Intermission: It's 2024!
Link round up
Happy new year Mehketeers!
It’s the first week of 2024, so many of you are probably on leave still, but my cache of links is building up so I do want to clear it out a bit. Here’s to easing back into work:
As a marketer I’ve always defended against the claim that our phones are listening to our conversations (despite some very freaky “coincidences”) however now one agency is claiming they offer this as a marketing tool. Honestly it doesn’t sound like they’re actually doing it though, just trying to smoke and mirrors their way into saying they have insights other suppliers don’t.
10 design trends for 2024 from Creative Bloq (and can I just say I called out many of these over 2023 Mehdeeka issues so call me a trend spotter!)
Daniel Benneworth-Gray (who has a fantastic design newsletter) shares his top movie posters of 2023
Believe it or not this is an ad for Chobani:
And last link, a long long read about a murder in a small town. Excellent if you like true crime.
Since we’re here, a little sneak peek for what’s coming out of this newsletter, hopefully at the end of the month or start of Feb:
Still no set start date on Season 7, I want to get a few more things finished/in motion before then but I am starting to sketch out the topics. If you have a request just reply to this email or leave a comment!
I got really conflicting feedback about the length of the average Mehdeeka issue in the Season 6 reader survey, so if you’d like to break the tie and have your say, please take a minute to fill it out:
See you soon,
Kayla