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Lara O’Reilly

@laraoreilly.bsky.social
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I write about advertising and tech for Business Insider. www.businessinsider.com/author/lara…

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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
What the world needs now is love, sweet love...and also a new weekly marketing newsletter written by ME! CMO Insider launches on Wednesday, March 4th. Sign up here: www.businessinsider.com/subscription...
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Sneak peek” is one of the most horrible phrases in the English language.
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 07/01/2026
50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 07/01/2026
Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (Hugh Langley/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
New from me: Unilever’s CEO mandated earlier this year that the company work with “20X” the number of influencers it once was. It’s led to a spike in fees for some creators and inspired other brands to follow suit with similar plans www.businessinsider.com/unilever-20x...
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How Unilever's huge bet on influencers led to a creator economy gold rush
Unilever says it's working with "close to 300,000 influencers." Industry experts say its moves have galvanized the creator marketing space.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Some details within about how Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun gained the edge in the big $1.7bn Mars media pitch this year, as well as some M&A chatter
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I took a look at Cindy Rose’s first 100 days as CEO of WPP and the big challenges that lie ahead www.businessinsider.com/inside-cindy...
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WPP CEO Cindy Rose's first 100 days show how tough the ad giant's turnaround will be
Cindy Rose faces mounting pressure to stabilize ad agency titan WPP. So far in her tenure, wins have been dampened by bad news.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I took a look at Cindy Rose’s first 100 days as CEO of WPP and the big challenges that lie ahead www.businessinsider.com/inside-cindy...
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WPP CEO Cindy Rose's first 100 days show how tough the ad giant's turnaround will be
Cindy Rose faces mounting pressure to stabilize ad agency titan WPP. So far in her tenure, wins have been dampened by bad news.
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Bhakthi @bhakthi.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
What shall we call our law firm? Ehhh, this'll do: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Is there a way to drink from these without spilling coffee down yourself and, bonus, looking like you’ve slobbered all over the cup? Do let me know if so.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
GMV Max; advertiser reax www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-gmv-m...
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TikTok Shop tells advertisers they must use its new AI tool — like it or not
TikTok is mandating that Shop brands use a new AI ad tool starting September 1, and some aren't happy.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
LET HER EAT SHRIMP!
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
17. Pluto is still a planet in our hearts. The people’s planet.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Cindy Rose is set to become ad giant WPP's CEO. I spoke to people close to her and WPP insiders to get a sense of what this former lawyer and top Microsoft exec will bring to the role www.businessinsider.com/wpp-ceo-cind...
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Meet Cindy Rose, the former lawyer and top Microsoft exec set to become CEO of ad giant WPP
Rose is credited by those close to her as having the calm leadership skills required to navigate WPP through choppy waters.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Say hi if you see me at Cannes Lions this year. I'm here until Saturday 😱 In the meantime, here's my curtain raiser www.businessinsider.com/cannes-lions...
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Farewell to the 'Mad Men' era: Advertising's biggest bash of the year will showcase the industry's seismic changes
Advertising's future will be on display at the Cannes Lions ad festival this year as execs tackle the rise of AI, data, and agency shifts.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Mark Read stepping down after 7 years as WPP CEO and more than 30 with the advertising company investegate.co.uk/announcement...
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Chief Executive Officer Succession | Company Announcement | Investegate
Comprehensive details of regulatory and non regulatory announcements from FTSE 100, 250, AIM and techMARK quoted companies
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Advertisers have hit back at Elon Musk's "ad boycott" lawsuit, saying there was no conspiracy to pull ads from X and that the company 'alienated' its customers businessinsider.com/advertisers-...
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Advertisers hit back at Elon Musk's 'ad boycott' lawsuit, saying X disrupted its own business and 'alienated' customers
In a legal filing, advertisers sued by X said the suit was an attempt to use the courthouse win back business it lost.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
When the geopolitical environment gets tough, big brands like Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and McDonald's get local with their marketing www.businessinsider.com/brands-try-l...
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How brands are 'de-Americanizing' their ads to dodge the trade war
Brands like Kraft Heinz and McDonald's are scrambling to avoid anti-American sentiment abroad and skirt tariff-induced boycotts.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
X is dropping its claims against Twitch as part of its big lawsuit against big advertisers over their membership of the Global Alliance of Responsible Media. The court filing doesn't state a reason.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The UK's competition regulator is looking into whether the planned merger of ad giants Omnicom and IPG could distort competition in the ad market. It's inviting comment from interested parties before officially opening an investigation www.gov.uk/cma-cases/om...
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Omnicom / Interpublic merger inquiry
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the anticipated acquisition by Omnicom Group Inc. of The Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Overnight, Google posted its own remedies proposal as it looks to bring its adtech antitrust case to a close. Interested in what adtech/publisher folks think! storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Anyone who thinks that overseas locations in movies can be replaced with computer-generated environments should look into where VFX studios and their contractors are based.
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Robert Scammell @robertscammell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Meta's advertisers didn't flinch after it shook up content moderation @laraoreilly.bsky.social for @businessinsider.com. www.businessinsider.com/meta-earning...
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Meta's advertisers didn't flinch after it shook up content moderation
Meta rolled back fact checking and content moderation in Q1, and advertisers showed they weren't spooked.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Companies are getting more explicit about their plans to raise prices. Adidas, Porsche and now Stanley Black & Decker are good examples this week. $SWK
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Can anyone with a highly trained editorial eye spot the mistake on this front page ? 😂
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I love it when I post a link to one of my articles and someone points out that it's behind a paywall. Thank you so much! I had no idea!!
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Barry Hearn on the media this morning referring to snooker players as athletes and all I could think of was…
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The snooker this evening reminds me of how much I miss Twitter sometimes #markselbystip (Niche post, sorry)
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Marketers have been rather absent from the discourse about the possible breakup of Google. I took a look at why that is. www.businessinsider.com/google-break...
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Google might get broken up. Behind closed doors, CMOs aren't cheering.
While big marketers have long pushed Google for more transparency, they rely on its reach and lack alternatives, ad insiders said.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Is there a way we can claim back all our column inches?
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In the Trump 2.0 era, CMOs are trying to make themselves recession-proof www.businessinsider.com/marketers-ar...
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How marketers are trying to make themselves recession-proof
I went to a global marketing conflab to get the lowdown on how top CMOs are coping with the pressures of the Trump 2.0 era.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Yep, that was just Gucci advertising on Fox News. Conservative media is having a moment and advertisers are here for it www.businessinsider.com/big-advertis...
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Big brands are embracing Fox News and other conservative media in the new Trump era
Conservative media outlets like Fox News and The Daily Wire say they're experiencing a surge in advertising demand.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Forest
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Is it just me, or do a lot of e-commerce sites just...regularly break all the time, and so much more so than before? My mobile phone provider, airline, pet food, cosmetics, all terrible.
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John Still @jwjstill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Nice report from @laraoreilly.bsky.social on fear driving advertisers back to X. Can't wait to see these same advertisers on panels this year harping on about brand purpose...
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'Fear' of Elon Musk is driving advertisers to spend more on X, analyst says
EMARKETER forecasts X's US ad revenue will jump by 17.5% this year but cautions that "fear is not a sustainable motivator."
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Try saying that quickly 10 times in a row
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Scoop: Adtech firm Adform is looking at a possible sale www.businessinsider.com/adform-sale-...
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Another sign of a dealmaking comeback? Adtech firm Adform is exploring a sale.
Deal momentum appears to be picking up in the adtech sector after a tepid couple of years. Adform offers products for advertisers and publishers.
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Patricia Clark @patriciaclark.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Spotify announced a program for authors to submit short-form stories they’d like to see turned into audiobooks. Spotify will handle production, distribution, pay advance & royalties. #audiobooks #independentauthors #spotify #authors #royalties #adtech techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/s...
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Spotify launches a program to publish audiobooks from independent authors | TechCrunch
Spotify has launched a program to publish audiobooks from independent authors, focusing on a few genres to start.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This can only mean one thing: Radiohead memecoin incoming
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
TIL today: When Fleetwood Mac won Best Album at the 1976 Grammys, they got their award from the Captain and Tennille, and their acceptance speech was cut off after about 15 seconds. Producers were brutal about time back then! youtu.be/0kzNhYnuhL4?...
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DIANA ROSS with FLEETWOOD MAC 1975
YouTube video by Historic Films Stock Footage Archive
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 05/03/2025
What's that coming over the hill? It's a genetically engineered woolly mouse that's basically a mammoth on.ft.com/3XudlnU *this story contains excellent second and indeed tertiary mentions
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Start-up says its ‘woolly mice’ bring mammoth revival closer
[FREE TO READ] Scientists warn big obstacles, including ethical questions, remain in efforts to restore extinct species
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
That’s good
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Haha! Super Woke Nanny AI could easily be a Fall song title too.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/03/2025
"That was Super Woke Nanny AI with their new single Miserable Outcome. Coming up, The Fall."
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 05/03/2025
To be fair to Musk, it's hard to argue with this.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Scoop: AppLovin is in talks to sell its games unit to Tripledot Studios in a $900 million deal, sources say. www.businessinsider.com/applovin-tal...
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Adtech darling AppLovin is in talks to sell its gaming unit to Tripledot Studios in a $900 million deal, sources say
AppLovin wants to sharpen its focus on adtech and stop making games itself. It's now nearing a deal to offload its gaming unit to Tripledot Studios.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Oh! This'll be why! Nice scoop @kendrabarnett.bsky.social www.adweek.com/convergent-t...
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MNTN Is Selling Ryan Reynolds' Agency Maximum Effort, SEC Filing Shows
Ryan Reynolds formed Maximum Effort Marketing in 2018 along with George Dewey.
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Lara O’Reilly @laraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Surprised the S1 doesn't mention Ryan Reynolds once, given that it's arguably the thing the company is best known for.
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