Month: May 2022

The Connecticut General Assembly advanced a privacy bill last week, bringing the Constitution State a step closer to becoming the fifth state in the U.S. to pass legislation regulating how people’s data is collected and shared online. The Connecticut Data Privacy Act–which would take effect July 1, 2023–emulates the privacy laws passed in Utah, Virginia…

A long-time Omnicom executive who rose to CEO of Omnicom Media Group Digital, before leaving to become president and Chief Digital Officer of Publicis’ Starcom MediaVest Group, he moved on to become
an entrepreneur, including a series of networking enterprises connecting people on all sides of the business.

Flamin’ Hot MTN DEW threw a party in the one place on Earth that matches its energy: The town of Hell, Mich. The cursed beverage was originally unleashed upon the world in a limited release in August of last year, but sold out within minutes online. Now it’s back and going big with a nationwide…

Facebook marketer Rok Hladnik awoke last Thursday to discover that more than half of the 140 Facebook ad accounts he operates had been randomly turned off. The week before, the campaigns were overspending in the wee hours of the morning, when they should have been dormant. 2021 was the year of the cicada swarms in… Continue reading »

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YouTube announced an exclusive partnership with Paramount to livestream the world premiere event of the highly anticipated Top Gun: Maverick at its NewFronts presentation this morning. The premiere will allow fans access to the movie’s red carpet premiere and other exclusive content. YouTube also announced a partnership between YouTube creator Jackie Aina and Pat McGrath…

Crypto bros, rejoice: Your Mother’s Day shopping is done. That’s because 1-800-Flowers is giving away NFTs for Mother’s Day 2022. The special occasion retailer commissioned two collections by artists Devi Namira and Maaz Rahell to “reflect the special and unique bond fostered between a child and mother.” The first, Moms Run the World, includes 1,800…

Sean M. Finnegan, whose three-decade career spanned leading roles as a media buyer and planner, digital advertising pioneer and an adviser, investor and leader who bridged the worlds of technology, branding and media, died April 29 in Washington, D.C. of a heart attack. He was 50 years old. The Finnegan family will be holding a…

Jaclyn Johnson really created her career. By the time she was 28, Johnson had sold her first business investing in multiple female-owned startups, and launched her second multimillion-dollar company, Create & Cultivate. Johnson recognized a gap in conversations, resources, events, and community for female millennial entrepreneurs and responded with Create & Cultivate, a media platform…

Instagram allows users to choose a cover image for each video they share on the photo- and video-sharing platform. Users can also manage their video’s cover image so that the desired portion appears in the square video preview on their profile. For instance, if someone shares a video featuring an animal, they could edit the…