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” to a congressman

2020-07-01
being very “cool” and “before my time” by still having cable https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-01 View on X
TechCrunch

YouTube TV is raising its monthly rate to $65 from $50, due to “the rising cost of content”; some ViacomCBS channels are becoming available on the service today

YouTube TV is getting another price hike, making its live TV streaming service less competitive with the cable TV services it aims to replace.

2020-02-16
i thought i had lost the ability to be shocked by this kind of stuff anymore, but making your low-wage gig workers buy hot cocoa for rich people in order to gain the favor of the algorithm that decides how much work they get is just absolutely, astonishingly appalling https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-16 View on X
VICE

Target's Shipt delivery app workers describe a culture of retaliation and fear, say its algorithm pushes them to buy gifts for customers to boost their ratings

In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline …

2020-02-15
i thought i had lost the ability to be shocked by this kind of stuff anymore, but making your low-wage gig workers buy hot cocoa for rich people in order to gain the favor of the algorithm that decides how much work they get is just absolutely, astonishingly appalling https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-15 View on X
VICE

Target's Shipt delivery app workers describe a culture of retaliation and fear, say its algorithm pushes them to buy gifts for customers to boost their ratings

In late October, Ashley Johnson, a single mom and seasoned gig worker in a quiet Seattle suburb, tweeted about the decline …

2019-12-14
Retailers have long known that offering “free shipping” is one of the most effective manipulations in their arsenals. I investigated why we care about saving that $5 so much more than any other kind of discount, and how it's choking the internet to death. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2019-12-14 View on X
The Atlantic

How the concept of free shipping forces small e-commerce businesses to eat the cost of shipping, as large sellers like Amazon do so at scale

How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we're such suckers for their ploys  —  It was a pair of feather earrings that helped Ann Miceli get out from underneath strangers' ...

2019-11-13
Kaitlyn on wikiHow—and on the better internet that we could maybe still have if we wanted it—is just! so! good! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-13 View on X
The Atlantic

A profile of wikiHow, which draws an estimated 125M visitors each month and views its commitment to the principles of the open web as a key differentiator

and on the better internet that we could maybe still have if we wanted it—is just! so! good! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Cooper Fleishman / @_cooper : ...

2019-11-10
This was like peering straight into the brains of people who are nothing like me (they are nothing like me because they can psychologically handle using a spreadsheet) https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2019-11-10 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at the rise of “personal CRM” startups that want to help people manage their relationships the way businesses manage sales leads using CRM software

A slew of new start-ups want to help people manage their relationships the way they would sales leads. Tweets: @jeffersonpooley , @xecretcode , @baekdal , @__anoop , @counternotion...

2019-09-18
Read @kait_tiffany's first piece for The Atlantic, on pay-for-play intimacy and digital “friendship” with influencers!! https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2019-09-18 View on X
The Atlantic

Instagram's Close Friends feature proves controversial as both an influencer revenue stream and superficial gateway to intimacy

Gabi Abrao, better known as @sighswoon on Instagram, is “developing a language with the invisible.”  Her page is half memes, half photos of her—eating fresh fruit … Tweets: @jake_m...