Crackle Plus, the free, ad-supported streaming service, will relaunch in the second half of this year with a new user interface for smartphones and televisions, an effort to make finding content easier and to provide viewers improved search recommendations. The service will also require smartphone users to sign in for the first time, a move…Read More
FuboTV, a sports-focused pay-TV provider, is joining a growing chorus of streaming companies vying to win ad dollars that are traditionally spent on linear TV. The streamer is participating in the IAB NewFronts this year, where it’s pitching a slate of original content plus new ad targeting offerings. FuboTV is partnering with LiveRamp to bolster…Read More
TLDR: The SYQEL Music Visualizer turns music into eye-popping visuals for both live performance or your favorite stream, now available at $100 off. So, how exactly do you bring music to life? Realistically speaking, that’s obviously impossible. Music will never be alive. But with a little bit of tech-driven inspiration, music visualizations might be the next best thing to…well, the impossible. Music visualization happens in loads of different ways, but fundamentally, it’s a form of translating music into actual video images. It maps the properties of a piece of audio, charting its highs, lows, rhythm, tempo and more, then regenerates that…
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Facebook Reality Labs worked up a sweat for National Fitness Day with an integrated campaign touting the fitness options available via the Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset. The campaign kicked off with a print ad in The New York Times and billboards in Los Angeles and New York targeting neighborhoods that are highly frequented…Read More
The amount of death, economic anxiety, social isolation and political strife that’s occurred over the past 14 months or so is something anyone who’s lived through it will never forget. But change is coming. Life under lockdown will end. Soon. In a two-minute spot, Extra gum imagines a morning when normal returns all at once….Read More
It’s 2021 and Yahoo and AOL are back in the news. Verizon announced Monday that it is selling its media assets to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, about half what it bought Yahoo and AOL for, in two separate deals, last decade. Top Line The media assets, currently known as…Read More
Facebook is marking Asian American and Pacific islander Heritage Month by showcasing the diversity within that group while raising awareness of issues faced by that community. New spot “See Us, Hear Us” is part of the social network’s ongoing “More Together” campaign, and it will run on-platform throughout the month of May. It was developed…Read More
Don’t let the sign fool you. Pepsi’s new restaurant, Pep’s Place, is online only and puts the focus on beverages. Top line For the next 30 days, people in select U.S. cities, including Chicago, Denver, Miami and Minneapolis, can order a meal from Pep’s Place on PepsPlaceRestaurant.com or delivery apps Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats….Read More
This article was originally published by Michiel Mulders on .cult by Honeypot, a Berlin-based community platform for developers. For the latest updates, follow .cult by Honeypot on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube. Wow-a! It’s always fun when a new developer joins your team. But wait, you are tasked with onboarding this developer. How do you get started? What’s the most important information you should share to get the new colleague on board? What’s the most efficient process to introduce this developer to the code? Onboarding a developer is not an easy task. Still, too many development teams take this…
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To promote the addition of vitamins to its products, British soft drink Vimto is encouraging consumers to “Find Your Different” through its biggest-ever communications campaign. The U.K. campaign, which began on May 2 and was created by Quiet Storm, promotes the brand’s fruit-based drinks with the new addition of vitamins C and D, highlighting the…Read More
