Month: June 2018

Fresh off the Cannes Lions, where a significant portion of awarded work either broke stigmas or illustrated greater representation, the Unstereotype Alliance in partnership with the United Nations released new work that shows typecasting is still an issue for talent. Intended for the marketing and creative industry, the film from MullenLowe London takes a first-person…

21st Century Fox still doesn’t know whether Disney or Comcast will be its new parent company, but Fox Broadcasting’s sports-heavy future has been solidified with a new five-year deal to bring WWE’s SmackDown Live to the network. Fox Sports announced that it has landed rights to SmackDown Live, which will air on Fox every Friday…

With 300 drones, Intel lit up the sky to celebrate Pride month and to also show an ode to one of its LGBTQ employees. Intel’s infamous drone light shows, which have taken over skies for the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympics and music festivals, finally did one for Pride. The celebration, which took place above…

If you’re still on the fence about what sexual harassment in the workplace looks like (or sounds like), let Donald Glover break it down for you. The multi-talented Glover has lent his voice to an animated PSA, directed by Rashida Jones, for the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund. The PSA is targeted at those who…

Three Instagram features that were announced at Facebook’s F8 annual developer conference in May–video chat in Instagram Direct, the addition of topic channels to the Explore tab and new camera effects–are going live Tuesday. Instagram iOS and Android users can now start video chats in Direct, with one person or a group of people, by…

When the #BloodNormal campaign by Bodyform, advocating for more frank discussion of periods, won two top prizes at the Cannes Lions last week, it seemed to mark a cultural turning point in terms of the stigmas and taboos around women’s reproductive health. And sure enough, just days later, Thinx–the company that engineered period-proof underwear–is getting…

Pizza Hut selected GSD&M as its creative agency of record, following a review launched in March that saw the brand part ways with incumbent Droga5. The brand informed GSD&M of its decision today when its marketing team showed up at the agency’s Austin headquarters in a bus filled with pizza and champagne. Celebrating with the…

The blanket ban on cryptocurrency ads that Facebook announced in late January is no longer in effect, but that doesn’t mean every company with “coin” at the end of its name can flood the social network with ads. Product management director Rob Leathern announced in a blog post Tuesday that ads that promote cryptocurrency and…

The companies say ad buyers can transact traditional ad buys integrated with SRDS data for the first time, even on a programmatic platform.

A British court granted Uber a probationary license to operate in London, a victory for the ride-hailing company as it attempts to resolve allegations of corporate misbehavior before its planned initial public offering next year.