Month: March 2018

The awesome thing about April Fools’ Day in the digital age is that you’re less likely to worry about finding tacks scattered on your favorite chair or some buffoon whipping out a whoopie cushion. The best gags are bound to happen online, where we can review them with the amused distance of fake news connoisseurs…

The U.S. Census Bureau is planning to ask everyone living in the United States whether they are citizens when it conducts its next decennial census in 2020.

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Less than 48 hours after Roseanne returned to enormous ratings, ABC has already picked up the revival for another season. On Tuesday, the hour-long return of Roseanne in its former 8 p.m. time slot was watched by a whopping 18.2 million viewers and earned a 5.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, making it the most-watched…

Far from Washington, where the government has called Huawei a national-security threat, the world’s largest maker of cellular-tower equipment is trying to dominate discussions on the development and design of the next generation of mobile networks, dubbed 5G.

Yes, there is a place named Dildo. And Rectum. And Cumming. Residents of those towns might be feeling especially lucky today thanks to a new stunt from the always-friendly folks at Pornhub. The world’s largest purveyor of adult entertainment has stumbled upon yet another ingenious mode of self-promotion in the form of free porn for…

If there had been no art classes at Stuyvesant High School, Lucy Liu might never have become the first female Dr. Watson on CBS’s Sherlock Holmes drama, Elementary. She might never have been an actor at all. It’s more likely she would’ve ended up in finance or securities or some other left-brain, numbers-based profession, she…

WPP out-of-home (OOH) and experiential-focused agency Kinetic North America is reshaping its leadership team. With CEO David Krupp leaving at the end of the month to pursue an unspecified new role, Kinetic North America promoted Michael Lieberman and Cedric Bernard to roles as co-CEOs. The rest of Kinetic’s management team, which includes Maureen McCloskey, Jaime…

If you put a bunch of advertisers in a room and asked them what they thought of traditional radio, they’d probably say it’s “old school,” “difficult to buy” and/or “on its way out.” Although it is true that advertising has seen a massive digital transformation in the last decade and audio innovation hasn’t entirely kept…

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