Month: July 2022

Twitter asked Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, chief judge of the Delaware Chancery Court, for a four-day trial in September in its bid to force Elon Musk to go through with his $44 billion acquisition of the company. Musk asked for a 10-day trial next February. McCormick’s ruling fell somewhere in the middle. The judge…

Earlier this year, Samsung faced backlash for a “tone deaf” ad that depicted a woman running alone through the dark streets of London. The 1-minute video followed a series of high-profile murders in the U.K., with critics saying it didn’t reflect the dangers faced by women. “Night Owls” by Ogilvy New York shows a young…

Brands on Instagram can now boost their Reels directly via the application. Boosted Reels will appear in Explore, feed, the Reels tab and Stories, making it easier for brands to be discovered by Instagrammers. In order to be eligible for boosting, Reels must be shorter than 60 seconds and be filmed in a 9:16 aspect…

Fans of Bert “The Machine” Kreischer know him as a perpetual man-child of many talents. He’s a burly stand-up comedian who often performs shirtless–proudly displaying his ample belly–he’s a podcaster, an actor, a reality show host and a self-identified party animal. But a new campaign from Liquid Death adds “fitness influencer” and “Midwest sex symbol”…

Netflix just lost almost a million subscribers–but the number was only half of what it had expected. The world’s largest streaming service reported 220.67 million global subscribers in the second quarter. While that’s a loss of nearly 1 million–specifically 970,000, the streamer’s biggest subscriber drop ever–it’s far better than the 2 million dip the company…

WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. says its new ECO9 news truck is the first of its kind.

Will future summer movie tie-ins happen via big streaming shows, or will things revert to the way they were before the pandemic?