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Uber’s digital ad display screens are coming to New York City–but they won’t be on Uber vehicles. Current city regulations prohibit car-top advertising for rideshare vehicles, so the Uber OOH screens will outfit more than 3,000 taxicabs instead. Elsewhere, Uber OOH–a partnership with the out-of-home ad-tech firm Adomni and screen provider Cargo Systems–is active in…Read More

OkayMedia, the multimedia publisher dedicated to covering global Black culture, has hired former CNN journalist Isha Sesay as CEO. Top line OkayMedia includes the digital publications OkayAfrica and Okayplayer. “I’m so thrilled to be joining the OkayMedia family,” Sesay said in a statement. “This is an exciting company that has long done great work that…Read More

Bridgerton’s breakout star, Reg?-Jean Page–who played Simon Basset, the Duke of Hastings–will not return to the hit Netflix drama. Netflix and Shondaland–Shonda Rhimes’ production company, which is behind the show–made the announcement today via a dispatch from Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, the society gossip publication featured on the show. Top line “Dear Readers, while all…Read More

European energy company Vattenfall has produced a Spotify playlist to help people who are losing sleep over the climate crisis. The “Super Soothing Climate Progress Engineering Tracks” released on Spotify allow listeners to hear the technical details around energy production, hydroelectric power and electric vehicles. The series will be promoted through a new multi-channel campaign…Read More

In a major boost to its client services operations, David Miami has hired a brand director with experience at Nike and Uber to fill a role which has been vacant for more than a year. David Miami has hired Luiza Prata Carvalho as account lead, tasking her to lead client services across the agency’s client…Read More

Unfortunately, violence against our POC communities happens more often than not–and mental health struggles because of it. I was triggered by the Boulder, Colo., shooting. My mind immediately regressed back to the Black Lives Matter protests, and my heart began to ache for the AAPI community. However, my personal mental health journey has empowered me…Read More

WhatsApp’s plan to bring Payments to Brazil is a go again following approval this week by Banco Central do Brasil. WhatsApp began rolling out Payments across Brazil last June, with Facebook Pay as the backbone, saying at the time that the feature supported credit or debit cards from Banco Central do Brasil, Nubank and Sicredi…Read More

While most major automakers are focusing their marketing efforts on their embrace of electric vehicles, Nissan is taking a look back at the brand’s early EV development and showing what’s to come. Nissan plans to roll out 10 new models over the next 20 months, but the goal goes beyond touting new lines of cars….Read More

Twitter introduced the ability this week for users to add stickers to Fleets, its disappearing tweets. Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Twitter application on iOS. Step 1: Once you’ve taken or uploaded a photo or video in Fleets, tap the stickers icon (the smiling…Read More

It may be a marketing clich? that “most customers are predictable.” But like most sayings with staying power, the phrase is true: Past behavior is, indeed, the best predictor of customers’ future behavior. Movie lovers will stay movie lovers, even while media and delivery mechanisms may change (e.g., jumping from theater to Blu-ray to streaming…Read More