Simon Dumenco

Media Guy

Simon Dumenco is the "Media Guy" columnist for Ad Age. You can follow him on Twitter @simondumenco.

‘Secretary of Failure’: Conservative PAC goes after Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in blistering new attack ad

By Simon Dumenco on 08.06.2020

How to sell aspirin (lots and lots of aspirin)

By Simon Dumenco on 07.31.2020

‘I cry for justice in her name’: Oprah honors Breonna Taylor on the cover of her magazine

By Simon Dumenco on 07.30.2020

Congress vs. the tech titans, plus the TikTok vs. Facebook SmackDown: Thursday Wake-Up Call

By Simon Dumenco on 07.30.2020

Trump drops more than $300 million on campaign TV, radio and digital ads

By Simon Dumenco on 07.28.2020

$1 billion visualized as a road trip, The Lincoln Project’s YouTube hit-making machine, and Old Navy’s big TV push: Datacenter Weekly

By Simon Dumenco on 07.24.2020

Watch Colbert remake a fear-mongering Trump campaign ad with nothing but ‘Home Alone’ footage

By Simon Dumenco on 07.23.2020

Time pays tribute to civil rights icon John Lewis

By Simon Dumenco on 07.20.2020

Trump just demoted his campaign manager. Watch the weird personal attack ad that helped do him in

By Simon Dumenco on 07.16.2020

Why Trump should be worrying about heartland Gen Z voters

By Simon Dumenco on 07.14.2020

Buy American! A look back at trade-war rhetoric and patriotic marketing in 1932

By Simon Dumenco on 07.14.2020

Soaring TV ad impressions, Time’s subtle data-viz cover, and Quibi questions: Datacenter Weekly

By Simon Dumenco on 07.09.2020

Republican group deploys Ronald Reagan to (indirectly) trash Trump in new attack ad

07.08.20 @ 02:18 PM ET

The No. 1 reason to return to the office, Pride in retrospect, and leaky Facebook data: Datacenter Weekly

By Simon Dumenco on 07.03.2020

The Mitch McConnell vs. Amy McGrath Show, and the political ad spending story so far

By Simon Dumenco on 07.02.2020

Time Magazine: July 6, 2020 Cover (Charlie Palmer)

07.02.20 @ 12:16 PM ET