A retired headmaster’s campaign has led Penguin Books India to agree to destroy copies of a book deemed offensive to Hindus, prompting fears that an ideological shift is underway.
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Brands both expected and unexpected are advertising for Valentine’s Day, using a variety of promotions both online and in person.
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The longtime NBC host of the Olympics tended to his sore eyes on Wednesday, while the “Today” co-host Matt Lauer again served double duty.
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Mattel and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue have joined forces for the forthcoming issue.
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Turkey deported an Azerbaijani journalist on Friday for “posting tweets against high-level state officials,” according to an Interior Ministry order obtained by his newspaper, the English-language daily Today’s Zaman.
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The Hospital for Special Surgery, which specializes in orthopedics, starts a global branding effort that emphasizes stories of real-life patients.
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Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that depends on readers to create and edit its articles, is concerned about whether they will continue to do so on mobile devices.
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Many in Turkey see the new laws as an effort to stem leaks in a corruption investigation of the prime minister and those close to him.
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Spending an estimated $1 billion to sponsor and advertise during the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, marketers hope that multiple issues threatening to overshadow the Games won’t repel consumers.
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Mr. Aiken, best known as a country singer and an almost-winner on “American Idol,” plans to run for Congress in North Carolina.
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The company says it stands against a measure outlawing “homosexual propaganda” that has led to protests aimed at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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A golden lab puppy who refuses to leave his Clydesdale “bud” won plaudits; a Coca-Cola spot evoking the nation’s multicultural populace drew mostly positive reactions, but some raw comments as well.
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The British drama, perfect counterprogramming by PBS, was the second-most-watched show on Sunday night with 6.8 million viewers, a 3 percent rise from last year.
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A campaign for the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area Convention and Visitors Bureau focuses on Chicago, New York and Toronto in trying to entice tourists to Florida.
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The Super Bowl, shown in 200 countries, including Hungary, is translated in simple terms by international announcers.
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At a time of atomization and endless special-interest hobbit holes, big live television events like the Super Bowl fulfill our need for something, anything, in common.
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Twitter and 300, a new company started by Lyor Cohen, one of music’s biggest power brokers, announced a partnership that hopes to analyze users’ posts to identify promising talent.
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Gracenote will work with the data company Next Big Sound as it develops a system that would let almost any anyone create an Internet radio service.
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The State of the Union address on Tuesday spawned a bipartisan embrace of photo- and video-sharing platforms, and a rush to create tweetable graphics and hashtags to amplify party messages.
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Activists protesting antigay policies in Russia have tried to turn Olympic promotions by major companies to their own purposes.
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