Much Ado About Not Much as Cable News Waits for Mueller Report
Posted in: UncategorizedAnchors and pundits posed many questions and provided few answers while signaling that the special counsel’s report was about to drop.
Anchors and pundits posed many questions and provided few answers while signaling that the special counsel’s report was about to drop.
The first skirmishes have already been fought in what could turn into a tech cold war. “The game is on,” said the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings.
Snapchat’s foray into premium video advertising, with the exclusive marketplace to link brands and top-tier publishers it launched last year, is winning over advertisers with the amount of control it gives them to choose where ads run. Early media partners, however, say they’re disappointed.
It’s been a little more than six months since the private marketplace opened, and some publishers have yet to see the financial benefits, according to one top publishing partner executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“We make some money there, but it was posed to me, at a time of year when we needed to drive revenue, that this was awesome, a way to totally crush it,” the exec says. “Then we went live, and money was just barely dripping in. Like when it’s misty outside, and not quite raining, it’s annoying.”
Apple Inc. is widely expected to enter the highly competitive video-streaming market at an event on Monday, but Wall Street could react to the news with yawns.
The announcementwhich will detail a plan that Apple has been dropping hints about for weeksis unlikely to be a game changer for Apple or its competitors, according to analysts who said it would be hard for Apple to match video-streaming rivals in the breadth of original content it offers. And because it will represent such a small part of Apple’s own business, the event may not have much impact on its stock price.
“In order to move the needle with services such as video, Apple would need to add a business several times the size of Netflix,” wrote Raymond James analyst Chris Caso in a March 14 note. The “iPhone is simply so big, it’s difficult for anything else to have an impact.”
Presidential candidates have been proclaiming to break them up, and self-inflicted security crises abound, but still, Facebook and Google continue to rake in the lion’s share of digital ad spend, according to a new a eMarketer report released yesterday. Both Facebook and Google weathered a less-than-flattering news cycle to emerge victorious over digital ad spending…
Private thoughts scribbled in a diary aren’t necessarily meant to stay that way, and hundreds of women are sharing their intimate stories for an HBO project called The Inspiration Room. The pop-up exhibit, taking place this week in New York, gathered journal entries from women across the country and built a public space for the…
Amid heightened public concern over data privacy, Google is contemplating a number of changes to its consumer- and advertiser-facing tools, with potential changes that could have far-reaching implications for how online media is monetized. A number of different working groups across the organization have been tasked in recent months with exploring how advertising will evolve…
The California-based CBD brand Medterra is about to get more mainstream visibility, thanks to a rollout in a major pharmacy chain–and some clever digital advertising. This week, CVS Pharmacy began stocking the shelves of 500 stores in seven states (California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Tennessee) with products that have CBD, or cannabidiol, which…
Tom Brady, Meek Mill, Drew Bledsoe and Kenny Chesney on the man caught up in a scandal.
When Andrew Carnegie opened his landmark Music Hall in 1891, he could have hardly imagined what would took place there 128 years later. On Thursday morning, Adweek convened some of the brightest entrepreneurs who are tapping the limitless potential of artificial intelligence, which–along with machine learning–is predicted to add $16 trillion to the global economy…
Branded Entertainment Network (BEN) may be best known as a company that helps brands get their products on TV shows and in movies. But the company has also created its own deep learning algorithms to help brands better target customers wherever they view content. BEN CEO Ricky Ray Butler explained how they do it, and…
DDB has answered our burning question, confirming that yes, it does have a new logo. In an effort to get back to its roots, the Omnicom network unveiled its new visual identity this morning after releasing it internally at its global conference in Miami on Wednesday, with some executives–including DDB Worldwide CEO Wendy Clark–subsequently teasing…
Bustle Digital Group (BDG), the parent company of media brands Bustle and Elite Daily, has tapped longtime magazine editor Dan Peres to lead the revamped Gawker.com. It’s the biggest hire yet for a media brand that has already faced heated scrutiny and controversy before even getting off the ground. Peres, who served as the editor…
A Johnnie Walker lança no Brasil o segundo rótulo da série que traz edições especiais elaboradas com uísques raros selecionados das reservas de destilarias “fantasmas”, o Johnnie Walker Blue Label Ghost and Rare Port Ellen. A série “Ghost and Rare” traz bebidas de destilarias que não produzem mais, porém ainda armazenam uísques raros e especiais …
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Em entrevista ao Bloomberg, uma fonte da Uber revelou que a empresa escolheu a bolsa de valores de Nova York (NYSE) para abrir o seu capital. A oferta pública inicial de ações (IPO) deve acontecer já em abril, e pode ser a maior do ano chegando a US$ 120 bilhões. A decisão da Uber é …
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A organização das Olimpíadas Tóquio 2020 apresentou a cara da Tocha Olímpica dessa edição, e ela é cheia de detalhes e simbolismos. A nova tocha foi inspirada nas tradicionais flores de cerejeira do Japão, árvore que é símbolo do país, e que por sinal começa a florescer em breve, já que a primavera acabou de …
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Nem só de artistas extremamente famosos é feito um festival. E a Budweiser lembra isso em sua nova campanha para o Lollapalooza 2019, festival no qual a marca é a cerveja oficial pelo segundo ano consecutivo. Desde ontem, 21/03, a Bud convoca o público no Twitter com a hashtag #MeuNewClassic, a fazer suas apostas e …
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A Nike está enfrentando um processo de racismo feito por um de seus ex-funcionários. Ahmer Inamque, natural de Nova Delhi, (Índia) trabalhou na multinacional como Diretor Sênior de Análises Avançadas, e alega que enfrentou discriminação racial durante os três anos em que trabalhou na empresa. Segundo consta no processo movido por Ahmer, ele recebeu “tratamento …
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