Facebook: How to Stop Seeing Alcohol Ads

Did you know that you can stop Facebook from showing you advertisements related to certain topics? For instance, the social network recently rolled out the ability for users to stop seeing political, election and social issue ads. You also have the option to stop seeing ads related to alcohol. Our guide will show you how…

Comic Artists Bring Dreams to Life for Audible’s Release of The Sandman

Morpheus, the protagonist in DC Comics’ The Sandman, is the ruler of dreams, stories and the imagination. To celebrate the first audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel series, Audible has created a digital campaign that turns fans’ real dreams into art with help from notable comic illustrators. The Amazon-owned audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company…

What’s In A Name? With This Sitcom Title, Who Knows?

The title of a new ABC sitcom provides a great example of how addle-brained the mind can become when fielding all of the messaging that comes at us constantly in our modern world.

What Going Dark on Facebook Really Means for Your Brand

It’s mid-2020. Do you know where your favorite brands are advertising? It is not on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook and its affiliates had become a marketing investment must for companies both large and small. It provides targeted, efficient reach coupled with performance and has an endless pool of inventory with 1.68 billion users, depth of…

White Castle Just Hired a New Fry Guy—and It’s a Robot

Founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921, White Castle lays a legitimate claim to being the oldest restaurant chain in the United States. You might assume that a 99-year-old burger joint that’s been prosperously making sliders since the Harding administration wouldn’t need to innovate very often, much less be at the cutting edge of any sort…

Facebook Teams Up With Esri on OpenStreetMap-Ready Datasets

Facebook is teaming up with location intelligence provider Esri to release new OpenStreetMap-ready datasets for use in building maps. The social network’s Map With AI set of specialized map editing services and tools will roll out new versions of its RapiD editor and JOSM plugin to work with the new datasets, enabling mappers to quickly…

NBCU’s Peacock Is ‘on the Right Path’ Ahead of Debut, Says Chairman

For Matt Strauss, pushing back the premiere date of Peacock was never an option. The seasoned Comcast executive, who was tapped to head up the new streamer as chairman in 2019, realized soon after March’s Covid-19 shutdowns that the new streaming service would arrive in a different landscape than planned. It wasn’t just stay-at-home orders,…