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USTA serves up racial justice campaign, brands go virtual, and ESPN limits fake crowd noise as the world’s largest annually attended sporting event adapts to the COVID era.
Neither side wanted a big deal. But what began as talks about a small investment ballooned with interventions from President Trump.
LinkedIn revealed some changes that are coming in order to better ensure the safety of members of the professional network. Vice president of product, trust Tanya Staples said in a blog post that LinkedIn’s policies are being updated to reinforce the fact that “hateful, harassing, inflammatory or racist content has absolutely no place on our…
YouTube said the second quarter of 2020 marked the most videos it ever removed in a single quarter for violations of its community guidelines. The Google-owned video site attributed steps it took to rely more on technology and ease the burden on its content review teams during the pandemic as a major factor behind the…
The Facebook NPE Team released several updates to Whale, the stand-alone meme-creation application it introduced last November. The new release of the iOS app (U.S. and Canada only) includes private meme groups, support for GIF memes and new templates for top memes. Facebook NPE Team (the NPE stands for New Product Experimentation) product lead Vasu…
Montblanc has enlisted a trio of celebrities in a new aspirational global campaign by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam titled “What Moves You, Makes You.” The campaign comprises three 60-second brand films featuring “exceptional individuals”: Academy Award winning filmmaker Spike Lee; Welsh Golden Globe-winning actor Taron Egerton; and Chinese singer, writer and actor Chen Kun, who tell the…
In a discrimination complaint, Bernadette Zilio says women were mistreated at the celebrity-news powerhouse led by Harvey Levin.
Fletcher Greene, 38, used to photograph all sorts of celebrities. But when the pandemic hit, the A-listers hid while Gen Z’s rising stars stayed in plain sight.
About 17 million tuned in on the Republican convention’s first night, compared with 19.7 million for the Democrats. Close to half of TV viewers at 10 p.m. were watching Fox News.
Nathan Young, the co-founder and former president of Black advocacy group 600 & Rising, has left his role as group strategy director at Minneapolis-based agency Periscope. Earlier this month, Young resigned as president of 600 & Rising, the organization he and Bennett D. Bennett co-founded following the May 25 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis….
Cox Automotive has appointed Omnicom Media Group’s Hearts & Science as U.S. media agency of record, tasking the agency with handling all media buying and planning for its Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book brands. The appointment follows a review launched last December that included incumbents MDC’s Assembly and Dentsu Aegis Network’s 360i, according to a…
Court ruling represents an early victory for the iPhone maker in an intensifying battle over the tolls charged to app makers.
A nova campanha da Brahma mostra porque o futebol mexe tanto com o coração dos brasileiros. Para isso, desta vez a marca conta com um personagem inusitado para participar dessa homenagem: alguém que não é fã dessa paixão nacional. Assim, por lentes opostas entre torcedores e aqueles que não colocam os jogos na agenda do …
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The U.K.-based artist and creative director aims to help creatives struggling during the pandemic.
The opening night of the RNC drew a far smaller audience than the Democrats did last week.
Facebook Connect, the social network’s annual augmented reality and virtual reality conference, previously known as Oculus Connect, will be held virtually Sept. 16, with attendance open to all, free-of-charge. This marks the seventh year of the event. Facebook also revealed the new name for its AR and VR team, Facebook Reality Labs, which was previously…
I asked Darby to turn off her Slack notifications earlier this summer. The constant pinging from her office was driving me slightly mad. As with any new tech, it’s how you choose to use it. Thankfully, Slack has many customization settings and a bevy of How-To videos to dive into for new users. Slack also […]
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