Month: February 2018

Facebook announced Wednesday that it expanded the job application tool it launched in the U.S. and Canada last February to more than 40 countries. Vice president of local Alex Himel said in a Newsroom post that local businesses create more than 60 percent of new jobs, adding that a Morning Consult poll of 5,000 adults…

Supreme Court justices voiced concern that Microsoft’s resistance to U.S. search warrants for customer emails stored overseas would hamper criminal investigations, in a case that pits leading tech companies against law enforcement.

NBCUniversal is making the industry’s biggest commitment yet to reducing linear ad loads, announcing today that audiences will see 10 percent fewer ads during all primetime original shows across its entire platform, beginning this fall. The company will be instituting a number of ad innovations–including reducing primetime ad pods by 20 percent, create a 60-second…

U.S. consumers are using their old iPhones and Galaxy S’s longer—or buying refurbished models, the way they buy used cars—depressing Apple and Samsung’s new-smartphone sales.

Vogue and Vice are indefinitely delaying their editorial collaboration.

Sourced suggested the decision was led by Vogue, although Vogue and Vice announced the decision in a joint statement that read: “Both Vogue and Vice are committed to creating the most relevant, innovative content experiences for audiences, and at this time, have mutually decided to delay their content collaboration.”

The partnership was announced in October and widely covered, with most of the press focusing on the opposite nature of the partners, Vogue representing airbrushed sophistication and Vice bringing its gritty reportage. The resulting content was supposed to run on a new site over a 100-day period, with Condé Nast taking the lead on the advertising. Vogue touted the partnership in its high-profile March issue.

But then Vice found itself at the center of a huge workplace harassment scandal that The New York Times exposed in late December. Vogue has had its share of negative attention for its own part because of its association with famous fashion photographers that have been accused of harassing models. Launch sponsors including Gap pulled their support and redirected their spending to other brands at Condé Nast, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.

Earlier in February, the publishers said they were still committed to the project and that it would launch at the end of the month. At the time, Vogue provided a statement that read: “Vogue feels optimistic about Vice’s significant commitments to a respectful, inclusive and equal workplace and are encouraged by the collaborative efforts their editorial team has shown during the past several months. We look forward to sharing the content we’ve created together in the coming weeks.”

Today, however, they said otherwise.

The publishers didn’t give an end date for the delay, which leaves room for the possibility that the partnership might never be fulfilled.

Existing staffers and contributors were working on the collaboration, so no layoffs are expected.

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Explore the origins and destinations of migrants from 233 countries between 1990 and 2017.

Facebook officially launched its Women in Gaming initiative, created to give women in the video-game industry a place to share their stories and connect with others. With this launch, interested users can now visit the Women in Gaming website to view research related to gender and diversity in gaming, as well as to access links…

Wunderman hired Daniel Bonner in the role of global chief creative officer, effective March 5. He replaces Lincoln Bjorkman, who has served global chief creative officer since 2013 and is leaving Wunderman to explore unspecified new opportunities. Based out of London, Bonner will be tasked with overseeing the creative vision of the agency globally across…

On Nov. 11, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opened its doors. It calls itself the first “universal museum in the Arab world,” exhibiting art from a globalized perspective. But the United Arab Emirates doesn’t really have a strong museum-going culture. Thus was conceived this insight: If traffic won’t come to the art, why not bring art…

Facebook’s recent announcement that it would alter its algorithm to favor posts from friends and family prompted publishers to re-evaluate their audience strategies. As traffic from Facebook declines, many publishers are looking to other platforms to pick up the slack.

Digiday conducted an online survey of media executives to see what platforms they are prioritizing in the wake of Facebook’s algorithm changes. Apple News had a slight edge over Facebook, while Flipboard and Snapchat were an afterthought.

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