Hardware retailer The Home Depot has named Molly Battin as its senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Starting on Oct. 3, Battin will join from Delta Air Lines where she was svp, global brand marketing after nearly three years in the role. The Home Depot currently has over 2,300 stores across the United States,…Read More
Businesses on Instagram can now accept payments within direct messages, enabling customers to complete transactions without leaving the application and providing a more personalized and convenient shopping experience. The new option is only available to eligible sellers with professional accounts on Instagram. Those sellers can go to the professional dashboard and tap “get paid in…Read More
On Episode 3 of Brandweek: The Podcast, senior producer Al Mannarino and general manager of podcasts John Heil sit down with Adweek agencies reporter Emmy Liederman and Robyn DelMonte (@GirlBossTown, aka “The internet’s agent”) to discuss all the excitement from Day 3, including sessions from Away and Whalar, plus a look ahead to Thursday’s programming….Read More
If anyone can make Pharrell Williams laugh, it’s Driely Schwartz. And that’s exactly what she did, capturing him at his best with her wild spirit and enthusiastic direction during Adweek’s Brand Visionary cover shoot featuring the music icon. Schwartz is a Brazilian photographer, director and creative director based in New York. You might recognize her…Read More
Discord introduced Forum Channels, a new kind of text channel that allows a server’s members to have multiple organized (and separate) conversations in a single channel. That is, instead of having users post all of their messages into a single channel thread (potentially talking over one another or changing the topic before a conversation has…Read More
That ringing you hear is probably coming from the ears of the BeReal team, as the TikTok Now feature that debuted Thursday should be very familiar to them. Just as in the BeReal application, TikTok users will receive a prompt every day encouraging them to share what they are doing at that exact time via…Read More
Google lost its appeal against a $4.125 billion (EUR4.125 billion) antitrust fine by a top European court after the regulators found major violations in how the tech giant operated its Android mobile operating system by restricting rivals four years ago. The court confirmed its decision in a ruling issued this week. The ruling has global…Read More
Music and culture are innately linked for Hispanic and Latinx communities, crossing a variety of genres. For those communities, music is more than just listening to a song; it reflects and celebrates cross-cultural communities. With Hispanic Heritage Month underway, that celebration of diversity is crucial. As a way to honor cross-cultural communities, Tecate partnered with…Read More
Nate Faust continues to be an innovator in the ecommerce space. But sometimes, even certified innovators, who previously built a $3.3 billion game-changing business, must go back to the drawing board. Today, the Jet.com founder and former Walmart exec announced the relaunch of his latest venture, Olive, an eco-friendly delivery and return service initially launched…Read More
By now, “mentor” has become a word that is used as much as “metaverse.” However, surprisingly, most people are not speaking about reverse mentoring. Most of us have taken part in this type of mentoring on various levels. Reverse mentoring encourages employees to form mentorship relationships, regardless of seniority, so both parties can exchange skills,…Read More
