Na briga com o Zoom, Google Meet expande formato de galeria para até 16 usuários nas videoconferências

Apesar dos problemas de segurança, o Zoom popularizou nesta quarentena um formato atípico dentro das videoconferências: a galeria. Não à toa, a concorrência começa a se mobilizar para criar uma opção similar em suas plataformas, começando pelo Google com o seu Google Meet. A ser disponibilizado em todo o mundo até o fim desta semana …

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Media Organizations Are Developing Products Faster Than Ever During Pandemic

Covid-19 has forced the media industry to reconsider time. Specifically, how much time it takes to build, test and collect data before releasing a new product for readers and advertisers. As the coronavirus put pressure on media organizations to disseminate information as accurately and as widely as possible, newsrooms and product teams have also fast-tracked…

Dentsu Aegis Network’s Merkle Names New Global CEO

Dentsu Aegis Network’s Merkle is entering a new era with new leadership. Data-driven performance marketing agency Merkle is naming Craig Dempster as global CEO, effective June 1. A 14-year Merkle veteran, Dempster ascends to the role after spending three years as president of the Americas, overseeing the agency’s many service offerings including CRM, data and…

Pebbles Turns the Cereal Box Into a Web Series With the Help of Online Creators

With parents and children stuck together at home and plenty of creatives out of work due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Pebbles cereal is offering a way to help people make it through the day. The brand recently introduced an educational web series titled “Daily Yabba Dabba Doo,” in which magicians, dancers, comedians and artists of…

Diversity Campaign Tackles Social Issues in Tech With Documentary-Style IGTV Shorts

A new campaign is taking on pressing social issues affecting the tech industry in a social-media-friendly format. The Institute of Coding, a U.K.-based educational outreach org, released a three-part series of documentary-style shorts on IGTV this week, spanning bias in artificial intelligence, gaming accessibility and sustainable fashion. Produced in partnership with Accenture Interactive-owned agency Karmarama,…

Spotify Debuts Artist Fundraising Pick Feature

Spotify released a new feature Wednesday aimed at giving artists on its streaming platform a way to raise money for themselves, their brands, their crews or verified organizations that are part of the Spotify Covid-19 Music Relief project to help those in the music industry who were hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. The…

UK Charity Wants You to Call Out Brand Pollution on Social Media This Earth Day

Surfers Against Sewage, a U.K.-based marine conservation charity, normally uses its “Return to Offender” campaign to encourage brands to implement better sustainability programs by sending packaging pollution back to the offending manufacturers. But with Covid-19 preventing volunteers from physically cleaning up the country’s beaches and streets, the campaign has gone digital for Earth Day. Now…

Canon resgata memória em mãe com Alzheimer por meio da fotografia

Para o Dia das Mães deste ano, a Canon Brasil mostra como a fotografia é importante no resgate das memórias mantendo os elos familiares ainda vivos, mesmo em situações adversas. O filme “Um Dia das Mães para recordar” traz as filhas de Therezinha Motta de Andrade contando como as fotografias ajudam a mãe, que tem …

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Com pandemia do coronavírus e febre de “A Máfia dos Tigres” nos EUA, Netflix ganha 15 milhões de novos usuários

Ainda que o mundo esteja no meio de uma pandemia, a Netflix está numa onda relativamente boa. Depois de superar o valor de ação da Disney na semana passada, o relatório trimestral divulgado nesta quarta (22) pela companhia revela que os últimos acontecimentos ajudaram o serviço de streaming a ganhar mais 15,8 milhões de usuários …

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Grupos apoiados por governos usam pandemia para espalhar malware e aplicar golpes na rede

O Google revelou que grupos apoiados por governos estão se aproveitando da crise instaurada pela pandemia do novo coronavírus para espalhar malwares e aplicar golpes. A descoberta foi feita pelo Grupo de Análise de Ameaças (TAG) do Google. Uma das campanhas utilizada mensagens falsas de uma rede de fast food para funcionários do governo americano. …

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Sycamore Seeks to Terminate Deal to Acquire Majority Stake in Victoria’s Secret

Victoria’s Secret is staying with L Brands a little longer. On Wednesday, Sycamore Partners sent a notice to L Brands, Victoria Secret’s parent company, that it intends to terminate its deal to acquire a 55% stake in the lingerie retailer, the retail conglomerate announced. In tandem, the private equity firm has filed a lawsuit in…

Facebook Invests $5.7B in Indian Telecommunications Outfit Jio Platforms

Facebook inked its largest deal since agreeing to acquire WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, revealing that it will invest $5.7 billion in Indian telecommunications operator Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries. India is the most important market for Facebook-owned messaging application WhatsApp, with research firm eMarketer pegging its user total in the country…

Sleep Deprivation Is Quietly Draining Revenues From Brands in the Covid-19 Era

While the final tally is many months away, economists have already estimated that dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic will cost the American economy anywhere from $2 trillion to as much as $5 trillion. Experts base those figures on lost revenues: cars not bought, flights not booked, restaurant meals not eaten. But while most of the…

Nova atualização do Zoom promete consertar problemas de privacidade da plataforma

Desde que viu o negócio explodir devido à pandemia do coronavírus e o subsequente cenário de milhões de usuários a procura de uma plataforma para fazer reuniões (de trabalho ou lazer), o Zoom encara uma crise em termos de mal gerenciamento da privacidade dos clientes. O problema foi tamanho que a companhia teve que instituir …

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Metallica lança álbum inédito para fãs brasileiros que esperavam pelos shows no país

Devido à atual pandemia de Covid-19, o Metallica confirmou a suspensão temporária da WorldWired Tour 2020 e, com isso, a passagem da banda pelo Brasil que aconteceria a partir do dia 21/04. Porém, como forma de agradar aos fãs que aguardavam pelos shows no país, a banda lançou um álbum inédito e ao vivo com trechos de …

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Netflix planeja investir mais US$ 1 bilhão em conteúdo original

A Netflix anunciou que planeja levantar um investimento adicional de 1 bilhão de dólares para expandir a criação de conteúdo original. A decisão foi anunciada após a empresa de Reed Hastings anunciar que dobrou suas projeções de novos clientes, já que os serviços de streaming têm se tornado ainda mais populares mundialmente por causa da …

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Rupert Murdoch, His Son Lachlan and Other Fox Executives Will Take Pay Cuts

The company behind Fox News, Fox Business and the Fox network is guarding against the pandemic’s economic fallout.

7 Brands Offering Free Creative Tools During the Pandemic

With Covid-19 confining many people to their homes indefinitely, brands are trying to make it easier for creatives to keep working or take up new hobbies indoors. Brands are offering new and extended free trials of their creative software, free online classes and projects for people to express themselves creatively or simply pass the time….

There’s a New Player in the ‘Streaming’ Wars: Yeti

Go ahead, take a look at your credit card statement. How many streaming services have you signed up for? If you’re like some of us, you’ll pretty much be paying $12.99 a month for a long time, courtesy of the Walt Disney Company and Disney+. Then there’s YouTube TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime and the several…

YouTube Shakes Up Originals Slate With Remotely Filmed DIY Series During Lockdown

As people around the country remain under lockdown orders, YouTube Originals has shifted its lineup of original programming to a slate of remotely produced scripted and unscripted series aimed at reflecting the country’s new reality. Today, the platform announced 10 scripted, unscripted and live series that will debut on YouTube from now through early June,…