Month: December 2020

The number of video-game players has grown five times over the last two decades to 2.7 billion — and interest may take focus away from TV.

Each year, agencies send out holiday cards to clients and partners to thank them for another year of collaboration. Agencies typically revel in the opportunity to show off their creativity in a festive fashion, and the term “card” has become loosely defined to mean any stunt, gift or idea an agency creates during the holidays….

The companies are backing proposals in other states that would give workers the ability to form unions—but still consider them contractors, not employees.

For those on LinkedIn, Doug Melville, vp and head of D&I of Richemont, is a constant presence. Often, Melville raises some essential questions. The difference is that he spends time exploring their meanings. All that fits very much within Melville’s mantra of: “know better, do better.” The idea is that people have a responsibility to…

Combs Enterprises, a business venture from celebrity business mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has appointed Accenture-owned Droga5 as its global agency of record across several brands. The appointment comes as Combs Enterprises outlines ambitions to grow across the entertainment, luxury and lifestyle categories. Combs Enterprises will work with both Droga5 New York and Droga5 London, which…

As part of Adweek’s Year in Review coverage, we asked the industry’s key movers and shakers to reflect on the biggest things they’ve learned since the pandemic, what about the business has changed permanently because of Covid-19 and how their approach to their job has changed as a result of this year’s events. On Monday,…

The first network sitcom of the new year represents the second show to appear this season with a former star of “The Big Bang Theory.”

Local health departments rely on the old-fangled tech to track cases. A hastily developed machine-learning program gives it an assist.