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PBR Fired Him. Now He's Ad Age's Marketer of the Year. It was four years ago that the Twitter account for legendary beer brand Pabst Blue Ribbon tweeted out: "Not drinking this January? Try eating ass!" And we're FINALLY talking to the guy who did it. Because Corey Smale—who was promptly fired for the Tweet and owned it publicly—isn't just PBR's ex-social media manager. Redemption is delicious for Corey Smale. He's now been named Ad Age's "Marketer of the Year" for his curren

An Impassioned Manifesto Against Wholly A.I.-Generated Podcast SLOP Captures the Zeitgeist of the Creator Economy, Earns Dusty Weis His First “Best Indie Host” Nod MILWAUKEE—After six years of hosting the Lead Balloon podcast about the adventures of professional storytellers, Wisconsin-based creator Dusty Weis has been nominated for “Best Indie Podcast Host” in this year’s international Podcast Academy awards, the Ambies. This will be Weis’s second time walking the red carpet

In a world where people still believed what they read on the Internet, a man from Fort Atkinson was punked into Internet infamy. 15 years ago, if you had googled Ben Kollenbroich’s name, you would have discovered that his life story was the inspiration for “Good Luck Chuck,” a mid-budget, critically-panned romantic comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba. That’s not REMOTELY true, however. In fact, Ben Kollenbroich was just a regular 25-year-old guy in 2010. There certain

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