Patrick Coffee

Wall Street Journal reporter. Very Brooklyn dad. Ambient music listener.

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

Happy Pride. The heads of top US Pride orgs told me that fewer corporate sponsors has become a sort of new normal, and how their strategies have changed.

https://t.co/n448YKoniS

[dumbass💟☃️ @adequatelyjed]

advertisement on Amazon for a tent, depicting kids with an open flame on their blanket

[Erik Engquist @erik_engquist]

New York sports right now:

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

I miss brand names that are also complete sentences like Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

@guardsmaxxing @ettingermentum

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

Using Kenny Rogers’ Gambler in a Draft Kings ad is perverse. This is not the type of gambling he was talking about. He was talking about Cool gambling

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

@nakedfoul This isn’t even a dad joke it’s a grandpa joke

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

@coopercooperco Prompt: what is an art director

[katie dey @katie_dey]

listening to music for airports on the bus . i don't give a fuck

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

Beer is back… or is it?

I had a long chat with AB InBev’s CMO about how the company scored its first growth quarter in 3 years, and how it hopes to maintain that momentum. Some dark clouds remain as NA sales slipped 3.1%.

One secret weapon: Busch Light
https://t.co/JYhxvKPcQ3

[Ben Foldy (he/him) @BenFoldy]

Kalshi responds to @wsj story on prediction markets loss rates with comps showing their users have better loss rates than day traders in Taiwanese stocks between 1995 and 1999, Indian options traders, sports books and traders of Brazilian equity futures.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Creators struggle to get big advertisers’ attention, even if they have millions of followers https://t.co/fnPLYiRmay

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: Investors are confident that AI software will change marketing. A new Goldman Sachs-led funding round values one startup at $2.75 billion. https://t.co/voVHht14ir

[Jennifer Berkshire @BisforBerkshire]

Among the 20K workers Citi is firing: “A.I. Champions and Accelerators” who perform their dayjob while trying to convince their coworkers to adopt AI

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

On yesterday’s Netflix earnings call, CEO Greg Peters addressed my scoop on Nielsen’s now-delayed methodological change that would depress NFLX’s share of total TV viewership.

Peters: ok but that doesn’t change how people are really watching TV and it won’t affect our ad revenue

[Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway]

Allbirds, the shoe brand, now says it's an AI compute company.

[Joe Flint @JBFlint]

Top NBCU exec says Nielsen overestimates streaming viewership. From @PatrickCoffee
https://t.co/HTZfabEpkb via @WSJ

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

In an email shared with me, WSJ EIC Emma Tucker praised Fortune's use of AI in its journalism, saying "anyone who doesn't get what you are doing at Fortune, or thinks it is 'wrong', should get out of journalism fast!"

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

@robleathern But it’s the least interesting part of the industry

[Patrick Coffee @PatrickCoffee]

Not technically true but the vibes align