Former 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 ArticleDentsu Aegis Network Acquires Digital Marketing and Commerce Agency Digital...
Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired digital marketing and commerce agency Digital Evolution Group (DEG). DEG will partner with Isobar to become DEG, Linked by Isobar. The new offering is designed to help...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Die Hard Is ‘The Greatest Christmas Story Ever Told’ in Fun...
We all know Die Hard is a Christmas movie. We. All. Know. This. But just to make it absolutely clear, Fox Home Entertainment has rolled out a festive edit of the action classic's trailer, this time...
View ArticleBlippar, a Pioneer of Augmented Reality, Is Going Out of Business
One of the pioneers of augmented reality is going out of business. Blippar, a London-based AR firm, has entered into administration--the British equivalent of filing for bankruptcy in the U.S.--and...
View ArticleFacebook Detailed the Results of a Civil Rights Audit Led by Laura Murphy
On the same day that the NAACP kicked off a seven-day boycott of Facebook and Instagram due to its data and privacy issues and their impact on African Americans, the social network released the results...
View ArticleLaverne & Shirley Star and Director Penny Marshall Dies at 75
Penny Marshall, whose successful Hollywood career took her from hit sitcom star to a director of blockbuster films, has died at 75. Marshall died Monday night from diabetes-related complications. She...
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 radio and...
View Article5 Major Brand Fails of 2018—and What Every Marketer Can Learn From Them
Ah, 2018--what a year! While we'd rather not relive any of the events (this year felt like an eternity, huh?), let's take a moment to examine a few of the biggest brand blunders of the year to figure...
View ArticlePetco Adopts Anomaly as Its Creative Agency of Record
Petco, where the healthy pets go, announced today that it has selected a new creative agency of record following a review sparked this fall. MDC Partners-owned Anomaly will take on the account,...
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