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Oct 30, 2024
Attendees at ADWEEK's Mediaweek event received news they could use on Monday. The dynamic CNN duo of NewsNight anchor Abby Phillip and chief media analyst Brian Stelter took the stage for a TVNewser-hosted panel exploring the past, present, and future of presidential election coverage on the major cable networks. The panel was a homecoming of...
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Oct 30, 2024
After nearly 18 years at Pepsi, Todd Kaplan joined Kraft Heinz North America as chief marketing officer in July. He sat down with ADWEEK for video series Resume Rewind, sponsored by entertainment wiki hosting service Fandom, to discuss the early stages of his career. His first job was at Hilton's Waterfront Beach Resort in Huntington...
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Oct 30, 2024
From the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to MSNBC Live in Brooklyn, Joy Reid and Alex Wagner have been joined at the hip this election season. With mere days to go until America decides the Oval Office's next occupant, the duo are headlining the live special Your Power, Your Vote, premiering tonight at 9 p.m....
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Oct 30, 2024
According to Gary Vaynerchuk, marketers should spend more time developing creative for social media. At ADWEEK's Mediaweek event, Vaynerchuk, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the agency VaynerMedia, spoke with Jenny Rooney, Adweek's chief brand and community officer. Vaynerchuk said that creative content plays a crucial role in driving reach and providing consumer insights. "I...
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Oct 30, 2024
This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of October 21, 2024. With the presidential election two weeks away, the big three cable news networks focused on politics and were rewarded with high viewership. CNN, Fox News and MSNBC were all up in both measured categories across both dayparts....
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Oct 30, 2024
The role of the chief media officer is evolving, and marketing and media are only pieces of the job description. During a discussion at Mediaweek, three chief media leaders--Brad Feinberg, Molson Coors vp of media and digital; Shenen Reed, General Motors Global Chief Media Officer; and John Terrana, VaynerMedia Chief Media Officer--met for a discussion...
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Oct 30, 2024
When Grammy-nominated artist and multi-platinum producer Ryan Leslie released his 2016 album MZRT, there were no billboards, bells, or whistles. Instead, he promoted it via an inbound SMS campaign, without a record label or intermediary. To do this, he used Superphone, a product powered by his platform Disruptive Multimedia. The product empowers artists and creators...
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Oct 30, 2024
Ahead of details of the NBA's new media deal recently coming out in unsealed court documents, Amazon was already revealing plans for the league's 2024 Black Friday games and its new NBA studio. At ADWEEK's Mediaweek event on Tuesday, Amazon head of U.S. video and live sports sales, Danielle Carney, announced that Amazon would have...
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Oct 30, 2024
Five major Ogilvy clients received golden tickets yesterday morning--but they won't get them into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Instead, the tickets promise entry into Ogilvyland: a satirical fossil fuel funfair dreamed up by activists at the climate campaign group Serious People. The hand-delivered package also included an "oilypop" and a letter to each company's leaders,...
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Oct 30, 2024
The presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump has dominated the news cycle since the summer, and October was no different. The one exception to the non-stop election cycle was the brief period last month when all eyes turned to Florida as Hurricane Milton barreled through the Sunshine State. As...
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Oct 30, 2024
Allergy medication isn't always the most obvious product category to partner with one of streaming's buzziest shows, acknowledged Amy Lanzi, CEO of Digitas North America, the media agency of Haleon-owned Flonase. "Allergy is hard and making allergy feel authentic and magical is pretty impossible to do," Lanzi said on stage at Mediaweek in New York....
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Oct 30, 2024
Google parent Alphabet reported strong earnings this quarter beating analyst expectations, with search advertising powering that growth along with AI-fueled search products. Google Search and other advertising revenue increased by 12% to $49.4 billion in Q3 2024. However, CEO Sundar Pichai and others did not specify on the call with analysts how much of that...
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Oct 30, 2024
Political campaigners have been spending billions on ads on streaming services, which promise to marry the persuasiveness of TV spots with the precision of digital targeting. What's still missing from this winning combination is regulation. "The last time they passed a substantial law around campaign finance disclosure ... was McCain-Feingold in 2002," said Ian Vandewalker,...
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Oct 30, 2024
Some say traditional media is dying, but legacy brands are finding ways to innovate and endure in an ever-shifting landscape. Leaders from Time, Essence, and Eater convened at ADWEEK's Mediaweek in New York on Tuesday (Oct. 30) to share the strategies that are helping them grow, retain relevance, and reach new audiences. From reinventing print...
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Oct 30, 2024
The Music for the Mountains concert put on in part by Raleigh, N.C. NBC affiliate WRAL to help those affected by Hurricane Helene raised over $1 million as of Sunday night. The show was presented by Band Together and Lincoln Theatre in partnership with WRAL and Red Hat Amphitheater, Proceeds will directly benefit the Community...
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Oct 30, 2024
Former WBBM anchor Brad Edwards has a new career after leaving the Chicago CBS-owned television station. He told Axios that he was let go from the station and is leaving journalism to start a communications firm. "'I'm a word nerd at heart, a sentence parser, and I'm driven by impact," he wrote on Facebook. "Now,...
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Oct 30, 2024
It was a wild NewsNight for Abby Phillip Monday. The CNN anchor broke up a heated on-air verbal brawl after commentator Ryan Girdusky made a bigoted remark about fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan. (TVNewser) Girdusky was removed from a panel on CNN NewsNight after he told Hasan, "I hope your beeper doesn't go off"--a reference to...
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Oct 30, 2024
Alphabet reported $88.3 billion in revenue, including $65.9 billion in its primary Google advertising business, compared with average analyst projections of $86.4 billion in total sales and $65.4 billion in ad revenue. (Forbes) The results showed that Alphabet's popular online services, led by Google's search engine and YouTube's video platform, remained central pathways for marketers...
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Oct 30, 2024
Snap beat Wall Street expectations for both quarterly revenue and user growth Tuesday, as the parent company of messaging application Snapchat has been able to lure back some advertisers with better-performing ad features. (Reuters) Sales increased 15% to $1.37 billion in the period ended Sept. 30, Snap said Tuesday in a statement. The social media...
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Oct 30, 2024
Skydance Media CEO David Ellison will control 100% of the Ellison family's voting interests in Paramount Global when the two companies' $8 billion merger closes in the first half of 2025, according to an amended filing with the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday. (TheWrap) In its initial filing, Skydance said Larry Ellison (who is contributing the...
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Oct 30, 2024
Local TV stations are experiencing an advertising windfall this election cycle, thanks to a record amount of U.S. political ad spend. (Axios)
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Oct 30, 2024
Deterioration of The Washington Post's subscriber base continued Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media. (The Guardian)
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Oct 29, 2024
With a week to go until Election Day, emotions are running high on both sides of the aisle. And on Monday night, those emotions boiled over into public view on CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip when conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky made a bigoted remark to fellow panelist, Mehdi Hasan. Phillip immediately took point on lowering...
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Oct 29, 2024
Mary Anne Fox has been named vice president of programming for New York ABC-owned station WABC. In her new role, Fox will oversee the programming strategy for all non-news programs across WABC, including Live with Kelly and Mark. This position was previously held by esteemed television executive Art Moore. "Mary Anne Fox brings a wealth...
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Oct 29, 2024
As the travel industry continues to evolve, Carnival Cruise Line is navigating new consumer expectations while staying true to its brand. In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Suzy founder and host Matt Britton sits down with Amy Martin-Ziegenfuss, chief marketing officer at Carnival Cruise Line. She discusses how the company embraces innovation...
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Oct 29, 2024
In this episode of the Brave Commerce podcast, hosts Sarah Hofstetter, president of Profitero, and Rachel Tipograph, founder & CEO of MikMak, sit down with Linda Bethea, chief marketing officer of Danone North America. Bethea shares her insights into how Danone's mission of delivering health through food to as many people as possible aligns with...
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Oct 29, 2024
The advertising industry is notorious for high turnover, with people bouncing from one agency to another as a rite of passage. According to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average turnover rate in the advertising industry hovers around 30% annually. I get it. You need to look out for No. 1, and...
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Oct 29, 2024
Undeterred by their historic rivalry with jocks of all kinds, Nerds are returning to the Super Bowl in 2025. The Ferrara Candy brand made its Big Game debut in a 30-second spot featuring Addison Rae earlier this year. Recreating the iconic dance scene from the '80s film Flashdance with animated Nerds characters, the Digitas Chicago-created...
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Oct 29, 2024
When OpenFortune chief revenue officer Carlo Palomino cracked open a fortune cookie at age 14, he had just started his own landscaping business. Did he look at that cookie as dessert or a career opportunity? In the latest installment of video series Resume Rewind, sponsored by entertainment wiki hosting service Fandom, Palomino talks about his...
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Oct 29, 2024
If you want your brand's commercial in Amazon Prime Video's Black Friday NFL coverage, start lining up in February. In a conversation at ADWEEK's Mediaweek, Amazon head of U.S. live sports and video sales, Danielle Carney, confirmed that the streamer sold out of ad inventory for its Black Friday game between the Kansas City Chiefs...
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Oct 29, 2024
Although Democrats continue to pour more money than Republicans into presidential advertising on a national level, the 2024 contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will be won or lost in battleground states. On this front, both campaigns and their supporters have run a similar number of presidential ads on local...
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Oct 29, 2024
The closing days of the presidential election are upon us, but the deadlocked race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump doesn't seem to be piquing viewer interest in the evening newscasts. The week of Oct. 21 saw a mixed bag of ratings results for the three broadcast networks. On the positive...
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Oct 29, 2024
ABC News' Good Morning America maintained its status as America's No. 1 morning show for the new season, extending that reign to five weeks. At the same time, GMA was also the only morning show to see week-to-week declines in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for the week of October 21. NBC...
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Oct 29, 2024
Constellation Energy thinks there's one thing that can span the political divide in the U.S.: nuclear energy. In a campaign that began in July and wraps this week, the energy company worked with Droga5 and Accenture Song Sustainability to highlight existing support for nuclear as a way to build momentum around it. "If we simply...
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Oct 29, 2024
Adtech startup Stic, which is VC funded, wants to turn your vehicle into a billboard on wheels. The company, founded by 21-year-old Adam Cohen in 2023, announced its launch on Oct. 29 at ADWEEK's Mediaweek event in New York. Through an app, car owners can sign up to receive removable ads from select brands, which...
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Oct 29, 2024
Netflix has found its new second-in-command for advertising. Today, the company named Nicolle Pangis as its vp of advertising, with the executive overseeing the U.S. and Canada. Pangis will report to Amy Reinhard, president of advertising. "I am so excited Nicolle is joining Netflix," Reinhard said in a statement. "She has a great reputation within...
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Oct 29, 2024
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell is moving from anchoring a daily show to a broader role with NBCUniversal News Group. The veteran journalist announced the move on Tuesday's edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports, revealing that the shift will occur in January. "After sixteen years of being in the anchor chair every day, I want time to do...
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Oct 29, 2024
Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna has launched nearly 30 topical marketing campaigns this year entirely created by generative AI, using the technology to generate ideas, write copy, and create images. While much has been said about AI tools boosting efficiency, the firm is also finding these campaigns are more effective. These campaigns, often tied to events...
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Oct 29, 2024
With a combative presidential election just a week away and the country arguably the most divided it's been since the Vietnam era, it's no surprise that media outlets (this publication included) have reported a retreat from diversity and inclusion initiatives. Corporate promises to get serious about DEI--made in the wake of George Floyd's murder and...
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Oct 29, 2024
After four years of sponsoring the NBA and WNBA, DoorDash kicked off the 2024-2025 season by celebrating the sport with the help of a hip-hop legend. Hip-hop artist Kurtis Blow released "Basketball" in 1984, rapping about the sport's biggest stars and its cultural impact in a video featuring cheerleaders, nunchuck fights, and neon graphics. In...
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Oct 29, 2024
It was a wild NewsNight for Abby Phillip on Monday. The CNN anchor broke up a heated on air verbal brawl after commentator Ryan Girdusky made a bigoted remark about fellow panelist Mehdi Hasan. During a subsequent commercial break, both men left the panel and CNN later announced that Girdusky had been banned from returning...
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Oct 29, 2024
Looks like Fox News' Bret Baier will be trick-or-treating in Pennsylvania this Halloween. TVNewser can exclusively reveal that the Special Report anchor is broadcasting live from a Philadelphia suburb on Oct. 31 at 6 p.m. ET. And he's taking show on the road the next night as well, heading to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan...
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Oct 29, 2024
Tools of the Trade is an AgencySpy feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair...
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Oct 29, 2024
The Black List, LAist Studios, and The Ankler are putting celebrities to the test. At ADWEEK's Mediaweek event today, the three companies announced they're teaming up for Nobody Knows Anything, a new game and interview podcast and radio show that quizzes celebrity guests and explores the creative process. Shana Naomi Krochmal, LAist Studios vp of...
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Oct 29, 2024
Fashion inspiration comes from old photos, a carnival, and a chandelier in a new brand platform from online retailer Asos that targets shoppers who are less influenced by what's being worn by models and celebrities. "Inspired By" speaks to a growing trend of people seeking style inspiration from beyond traditional fashion sources like runways. The...
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Oct 29, 2024
Linda Boff, CEO of creative agency Said Differently and the latest subject of video series Resume Rewind, sponsored by entertainment wiki hosting service Fandom, is best known for her 20 years at GE. "I fell deeply in love with the company and the purpose of the company, which is, 'Find a way to build a...
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Oct 29, 2024
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire the assets of WBNX in Cleveland, Ohio, from the Winston Broadcasting Company. The acquisition will create a duopoly for Nexstar. The company already owns and operates Fox affiliate WJW. "The acquisition of WBNX-TV strengthens our presence in Cleveland, a top-20 television market, and in the political battleground...
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Oct 29, 2024
Longtime WWL anchor Eric Paulsen died Saturday morning. The New Orleans CBS affiliate said Paulsen had been away from the anchor desk for more than a month after announcing that he had been diagnosed with a "fairly aggressive" form of cancer. "I'm not a person who worries about a lot in life, and I've always...
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Oct 29, 2024
Brian Cox returned to university in a new Uber One campaign promoting its student membership benefits across Uber and Uber Eats. The spot, created by agency Special U.S., sees Cox enrolling as a freshman who is unconcerned with classes and dorm life. Instead he's focused on the perks of free Uber Eats delivery and discounted...
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Oct 29, 2024
Earlier this year, Group M, WPP's media investment group, launched a dedicated women's sports marketplace ahead of the upfront, committing to double its annual media investment in women's sports. Today, there are no buzzer-beaters necessary. The company has officially achieved its goal. Though GroupM didn't share total volume numbers, the company told ADWEEK it's already...
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Oct 29, 2024
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire Amazon founder who owns The Washington Post, defended the newspaper's decision to stop endorsing presidential candidates, arguing in part that the move is a way to shore up credibility and combat perceptions of political bias. (NBC News) "Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election," Bezos wrote in...
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Oct 29, 2024
Longtime McCann vet Kate MacNevin is leaving the network to join B2B agency Stein IAS global CEO and lead parent company MSQ's B2B division as executive chair. In the role, she will lead Stein IAS's global business alongside chairman and chief brand officer, Tom Stein, and global president, Craig Duxbury. She will also work to...
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Oct 29, 2024
As Meta tries to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, the Facebook owner is working on a search engine that crawls the web to provide conversational answers about current events to people using its Meta AI chatbot. (The Information) Meta's web crawler will provide conversational answers to users about current events on Meta...
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Oct 29, 2024
Jon Stewart isn't quite ready to let go of his weekly Daily Show gig. Comedy Central announced Monday that Stewart signed an extension that will keep him as a once-per-week host and full-time executive producer of The Daily Show through December 2025. (THR / Live Feed) Stewart, who hosts The Daily Show on Mondays, will...
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Oct 29, 2024
USA Today, the nation's fourth-largest newspaper, is joining The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times in not endorsing a presidential candidate this election. (The Daily Beast) Over 200 American outlets under USA Today parent company Gannett will not back candidates "in presidential or national races," according to USA Today. (The Hill)
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Oct 29, 2024
Shares of former President Donald Trump's social media company surged more than 21% Monday, on the heels of the Republican presidential nominee's campaign rally in New York. (CNBC) Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the Truth Social social media network, has seen its stock soar in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 5...
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Oct 29, 2024
We're still in the midst of conference season. ADWEEK's Mediaweek is back, bringing you the sharpest insights and industry-leading speakers, whether you're attending in person in New York or virtually, make sure you don't miss it. From Oct. 29 to 30, C-suite media execs, brand marketers, and platform leaders will convene to discuss the state...
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Oct 29, 2024
Stagwell chairman and CEO Mark Penn can't tell you who will win the upcoming presidential election. But he can give you a history lesson on how both the winners and losers of past elections strategized and marketed themselves - and how that ties in with current brand marketing trends. Penn went over the basics of...
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Oct 29, 2024
Amid another contentious presidential election year, where neither side seems to agree on any of the issues, one thing is certain: Political ads have been pummeling the public for months. One estimate expects advertising for the presidential general election alone to hit $2.16 billion this cycle, up 17% relative to 2020. A recent survey from...
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Oct 29, 2024
Dany Garcia is dancing in her living room. As she poses, a group of young women who have helped develop her social media presence chant: "Killer heels and a Bodycon dress. Killer heels and a Bodycon dress." It's Garcia's spin on the "Boots and a Slicked-Back Bun" meme that flashed briefly during midsummer before becoming...
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Oct 29, 2024
If you had planned to dress up as a Chipotle "Boorito" for Halloween, here's the bad news: it's sold out on costume retailer Spirit's website and scarce or nonexistent at its stores around the country. For those who can't get their hands on the silver head-to-toe bodysuit, complete with a sticker that identifies "chicken" or...
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Oct 28, 2024
New platform Sight Lines, launched this month by Murphy Media Partners, aims to boost investment and leadership in women's sports through a series of global events. New research by Wasserman's women-focused practice, The Collective, found that the key barriers to investing in women's sports were lingering resistance among brand leaders and lack of industry data,...
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Oct 28, 2024
Netflix has debuted a star-studded brand campaign for its new mobile feature, Moments, which allows users to share favorite scenes from TV shows and movies. Moments launched on Netflix's iOS app on Monday (Oct 28) and will roll out on Android in the next few weeks. The personalized feature lets members bookmark specific scenes from...
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Oct 28, 2024
Neither Deep Blue Sports Entertainment nor the Professional Women's Hockey League existed before 2023, but each can help the other advance women's sports for the foreseeable future. Deep Blue just announced that it is adding the PWHL to its Deep Blue Exchange (DBX), which is dedicated to representing teams, leagues, and businesses in the...
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Oct 28, 2024
As the host of CNN's The Source, it's only appropriate that Kaitlan Collins has regularly been a source of Donald Trump's ire. In 2018, the Alabama-born journalist was famously barred from a Rose Garden press conference after Trump administration officials objected to her line of questioning during an Oval Office event with the then-president. Five...
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Oct 28, 2024
Shoppers can find most things they need on Amazon, and some they don't (see: tiny deck chairs and emotional support pickles). They can also order sushi, burritos, and more without delivery fees, thanks to a tie-up with takeout app Grubhub. Since 2022, Amazon Prime's 180 million members have had access to Grubhub , the brand's premium...
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Oct 28, 2024
WLOX anchor David "Dave" Elliott said he was fired Friday morning because of his political posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. "I'm no longer at WLOX as of 10-25-24," Elliott wrote on his Facebook page. "The corporation doesn't like my political views." The view in question was expressed on X in a video that...
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Oct 28, 2024
WLS anchor Judy Hsu is OK after she was hit by a foul ball during batting practice before the game first game of the professional men's baseball World Series game between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Chicago ABC owned station said Hsu "is okay and was checked out by a...
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Oct 28, 2024
On Friday, The Washington Post's publisher, Will Lewis, announced that the paper would no longer make endorsements for president--after its journalists had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision was made by Jeff Bezos, the paper's owner. (CJR) "We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates," Lewis wrote...
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Oct 28, 2024
Nika Soon-Shiong, the outspoken pro-Palestinian activist daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, defended the paper's non-endorsement of a presidential candidate Friday, saying in an X thread that "genocide is the line in the sand" and suggesting that Harris is "a candidate that is overseeing a war on children." (TheWrap) "Our family made the...
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Oct 28, 2024
Venom: The Last Dance is No. 1 at the box office, but the comic book film fell significantly short of expectations. The third and final entry in Sony's Marvel antihero series, led by Tom Hardy, opened to a muted $51 million from 4,125 North American theaters. (Variety) That's well behind an expected $65 million, or...
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Oct 28, 2024
An Israeli airstrike killed at least three journalists as they slept in their accommodation in southern Lebanon, in what news outlets say was a direct hit on an area removed from the continuing conflict between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) The attack was carried out on a guesthouse in a compound in Hasbaya...
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Oct 28, 2024
Meta struck a multiyear deal with Reuters to use its news content to provide real-time answers to user queries about news and current events in its Meta AI chatbot, sources familiar with the agreement told Axios. (Axios) The pair have not disclosed whether Meta will get access to Reuters' library to train its learning language...
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Oct 28, 2024
The Los Angeles Dodgers' dramatic 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in game one of the World Series Friday night--which ended on Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning--averaged 15.2 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes, Univision, and streaming, making it the most watched Fall Classic game in five years. (NBC News...
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Oct 28, 2024
Tom Jarriel, an ABC News correspondent who reported from Memphis, Tenn., after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and roamed the world for the 20/20 newsmagazine while also anchoring news updates, died Oct. 24 at a nursing facility in Annapolis, Md. He was 89. (WaPo)
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Oct 28, 2024
CNN could soon land in a Florida courtroom, as it faces a defamation lawsuit from a security contractor who took payments to evacuate people out of Afghanistan after the U.S. military's 2021 withdrawal. (LA Times / Hollywood Inc)
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Oct 28, 2024
A New Mexico judge declined to reconsider criminal charges against Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting on the set of Rust in October 2021. (ABC News)
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Oct 28, 2024
An uptick in newspaper closures this year has left more than one-half of the nation's 3,143 counties--or 55 million people--with just one or no local news sources where they live. (Axios)
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Oct 28, 2024
Secondhand marketplace ThredUp's recent generative AI tools--including visual search and chatbot Style Chat, both launched in August--are driving more visits and revisits to the app. While there, people using these AI features are more likely to make a purchase, the company dished at Shoptalk Chicago 2024 last week. Visual Search lets people snap an item...
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Oct 28, 2024
Averi AI has emerged from stealth mode, raising $2 million in pre-seed funding. The firm--which has an initial valuation of $8 million--combines automating time-consuming marketing tasks, like planning a marketing calendar, researching competitors, and organizing a budget, with human experience by connecting brands to a vetted network of U.S.-based marketing specialists. For instance, the AI...
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Oct 28, 2024
What makes you look at Molly Baz's latest campaign for Bobbie? Breasts? Breastfeeding? Formula feeding is very, very normal. But it is still not normalized. There's a stigma that exists within the parenting community, particularly for mothers who, to an outsider's eyes, appear to have the option to breastfeed. My hot take: Brands owe us...
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Oct 28, 2024
Google has been pitching advertisers on a new AI-powered search tool, called Search Bidding Exploration, which aims to find new pockets of valuable traffic. It does this by identifying lower-traffic queries within search that actually drive conversions, according to documents seen by ADWEEK. Low-traffic queries are when someone types in a less popular search query....
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Oct 25, 2024
Top of the Ticker: Two major American newspapers--The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times--have chosen not to issue a presidential endorsement, reportedly at the behest of their billionaire owners, Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, respectively. It's the first time in almost 40 years that the Post has declined to endorse a candidate. The decision...
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Oct 25, 2024
Brendan Gahan wanted to work in advertising when he was a kid. The co-founder and CEO of LinkedIn influencer marketing agency Creator Authority--featured in the latest episode of video series Resume Rewind, sponsored by entertainment wiki hosting service Fandom--had an uncle who was a creative director at Wieden Kennedy. Gahan's first job was at a Sweet...
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Oct 25, 2024
Top of the Ticker: CBS News' senior vice president of talent strategy Alison Pepper announced that she will depart the network once the presidential election cycle concludes. Pepper--who has been with the network since 2021--cited the "seismic shits" at CBS as impacting her decision. That's likely a reference to the network's parent company Paramount Global,...
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Oct 25, 2024
I was head of sales for independent adtech company MediaMath until 2019, during which time the company was considered a top player in the space. Our tech was licensed by big brands and premier agency holding companies in major media markets globally. Though I remain proud of MediaMath's growth, I believed it was always bounded...
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Oct 25, 2024
Brian Williams has a date with Amazon on Election Night. The former NBC News anchor is headlining the company's first foray into the TV news space--a live special that will stream globally on Prime Video and will be free to watch for all Amazon customers. With less than two weeks to go until America goes...
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Oct 25, 2024
This week brought plenty of changes in the agency world, with shops from Cincinnati to New York and London welcoming new employees. Brandwatch Social media intelligence provider Brandwatch announced a host of leadership changes. Channing Ferrer was promoted to global president, from chief business officer. Drift senior vice president Matt Tippets joined Brandwatch as chief...
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Oct 25, 2024
BBDO New York chief creative officer Matt MacDonald is leaving the agency, ADWEEK has learned. A BBDO spokesperson confirmed his departure and said MacDonald had a "great opportunity he couldn't turn down." It is not clear what his next move is. MacDonald took on the role at BBDO NY in April 2022, after being promoted...
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Oct 25, 2024
Happy Friday to all who celebrate! In this week's edition of stories we didn't write up for one reason or another, we see former CBS Newser Jeff Glor may be heading to Buffalo, while an anchor who broke through racial barriers in the Deep South has died. Let's tell stories.: Former CBS Evening News anchor...
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Oct 25, 2024
According to Sarah Kennedy, vp of global demand and growth marketing at Google Cloud, "we are in the middle of a revolution" when it comes to the possibilities of AI in marketing. But as corporate AI usage grows, so too have the concerns of customers and clients who are hesitant to trust entities' automated systems...
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Oct 25, 2024
Doug Lezette has been named the new news director at Providence, Rhode Island NBC affiliate WJAR. Lezette has been the assistant news director since 2011. He's worked as a news director in Springfield, Massachusetts, and several years ago he was an anchor and reporter in Albany, New York. He started his career in 1987. "I'm...
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Oct 25, 2024
Global outdoor apparel and equipment brand Columbia Sportswear Company has appointed a new creative agency partner for the Columbia brand in adam&eveDDB. The agency will work with the company's new marketing leadership to oversee the brand's new creative strategy. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but Columbia Sportswear's estimated media spend 2024 is $30...
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Oct 25, 2024
Mech Dara, one of Cambodia's most prominent journalists, known for exposing the country's billion-dollar scam industry, was released on bail after a video of him apologizing to the country's leaders appeared in pro-government media. (The Guardian) Dara told reporters from a car outside the Kandal Provincial Prison complex, south of the capital Phnom Penh, that...
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Oct 25, 2024
Hallmark executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly told her staff she did not want to cast "old people," saying they did not fit with her image for the channel, a new age discrimination lawsuit filed against the studio claims. (Variety) Penny Perry, a 79-year-old casting director who departed Hallmark in April after nearly...
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Oct 25, 2024
Jake O'Leary joined Instagram as global head of marketing, Meta confirmed to ADWEEK. He will lead marketing for the Instagram application, Instagram's creators, and Threads. (ADWEEK) Former Netflix content chief Cindy Holland will lend her expertise to David Ellison and Skydance Media as the company looks to close its acquisition of Paramount Global. (THR) Telemundo...
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Oct 25, 2024
The Los Angeles Times lost two more longtime editorial writers, the latest in a growing exodus to protest owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's interference with the paper's planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, TheWrap can exclusively report. (TheWrap) Oliver Darcy: Why hasn't The Washington Post made an endorsement in the 2024 presidential race? It's a question,...
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Oct 25, 2024
Harris' CNN town hall Wednesday night was the most-watched program of the evening among all the cable networks, with 3.334 million total viewers, and it finished second in the adults 25-through-54 demographic, behind the National Basketball Association on ESPN, with 744,000 viewers between 9 p.m. and 10:11 p.m. ET. (TVNewser) That figure is less than...
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Oct 25, 2024
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity, which offers an AI search engine, published a blog post Thursday pushing back on News Corp.'s lawsuit against the company. (The Verge) In the post, Perplexity referenced an adversarial posture between the media and tech, calling the lawsuit "fundamentally shortsighted, unnecessary, and self-defeating." (TechCrunch)
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Oct 25, 2024
Playboy has no interest in selling to Hugh Hefner's son--at least, not for his offering price. Playboy Group said Thursday that its board unanimously rejected Cooper Hefner's "unsolicited" $100 million offer to buy the company, adding that the offer "substantially undervalues" the assets. (TheWrap) CEO Ben Kohn said the board "will continue to evaluate all...
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