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We're used to spam calls and emails. How about spam texts?

by Reema Khrais and Sarah Leeson

Aug 1, 2023

Cutting off advertising conversations in your text messages "is a little bit of a game of whack-a-mole," Vox reporter Emily Stewart says.

A positive of SMS marketing? Companies "probably aren't going to inundate you the same way that they will with emails because there's a cost factor to it," says Vox reporter Emily Stewart.

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Dan and Dave, and the most famous Olympic ad campaign of all time

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

Feb 9, 2018

It involves Reebok, two decathletes, and one fateful day in New Orleans.

U.S. decathletes Dan O'Brien, left, and Dave Johnson at the Modesto Relays in Modesto, California, on May 16, 1992.

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