Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 22/07/2026Finally, somebody was brave enough to say it uk.themedialeader.com/being-the-si... 280
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 07/06/2026Experiential marketing means you can have the classic "driven to madness by listening to one trailer looping indefinitely" showfloor experience while waiting for a cab. I do not care for it. 020
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 03/06/2026Scenes from LA: SGF does not have the E3 sauce because the Figueroa doesn't have a game ad on it 2123
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 02/04/2026Pouring one out for the Scott Mills Bridge at Fleet Services on the M3. 0182
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 27/01/2026eBay seller adding a touch of F1 glamour to my purchase of a cut-price battery for a 25-year-old Mondeo 030
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 30/10/2025Outstanding failure of journalism by the Times: cold-mailing "Bill DeBlasio" and failing to check that it was the *correct* Bill de Blasio. This story also gets bonus marks for "interview conducted through Ring doorbell" www.semafor.com/article/10/2... 160
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 03/06/2025A note on how Geoff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez arrived at the Cannes event where she will be feted for her environmental activism. louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-... 100
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 05/04/2025Fascinated by this ad which (a) doesn't show the star/reason for the film's existence (b) looks like a PS3 cutscene. 110
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 14/03/2025In this episode I introduce Alice to a YouTube channel about sausages, which worked out perfectly. 181
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 14/01/2025New bad AI thing: people using it for item descriptions on eBay, so even second-hand furniture is described using the dead prose of an Amazon drop-shipper. Bleak and also totally useless because it doesn't add any useful detail, well done everybody 121
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 09/01/2025The @outsidexbox.bsky.social Quiz of the Year asks the hard questions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L6v... 000
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 30/12/2024Also, adorable to express this as "a risk" rather than something that already happened. That ship sailed, and sank, years ago. 020
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 24/12/2024Amazon Christmas present suggestions getting increasingly desperate. 030
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 12/12/2024Threads promo email makes it look like the dullest app on earth. 131
Jon Hicks @jonhicks.com · 22/11/2024Bleakly amused to note a new tell for AI-sourced copy: it leaves in the ad read from the YouTube video the story is based on. www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news... 19426