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Calabrese spent 15 years at Omnicom Media Group, most recently as CEO North America Investment. In that role, Calabrese oversaw investment and activation of over $20 billion across media channels.

With a prime minister stepping aside, the Edmonton Oilers dropping the Stanley Cup final, and Drake getting sent back to Degrassi High by Kendrick Lamar, Canada has needed a win in the last year or so. In its Super Bowl comeback, Lay’s may have just given the True North a taste of victory. While Frito-Lay’s…

Dappier, a startup focused on helping publishers monetize their content by connecting it with AI companies, is getting into the ad game by making banner ads more interactive. The ad unit embeds Dappier’s search chatbot–Ask AI, which publishers already embed on their sites–directly into online banner ads, offering audiences a way to ask questions about…

In an apparent overture to the incoming Trump administration, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation, including no more fact-checkers and a move to Texas.

Gemini supports the News Brief feature, unveiled at CES 2025. It will summarize news of the day by searching and scraping news stories and headlines from across the internet and YouTube that have been
posted by a list of trusted news channels.

MSNBC will be undergoing some massive cuts and contract renegotiations of high-profile on-air personalities, according to reports. CNN is focusing on core brand value – a paywall for CNN.com.

The standout star of CBS’s prime-time revival of “Hollywood Squares” is without a doubt Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the world’s canniest canine comedian.

Geoff Calabrese has left Omnicom and will join Publicis Groupe as the holding company’s chief commercial officer. Calabrese, who was most recently chief executive officer of North America Investment at Omnicom Media Group, will oversee client commercial engagements across new and existing partnerships, and will be responsible for the development and delivery of commercial agreements….

The lack of cheap EVs and the reliance on combustion engines is putting Europe’s plan to ban new petrol cars by 2035 at risk.