Emily West is a professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on promotion, technology, and culture. She is the author of Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly (2022) and co-editor of the first edition of The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture (2013). Her research has appeared in journals including Surveillance & Society, International Journal of Communication, and Journal of Consumer Culture.

Matthew P. McAllister is a professor of communications and WGSS at Penn State. His research focuses on political economy of media and critiques of commercial and popular culture. He is the co-editor of the first edition of The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture (with Emily West, 2013) and The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader (with Joseph Turow, 2009).