Month: June 2019

Set to rollout over the next few months, Facebook is positioning the change as an opportunity for brands to be part of what’s culturally relevant .

In the 887 days since he took office, the President has demonstrated a remarkable tenacity to lie about even seemingly obvious facts, despite an omnipresent and ever vigilant Fourth Estate. And
despite incessant fact-checking by diligent news organizations ranging from The Washington Post to Politifact, the President appears to be winning, ironically, with a little help from the news media.
And by that, I don’t just mean Fox News, but all of the major cable news networks.

Roku remains the leading set-top box/software platform for connected TV sets in the U.S.– now hitting 41 million devices.

Television sets are emerging as the dominant way consumers connect with connected TV (CTV), according to a quarterly tracking study from ad tech firm Extreme Reach. Connected television sets accounted
for a 49% share of CTV impressions during the first quarter of 2019, up from just 31% the same quarter a year ago.

The gun-rights group said content for the channel, produced by Ackerman McQueen, went way beyond its “core mission.” The agency fired back.

This year’s Pride commemorates, as ever, the Stonewall riots, which saw members of the gay community embark on a series of spontaneous uprisings against New York police, who had raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in June 1969. Marking the 50th anniversary of the pivotal moment in the LGBT history in the U.S., this…

Did you know that Snapchat allows you to add a timer to your Snaps, which determines how long your friends can view them? For instance, you can add a five-second timer to a photo Snap, so that they can only view the picture for five seconds. Our guide will show you how this works. Note:…

A project started by two former University of Nebraska football teammates to help a fellow Cornhusker who made it to the National Football League has evolved into a robust athlete social-marketing platform that has raised $9.5 million since being established in 2012. Opendorse recently closed a $3.1 million funding round led by repeat investors Serra…

Google is marking International Small Business Day Thursday with its introduction of Google for Small Business. The new Grow With Google initiative is aimed at giving small and midsized businesses access to the best tools and services from the search-engine giant to help them reach their goals. The company said its search and advertising tools…

An audio snafu briefly disrupted the first Democratic primary debate last night, co-hosted by NBCUniversal, but it didn’t impact NBCU’s ad inventory for the two-hour telecast, despite what moderator Chuck Todd seemed to indicate later in the program. The incident occurred shortly before 10 p.m. ET Wednesday during the debate, which aired on NBC, MSNBC…