(TrendHunter.com) The Tattoo Moto ‘Vampire Slayer’ is a minimalist motorcycle that takes design elements from classic cafe racers. Tattoo Moto is a custom motorcycle shop based in Charlotte, North Carolina,…
The Creativity Awards are adding one more new honor this year, the Q Award, created in partnership with sponsor Quantcast.
The Q Award will recognize a team of up to 3 people who challenge the status quo, question everything and strive to break conventional wisdom. The winning team will have discovered new insights and implemented a new strategy, campaign or product that ultimately resulted in increased brand awareness, growth and sales.
This award is open to teams whose roles include:
21st Century Fox is sweetening its offer to U.K. regulators reviewing its takeover of Sky, raising the prospect that Walt Disney Co. would guarantee the future of the European broadcaster’s news service.
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox, which is in negotiations with competition authorities over its 11.7 billion pound ($16.4 billion) purchase of Sky, proposed this week a funding guarantee of at least 10 years for Sky News, the U.K.’s first 24-hour news channel. Disney would inherit that commitment with its $52.4 billion purchase of most of Fox’s film and TV assets, including Sky.
The funding proposal is Fox’s latest attempt to win approval for a deal that has been held up by additional scrutiny, after allegations of sexual and racial harassment at Fox News in the U.S. and as a 2011 phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch’s newspapers continued to dog the billionaire media tycoon.
The media doesn’t have a lot of speeds when it comes to covering the passing of cultural icons. The typical default mode, at least immediately after death, is stiffly hagiographical; many obituaries are mostly pre-written, sometimes years in advance, so they tend to have a frozen-in-amber, history-book quality to them.
The dawn of the social media era, and especially the birth of Twitter in 2006, changed the equation. A critical mass of brief, unrehearsed expressions of shock and mourning add up to a notable death becoming a “trending topic.” In fact, one of the recurring jolts of being on Twitter is seeing the name of a famous person you love trending and then instantaneously experiencing a sinking feelingyou just can’t click fast enough to find out if they’re trending because they died. (Or, alternately, if they did something wonderfulor terrible.)
In the past 24 hours, both Billy Graham and Judy Blame have been trending topics and the subject of mainstream-media obits, and it’s been fascinating to see their vastly different lives juxtaposed repeatedly simply because they happened to die within days of each other. (Graham died today and Blame died on Monday, though his passing was only formally announced yesterday.)
McDonald’s dips into podcasting
It’s taken months, but McDonald’s is ready to serve more Szechuan sauce to Rick & Morty fans and everyone else. The sauce’s anticipated winter return was announced with teasers for a three-episode podcast, “The Sauce,” coming Feb. 22 from Studio@Gizmodo, Onion Labs and McDonald’s.
Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than seven million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for the first time yesterday.
A few highlights: Silversea, the cruise line brand, encourages you to experience “the authentic beauty of the world.” Macy’s hypes its Presidents Day Sale event, with discounted mattresses, furniture and rugs, continuing through the week. And Old Navy wants you to “#SayHi” to its new denim fashions in a spot starring a bunch of attractive models who don’t speak a word but dance up a storm.
A Uber lançou hoje, 21/02, sua modalidade Uber Express Pool. Como o nome indica, ela é parecida com o já existente Uber Pool, que leva passageiros diferentes em uma mesma corrida e para destinos próximos. Porém, a característica marcante do Express Pool é que os passageiros devem esperar o transporte em um ponto específico, semelhante ao …
> LEIA MAIS: Uber Express Pool : empresa lança modelo de transporte coletivo parecido com ônibus
Já fazem alguns meses que a pesquisa com inteligências artificiais vem marcando presença na página de notícias do B9. Desde as intenções mais nobres como o auxílio médico em diagnósticos de pneumonia e problemas cardiovasculares a usos criativos como a fabricação de sons ambientes para o Google Maps (passando por algumas boas piadas), o campo de desenvolvimento …
> LEIA MAIS: Novo estudo alerta para os perigos por trás dos avanços das inteligências artificiais
Ferramentas e aplicativos de planejamento já são usados por 83% dos viajantes
> LEIA MAIS: Visa revela que turistas têm usado tecnologia no planejamento de viagens mais curtas e frequentes
(TrendHunter.com) Japanese label BEAMS Plus unveils its upcoming Spring/Summer 2018 collection, which is comprised of preppy pieces with a Japanese style. The series updates Trad gear with the Japanese aesthetics…
The Creativity Awards are adding one more new honor this year, the Q Award, created in partnership with sponsor Quantcast.
The Q Award will recognize a team of up to 3 people who challenge the status quo, question everything and strive to break conventional wisdom. The winning team will have discovered new insights and implemented a new strategy, campaign or product that ultimately resulted in increased brand awareness, growth and sales.
This award is open to teams whose roles include:
ROTHCO reframes the traditional ‘Birth, Deaths & Notices’ section of an Irish National newspaper to highlight Africa’s threatened white rhino population at the hands of illegal poachers. In collaboration with Dublin Zoo, the print campaign was sparked by the birth of a rhinoceros calf at the zoo and evolved to illuminate the startling contrast between the birth and death rates of the threatened species.
The web video “You are the 1,” features dancer and actor Mirai Moriyama, known for having a singular presence on the stage, TV, and movies. The video begins with Mirai, embodying a car, standing nobly at the starting line. As two race cars start off beside him, he begins to dance, using a technique called “floor dance” that is rarely seen in Japan. Mirai fearlessly dances around the track as the two cars repeatedly zoom past him at dangerously close range. Remaining consistently unrattled, Mirai presses toward the finish line, resolutely maintaining his own pace, intrepidly using his entire body and being to express the brand’s message, “Reach No.1 in your own way, by taking your own path.”
Keeping true to TOTAL Hi-Perf Motorcycle Engine Oil’s brand promise of making your ride enjoyable, TOTAL with WAT Consult has taken a step forward to make the ride more meaningful along with being enjoyable. The brand brings to light the unsung legends of the country who, over the years, have worked selflessly to make this society a better place to live through a digital video series aptly titled – “Ride For Legends.”
This is a challenge taken up by 4 moto-vloggers to discover the unsung legends of the society on their bikes. Through this campaign the vloggers will highlight the unsung legends lives and achievements to the world, one story at a time. The same has been co-created along with popular YouTube channel Powerdrift and is also available on Voot.
Memac Oglivy and SHE (Saudi Heroines Empowering a nation) collaborate with director Omar Hilal for an evocative film that challenges perceptions of Saudi, Arab, and Muslim women. Launched by SHE, an initiative highlighting Saudi heroines, ‘How Well Do You Know Her?’ seeks to challenge negative stereotypes by focusing on women’s achievements, before subverting expectations with a surprising twist.
Park Pictures, located in New York, Los Angeles and London, is signing director Georgia Hudson for representation in the U.S., U.K. and Netherlands for commercials, branded content and music videos. Hudson has worked on projects for brands such as Under Armour and Dick’s Sporting Goods, and videos for artists including Pink, Loyle Carner and Glass Animals. Her Pink music video “What About Us” gained her a nomination for Best Director by the 2017 U.K. MVAs. She’s currently directing the short film “Temper,” an artistic documentary investigating youth culture and grief, slated for release in 2018.
Dish Network, publicly reporting its Sling TV signups for the first time, said the low-cost alternative to traditional pay TV has attracted 2.2 million customers, marking progress in efforts to slow four years of subscriber losses.
Dish closed out its fourth quarter with an increase of 39,000 pay-TV customers, more than the 30,000 analysts had predicted. Dish had a total of 13.2 million subscribers at the end of 2017, including Sling TV and Dish TV customers, according to a statement Wednesday. That’s about the same as the end of the third quarter.
Dish introduced Sling TV three years ago as a $20-a-month alternative for the growing wave of customers who were dumping pay-TV service for lower-priced options like Netflix and Amazon Prime, as well as other live online streaming services like AT&T’s DirecTV Now. Dish’s struggles in the pay-TV business put more focus on how Chairman Charlie Ergen plans to use a massive trove of airwaves to capitalize on the mobile-video revolution.
“David Hogg Can’t Remember His Lines When Interviewed for Florida school shooting.” “David Hogg, crisis actor.” “David Hogg exposed.”
Those are just some of the videos on YouTube now sowing disinformation about last week’s mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Hogg is one of the Parkland students vocally criticizing the government’s inaction on gun violence in the wake of the shooting, which killed 17 of his classmates. He has been sucked into the vortex of internet conspiracies that inevitably seize on these types of events, as happened after the Las Vegas mass shooting in October and the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012.
Some conservative Twitter Inc. users are accusing the company of unfairly targeting their followers as it steps up efforts to get rid of fake accounts.
Prominent conservative pundits and activists said Wednesday that thousands of their followers had been deleted overnight. Other users said they received messages from Twitter asking them to confirm they were real people before being allowed to keep using the service. The hashtag “TwitterLockOut” was trending in the U.S., meaning thousands of accounts were tweeting about it.
“The twitter purge is real,” conservative podcast host Dan Bongino said on Twitter. “Twitter blocked me from twitter ads last night and purged thousands of followers.”
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