Twitter Blue is Twitter’s optional subscription plan that provides access to exclusive features, such as the ability to “undo” tweets before they’ve been sent. By default, Twitter Blue subscribers will have 20 seconds to undo a tweet before it becomes public, but they can change their settings to match their preferences. Our guide will show…Read More
To most people, it’s a cute and heartwarming tale of a boy and his friendship with a crash-landed alien who he introduces to Christmas traditions, before she blasts off back to her home planet. To read the anti-woke online sentiment, however, you’d think the John Lewis festive ad was a physical assault on viewers’ eyes….Read More
TLDR: iMazing is the must-have app for easily maneuvering files from iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices without battling iTunes to do it. This holiday, liberate your favorite Apple device user from the horrors of iTunes forever. For all their innovation and tech adulation, Apple is also responsible for unleashing the iTunes file management process to the world — and there’s nobody who’s all that happy about it. iTunes is finicky. iTunes is clunky. iTunes hates anything that isn’t an Apple-created file. Of course, that’s all by design. Apple doesn’t want iPhone or iPad users easily digging into their…
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Another $1 million in funding from the Facebook Journalism Project will keep the Meta Branded Content Project going for two more years. The Meta Branded Content Project is a strategic partnership of the Facebook Journalism Project, the Local Media Association and the Local Media Consortium, and it serves as a resource for local publishers in…Read More
Comedian and actor Meg Stalter, wrapped in silky pajamas and lounging in a bubble gum-pink bedroom, introduces something called “spooning season” in a new campaign for Harmless Harvest. “Am I talking about cuddling?” she says in a breathy, seductive voice. “Maybe.” Narrative, Harmless Harvest Actually, no, but the misdirect is part of the fun of…Read More
The days are getting shorter, the weather is worsening, and people’s mood is souring. ‘Tis the season… yay. Fortunately, there’s a solution to our collective predicament: make memes to mask the pain, using a piping hot batch of ‘Hide the Pain Harold’ stock photos. Sorry, we’re always going to think of these as memesCredit: Hide the Pain Harold András Arató, AKA Hide the Pain Harold, just dropped pics from an autumn photoshoot he did with Karola Tariszekely — and they’re gorgeous. For those of you who don’t know ‘Harold,’ he’s a Hungarian stock photo model who accidentally found internet fame…
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Technology has given people more ways to connect, but has it also given them more opportunities to lie? You might text your friend a white lie to get out of going to dinner, exaggerate your height on a dating profile to appear more attractive or invent an excuse to your boss over email to save face. Social psychologists and communication scholars have long wondered not just who lies the most, but where people tend to lie the most – that is, in person or through some other communication medium. A seminal 2004 study was among the first to investigate the…
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With eight short weeks between day one of Q4 and Black Friday, marketers have zero time for ads that don’t perform. To hit their numbers this holiday season, they have to know for sure if their ads are driving conversions. And they have to know it now. The good news is that a new way…Read More
NBCUniversal is jumping on the digital messaging bandwagon, becoming the latest brand to partner with Holler in the growing “conversational media” space. Holler–which teams up with brands to create sticker campaigns as a marketing tool–has struck a new partnership with NBCUniversal that will enable marketers to generate content around NBCU’s IP when using apps like…Read More
From Oct. 26-28, leaders from publishing and media came together to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the shifting technological landscape. Attendees learned how companies like Vox Media, The New York Times, Group Nine Media and Playboy, to name a few, are using technology to grow subscriptions and develop new ad revenue strategies. With three…Read More
