Month: December 2021

A surreal short film for Beats by Dre stars a chatty drone with a jealous streak, Compton-born rapper Vince Staples and an “incessantly composed” retail maven, along with dialogue like this: “The root of pi is the root of life.” Confused? So are a few YouTube viewers who said, “What did I just watch?” and…

@jack is out at Twitter, but his crypto-mania is alive and well under Parag Agrawal.

To beat any potential disruption to Christmas that could be caused by shortages across the distribution chain, Dutch beer brand Heineken is offering to provide free beer as a gap filler while people wait for their real presents to arrive, saving them from being left empty-handed. The promotion, running across U.S. cities during the two…

Audible didn’t confirm participants but it’s believed that the company has issued invites to WPP, Interpublic, Omnicom and Publicis and possibly others to participate in the review, according to
sources.

The Denny’s glitches include exclusive access to “The Matrix Resurrections” tickets, free menu items and delivery, and one-cent beverages.

CHEQ says 35.7% of all online shoppers were malicious scrapers and crawlers, sophisticated botnets, fake accounts, click farms and/or proxy users as well as a host of illegitimate users committing
e-commerce-related fraud.

Dotdash, a unit of Barry Diller’s Interactive Corp/IAC, has closed its acquisition of Meredith Corp’s print and digital magazine business. It now owns iconic titles.

Juliette Morris, a longtime executive in the media and tech industries, will be the new CEO of Adweek. Morris will bring a wealth of leadership experience and marketing expertise when she takes on the role in January. Most recently she served as CEO of global streaming audio platform TuneIn after stepping up from chief marketing…