The companies, which split as publicly traded stocks in early 2006 after being together since 1999, set up special committees of independent directors to evaluate a potential combination.
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4 People Get to Slack Off for a Living in This Leisurely Campaign for a Vacation Company
This may well be the best help-wanted ad we’ve read lately. While nowhere near “Best Job in the World” caliber, it clearly draws inspiration from that general direction … and sure beats the City of Los Angeles’ slyly horrific call for graphic designers. The gig is for a Professional Slacker. “The ideal applicant takes great…
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TV News Gets Springer-ized As ‘Fire And Fury’ Erupts On ‘Morning Joe’
Mika Brzezinski declared her show “Morning Joe” to be a No-BS Zone Thursday morning and then promptly dismissed “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff from the show.
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How Houseparty Brings the House Down With a Data-Driven Engagement Strategy
Houseparty has proven itself to be a force to be reckoned with as it continues to redefine the social media landscape. Despite Facebook’s and Snapchat’s 2.072 billion and 178 million users, respectively, the video group chat application is shaking up the industry with just 20 million users. These social media giants are now playing catch…
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Publicis’ Tobaccowala: Advertising Will Decline 30% In Next 5 Years
At a time when it seems there are more opportunities to advertise than ever before, one of Madison Avenue’s most visionary futurists predicts the ability of advertising to actually reach consumers
will decline “20% to 30%” over the next five years. “We will increasingly have less and less advertising,” Publicis Groupe’s Rishad Tobaccowala said during the opening session of CIMM’s Cross-Platform
Media Measurement & Data Summit in New York City Thursday afternoon.
will decline “20% to 30%” over the next five years. “We will increasingly have less and less advertising,” Publicis Groupe’s Rishad Tobaccowala said during the opening session of CIMM’s Cross-Platform
Media Measurement & Data Summit in New York City Thursday afternoon.
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This Is Us’ How-Jack-Died Super Bowl Episode Should Continue Its Sophomore Ratings Surge
The only thing rarer than a breakout freshman broadcast hit these days is a series that manages to build on those ratings in Season 2. In recent years, shows like Empire, Blindspot and How to Get Away With Murder started strong out of the gate, but their audiences had already begun eroding the following season….
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Future Of Media Will Be Redefined By and For Millennials
It is the content that must prevail, not the brand. While advertisers tend to focus on brand placement and impression volume, it’s best to focus on the audience first and determine what type of
content the audience needs.
content the audience needs.
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Spark Foundry Wins NBCUniversal’s Telemundo and Universo Media Business
Spark Foundry announced today it won the online and offline media buying business of broadcast network Telemundo and cable channel Universo, both brands of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. The win comes just in time for the Super Bowl LII, which Universo will air in Spanish on Sunday. “We’re thrilled to team up with these powerhouse Spanish-language…
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YouTube to Label State-Funded Broadcasters in Drive Against Misinformation
YouTube said it is planning changes to give users more context for videos promoting conspiracy theories or state-sponsored content, the latest effort by an internet giant to clean up its platform amid criticism over its role in spreading misinformation.
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Bostrom’s Letter From Utopia – A Vision of The Future
Nick Bostrom, University of Oxford
Dear Human,
Greetings, and may this letter find you at peace and in prosperity! Forgive my writing to you out of the blue. Though you and I have never met, we are not strangers. We are, in a certain sense, the closest of kin…
I am one of your possible futures. One day, I hope, you will become me. Should fortune grant this wish, then I am not just a possible future of yours, but your actual future: a coming phase of you, like the full moon that follows a waxing crescent, or like the flower that follows a seed. I am writing to tell you about my life – how marvelous it is – that you may choose it for yourself.
Although this letter uses the singular, I am really writing on behalf of my all my contemporaries, and we are addressing ourselves to all of your contemporaries. Amongst us are many who are possible futures of your people. Some of us are possible futures of children you have not yet given birth to. Still others are possible artificial persons that you might one day create. What unites us is that we are all dependent on you to make us real. Think of this note as if it were an invitation to a ball – a ball that will take place only if people show up.
We call the lives we lead here “Utopia”.
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