Month: March 2020

After spending more than three weeks locked away in her two-room apartment in Palo Alto, Calif., Jennifer Baer felt the same pangs of helplessness and heaviness shared by the more than three-quarters of the country currently under stay-at-home orders. A creative designer at NASA, she already felt guilty for not doing more with all the…

WPP has implemented a number of cost-cutting measures in light of the spread of COVID-19. The holding company said it is freezing new hires, reviewing freelance spend and stopping “discretionary” costs, which include travel, hotels and awards show payments. WPP is also postponing planned salary increases for 2020. Members of WPP’s executive committee, as well…

Maria Scileppi has had an enviable career. She’s worked for some of the biggest names in advertising, including Young & Rubicam and 72andSunny. She is a past director of the Chicago Portfolio School. And in between, she’s had stints at tech companies Autodesk and Dropbox focusing on the future of work. In February, just as…

Beta stand-alone application Spotify Kids was extended to Canada, France and the U.S. Tuesday, after debuting in Ireland last October and expanding into Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden and the U.K. earlier this year. Spotify Kids is available exclusively to Spotify Premium Family subscribers in those markets. The app is ad-free and…

The package includes $500 million for tracking and data collection, worrying some government watchdogs.

LONDON–As countries around the world face a shared pandemic, it is the frontline workers who have emerged as the most vital in every society–and none more so than the healthcare workers tirelessly attempting to fight back the spread of COVID-19. Grazia, one of the U.K.’s most popular women’s magazines, has dedicated its latest edition to…

In a fitting nod to the era of social distancing, streams of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police shot up more than 135% on Spotify in recent weeks. The audio-streaming service analyzed trends on its platform for the week of March 19 through 25, when the coronavirus pandemic confined most people to…

Tumblr rolled out a new official blog Tuesday, Cozy.Tumblr.com, to help its users cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Cozy.Tumblr.com is not a place for updates related to Covid-19. Rather, it was created to give people “a safe space where they can find positivity in between all the hard news.” Tumblr said the blog will be…

Nike surprised investors last week when it reported better than expected third-quarter results, with revenues up 5% globally to $10.1 billion during the period, offering a bit of good news in an otherwise grim news environment for the retail sector. In particular, the athletic goods juggernaut reported only a 5% decrease in sales in Greater…