AMC Networks’ CEO is out. Top Line On Tuesday, AMC Networks announced that CEO Christina Spade is stepping down from her role. However, the company has yet to announce a replacement. Between the Lines Spade, who previously served as the company’s CFO and COO, officially took on the CEO role on Sept. 9, succeeding Matt…Read More
Giant Spoon has made a name for itself in the experiential space with its epic placements for Stranger Things and Halo, but it is more than an experiential agency. With its latest hire, the agency hopes to scale up and compete on an even larger stage as a long-term partner for brands. Giant Spoon has…Read More
When it comes to B2B products, it’s all about building relationships, something that can be challenging for startups entering traditional industries like rail. But over the last few years, the rail industry has reached out to startups to provide a way to gain their insights and draw them into its ecosystem. Examples of these initiatives include the UK’s Rail Innovation Group — an incubator for rail startups — and Deutsche Bahn’s DB Mindbox. Since 2015, the latter in particular, has organised hackathons and supported more than 150 startups with their proof of concept, 60% of which continue their business cooperation…
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Yahoo entered into an agreement to acquire a roughly 25% stake in Taboola, the companies announced yesterday. The deal will make Yahoo the content recommendation ad-tech firm’s largest shareholder and grant Yahoo a board seat. While there are benefits for both companies under the terms, this more unique deal is characteristic of an uncertain economic…Read More
Suddenly finding yourself unemployed is a precarious position to be in, and not even severance pay can take the sting out of the confidence knock a lay-off brings. The unprecedented tech layoffs that have occurred in recent weeks at the likes of Meta and Stripe have sent shockwaves through the industry, as thousands of workers brace themselves for the task of finding a new role in a less buoyant job market. However, the industry as a whole remains stable. In fact, according to a report by Gartner, IT expenditure is expected to increase by 5.1% and hit $4.5 trillion by…
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Hurry, sure. We need to hurry.
Hurry puts it up on our priority list. Hurry gives us urgency and focus.
But rushing is something that leads to errors and then apologies. “I’m sorry, I rushed it,” is not something we want to hear.
But hurry.
Following Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter and the subsequent layoffs and policy changes that have followed, impersonator brand accounts have been on the rise. But it’s not a unique issue to the bluebird app. Twitter’s emerging challengers also host fake accounts posing as global brands. As users consider life without Musk’s version of…Read More
For the first time in Adweek’s Agency of the Year program, Adweek is releasing the shortlist of agencies considered for each of its Agency of the Year categories. Adweek has expanded the categories this year, adding Midsize U.S., Small U.S. and Multicultural to the existing program of U.S., Global, International and Breakthrough. For the International…Read More
Twitter detailed updates to the algorithm powering crowdsourced fact-checking initiative Community Notes, which was known as Birdwatch in the pre-Elon Musk days. Community Notes may take on more importance at the platform, as Twitter’s content moderation teams were gutted as part of mass layoffs early this month, followed by a purging of several contractor positions…Read More
When British director Scott Mann’s latest film, Fall, was on the precipice of receiving an “R” rating from the MPAA over the number of “F” bombs dropped over its one hour and 47-minute run time, he did what any reasonable person would: he used artificial intelligence to digitally alter the actor’s performances in order to change the swear words into more palatable terms. A stroke of fricking genius, if you ask us. For those who are curious: about 35 “F” words stood between a PG-13 rating and an R rating. Mann’s dilemma, then, became trying to figure out how to…
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