Family Guy Gets Serious About Covid-19 Vaccinations in Animated PSA
The producers of Fox’s animated series Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane teamed up with the Ad Council’s “It’s Up To You” Covid-19 vaccine education initiative to produce a three-minute comedic short featuring the show’s characters to help unvaccinated citizens feel comfortable getting their shot. Top line Fuzzy Door, 20th Television Animation and Fox Entertainment worked…
The Pulitzer Center Takes Over Facebook’s Lift Black Voices Hub
The Pulitzer Center began a three-week takeover of Facebook’s Lift Black Voices hub Tuesday, where it will share content related to The 1619 Project. The New York Times started The 1619 Project to mark the arrival Aug. 20, 1619, of a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans in Point Comfort, a coastal port in…
Venus Williams Calls Out Health Care’s Gender Bias in Blue Shield Campaign
Venus Williams started showing signs of an auto-immune disease called Sjogren’s syndrome in her early 20s, but the doctors she initially consulted with didn’t pinpoint the illness. “Some people thought I had asthma, other people just didn’t know,” Williams says in a short film for Blue Shield of California. “Someone told me maybe I should…
French Ecommerce Platform Mirakl Raises $500 Million as It Looks to Expand Overseas
French ecommerce platform Mirakl raised $555 million as it looks to expand its international operations and forge further into business-to-business (b-to-b) ecommerce. The Series E round, led by Silver Lake Partners, brings its valuation to around $3.5 billion, more than double its worth when the startup raised $300 million around this time last year. The…
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Making Human Connections Is Key to Keeping Remote Employees Engaged
Early in the Covid-19 lockdowns, questions of returning to the office typically revolved around proposed dates and mask protocols. But as the pandemic continued into its second year, it has become a highly complex–and potentially volatile–topic at companies around the world. For many organizations, it’s no longer about a return to normalcy; it’s about defining…
Billboard to Let Facebook Watch Viewers Spend 12 Hours With … Latinx Artists
Billboard will present four-part Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month special 12 Hours With … on Facebook Watch. The Intellectual Property Corporation is producing the series, which will spotlight four Latinx superstars and focus on their heritage and how it shaped them and their music: Maluma, Anitta, Prince Royce and Mariah Angeliq. The first installment, 12…
WPP’s Blue State Ratifies First Union Contract
Provisions in the newly signed contract include just cause termination, clarification of working hours and leave policies, salary minimums, and guaranteed annual raises.