Here are 6 short, but powerful things you should know:

  1. My Client Skechers: $9.5 Billion Buyout!

The family behind my old client, Skechers, will get over $1 billion from selling the footwear brand.

3G Capital will spend nearly $9.5 billion to buy Skechers in a deal that will also take the company private.

Robert Greenberg founded the company with his son Michael in 1992. I started helping them shortly after that to create a direct-to-consumer infrastructure.

The family still owns a 12% stake.

Skechers reported a record $9 billion in revenue last year.

  1. Revolutionary “Pause” Ads

FuboTV now has programmatic pause ads.

“Pause” ads are a game changer for marketers. They open up a new audience.

Fubo first launched pause ads last year as part of a suite of interactive CTV ad units.

The ad format “pause ads” appear a few seconds after a viewer presses pause during the content stream.

  1. Grok and Telegram: Smart $300 Million Deal and a Billion New Users

XAI or Grok is my favorite AI tool. And now it’s going to expand XAI to bring Grok to Telegram’s billion-plus users.

Telegram will receive 50% of any subscription revenue generated through the app.

  1. Meta: Failing to Protect Youth

A team from the Wall Street Journal did hundreds of test conversations with the bots Meta is incorporating on its social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

The findings:

Meta’s official AI helper and several user-created chatbots held sexually explicit conversations or participated in graphic roleplay scenarios with underage users.

Chatbot also used the voices of celebrities and fictional characters in conversations.

  1. Pinterest Big Growth

Pinterest has added 17 million new monthly users for the 1st quarter of 2025.

Total now is 570 million.

  1. FTC Delays Click-to-Cancel Rule

The FTC has voted to delay enforcement of the click-to-cancel rule requiring companies to make it as easy for customers to cancel a subscription as it was for them to sign up.

The Negative Option Rule is now July 14.

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