People magazine and celebrity gossip site Just Jared have joined Entertainment Tonight in swearing off one of the most popular invasions of stars’ privacy: Paparazzi photos of famous kids. The bans are, in part, a response to a campaign started last month by actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.
Branded tweets during the Academy Awards Sunday night promise to inspire scores of reactions for the second year in a row.
Even though the Federal Communications Commission chairman said the agency would stay out of the newsroom in a proposed study of the media marketplace, GOP leaders want to make sure it stays that way. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the communications and technology subcommittee, vowed today to introduce legislation to kill the agency's so-called "Critical Information Needs" study. He's also planning to hold a hearing.
The Legacy Foundation has shifted its creative business to 72andSunny. The shift came after a review in which there were four other finalists: Droga5, 180LA, Anomaly and BBDO. Annual media spending on the business is estimated at $50 million. "Legacy is known for its brave campaigns and creative ambition,” said Glenn Cole, co-founder and chief creative officer of 72andSunny.
In what's being called a first for British television, charity organization Save the Children will air a PSA beginning Tuesday night that includes actual footage of a woman giving birth—and it opens with a stark advisory about the shocking content. You can see the ad, titled "First Day" and created by London agency adam&eveDDB, below.
IDEA: You hear it often—it's what's inside that counts. That's especially true for an automaker touting a roomy vehicle, like Honda has with its new Civic Tourer wagon in Europe. To advertise it, Wieden + Kennedy focused on all kinds of interiors in an amazing 60-second spot called "Inner Beauty." The quirky, charming, exquisitely crafted ad takes the viewer, in a first-person view, zooming across a desert and through all sorts of objects—from a golf ball to a suitcase to the Civic Tourer itself—revealing their curious innards.
Richard Just has been named the new editor of Atlantic Media’s National Journal magazine. Just will start March 10 and be based at the publication’s D.C. headquarters. The announcement was made by Tim Grieve, National Journal's editor in chief. Just was most recently with Newsweek, where he was replaced amid the magazine’s most recent ownership change last summer.
Enthusiast magazine publisher Source Interlink Media has named Scott Dickey as its new CEO, the company was set to announce today. Previously, Source Interlink Media and its sibling company, Source Interlink Distribution, had shared a CEO in Michael Sullivan, who will now focus solely on the distribution arm. Before joining Source Interlink, Dickey was CEO of Competitor Group, a lifestyle media and live events company. Prior to that, he had also held the title of president at Transworld Media, a former division of Time Inc. that was sold in 2007.
Kinship is everywhere. It’s empathy in action: a hug, a comforting word, the backbone of a friendship. Kinship is fundamentally selfless, intrinsically rewarding, a vital and extremely human part of being, well, a human being. Illustration: Vahram Muradyan Kinship requires work, and while people inherently are driven by it, brands are not individuals and often do a poor job evoking similar feelings. Consumers have been skeptical of today’s brands’ intentions for some time now, and so is it any wonder they have such a hard time earning trust?
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