New Yorkers Turn to Twitter to Protest Amazon’s Impending Move to Long Island...
New Yorkers are still not happy that Amazon is moving in and, much like observants of Festivus, they are airing their grievances. According to data from social media monitoring firm Brandwatch, this...
View ArticleFormer ABC President Channing Dungey Follows Shonda Rhimes and Kenya Barris...
Not too long ago, the most coveted TV jobs were in broadcasting. Now they increasingly seem to be at streaming services--specifically, at Netflix. Former ABC president Channing Dungey is the latest to...
View ArticleWhich Publishers Are Getting Innovation Funding From Google News Initiative?
Google revealed the recipients of innovation funding from its Google News Initiative, saying that the money will go to 87 news projects from 23 countries. Google News Initiative announced the...
View ArticleShort and Lovely, These Holiday Tales Promote Lifetime’s Catalog of Christmas...
Scoff if you must, but holiday movies are a comfort food that many enjoy consuming each Christmas season. And we're not just talking about enduring favorites like Home Alone and Die Hard; the full...
View ArticleRoseanne Was 2018’s Most-Watched TV Series, Averaging 20 Million Viewers
Roseanne's brief, controversial return to the airwaves this spring ended in disaster, but not before making enough of a splash that the revived sitcom turned out to be 2018's most-watched series in...
View ArticleFacebook Pages That Repurpose Videos From Other Sources Cannot Be Monetized
Facebook is taking aim at pages that post repurposed video clips from other sources, without any editorial input of their own. The social network revealed in an update to an April blog post that pages...
View ArticleLil Jon and Kool-Aid Man Dropped a Christmas Track That’s Insane, Amazing and...
Move over, Lil Yachty and Donny Osmond, because the world of branded hip-hop just got a new unexpected duet: Lil Jon and Kool-Aid Man. With their catchphrases being "Yeah!" and "Oh yeah!" respectively,...
View ArticleRussian Trolls Used ‘Digital Marketing Best Practices’ to Sow Discord, Senate...
The Russian troll farm responsible for running disinformation campaigns intended to influence the 2016 presidential election reached more people on Instagram than on Facebook, and...
View ArticleLes Moonves Fired For Cause By CBS, Won’t Receive $120M Severance
Former CBS chairman and CEO Les Moonves will depart the company without his $120 million payout, the CBS board of directors said Monday night. Moonves, who had led CBS since 2007, left the company in...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg Says Facebook Needs to Do More to Protect Civil Rights
A day after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released two reports showing how Russian trolls targeted black Americans on Facebook and Instagram, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg released an...
View ArticleTwitter, The Football Association Created a DM Bot to Deliver Emirates FA Cup...
Twitter teamed up with The Football Association in the U.K. to create a direct message bot that will deliver video highlights to fans outside of the U.K. during the Emirates FA Cup soccer tournament....
View ArticleAgency Holiday Cards 2018: Inventive and Creative Send-Offs to the Year
It was a long year. Many agencies admit 2018 hasn't been too kind to advertising, but December tends to find them in mostly good spirits. Every year, as inevitably as cold weather and holiday specials,...
View ArticleOpenX Lays Off 100 as Part of Strategic Overhaul
Ad-tech company OpenX today confirmed it has laid off approximately 100 members of its global staff. The job losses are apparently the latest act in a strategic overhaul. The supply-side outfit...
View ArticlePodcast Ads Perform Better Than Other Digital Ads, Research Finds
A listener can remember the brands and products heard on an ad featured on a podcast, according to a series of Nielsen studies commissioned by Midroll, the advertising sector of Stitcher, a podcast...
View Article5 Brands That Actually Did Some Good in 2018
Around this time of year, we start making resolutions to be better people--be it by drinking more water, learning a new skill, connecting with lost friends, or promising not to swear quite as often....
View ArticleThanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday Dominated Facebook IQ’s Hot Topics...
Conversation about Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas thoroughly dominated Facebook and Instagram in November, according to the latest Hot Topics report from research arm Facebook...
View ArticleVideo: Bleacher Report Celebrated Sneakerhead Culture With Its Latest Pop-Up
In New York's Chelsea neighborhood earlier this month, an unassuming building recently played host to a crowd of sneakerheads and VIPs gathered to learn more about the culture of the shoe and customize...
View ArticleDow Jones Media Group Has Changed Its Name to ‘Barron’s Group’
More than two years after Dow Jones Media Group formed to boost a collection of brands' visibilities to clients and audiences, the group is getting a name change. The group, which includes Barron's,...
View ArticleStrangers Talk About the Stigma, Shame and Anguish of Debt in This Powerful...
The heaviest burden of spiraling debt is often that we have to bear the weight alone. Despite modern society's reliance on student loans, credit cards and other forms of debt, there are many stigmas...
View ArticleWhy Seventh Generation Got Maya Rudolph to Sing a Song About Vaginas
In recent years, Maya Rudolph has found strange yet compelling ways to tout Seventh Generation's use of natural products. Now, the company is deploying Rudolph to help destigmatize the word vagina...
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