It’s been quite a week for big tech. Just after Mark Zuckerberg laid out a long manifesto to supposedly reorient the company’s goals around user privacy, presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren put forth a proposal to break up his company and other tech giants through antitrust action. Meanwhile, thousands of retailers met in Las Vegas…
Keith Grossman, chief revenue officer at Bloomberg Media and a veteran of the New York media scene, has joined marketing and technology group Engine as chief operating officer. He made the announcement via an email sent to all in his extensive network of contacts on Friday afternoon. In the new role, Grossman will work closely…
FOX Networks Group Latin America viewed the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to communicate that the brand believes in the power of sorority. So much that, throughout March 8th, the brand is praising shows with powerful female characters. All shows, specially shows of competitor channels and streaming services. Using both TV and social media, FOX is recognizing amazing women from shows like HBO’s Game of Thrones, Netflix’s Jessica Jones and Amazon Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It’s sisterhood – women supporting women – at its core.
Katie Couric, Cher, Stephen A. Smith and former contestants expressed support and hope for the ‘Jeopardy’ host after he revealed his cancer diagnosis this week.
If you somehow haven’t seen Gayle King’s Wednesday “CBS This Morning” interview with R&B star R. Kelly in the wake of his arrest surrounding sex-abuse allegations, Jimmy Kimmel is here to help you out.
In this segment from last night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the host serves up the most explosive, melt-downy clips from the sit-downincluding the moment when Kelly jumps up from his seat in a menacing fashion while King remains utterly calm. “Is there anyone cooler than Gayle King?,” Kimmel asks. “She’s just like, ‘Robert?’ Whatever Zen meditation class she’s taking, sign me up.”
Of course, Kelly’s PR team has a bigger problem than just an out-of-control client trying to defend himself on national TV and totally acting like an innocent person. Kelly is also haunted by his own body of workincluding some rather questionable songs and music videos, excerpts of which Kimmel helpfully serves up to add some, uh, context to the proceedings.
Good thing she’s fearless, with all these ticked-off humans around.
“Fearless Girl,” the sculpture State Street Corp. installed in downtown Manhattan two years ago to great fanfare and consternation, is now the subject of a court order blocking her creator from selling a replica to buyers in Germany.
A federal judge in New York this week issued a preliminary injunction barring the artist, Kristen Visbal, from completing the sale, promoting the replica or using an online form to sell others, according to a court filing made public on Thursday.
National Beverage Corp. fell the most in two decades after the owner of LaCroix brand sparkling water posted disappointing results and was downgraded to sell at Guggenheim. The CEO blamed the weak quarter on “injustice.”
“We are truly sorry for these results stated above. Negligence nor mismanagement nor woeful acts of God were not the reasonsmuch of this was the result of injustice!” CEO Nick Caporella said in a statement.
Moving past the unusual statement, analyst Laurent Grandet wrote that the company’s sparkling water brand LaCroix is unlikely to see a sales rebound given the “prolonged softness in U.S. retail and the increasing competitiveness of the category.” Grandet added that social media trends are “decisively negative” and slashed the firm’s price target on the stock to $45 a share from $72.
Twitter is taking steps to help its users protect themselves from doxxing by giving them the ability to provide more information when reporting tweets. Users who click on Report Tweet and then select “It’s abusive or harmful” now have access to an “Includes private information” option, which enables them to let Twitter know exactly what…
Twitter has hired Doug Brodman as its new U.S. agency development director. He joins from Google, where he spent the past five years at the tech giant’s in-house agency as senior business lead of U.S. deals and partnerships. At Twitter, Brodman will create “business-building opportunities” that align with all the major agency holding companies. He…
When K-Y lubricants started using the tagline “Get What You Want” in its advertising last year, the brand was speaking specifically to women, encouraging them in a pull-no-punches way to seek out their own sexual satisfaction. That message continues and expands with an upcoming documentary series called “The Pleasure Is Mine,” which features a diverse…
While gender and sexuality become increasingly fluid, the influence of women within the global economy is more concrete than ever. In lieu of meaningful female representation at the C-suite level of venture-backed startups or Fortune 500 companies, brands struggle to keep up. This economic shift has inspired a wave of purpose-driven brand campaigns, which prioritize…
Video ads that are optimized for Twitter are far more effective than repurposed television commercials, according to a new study by GroupM, which was commissioned by the social network. Twitter and GroupM shared the following best practices for optimizing video for the social network: Include upfront branding, create ads that are effective even when the…
The list of things to get done in a household can be overwhelming, especially when the load isn’t evenly balanced. For families, the “divide and conquer” method, when done right, can help alleviate the inherent stress of tackling chores big and small. But in reality, across many nations, women continue to carry the bulk of…
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