Newsweek returns to newsstands Friday with a small press run (70,000), but it’s hoping to make a big impact with its cover story, which claims to have actually tracked down the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, the man credited with inventing Bitcoin.
Time rolled out its long awaited Web redesign Wednesday night, and lest anyone miss it, it's debuting in tandem with an elaborate multimedia project on the new One World Trade Center. A year in the making, the project includes a special issue, multimedia site, softcover book and movie by Red Border Films, the magazine's new documentary film unit. There's also a cool 360-degree interactive photo shot from the top of the tower and video that goes behind the scenes of the shoot.
Facebook and Instagram will take down posts for gun sales that don't follow the law and block all children under 18 from viewing posts from gun sellers or traders. The change in policy, announced today in a Facebook blog post, followed a month-long campaign by Moms Demand Action that showed how easy it was to obtain illegal firearms through Facebook. The group collected more than 230,000 signatures urging Facebook to do something about it.
Specs Who Patrick J. Adams Age 32 Accomplishments Stars as Mike Ross on USA’s Suits (Season 3 returns March 6 at 9/8c); set to appear in NBC’s upcoming miniseries adaptation of Rosemary’s Baby Base Los Angeles What’s the first information you consume in the morning? Email is usually first, with Instagram a close second.
If you're a LinkedIn member, you might start seeing more ads from the professional social network. Continuing its push to get more revenue from advertising, LinkedIn is bringing Sponsored InMail, which lets advertisers email targeted messages straight to users' mobile devices.
Following his surprise exit from American Media Inc. last August, David Perel has landed at rival Bauer Publishing as editorial director of In Touch and Life & Style, effective immediately. Perel joined AMI as a reporter for the National Enquirer in 1985, eventually rising to editor in chief.
Flipboard announced today it is buying Zite, one of its smaller rivals in an increasingly crowded space of mobile newsreading apps. In addition to the acquisition, the deal includes a content and ad sales partnership with CNN. All CNN content will be available on Flipboard, and CNN will create custom magazines for the app from its talent and personalities, starting with Fareed Zakaria, Jake Tapper and John King. Flipboard and CNN also will sell ads together.
For the first time in six years, Saatchi & Saatchi has a worldwide creative director. Pablo Del Campo, cd for the agency's Latin American region since 2007, has assumed the global role that Bob Isherwood vacated in 2008. As such, the Buenos Aires-based Del Campo becomes the top creative executive at the Publicis Groupe agency, whose top accounts include Procter & Gamble, Toyota and General Mills.
Geico and M&M's, the peanut butter and chocolate of comic advertising, have teamed up for this tasty peanut-butter cup of a commercial, in which Ms. Brown seeks to get insurance—much to the dismay of Geico's gecko, who has clearly read the company handbook on providing coverage to candy. (The edible are not eligible.) There's a cameo by a third character, too, well timed for this midweek release. M&M's agency BBDO New York led the creative, with input from The Martin Agency, which handles Geico. A social-media campaign on Facebook and Twitter will tell the larger story of Ms.
Facebook paid a staggering $19 billion for WhatsApp. While it trails Facebook as a messaging app in the United States, WhatsApp dwarfs Facebook in terms of monthly active users. Below, a look at WhatsApp usership around the world and a snapshot of users' demographics.
