Why the Shuttering of Fifth Avenue Mainstay Henri Bendel Is a Warning Sign to...
This holiday season will be the last for a New York retail institution. Henri Bendel, one of Fifth Avenue's most iconic storefronts, will close in early 2019, parent company L Brands announced on...
View ArticleAs Brave Gears Up to Weaponize Privacy, Google Becomes Its Primary Target
The ad-tech industry gathered in Europe this week for the Dmexco trade show when Brave, the outfit behind a controversial web browser, took the opportunity to deal a GDPR-sized blow to the sector....
View ArticleWith Less Data-Driven Baggage, Can Apple Help Lead the Way on Advertising...
One year ago, several major ad-tech trade groups accused Apple of threatening to "sabotage" the economic underpinnings of the internet after the tech giant cracked down on how companies track users...
View ArticleFacebook Is Looking to Add Someone With Serious Experience in Human Rights...
Facebook is looking to add a heavy hitter in the areas of human rights and public policy to its C-Suite, either at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., or its office in Washington, D.C. A job...
View ArticleHave Media Outlets Become Billionaires’ Newest Charity Projects?
Billionaires have long been known to donate loads of cash to nonprofits or create their own foundations in the name of "giving back." Now, they're also seemingly buying media companies. Marc and Lynne...
View ArticleHow Bloomberg Media’s First Chief Product Officer Troubleshoots the Internet
Julia Beizer was a reporter at The Washington Post when her boss went on maternity leave and left Beizer as the stand-in newsroom liaison to the company's new article page design. It was Beizer's first...
View ArticleThese 3 Mechanical Engineers Crafted a Marketing Powerhouse
After founding the apparel company Belong Designs straight out of college, best friends Ben Thomson, Shamus McNutt and Mark Grubbs noticed business owners peppering them with questions about their...
View ArticleWieden + Kennedy Establishes New Global Leadership Team With 4 Promotions
Independent agency Wieden + Kennedy announced four promotions that will create a new leadership team based in its Portland, Ore. headquarters. Effective Oct. 1, co-chief creative officer Colleen...
View ArticleThe Best Emmys Moment, That Surprise Wedding Proposal, Came Courtesy of the...
Leave it to a director to come up with most memorable Emmy Awards moment. Glenn Weiss, who won the outstanding directing for a variety special Emmy, concluded his acceptance speech by proposing onstage...
View ArticleHBO, Netflix and Amazon Dominated Ad-Supported TV at the Emmys
Netflix and HBO's ongoing Emmy battle ended in a stalemate during Sunday's 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, as the two outlets tied for most overall wins with 23 trophies each. But Amazon may have made the...
View ArticleWith YouTube’s Burnout Mentality, Creators Need to Focus on Videos That Matter
57.16 percent of employees at tech companies feel burnt out by their jobs. And unfortunately for YouTube, creator burnout is becoming a bigger phenomenon than ever before. The platform's algorithm...
View ArticleInstagram Introduces a Shopping Tab to Its Explore Page, Presenting New...
It's no stand-alone shopping app, but the Explore page on Instagram is getting a dedicated channel to shopping. The Explore page, which groups different types of content together (like an animal or...
View ArticleBigfoot Tries to Get Footage of an Elusive Congressman in This Enjoyably Odd...
Congressional hopeful Dean Phillips, a Democrat running in Minnesota, says Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen is so detached from his home district, he's practically impossible to find. So Phillips...
View ArticleAfter Hurricane Florence Made Landfall, These Brands Quietly Helped the...
The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Cartersville, Ga., is a sprawling, 900,000 square-foot facility whose fermentation tanks turn out enough beer to fill 250 trucks a day. Opened in 1993, the plant produces...
View ArticleDDB North America Hires Chicago Chief Strategy Officer From BBDO Atlanta
DDB North America, an Omnicom-owned network, announced today two new additions to its strategy team: Tricia Russo was named chief strategy officer of Chicago, and Susie Lyons is the new head of...
View ArticleSephora Teams Up With Ecommerce Company Memebox for a New Korean Beauty Line
Data meets beauty in Kaja, the new Korean beauty line, formed in partnership with ecommerce company Memebox and Sephora. The 47-product line of items like eyeshadows and lip stains arrives online...
View ArticleFacebook Started Indexing News Pages to Determine Which Publishers Belong in...
Facebook announced that it has begun the process of indexing news pages in order to determine which publishers should be included in the Ad Archive that it introduced in June. The Ad Archive, which is...
View ArticleInstagram Joined Forces With TurboVote on a Voter Registration Initiative
Instagram is gearing up for National Voter Registration Day by providing voters in the U.S. with the necessary information, as well as creating an "I voted" sticker for Election Day, Nov. 6. The...
View ArticleWatching This Swedish CEO Plow Through Glass Using Heavy Machinery Is Oddly...
The patron saint of Swedish Heavy Machinery is likely Jean-Claude Van Damme. The actor's "Epic Split," a 2014 gymnastic foray between two Volvo big rigs, is the standard bearer of demonstrating the...
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