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I don't know if this is a trend or just some confirmation bias, but it seems like a lot of quite major celebrities are doing ads that seem, frankly, beneath them. A few examples:

- Arnold Schwarzenegger with Lidl's (!) power tools
- Jude Law with both uber eats and Legora (an AI law thing)
-Dua lipa doing Nespresso (I know George Clooney did/does these but he is middle aged man who has a vaguely James Bond vibe, but Dua Lipa is supposed to be pop culture and a bit cool?)
- Chris Hemsworth doing a 'visit Abu Dhabi',

I'm sure I've seen others.

Celebs have always done advertising, but I used to think they had a reputation to protect and had to be a bit selective. (Am I being naive?) But these days it seems like everyone puts their name to anything.

Is there a wider trend that's going on? Are celebrities actually struggling like the rest of us?

Edit to add: I understand that celebrities are not broke in the way that you or I are. My question is about why they don't seem to be very discerning with the ads that the choose to do

Hello, I'm a psychotherapist and I want to get more traffic to my site. (More traffic equals more enquiries).

I've been told I should blog. I understand that this helps people get a sense of me, but I'm not clear how/if it will increase traffic. It seems unlikely in 2026 that anyone would link to it, so it's therefore not going to rank in Google?

I might have misunderstood something so thoughts are welcome. Also any suggestions on if I need to structure it in a particular way would be really helpful..

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I'm a therapist in the UK and I'm finding that my PPC has been enshittified. (last year it worked a dream, this year.. not so much).

I'm thinking about how I improve conversion on my website and thinking about a lead gen thing - something where people give me their email address, then sign up for a newsletter.

I was wondering if others have done this and what their experiences are?

Hello, I want to colour-block my hallway, which concete walls, wood framings, metal radiators, and plastic piping.

I want a matt look, and I'm told that Zinsser mutisurface paint is the way to go. So my plan is just to get cracking and paint everything.

Is there anything else I need to know? I don't know how much I should believe Zinsser's marketing that I don't need to prime or sand beforehand.

Hello,

I'm about to paint my downstairs hallway. The original idea was to do everything in blue, with the doors in a separate colour (orange). But I've just seen an instagram where basically you cut the space and do one side one colour and one side the other.

But how would you actually do this, practically speaking? The only way I could think of doing it would be the paint the whole space one colour, and then go back over half of it with a different colour, marking the border with tape. Is that right? You'd be using a lot more paint!