How The Thorn Birds Took Flight as a Running Seth Meyers Quarantine Joke

It took Seth Meyers a few tries to figure out the best location to broadcast Late Night from home–but his comedy instincts remained sharp as ever. One of Late Night With Seth Meyers’ funniest recurring bits since Meyers began filming at home in March has been his use of The Thorn Birds, a 1977 bestselling…

Yelp Updates Its Covid-19 Features for Businesses as They Begin to Reopen

Yelp rolled out significant additions Tuesday to the Covid-19 business update section for business owners that it initially introduced in late March. Head of consumer product Akhil Kuduvalli Ramesh said in an email, “To address the needs of local businesses and consumers during these uncertain, unprecedented times, Yelp introduced new features in two phases. In…

Facebook Doesn’t Need News Content To Survive

Australia’s effort to develop a cross-subsidization scheme for publishers is unlikely to be mimicked in the U.S., where antitrust efforts are focused on other ways to curb possible anti-competitive
behavior.

Who Should Lead Racial Justice Talks?; Marketers Celebrate LGBTQ SCOTUS Win: Tuesday’s First Things First

Welcome to First Things First, Adweek’s daily resource for marketers. We’ll be publishing the content to First Things First on Adweek.com each morning (like this post), but if you prefer that it come straight to your inbox, you can sign up for the email here. Who Should Lead Discussions on Racial Justice, Diversity and Inclusion?…

BidSwitch’s Barry Adams On Keeping An Eye On The Bouncing Ball In Ad Tech

AdExchanger’s Social Distancing With Friends podcast now has its own channel. Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Barry Adams, general manager of BidSwitch, lived abroad for 20 years, in China, Hong Kong and most recently London – until the end of January this year, when he got married and moved to NewContinue reading »

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Google Experiments Hint At Cookie-Free Future

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Martin Kihn, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud.  In late April, Google announced in-market tests for some of the proposals in its Privacy Sandbox, where the cookie-free web isContinue reading »

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