Deliveroo: Restaurants Return

Deliveroo is celebrating the return of their customers’ favourite big-name and local restaurants to their delivery platform. It means well-loved meals from KFC, Burger King, Wagamama and a host of others can once again be ordered online or via the Deliveroo app and delivered straight to your door, contact-free. Whilst the campaign doesn’t claim things have returned to normal, these are the glimmers of hope that normal isn’t too far away.

FedCaf: Helpy Hour

As bars and restaurants prepare to reopen next week following two and a half months of closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, Belgian beer lovers are being urged to join “Helpy Hour” and buy one drink for the price of two in support of their favourite locals.
Happiness, an FCB Alliance, have teamed with the federation of Belgian cafes to change Happy Hour into Helpy Hour in Belgium, a country whose beer culture is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage of humanity list.

Vanmoof: Reflections

COVID-19: Lockdown

LOCKDOWN is a short documentary about the current corona crisis from the perspective of young people from all over the world. They tell us how they feel during lockdown, and how it affects their personal lives.

With Adam Bengana, Liam Brönner, Maria Caramello, Rafaela De Oliveira Souza, Claudio Escobar, Jackson Kelley, Kwankitiya Kwankong, Alessandro Poletti, Lisa Schwab, Emma Villiers, Mitsuki Yanagawa

Stop this, my eyes hurt! / Joe a les copieurs à l’œil

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La Vanguardia magazine – 1998
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Ag : Ogilvy Barcelona (Spain)
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Audi Matrix LED – 2015
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Agency : Tandem DDB (Spain)
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Xiaomi Note 8 – 2020
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Agency : Tough Slate (Ukraine)

‘Cops,’ Long-Running Reality Show That Glorified Police, Is Canceled

The show’s 33rd season was expected to premiere on the Paramount Network on June 15.

Harper’s Bazaar Appoints First Woman of Color as Top Editor

Samira Nasr, a former Vanity Fair fashion director, is leaving Condé Nast to take a key job at Hearst Magazines.

Juneteenth Is Now an Official US Company Holiday at Twitter and Square

Juneteenth (June 19) is now an official company holiday in the U.S. at Twitter and Square, the two companies run by Jack Dorsey. The holiday–also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Cel-Liberation Day–marks the day in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation was read to enslaved African Americans in Texas, the last ones to be…

1 Drink for the Price of 2? In Belgium, ‘Helpy Hour’ Aims to Give Pubs a Boost

Europeans really like pubs. It’s where many spend quality time on the weekends (or the occasional boozy weeknight) drinking pints and catching up with friends. But much like other businesses that rely on walk-in customers, pubs–as well as other bars and cafes–have really been struggling due to being closed throughout the coronavirus pandemic. As Belgium…

Nick Caldwell Joining Twitter as Consumer Engineering Lead

Twitter shared details on three new hires for its engineering team, as well as one employee who shifted roles. Nick Caldwell will join the company June 15 as consumer engineering lead. Caldwell had been chief product and engineering officer at Looker until its acquisition by Google last June, after which he became senior director, product…

Poets Criticize Poetry Foundation’s Statement on Black Lives Matter

In an open letter, more than 1,800 people criticized the foundation’s remarks and called on it to dedicate more proceeds from its $250 million endowment to antiracism efforts.

Consumers Want Brands to Take a Moral Stand on Racial Justice, Edelman Study Shows

In the wake of global protests demanding justice for the killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky and George Floyd in Minnesota at the hands of law enforcement and #BlackLivesMatter activists calling to defund or dismantle the police, most Americans (63%) are concerned about systemic racism and racial injustice in this country….

Bon Appétit Names Amanda Shapiro as Interim Editor

After the resignation of Adam Rapoport, who headed the magazine for nearly 10 years, the staff is seeking a wider reckoning.

One America News [OANN], The Network That Spreads Conspiracies to the West Wing

President Trump amplified OANN’s false claim about Martin Gugino, 75, who was hospitalized after being shoved to the ground by the police.

‘Morally Impossible’: Some Advertisers Take a Timeout From Facebook

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg defended the platform’s hands-off policy toward posts by President Trump that contained misinformation or promoted violence, some companies are staying away.

Consumer Behavior Changes Related to Covid-19 Won’t Last, Says Colgate-Palmolive’s CEO

Certain CPG product categories have benefited from the Covid-19 outbreak, and soap is definitely one of them. During a conference call with Deutsche Bank today, Noel Wallace, CEO and president of Colgate-Palmolive, said soap sales remain strong during the pandemic, with the liquid hand soap category, in particular, continuing to be “very robust around the…

TikTok to Boost Security Staff in US, Creating Centralized Global Function

TikTok said it plans to hire 100 security, data and privacy protection experts in the U.S. by year-end. Chief information security officer Roland Cloutier said in a blog post that the company will expand its security teams in its offices in Mountain View, Calif., and Washington, D.C., adding, “We are creating a centralized global security…

Astrônomos encontram planeta e estrela similares à Terra e ao Sol que podem permitir vida

Um grupo de astrônomos pode ter encontrado um exoplaneta – ou seja, um planeja que orbita uma estrela – potencialmente habitável, e ambos são parecidos com a Terra e o Sol. Segundo o Business Insider, a dupla guarda semelhanças com nosso planeta e nossa estrela principal como nenhuma outra dupla encontrada jamais conseguiu. O planeta …

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Transgender activist and model Munroe Bergdorf makes peace with L’Oréal

LinkedIn May Be Pondering the Addition of a Temporary Status to Profiles

LinkedIn appears to be testing a temporary status feature for its profiles. Developer and blogger Jane Manchun Wong shared a screenshot via tweet that depicts an “add status” option on her profile on the professional network, and she said the status looks to be temporary. LinkedIn is working on “Status” it’s similar to headline but…