Plenty of people are out of work due to the pandemic. In December, the U.S. unemployment rate remained stuck at 6.7%–a historically high number. It’s in this context that the online job site Indeed has decided to run its first Super Bowl commercial. The 60-second spot, created by 72andSunny, will appear during the first quarter….Read More
After announcing a new logo, a new campaign, and an ambitious brand strategy to expedite the future of electric vehicles, General Motors is bringing its message to Super Bowl 2021. GM, as well as its Cadillac brand, will run separate 60-second spots highlighting the carmaker’s electrical ambitions, which include delivering more than 30 electric models…Read More
Amazon has thrown its support behind the Raise the Wage Act, a bill reintroduced by Democrats in the House and Senate on Tuesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. Jay Carney, senior vice president of Amazon Global Corporate Affairs, said the ecommerce giant “applauds the authors and co-sponsors” of…Read More
Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) today announced that Rosalind Brewer will be its next CEO effective March 15, succeeding Stefano Pessina, who will become executive chairman of the company’s board. Brewer’s appointment comes at a time when women and minorities continue to be vastly underrepresented at the executive level, though corporations are increasingly making diversity, equity…Read More
Weekly fashion magazine Grazia USA, which launched stateside in October, has hired Jillian Maxwell as chief revenue officer. Maxwell, formerly executive director of international fashion at WSJ. Magazine, joins a team of eight other executives based in New York. Grazia USA president Melissa Cronin said new editorial hires are expected soon. For a small team,…Read More
Facebook marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day Wednesday by introducing a new way to connect users who search for related terms with credible information from outside of its platform, but that wasn’t enough to boost the grade of D that it received on the Online Holocaust Denial Report Card released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League. The…Read More
In an industry where less than two percent of media represents people with disabilities, KR Liu shares how her decision to being vocal and educating others about her disabilities has inspired her career to turn from tech to accessibility. Having spoken at Adweek’s Disability Inclusion Summit and sharing best practices for a truly inclusive workplace,…Read More
WarnerMedia’s bet to release Wonder Woman 1984 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in December, plus two recent major distribution deals with Amazon Fire TV and Roku, seems to have paid off in terms of driving customers to the upstart streaming service. But that growth comes with a catch: Many of those new subscribers…Read More
When someone pastes a link into a chat in Discord, the application will automatically show you a website preview for the link that was shared. If you don’t want to see these website previews, you can turn this feature off. Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in…Read More
2021 starts off with a little treat for people who enjoy spooky games, as Polish developer Bloober Team is set to release their latest effort, The Medium, later this week. The Medium comes out on the new Xbox consoles and PC. I’ve been playing it for a couple of days and it’s… ok. Bloober Team has been making a name for themselves in the horror genre since they released Layers of Fear back in 2016. Before then, the Polish developer made some smaller titles that didn’t garner a lot of attention, but genre fans were pleasantly surprised by the first-person…
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