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TikTok and Dove kicked off a partnership and accompanying campaign to promote body inclusivity and acceptance. Dove Self-Esteem Project tools will be available via TikTok in North America through June 13 as part of a multifaceted campaign that will include: In-feed confidence-boosting public-service announcements on the video creation platform. A hub offering tips on how…Read More

HBO Max’s long-awaited Friends Reunion special, which was delayed for a full year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, finally has a release date. Friends: The Reunion, an unscripted special celebrating the long-running sitcom featuring the show’s ensemble cast of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer will arrive May…Read More

A surge of popularity in mixed reality during the pandemic could lead global investment in the technology to balloon from $12 billion in 2020 to $72.8 billion over the next three years. That’s according to a wide-ranging new survey from Snap and Deloitte that looked at how quarantine conditions have supercharged adoption of augmented reality…Read More

Wieden+Kennedy recently announced its London-based agency stalwart Neil Christie, most recently its director of growth markets, would leave after 17 years. Don’t call it a retirement, the agency world veteran says. Christie is shifting to education to study literature at King’s College in London, saying he was looking to do something completely different: “I had…Read More

Half a year in the making, it’s probably the only event where you’ll find Big Freedia and H.E.R. sharing a bill with Mark Cuban, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Tig Notaro and Condoleeza Rice. This year, following a two-year hiatus, OZY Media is bringing its distinct and eclectic OZY Fest directly to its largest audience ever, with…Read More

Editor’s note: This piece is part of our Columnist Network series, which explores the tactical thoughts and actions from Adweek’s community of high-level experts. Today, Jim Habig, global head of business marketing at Pinterest, shares his strategies for connecting an international team with a multimarket focus. ‘Show me global’ A lovely side effect of writing…Read More

Facial recognition isn’t the only scary thing bad actors and governments can use computer recognition for. What if an AI could watch a video of us tapping on our touchscreen phones and infer exactly what app we’re using and what we’re typing? Modern computer vision techniques have the ability to imbue us with the kind of technological super powers typically only seen in the movies. We can load video into an AI system and tell it to zoom in on a low-resolution frame and, with a little training and some clever algorithms, we can make it “enhance” the image. It’s…

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A new study by Pew Research Center found that mentions of Asian Americans on social media by members of Congress rose dramatically in 2020, with that trend continuing into the early stages of this year. Pew analyzed every Facebook post and tweet created by every voting member of Congress between Jan. 1, 2016, and April…Read More

Editor’s Note: It’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month again, and this year, it feels different. It feels like we can own our voice. So we speak, in all our varied capacities and capabilities. We commissioned powerful illustrations, words, a video diary and a self-portrait from a multitalented media buyer turned artist, a memorable copywriter, a…Read More

The latest quarterly update to LinkedIn Sales Navigator includes several enhancements aimed at helping users mine new opportunities from their current relationships. Enterprise Edition users now have access to Champions List, a list of contacts who were previously involved in deals that were closed or won and have since moved on to other target accounts….Read More