Month: July 2018

At Pew Research Center, we frequently receive questions about how we measure religion. Here are answers to some of the questions we get most frequently.

CANNES, France–Each year, the Cannes Lions Festival showcases all winning and shortlisted work in a gallery format. Hundreds of entries, ranging from packaging to print to video, line the aisles of the Palais basement. Digital work is available for viewing at computer stations setup throughout the space. Presented with no award-winning hierarchy, the gallery provides…

One of the key press narratives pushed by Paramount in the campaigns for the past three Mission: Impossible movies has been that star Tom Cruise is willing and able to do his own stunts. For 2011’s Ghost Protocol, the focus was on his work during the sequence where Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has to climb the…

There’s a new fitness club in New York, and creatives from top shops like Droga5, Anomaly and R/GA have joined. And they didn’t just buy a monthly membership–they quit their agency jobs and jumped ship. That sort of move might seem like a head-scratcher to some, but Performix House is not just a gym. The…

If being trapped in a car with people singing nonstop doesn’t sound like your idea of a good time, you may want to sit out the Ruisrock festival in Turku, Finland this year. Between July 6 and 8, festival-goers will be able to catch a ride on the Singalong Shuttle–an electric car that accepts payment…

If the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes want to prevent more ratings drops next year, perhaps they should add some fireworks. Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular, NBC’s annual two-hour Independence Day telecast, averaged 7.5 million viewers last night, a 17 percent increase from last year’s audience of 6.4 million. That makes it the most-watched…

Perhaps the only thing worse than being stuck in the office during the summer is having to hear about your coworkers’ trips to far-flung destinations. Burger King sympathizes and wants to help ease this tension a bit. The brand’s Belgian operation and agency Buzzman have collaborated on a digital campaign, Whopper Out of Office, this…

Facebook’s scale – 1.45 billion daily active users at last count – has been its armor through a no-good, very bad year of repeated privacy failures, questions of Russian election interference and other controversies. But scale needs to be maintained. Although only a handful of advertisers pulled spend in the aftermath of Cambridge Analytica, that wouldn’t… Continue reading »

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Last year, U.K. stars like Gordon Ramsay, Thandie Newton, Rowan Atkinson and Ian McKellen suffered through a British Airways flight safety video under the idiotic direction of Chabuddy G. Now the fictional filmmaker–a character from BBC Three’ mockumentary sitcom People Just Do Nothing–is back to harass a new group of top talents, including Sir Michael…

Squarespace and Gimlet Creative asked users to submit their ideas for their own podcast series and the response has been overwhelming. In the three weeks the contest was open for submissions, more than 5,000 entries poured in. Squarespace, an online publishing platform, and Gimlet Creative, the team that oversees branded podcasts, will produce its own,…