Top 100 Tech Trends in June – From Pocket-Sized Screen Projectors to 3D-Printed Medical Tools (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The June 2022 tech trends consist of a diverse range of innovations, some of which arrive in the form of gimmicky gadgets, while others represent developments that are so groundbreaking they appear…

Top 100 Business Trends in June – From Edible Food-Safe Adhesives to Metaverse Mental Health Clinics (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The June 2022 business trends consist of a wide range of exciting innovations, several of which have the potential to disrupt various industries while generating all-new business opportunities. For…

Premium Adaptive Intimates – Slick Chicks Offers a Range of Adaptive Bras, Panties and Loungewear

(TrendHunter.com) Slick Chicks is an apparel brand that offers a range of adaptive bras, panties, and loungewear. The brand was launched by Helya Mohammadian and aims to bridge the gap between fashion and function….

Indie Agency The Many Lays Off Roughly Half Its Staff

Los Angeles-based agency The Many has confirmed to Adweek that it has undergone multiple rounds of job cuts. The indie shop declined to comment on how many employees it laid off, but multiple sources with knowledge of the layoffs indicated to Adweek that nearly half of the 130-person agency was let go. The first round…

What Sheryl Sandberg’s Exit Reveals About Women’s Progress in Tech

Silicon Valley is losing one of its most visible, outspoken and powerful women. Any gains have been incremental at best.

McDonald’s Deepens Its LGBTQ+ Outreach Via a Partnership With Revry TV

With Pride month in full swing, McDonald’s is reminding everyone that support can go beyond the month of June as they continue to create deeper partnerships and safe spaces within the LGBTQ+ community. As part of McDonald’s larger approach with the LGBTQ+ community, the fast-food chain is partnering with Revry TV–an LGBTQ+ media company–for a…

Adweek Podcast: Why Holding Companies Are Mashing Agencies Together

In today’s bonus episode of Yeah, That’s Probably an Ad, Adweek sits down with agency experts to make sense of why holding companies are mashing agencies together to create new ones like VMLY&R, Wunderman Thompson and, most recently, EssenceMediacom. R3’s Greg Paull, Forrester’s Jay Pattisall and ID Comms’ Tom Denford take listeners back to the…

Food52 Lays Off 15% of Its Staff in a Second Round of Cuts

The food and home goods publisher Food52 laid off 21 employees Thursday evening, a figure that represents about 15% of its total staff, the publisher confirmed to Adweek. The cuts primarily affected the editorial team, which has been thinned to a headcount of 15. The remaining editorial staff, as well as part of its creative…

What Depp Trial Means for Media Companies’ Airing #MeToo Accusations

Both the women making accusations, and the press when it publishes them, assume the considerable risk that comes with antagonizing the rich, powerful and litigious.

Amazon's head of consumer business resigns

Amazon.com Inc. veteran executive Dave Clark, who oversaw the consumer business that includes the online retail operation, is stepping down.

The ‘Best Kids’ Are Fur-Covered in New Campaign From Halo Pets

Your dog does not have a meltdown over Lucky Charms in the grocery store or pick fights with other passengers during road trips. Your cat, meantime, doesn’t throw dinner back in your face. Ergo, pets are better than kids. With millennials in mind, a legacy brand called Halo Pets launches its most significant national marketing…

Magnolia Bakery Wants To Send Your Mom Banana Bread Pudding

Sara Gremling has been leading PR and partnerships at Magnolia Bakery for an almost unheard of 11 years. At one of the many Jacob’s Pickles locations, I sat down Magnolia Bakery’s vp of Public Relations in the West Village of NYC to talk about their newest partnership. My conversation with her felt as warm and…

The Capitol Moves a Step Closer to a Federal Privacy Law

House and Senate committee leaders released a bipartisan draft on online data privacy on Friday, hinting at the first sign of movement after years of stalled negotiations. The legislation, which may be called “American Data Privacy and Protection Act,” would require digital companies to reduce the data they collect, ban targeted advertising to children under…

Why Cheez-It is using TikTok's magic trend for National Cheese Day

Netflix’s ‘Magic for Humans’ Host Justin Willman teams up with Kellogg brand Cheez-It.

MPWIS Podcast: Tennis Star Katrina Adams on Mental Health in Sports

On this week’s episode of the Most Powerful Women in Sports podcast, Adweek’s former chief content officer Lisa Granatstein sits down with Katrina Adams, former president and chief executive of the U.S. Tennis Association. Adams is also the author of Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One–it’s both…

Marketing Morsels: Ugg’s Multisensory Pride Experience, Peaky Blinders Whiskey and More

Welcome to Marketing Morsels, a menu of delightful news items from the past week. Enjoy the assortment! Morsel #1: Bieber and Pam reunite for a new Tim Hortons’ menu item Last year, Canadian chain Tim Hortons teamed up with Justin Bieber to create Timbiebs (Bieber-themed variations of its Timbits donut bites). Now the collaboration continues…

A New Bill Aims to Limit Collection of Intimate Reproductive Data

Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) has put forward legislation to limit how much personal reproductive health data firms can collect, store and share. The My Body, My Data Act aims to shift more responsibility on tech companies and app developers, giving people the right to access or delete their personal data and ask companies to share…

U.S. ad business cut 2,400 jobs in May

U.S. advertising employment fell by 2,400 jobs in May, an unsettling turnabout for a sector that until recently had been demonstrating its hire power.

Adweek Presents: Elisabeth Moss on Telling Inclusive Stories

On this week’s episode of Adweek Presents…, we travel back to last April’s Convergent TV Summit where we hosted a fireside conversation with someone who is no stranger to the creative process behind productions. With a career dating back to childhood, this actress/producer/director was catapulted to fame for her role in the critically acclaimed AMC…

Discord: How to Turn Off Voice Auto Sensitivity on Mobile

When Discord users participate in voice chats, the application’s “Auto Sensitivity” setting will attempt to automatically adjust their microphone “to an ideal speaking level based on the volume of what’s coming into [their] mic.” If you experience technical issues during voice chats with this Auto Sensitivity setting turned on, our guide will show you how…