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Super Bowl 56 Halftime Show Won’t Have Just One Headliner—It’ll Have 5
Instead of featuring one or two headliners as usual, the Pepsi Super Bowl 56 Halftime Show will split the spotlight five ways. Top line The event–which is slated to be held on Feb. 13, 2022, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., and air on NBC, Peacock and Telemundo–will feature performances from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg,…
MOD Pizza Serves Up Inclusive Hiring Practices in First National Campaign
If the popularity of build-your-own restaurants signifies anything, it’s that, for a lot of consumers, the best meals are the ones you design yourself. Offering options is a necessity for today’s restaurants, but expanding that inclusivity to a brand’s hiring practices and company culture is a key element that can go overlooked. In its first…
3 Radical New Rules for Creatives When It Comes to Sustainable Packaging
I admit that I have a love-hate relationship with packaging. As a creative director, the visual challenge of using packaging to attract, entertain and inform is gratifying. From creating and channeling a brand’s identity and personality in its most pure form to making something fun and beautiful that gets someone excited about trading their money…
Clubhouse Unveils 4 New Features
Social audio application Clubhouse shared progress with some of its existing features Thursday and introduced four new ones. Clubhouse said it reached 1 billion messages sent via its Backchannel direct messaging feature, which debuted in July, as well as seeing 700,000 rooms created per day, up from 300,000 in May. As for the new wrinkles,…
The Senate Is Mad as Hell at Facebook—Again
The latest hearing on Instagram and teen mental health was the depressing work of a legislature that can’t legislate.
SXSW Doubles Down Against Calls to #BoycottTexas: ‘We Are Committed to Staying and Fighting’
As voting and abortion rights are eroded in its home state of Texas, South by Southwest is staying put. The annual conglomeration of festivals today addressed calls for it to leave the Lone Star State in the wake of restrictive new voting and abortion laws passed in recent weeks by the conservative state legislature. SXSW…