Tough Times in the World of Advertising and Marketing

While the CEO of the National Bank may insist that "now is not the time to panic" in his latest address on the economy, it's hard to ignore the stagnation weighing on the world of advertising and marketing. Two digital strategists recently spoke about the…

My Facebook Account Got Hacked: What to Do?

Every week, the Facebook group Les Pro du Web receives a panicked post from a community manager who has lost access to their Facebook account due to hacking. We discussed this issue with Bruno Desjardins, a marketing solutions consultant who has handled multiple crisis situations…

Bluesky: A Legitimate Contender to Replace X?

The recent buzz around the microblogging platform Bluesky—ironically founded by Twitter’s former creator, Jack Dorsey, who exited the venture last May—positions this social media platform as a legitimate competitor to X. After the lukewarm results of Mastodon, Threads, and other "decentralized" platforms with similar ambitions,…

How to Decode Web Culture

Between ever-changing TikTok trends, Twitter battles filled with self-referential hashtags, prank accounts, and irreverent memes, it can sometimes be hard to make sense of what we’ll conveniently call "web culture." How can we understand this language that blurs the line between reality and fiction, satire…

Mid-year review 2023: the uncertainties add up

For the first time since 2020, the current year has not begun with the omnipresence of Covid-19. Uncertainty, whether economic, climatic or geopolitical, has nonetheless been present throughout this first half of the year. Here are some of the events that have so far marked…