Month: April 2020

Twitter is following through on the policy change it enacted last month to remove tweets that increase the chance of someone contracting or transmitting the coronavirus. The social network said in a Twitter Safety tweet that over 1,100 tweets containing misleading and potentially harmful content have been removed, and over 1.5 million accounts targeting manipulative…

How can marketers appropriately remedy the prizes for sweepstakes and promotions that can no longer be fulfilled due to the limits imposed by the coronavirus outbreak? Where are anti-gouging and fair pricing laws applicable? What’s the fine line between responding to the current health crisis and carrying on with business as usual? Today, the Association…

Ask, and ye shall receive: A mere 12 hours after Airbnb Experiences global head of marketing Musa Tariq suggested changing the default text in Instagram’s questions sticker from, “Ask me a question,” to, “How can I help,” with the coronavirus pandemic in mind, the change was made. Tariq said in a tweet Wednesday evening, “I…

The US is short of ventilators to help Covid-19 patients breathe. Ford, GM, and satellite-launch company Virgin Orbit are trying to fill the gap.

TripleLift, one of the leading lights of independent ad tech, has confirmed to Adweek that it shed 7% of its global headcount earlier today. The reduction in staffing was also accompanied by an unspecified number of furloughs. News of the cutbacks emerged following a virtual all-hands where leadership informed attendees of the reduction in headcount,…

South by Southwest may have been canceled, but the annual festival’s film lineup is heading to Amazon Prime Video–for free. As part of a partnership between SXSW organizers and Amazon, films that would have initially premiered as part of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival will instead screen digitally on Amazon Prime Video for 10 days…

They say crisis brings people together. For one agency, that meant linking up two clients to save hundreds of jobs. Seeing the inverse impact the coronavirus pandemic was having on the grocery and restaurant sectors, Republica Havas decided to connect its clients to help save jobs. With Miami’s Versailles and La Carreta restaurants, owned by…

As store closures originally planned for the last two weeks of March extend into April, there have been financial consequences all across the retail industry. And it’s being felt most acutely by the employees who have been furloughed, or in many cases, laid off from their jobs. The ongoing retail layoffs have hit all areas…

LinkedIn is taking steps to help employers searching for front-line workers during the coronavirus pandemic fill those spots as quickly as possible. Vice president of product Tomer Cohen said in a blog post that the professional network is now enabling relevant sectors with urgent hiring needs to post jobs free-of-charge for the next three months….

FiscalNote, a Washington, D.C.-based tech firm, laid off more than a dozen staffers today at CQ Roll Call, a news organization that has long been a staple of reporting in the nation’s capital. According to an email FiscalNote CEO Tim Hwang sent to staff, 30 people were fired on Thursday. Three staffers with knowledge of…