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Bryan Cranston and an Orange Battle Alzheimer’s in This Powerful Animated PSA

Bryan Cranston wants you to share the orange. It’s not an ad for citrus juice. It’s not a promo for the Annoying Orange. It’s a powerful PSA that seeks to raise money to battle Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The actor, writer and producer, best known for his role in Breaking Bad, is…

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Social Commerce Is Here, But Is It Ready for the Mainstream Consumer?

Between “buy it” buttons on Pinterest and shoppable posts on Instagram, social commerce feels less like a feature of the future and more like a possibility of the present. However, industry insiders at marketing agencies don’t feel like the technology is all quite there–yet. At South by Southwest and Shoptalk, Adweek talked to three different…

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Old Spice’s New Print Ad in GQ Contains a Full-Sized Disposable Paper Blazer

Fragrance advertisers think they’re cool with their scent-strip print ads in glossy magazines. But Old Spice, as it so often does, one-ups the industry with its latest stunt–a print ad in the new GQ that doesn’t just have a scent strip, it contains a fully scented man-sized disposable paper blazer that you can wear proudly…

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3 Trends That Emerged From Shoptalk and What They Mean for the Retail Industry

At the third annual Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas, brands spoke on panels, at keynotes and with others in the industry about the various innovations they’re working on to make consumers happy. Some brands like Glossier and Boxed think they’ve hit a sweet spot when it comes to reaching their customers. Others are still figuring…

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3 Ways Both Publishers and Advertisers Can Reach Generation Z

Millennials: The word alone is probably enough to draw a reaction from most people. In digital media, however, this generation has represented one thing: a profitable audience. But as millennials transition to adulthood, publishers and advertisers alike are diverting their collective attentions to the next generation: Generation Z. The successor generation to millennials is the…

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Does Fox News Channel Offer 2 Kinds Of Content?

Most TV networks offer daytime/early-evening regular news reporting. And then we have prime time, which is loaded opinion — and maybe not much else.

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Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang – The Case for Universal Basic Income

Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang - The Case for Universal Basic Income
Andrew Yang interviewed by Stephanie Sy on Ethics Matter on March 16th, 2018 at the Carnegie Council studio.

Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur and author running for President as a Democrat in 2020. In 2011 he founded Venture for America, a national entrepreneurship fellowship, and spent the last 6 years creating jobs in cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh. When Andrew realized that new technology like artificial intelligence threatened to eliminate one-third of all American jobs, he knew he had to do something.

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Can Mathematics Understand the Brain? – Prof. Alain Goriely, Oxford

Can Mathematics Understand the Brain? - Prof. Alain Goriely, Oxford
March 8th, 2018
Alain Goriely is Professor of Mathematical Modelling, University of Oxford and author of ‘Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction.’
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Zuckerberg Says Facebook Probe Into Apps Won’t Uncover All Data Abuse

Facebook Inc.’s investigation into outsiders’ handling of its users’ information will help identify and deter bad actors but won’t be able to uncover where all the data ended up and how it is being deployed, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview.

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