Month: December 2021

TV legend Betty White–who starred in The Golden Girls, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hot in Cleveland and dozens (if not hundreds) of other film and television projects over the past 70 decades–has died at 99, just weeks before her 100th birthday. “Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live…

Remote work was a plus in 2021, but on the negative side was a loss of advertisers and print subscribers.

Facebook is urging a court to refuse to revive a lawsuit by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense, which claimed its right to free speech was violated when its vaccine-related posts were
suppressed.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Google a patent describing a web browser-based API that can control authorization of data transmissions within a network and attribute a click without
using cookies.

Web3 ad tech won’t be about building massive databases and squeezing out bigger and bigger margins from the advertising supply chain.

ESPN will air 21 college football bowl games this year. ABC will air one — the “Vrbo Citrus Bowl” on New Year’s Day.

News about the ad recovery, shake-ups at media research suppliers, and media agency reorgs also were among the most-read stories of 2021.

Casting and performance of real people is always an interpretation. That’s why they call it acting.

Last year set a new bar for high-profile executive departures in the TV space, as more than two-dozen big-names headed for the exits in 2020 following major reorganizations and other big moves. By contrast, 2021 was a much quieter year on the executive exit front, even though some significant names departed their jobs among a…