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Media editor @thedrum. I interrogate the people putting ads in, on, under, and around the things you love. Message me @ john.mccarthy@thedrum.com
Oct 8, 2022 15 tweets 5 min read
This week. I hit my lowest culinary point after a couple of cans.

In Glasgow, there's a pizza vending machine, in the wall of an abandoned shop.

It's a curious thing.

It MUST be bad. But how bad??? Let's find out. A phosphorescent beam illuminates a drunken face through the winter mist, stock images reflect in the eye's apple.

Pointing at the coveted margz pizza on the well-pawed touch screen for salvation from the impending hangover

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Nov 14, 2018 10 tweets 5 min read
Remarkable fact. 60% of the views on @TheDrum over the last six days have been around the Iceland ad ban. Big, big numbers. The public is lapping this one up *from us at least* in unprecedented volumes. This is an ad that has inspired action or at least attention from the public First, this story from Imogen Watson FOLLOW HER HERE @flaming_meaux . Views will soon surpass double the population of the island of Iceland... most read story of the year, homing in on all-time record too.
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