George Affleck

UnSpun is live. @jodyvance and @george_affleck kick off the very first Sitkast with honest, no-spin conversations on the stories that matter. No agenda. Two sharp voices cutting through the noise. Tell us what you think! 👇 First episode is out now: youtube.com/watch?v=gusyTF…

@jodyvance @ParkBoard @KenSimCity @CityofVancouver Burnaby outdoor pools already open. 😬

Excited for Kits Pool to open May Long Weekend, for what feels like the first time in FOREVER. @ParkBoard - can you please confirm OPENING date and hours, please? #FREEKITSPOOL @KenSimCity @CityofVancouver

Excited for Thursday 👀

We are back! @george_affleck @unspunpodcast

@vancolour @Cadeyrnn 💯

This is intentional stage-setting.

Carney's majority official, Eby's collapse accelerates, Vancouver cleans up, Tucker Carlson launches a 2028 run??, Ken Sim chases MLB, and BC's Conservative leadership race heats up. @george_affleck and @jodyvance are back. UnSpun Ep. 318 → unspunpodcast.com

@herrmanndigital This week somehow the name of my account magically changed. That was a first 😬

This week, like many other weeks in 2026 (2025 / 2024 / 2023 / 2022...) Meta ads simply broke. You probably haven't heard a peep from Meta on it, but it's been brutal. We're talking turning ad accounts off brutal. Some of you were probably 100% immune. Others had no idea because your teams suddenly tried shifting their creative / offers. Others work with agencies that probably set it and forgot it. Whatever it may be... I sound like a broken record here venting. But this just simply is becoming more and more unacceptable at the sheer level of these bugs. There feels like no recourse. No post-mortems. No true apologies. Just simply, break then kill a brand's performance for around a week, get a small refund, then move on to the next time it breaks. I'm tired guys. I know X is here to post about AI automations and how awesome I am, but the reality is this week (much like many other weeks prior) I find myself being therapist to CMOs and brand teams trying to figure out is this a bug, a creative issue, or the business. More and more it's a bug. I want Meta to be stable, but every year from Feb - May it's just a mess. Do we simply just pull budget during Meta's annual bug season? I'm out of answers personally but on behalf of the brands that pay me to manage advertising across every ad platform, I'd like some answers from Meta because it's the only one plagued with these issues at this scale.

@stephenbraverm1 Two terms max should be a rule.

I understand municipal politicians deciding not to run again after 2 straight terms. Councillors, school trustees and park commissioners served 3 year terms prior to 2014. Now they're 4. And I count COVID years double time. For those reasons, I see why 8 years is enough for some.

@mikefutia Clay

These AI claymation ads are crushing it on Meta right now 🤯 Images, videos, voiceover, music, captions: all made entirely with AI. Perfect for DTC brands and agencies who want ad creative that actually stands out in the Meta feed instead of blending in with every other UGC talking head and static image. If you're running the same creative formats as everyone else — UGC, statics, carousels — and wondering why engagement keeps dropping and CPMs keep climbing... Animated ads break the entire pattern: → They look like nothing else in the feed, so they stop the scroll → They work as paid ads on Meta AND organic content on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts → You can produce them in-house without hiring freelancers or booking a studio → One workflow covers claymation, Pixar, anime, Wes Anderson miniature, retro cartoon, synthwave, and hyperrealistic CGI The workflow uses Claude for all the creative assets, Nano Banana Pro for image generation, Kling 3.0 for animation, Gemini to rewrite the voiceover to match the footage, ElevenLabs for voice, Suno for music, and CapCut for the final edit. Eight steps, one finished ad. I'm giving away every single prompt I used to create this video for free. Want all the prompts? > Like this post > Comment "CLAY" And I'll send them over (must be following so I can DM)

@kirklapointe Thank you for an amazing body of work.

Thanks to the company, the colleagues, the people I’ve met and the people who read what I did. Stay tuned. biv.com/news/commentar…

@EpictetusYVR @parksboardfacts I’m fighting for. Common sense now. Open the pool and state that there will be dates identified as “peak” where some online reservations will be opened. This isn’t hard. #FREEKitsPool. @george_affleck

Trump's Iran war rattles global economy, Canada eyes EU membership, Kits Pool's lifeguard scandal deeper than reported, & Vancouver beaches could lose guards during the World Cup. UnSpun Ep. 317 — then we break for 4 weeks. 🎧 unspunpodcast.com @jodyvance @george_affleck

Sean Orr sues the mayor, journalists jump into Vancouver politics, an NDP MP crosses to the Liberals, Carney heads to Norway, and the Iran war escalates with no plan/no congressional approval. All in one UnSpun Ep. → unspunpodcast.com @jodyvance @george_affleck

🏛️ Vancouver's 2026 Election Chaos — Too many parties, too many candidates, and the left splitting the vote. @george_affleck breaks down why ABC could still win despite Ken Sim's implosion + why celebrity name alone doesn't win council seats. youtu.be/1Lxxw4-C-cg?si… via @YouTube

@vancolour @KurtisKolt @fumano Correct.

@KurtisKolt @george_affleck @fumano The Mayor's defence is likely indemnified by the city so not "all" (i.e. Orr's side) of it is at the taxpayer's expense. The city *can* decide to stop indemnifying Sim based on a variety of factors that could be argued in this particular case. But I think that would be unlikely.

Just now: Vancouver Coun. Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim for defamation over the mayor’s recent accusation that Orr was distributing illegal drugs (which the mayor has already retracted and apologized for) More to come

@davidfchandler @NabilMinhaz Yet people love them. Fishy stuff.

@NabilMinhaz am i missing something ...can't see the prompts

BREAKING: AI can now build you a complete website in 2 hours (for free). Here are 9 insane Claude Opus 4.6 + Figma Make prompts that create $5,000 websites in 2 hours: (Save this before your competitors do)

As a former journalist myself who ventured into politics, I wish @fabulavancouver the best with her move to running for @CityofVancouver Council. Asking tough/intelligent questions and listening to the answers are key to being an effective politician. So she’s got that covered.

@mikefutia Seo

I just built a Claude Code SEO agent that replaces your $200/mo. Ahrefs subscription 🤯 One prompt → keyword gaps found, competitors mapped, content written in your brand voice, rankings tracked on autopilot. All inside Claude Code. Perfect for DTC brands and agencies who know SEO matters but never have the bandwidth to actually do it consistently. If you're paying $200/month for Ahrefs & SEMRush, opening it once to export a CSV, then closing it until next month... This agent runs the entire loop for you: → Connects to Google Search Console and pulls your real ranking data → Finds your "gap zone" — keywords at positions 5–20, one article away from page 1 → Uses Apify to scrape who's outranking you and exactly why they're winning → Interviews you once about your brand, customers, and positioning → Writes content in your voice — not generic AI output that tanks after 90 days → Tracks rankings weekly and feeds what's working back into the next cycle No $200/month tools you barely open. No freelancers writing content that sounds like everyone else. No manually checking rankings and forgetting to act on it. What you get: → Keyword cards with a specific action recommendation for each gap zone opportunity → A competitive breakdown — who's beating you and the exact fix for each keyword → A weekly content plan generated from your real GSC data → A brand voice profile Claude uses for every article it writes Built 100% in Claude Code with Google Search Console. Full playbook is on GitHub — skill files, brand interview, and the exact weekly workflow. Want it for free? > Like this post > Comment "SEO" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

Ken Sim's drug dealer presser, BC kills daylight saving forever, Granville goes pedestrian for FIFA, the US bombs Iran, Carney signs deals across Asia, and Christy Noem gets fired. All in one episode. UnSpun Ep. 315 → unspunpodcast.com @jodyvance @george_affleck