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A populist rebellion within the stock market was the biggest news story of last week, with Reddit-organized crowds of amateur investors rallying to buy shares in companies that hedge funds were attempting to short. The unexpected scenario quickly turned tense when the financial industry pushed back on at-home traders, and ostensibly free-market apps like Robinhood…Read More

TikTok kicked off Black History Month Monday by revealing its inaugural Black TikTok Trailblazers list, recognizing individuals nominated by the video creation platform’s community in North America for being leaders and pioneers on and off the application and using TikTok to educate, entertain and advocate for the Black community. Starting Monday, the TikTok Discover page…Read More

This time last year, Mr. Peanut was dead. While driving the Nutmobile with actors Matt Walsh and Wesley Snipes, the century-old mascot for Kraft Heinz’s Planters brand lost control and veered off a cliff. Days later, the character came back to life as Baby Nut in an ad that aired during Super Bowl 2020, putting…Read More

By default, Discord may “use and process information about how you navigate and use Discord for analytical purposes.” However, if you don’t want Discord to be able to use your data in this way, you can turn this setting off. Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in…Read More

In 2000, Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me, a song about cheating on your girlfriend, was ubiquitous. Twenty-one years later, the earworm’s lyrics, much of which are NSFW, have been modified for none other than Cheetos. For its one-minute Super Bowl ad, Cheetos is relying on not one but three celebrities to plug its Crunch Pop Mix,…Read More

As the pandemic began upheaving the advertising industry, production companies had a massive list of issues to confront. Shoots were either delayed or canceled outright. Production moved from offices and studios to homes. But while the initial blur of activity was chaotic, most shops found their way forward. For its part, The Mill seemed poised…Read More

At the start of 2021, Norway broke records when it announced that electric vehicles officially made up over half of its automotive market share. Now that legacy car companies, like Volvo, are putting out more and better EVs, the market demand has never been higher.  Some of the new EVs on the market, like the Polestar 2, make the sputtering, petrol-powered cars of today look like a relic of the past. As such, you might be thinking about making the switch yourself. Currently, a good portion of the EVs on the market are branded as “luxury vehicles”, and indeed there is…

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Apparently, Will Ferrell’s got feelings for Norway. And they aren’t positive. At least that’s what General Motors is teasing for its Super Bowl spot, which stars the Anchorman and Saturday Night Live legend. In the teasers, Ferrell’s seen reading up on Norwegian history, placing a prank call (“Olaf has a coupon”) and threatening to punch…Read More

The ongoing dispute between Facebook and Apple over changes to the latter’s iOS 14 operating system may soon evolve into pre-empting a prompt. iPhone users with Facebook and/or Instagram installed on their devices will soon start seeing a pop-up prompt that gives them the option of whether or not to allow those applications to track…Read More

WPP’s GroupM has unveiled a Data Ethics Compass tool, developed in partnership with client Unilever, that grapples with a concept Jurassic Park’s scientists never seemed to grasp. “It is around the notion of ‘just because you can, doesn’t mean you should,'” explained Krystal Olivieri, GroupM global svp of data strategy and partnerships, echoing a sentiment…Read More