It’s a 26-year-old franchise, but with this ad campaign you’d never guess it. With the help of a Hollywood puppet maker, Discovery Channel’s team created Snuffy the Seal… and promptly snuffed him out. The clever tagline “It’s a bad week to be a seal. For the rest of us it’s pretty awesome” says it all. To sum up: Faux reporters and cameramen rushed to the scene of a rescued Snuffy, only to film a shark snatching him up in front of an army of aghast onlookers. As for the results? Snuffy gained 7 million fans, and 2013 was Shark Week’s best ever.

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Charter Posts First Video Gains Since 2020

Charter’s streak of video declines came to a halt Friday when the company announced 44,000 total video net additions in 4Q25. And while it might not be a trend Charter sees as holding true in the long term, for now, it can celebrate a feat it hasn’t been able to say in 21 quarters.

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