Month: May 2022

YouTube is once again revving its pitch to advertisers on how it’s better than TV. “[Advertisers] need to be where people are and in TV, that is YouTube,” said Tara Walpert Levy, vice president, Americas at YouTube. That’s the crux of the platform’s pitch to advertisers during its first appearance during the upfronts week. YouTube…

To mark Discord’s seventh birthday, the messaging platform released a Party Mode feature in its desktop application that can add elements such as a typing combo counter and flying confetti to the Discord experience. Party Mode will be available until May 16 at 5 p.m. PT. Here’s how to turn Party Mode on or off…

A newly unsealed opinion is likely the first decision from a US federal court to find that cryptocurrencies can’t be used to evade sanctions.

For a while now, Uber has been doing more than just taking people to airports and transporting meals to homes. Its latest Super Bowl commercial, for example, shows how the app can get diapers, dish soap and paper towels delivered to consumers’ front doors. Today, the San Francisco-based tech company is unveiling even more services…

Fast-food giant McDonald’s has announced plans to permanently exit Russia over 30 years after it became one of the first Western brands to open its doors in the country. The fast-food chain, which has started to look for a local buyer to take over the 850 restaurants it owns in the country, said a priority…

As AI invades the interview process, the DOJ and EOCC have provided guidance to protect people with disabilities from bias.

With few exceptions, the hospitality industry doesn’t embrace pets so much as it tolerates them. Ten years ago, my wife and I moved from Boston to Portland, Oregon with our two cats–Switz and Ernie–buckled into kennels in the back seat. We’d sent our belongings ahead in a storage container and plotted a northern route through…

NBC is going back in time for its fall schedule. The network is adding two new series–Quantum Leap and Lopez vs Lopez–as it sets its fall schedule for the 2022-23 season, ahead of NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation later Monday morning. And each show packs a bit of nostalgia. With its fall lineup, NBC is looking to…

“‘Krapopolis’ will serve as the first-ever animated series curated entirely on the blockchain,” Fox announced this morning, repeating exactly what it announced last year.

Hill has served as a consultant to the Cleveland-based ad agency since forming her own consultancy in 2017 after leaving the 4A’s.