Facebook Wants to Strike More Partnerships With Banks
Facebook is looking to partner with more U.S. financial institutions to provide users with account management tools and other products on its messaging platform Facebook Messenger, The Wall Street...
View ArticleYouTube, Facebook and Apple Permanently Remove Infowars Channels for Using...
YouTube and Facebook have permanently deleted channels and pages associated with Alex Jones, the controversial founder of Infowars, for repeatedly violating their policies related to hateful and...
View ArticleReport Finds 36% Increase in New Business This Year, Driven by Agency Reviews
It's been a bumper year for new business revenue. According to a report by international consultancy R3, new business revenue is up 36 percent. The report tallied an increase from $691 million in the...
View ArticleSnapchat Storytellers Is the App’s New Way of Connecting Brands and Influencers
Snapchat has teamed up with five creators and influencers on its Snapchat Storytellers pilot program, which is aimed at matching up interested brands with influencers in the hopes of creating engaging...
View ArticleFacebook Has 4 Experts Weigh In on Data Portability
Data portability between Facebook and other applications was the focus of the latest installment in the social network's Hard Questions series. Director of public policy Matt Perault introduced a...
View ArticleLinkedIn Tweaked Its Experience Section to Group All Positions at the Same...
LinkedIn tweaked the design of its experience section with an eye toward helping professionals on its network better highlight their past jobs and career movement. Associate product manager Ian Brooks...
View ArticleFX’s Terrifying First Teaser for American Horror Story: Apocalypse Will Haunt...
FX's marketing campaign for each new season of American Horror Story manages to be even creepier and more disturbing than the one before it, and the bar has once again been raised for the newest...
View ArticleTwitter Prepares New Pitch to Brands and Agencies, Restructures Creative...
Twitter is known as a critical source of breaking news and journalistic banter--as well as a cesspool for toxic trolls. Now, it wants to reintroduce itself to brands and agencies. Earlier this month,...
View ArticleThis Director Turned $5,000 Into an Outstanding Adidas Spec Ad
Adidas' approach to creators has made the brand a darling of the creative set. The brand's talent roster--including athletes and key influencers like Pharrell Williams and supermodel Karlie Kloss--cuts...
View ArticleShowtime Is Releasing 2 Docuseries Based on Trump’s Favorite Twitter Rant Topics
This fall, Showtime is turning two of Donald Trump's favorite Twitter targets into docuseries. The premium cable network will air a docuseries in November that looks at the conflicts between U.S....
View ArticleOrange Is the New Black Scored More Viewers in TV’s Most Coveted Demo Than...
Netflix's Orange is the New Black still remains a force to be reckoned with in its sixth season. The first episode of Season 6, which premiered along with the rest of the season on July 27, scored 5.3...
View ArticleAgency Marketing Veteran Kerry Fitzmaurice Joins Blockchain-Powered...
Creative agency marketing veteran Kerry Fitzmaurice has joined startup blockchain entertainment studio SingularDTV as svp of brand marketing. SingularDTV is a decentralized entertainment studio powered...
View ArticleWhat Indra Nooyi’s Departure as CEO of PepsiCo Means for the Future of Female...
On Monday, PepsiCo announced that CEO Indra Nooyi, a 12-year veteran in the role and a 24-year PepsiCo employee, is stepping down on Oct. 3. With the news of her departure, PepsiCo also announced that...
View ArticleEvery Lego Movie Cameo in This Turkish Airlines Safety Video Is Awesome
Around four or five years ago, airlines seemed to be trying to one-up each other with their in-flight videos. Air New Zealand and Virgin were the initial gold standards, then Delta got into the mix...
View ArticleHGTV Snatched the Brady Bunch House Off the Market to Restore It to ‘Its...
Discovery, Inc. shared that HGTV just won the bid for the Studio City, California house that served as the exterior for the original Brady Bunch home from 1969 to 1974. The network reportedly intends...
View ArticlePapa John’s Turned to Omnicom’s Zimmerman to Make New Ads Starring Founder...
Earlier this year, after Papa John's received a wave of negative press over chairman John Schnatter's comments regarding NFL protests and pizza sales and the brand moved to strip his image from its...
View ArticleVp at Dentsu’s Isobar Is Out After Being Charged With Lewd Behavior on Boston...
Jeremy Pincus, vp of research and strategy at Dentsu Aegis Network-owned Isobar, is no longer with the agency after he was arrested at work for allegedly displaying lewd behavior toward two women on a...
View ArticleNielsen Social Content Ratings, Week of July 30: Here Comes the NFL
The Major League Baseball pennant races may be heating up, but all it took was one preseason game for the National Football League to surge to the top of the Nielsen Social Content Ratings for the week...
View ArticleCompany Email Addresses Are No Longer a Requirement for Workplace by Facebook
Employees no longer need company email addresses to use the Workplace Premium version of Workplace by Facebook. Workplace by Facebook said the new administrator feature will grant full access to its...
View ArticleDote, a Virtual Shopping App, Releases Its First Private-Label Brand With a...
Emma Chamberlain isn't a total household name yet--but she's on track. In just over a year, her YouTube channel has grown to more than 3.5 million subscribers, and her new clothing line, High Key, is...
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