The Chicago Portfolio School, one of the biggest creative pipelines in the city, is leaving students and instructors in the dark ahead of its summer session. The for-profit organization, which charges students upwards of $19,300 per year, has collected tuition checks without providing complete scheduling for a semester scheduled to start today, according to several…
Nextdoor detailed the sixth annual edition of its Neighborhood Favorites awards program, which enables neighbors to vote for their favorite local businesses. American Express is sponsoring Neighborhood Favorites for the second consecutive year. Voting is open through July 29, with the top 10 winning businesses receiving $500 in advertising on the neighborhood social platform’ Users…
Twitter’s newest feature release may come in handy for some of its own employees in their efforts to comply with the company’s mandate to not tweet about the Elon Musk acquisition chaos. The Unmentioning option that the social network began experimenting with in June 2021 and ramped up testing of in April is now available…
Consumers and partnering brands hitching a ride are flocking to GasBuddy as they seek relief from record-high fuel prices.
Consumers and partnering brands hitching a ride are flocking to GasBuddy as they seek relief from record-high fuel prices.
He brought a literary sensibility to his widely admired work as a reporter, columnist and editorial writer, whether covering the streets of New York or the Troubles of Northern Ireland.
Warby Parker explains how it reimagined optical shops—and invites you to find a nearby store at warbyparker.com/retail.
Using a brand faithfully doesn’t necessarily qualify you to be a spokesperson. In this case, however, the experience might really come in, uh, handy. Grooming and lifestyle brand Manscaped has tapped comedian Pete Davidson for a four-year brand partnership deal. But based on the 30-second spot announcing the new team-up, things aren’t off to the…
Despite pandemic delays and a multi-year layover between the third and fourth seasons of Netflix’s most popular franchise to date, ‘Stranger Things’ still performed well.
There have not been many tweets from Twitter employees discussing Elon Musk’s decision to back out of acquiring the company, and there’s a reason for that. Once news broke late Friday of Musk’s about-face, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said in an email to employees, obtained by Mitchell Clark and Alex Heath of The Verge,…
America’s Hottest Brands includes up-and-coming brands like footwear company Hoka, which is breaking into the crowded sneaker market of established players, and fast-growing NFT purveyor Doodles, which recently tapped Pharrell Williams as chief brand officer. High-concept metaverse The Sandbox is attracting brands like Mastercard and movie studios including LionsGate.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a Facebook post Monday that Reactions on WhatsApp have been expanded to include a full emoji keyboard. Reactions debuted on WhatsApp in May with six options: crying face, heart, joined hands, mouth open, tears of joy and thumbs up. Users of the Meta-owned messaging application can long-press on a…
Messenger released a chat theme called “Our Places” that allows users to add a changing background to conversations. When users activate the “Our Places” chat theme in a conversation, they can select a geographic location to assign to the theme. As time passes in this real-world location, the chat’s background will update to match the…
If you were a teen in the early 2000s, you likely remember LimeWire. For some millennials, it was their first introduction to music, as the peer-to-peer file-sharing service allowed users to download and upload songs, videos and images–sometimes illegally. After LimeWire was shut down in 2010 because of a legal battle with the Record Industry…
Since its release, the Puerto Rican superstar’s album has earned the equivalent of 1.4 million sales and picked up 1.9 billion streams in the United States alone.
Ad Age is running its annual list of America’s Hottest Brands–20 brands, services and people that are having a moment.
At a time when the selling of eyewear mainly rests on expressions of lifestyle and fashion, Pearle Vision’s focus remains primarily on balancing its identity as a national brand that also happens to be the neighborhood eye doctor. The brand packs a lot practical as well as sentimental force into a new 15-second ad aimed…
Playboy’s iconic party mansion will soon have a home in the digital realm. The media company is set to launch a virtual version of the real-life building on metaverse platform The Sandbox as it continues to flesh out a strategy around what proponents say is the next iteration of the internet, or web3. The MetaMansion…
The Instagram application allows users to activate a feature that will help them save cellular data when they’re not connected to a WiFi network. When users turn this feature on, photos and videos in the Instagram app may take longer to load when their device isn’t connected to WiFi. Our guide will show you how…
Americans pour mountains of salt onto their food. We also reflexively say, “No, thank you,” to Monosodium Glutamate, which could lower one’s salt intake. We’ve been saying no to MSG for decades, but why? According to one of MSG’s leading manufacturers—Ajinomoto—MSG’s bad reputation is both undeserved and rooted in racism. In the 1960s, a wave […]
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