Month: March 2020

The coronavirus epidemic has already thrown a wrench into upfront season, with two media companies canceling their upfront events earlier this week. However, CNN went ahead with its own presentation Thursday night, kicking off upfront season with its CNN Experience event at its New York headquarters in 30 Hudson Yards. Despite the growing coronavirus concerns,…

DJ Khaled is the definition of a multi-hyphenate. A musician, a mogul and a master of brand partnerships, this year alone, he’s starred in his first Super Bowl spot and picked up his first Grammy Award. And on Thursday, he video conferenced into Adweek’s Challenger Brands Summit in New York from his home in Miami,…

Twitter expanded its policies against hateful conduct to include language that dehumanizes on the basis of age, disability or disease. Dehumanizing people on the basis of religion was added to the rules last July. Twitter said in a blog post that when tweets breaking these rules are reported, they must be deleted, but tweets that…

Sonia Syngal, the top executive at Old Navy since 2016, has been promoted to CEO of the brand’s parent company, Gap Inc. The family of brands also appointed two new members to its board of directors and a new executive chairman. This follows a series of leadership shakeups at the retail conglomerate and its brands,…

You’ve heard of stores that sell phones, but how about a store that exists for the sole purpose of buying back cellphones and giving them away to underserved girls in places like Afghanistan? That’s the idea behind A Good Call, a brick-and-mortar pop-up store in New York that runs Friday through Sunday. A partnership between…