Week of November 4 Cable News Ratings: Election Week Boosts Fox News to Best...
This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of November 4, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump's defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential...
View ArticleAmazon Confirms Shutdown of FAST Service Freevee
Freevee, we hardly knew ye: Amazon confirmed late Tuesday that it will shut down the FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) service, which debuted as IMDb Freedive in January 2019. Moving...
View ArticleTarget Debuts Kris, a Modern Santa, as It Shifts Holiday Marketing Strategy
An affable man named Kris is on hand to help Target shoppers navigate their holiday dilemmas. With a twinkle in his eye, he guides people through Thanksgiving turkeys, Black Friday deals, and finding...
View ArticleWhy Disney+ Is Offering Global Holiday Sponsorship for the First Time
Disney is preparing to be a worldwide destination for brands this season, rolling out its first global Disney+ holiday sponsorship offering. For the first time, Disney Advertising is now offering...
View ArticleKetel One Collabs With Patrick Schwarzenegger to Give Brand a Modern Twist
Patrick Schwarzenegger is more than a simple drink slinger in the new Ketel One holiday ad--he's a concierge for his customer's flawless evening, upgrading a dinner reservation, nixing the inclement...
View ArticleOvernight Cable News Ratings for Nov. 8-11: CNN and MSNBC Experience...
Friday, Nov. 8 Fox News more than tripled CNN and MSNBC's combined audiences among primetime total viewers and as well as the Adults 25-54 primetime demo. MSNBC also experienced a steep drop in the...
View ArticleAnother Gray Station Shares Resources. Drops Local Newscasts
Another Gray-owned station is sharing resources to produce newscasts. This time, the 4 p.m. and weekend news for Hazard, Kentucky CBS affiliate WYMT will originate from sister station WKYT in...
View ArticleWTAE in Pittsburgh Names Lily Coleman Weekend Morning Anchor
Lily Coleman has been named weekend morning anchor for WTAE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Coleman will anchor alongside meteorologist Jill Szwed for the ABC affiliate's 5 to 7 a.m. and 8 to 10 a.m....
View ArticleComcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze
X's former top advertisers including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment, have resumed ad spending on the platform this year, albeit at much lower rates than...
View ArticleNavigating Brand Transformation With Kraft Heinz CMO Todd Kaplan
Welcome to another special episode of the Marketing Vanguard podcast. Today, host Jenny Rooney speaks with Todd Kaplan, who recently joined Kraft Heinz as CMO after a 17-year career at PepsiCo. In this...
View ArticleDisney CEO Might’ve Mistakenly Revealed Ad-Supported Subscriber Numbers
The numbers $22.6 billion -- Disney's reported revenue for Q4, a 6% increase compared to the prior-year quarter. $460 million -- Disney's net income for Q4, a 77% bump from the prior-year period. $321...
View ArticleRevolving Door Round-Up: Craig Melvin Succeeds Hoda Kotb on Today
Today's New Hire: NBC News has announced Craig Melvin as Today's new co-anchor beginning Jan. 13. Melvin will succeed Hoda Kotb, who announced in September that she was stepping down from her...
View ArticleJD Sports Redefines Family in Subversive Holiday Campaign
Sportswear retailer JD Sports overturns stereotypes of idealized families that are often present in holiday marketing. The brand's global campaign, created by agency Uncommon Creative Studio, documents...
View ArticleMarketing Morsels: Rover, Wild, Wounded Warrior Project & More
The advertising world is kicking it into high gear as we head towards the holidays and the inevitable biggest day of the year, the Super Bowl. There are more campaigns than ADWEEK can get to, but here,...
View ArticleDroga5 New York Lays Off 4% of Staff
Droga5 has laid off 4% of its New York office, ADWEEK has learned. The layoffs occurred earlier this week and impacted roles of varying seniority across creative, data strategy, comms strategy, and...
View ArticleExclusive: How a New Funko Rival Is Chasing Collectibles Success
It's showtime for Thrilljoy. One month after ex-Funko CEO Brian Mariotti unveiled his new collectibles venture at New York Comic Con, the upstart company has secured its first exclusive retail...
View ArticleHow Connie Chung Learned to Stop Worrying and Get Personal: ‘I Was...
Connie Chung doesn't like getting personal. "I was uncomfortable, frankly," the 78-year-old news veteran tells TVNewser with a resigned smile while describing the "torturous" process of turning her...
View ArticleHootsuite’s Giant Newspaper Stunt Led to the Most Content Downloads of Any...
Hootsuite is going all on in influencers to promote its biggest report of the year. This week, Hootsuite launched its "Social Media Trends 2025" report--its annual analysis of the biggest social trends...
View ArticleTools of the Trade: Brian Salzman of RQ
Tools of the Trade is a feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes of Coca-Cola’s AI Reinvention of a Holiday Classic
One of the buzziest campaigns of the holiday season so far is Coca-Cola's artificial intelligence (AI) reboot of its classic ad, "Holidays Are Coming." Since the rise of generative AI, the technology...
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