Month: July 2022

Gymshark, a British fitness and apparel brand with a robust social media presence, is celebrating LGBTQ+ communities beyond Pride month with a new campaign focused on their unique journeys with identity, love, struggle, successes and progress. To inspire and educate the upcoming generation of LGBTQ+ athletes looking to break into the space, Gymshark launched “Pride…

When then-Facebook revealed in August 2020 that starting in October of that year, people using Oculus devices for the first time would be required to login with a Facebook account, it was not a popular decision. Meta reversed that decision Thursday. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post, “You won’t need a Facebook account…

As marketers flood the metaverse with new kinds of branded experiences, it can be easy to lose sight of what makes these virtual worlds appealing to the users who spend time in them. That human element is what agency Momentum Worldwide sought to pin down in a recent survey of 4,500 consumers across seven countries….

With leisure travel returning to pre-pandemic levels and travelers experiencing some headaches as a result, the industry is calling in reinforcements to smooth out the turbulence. Earlier this week, Natalie Wills announced that she’d joined Booking.com as its vp of brand. A veteran executive who’s spent more than 15 years handling brand strategy, marketing and…

Within the advertising and marketing spaces, diversity attracts increasing attention. In fact, when there are practices that negatively impact people from underrepresented backgrounds, the calls for adding “diversity” become amplified. But we can’t consider issues of representation without exploring power imbalances. According to a November 2021 report, marketing is more ethnically diverse than ever at…

e.l.f. Cosmetics is bringing makeup and skincare to its Twitch community and gamers in general with its rollout of eight-piece collection Game Up. e.l.f. Beauty vice president of integrated marketing communications Patrick O’Keefe said in a statement, “e.l.f. was an early adopter in beauty on Twitch. We want to uplift and empower all creators in…

July is Disability Pride Month and, to mark the occasion, Discord released several accessibility features on desktop, iOS and web, with Android support coming in the future. A new Role Colors feature allows servers to display a colored dot next to a user’s name if they have been assigned a role in the server. This…