Retired WLS traffic anchor Roz Varon has started up a scholarship fund to remember her daughter, who died last week. Sara Beth Janz was 29 years old when she died in New Mexico from a recent illness, Varon said. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that I share the last picture I took with...
Fox 11 (KTTV) reporter Matthew Seedorff tried to help firefighters on Tuesday afternoon. Seedorf was covering the Palisades Fire, which spread Tuesday evening, burning more than 1,200 acres in just a few hours. Seedorff used a garden hose that he found and tried to put out some of the flames on the street and near...
Amazon Marketing Cloud is adding a dash of generative artificial intelligence to its platform, in the form of a new feature, introduced at CES in Las Vegas Wednesday, that lets advertisers submit structured query language (SQL) queries to build and target audiences. The new capability, slated for availability to all Amazon Marketing Cloud advertisers in...
What TikTok ban? Despite a looming potential U.S. ban and ByteDance representatives set to plead at the U.S. Supreme Court this week against a ban, TikTok is still pitching brands and creators on how to best use its platform. TikTok has launched the fifth annual What's Next Trend Report for 2025, showcasing nine trends to...
Cinema advertising platform National CineMedia, the U.S. representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, officially launched the 2025 Young Lions competition and its new partnership lineup, including the Young Lions Titanium Award and new agency sponsorship. The 2025 competition marks 10 years of NCM's role as U.S. representative and the first since NCM's...
Brands have long been able to track if their Amazon streaming TV ads lead to sales on the ecommerce giant. Now, they can see if those campaigns drive sales at other retailers, too. While Amazon dominates retail media budgets, the bulk of shopping still happens in stores, and advertisers are increasingly hungry to see if...
As people try to stick to New Year's resolutions, Hanes has issued its own maxim for fresh starts: "If You Wouldn't Flaunt It, Refresh It." Created by agency of record Special U.S., the brand's new campaign calls out people's habit of wearing undergarments well past their prime. You know: holey socks, bras with exposed underwire,...
The clock is officially ticking for TikTok. What once seemed far-fetched now feels more real than ever. After a long, contentious battle--with TikTok arguing that a ban would be unconstitutional and violate free speech rights, and lawmakers citing concerns over data privacy and foreign influence--the app recently lost its legal efforts in the D.C. Circuit...
E.W. Scripps has promoted Lyn Plantinga to the role of senior vice president of local media, effective immediately. Plantinga will lead local media operations, overseeing Scripps' team of regional vice presidents, all while serving as general manager for WTVF, Nashville's CBS-affiliated local television station owned by Scripps. She has served as regional vice president and...
Amazon Ads revealed at CES in Las Vegas that brands using its data clean room, Amazon Marketing Cloud, can now query up to five years of purchase signals from the ecommerce giant for measurement use cases. Amazon Marketing Cloud is Amazon's privacy-safe, cloud-based clean room that advertisers use to plan and measure ads. Previously, Amazon...
At CES on Monday, Comcast announced the launch of Universal Ads, a TV advertising platform that brings media companies together in a partnership to simplify access to premium video inventory. According to Comcast, Universal Ads will allow advertisers of all sizes to buy premium video directly from some of the most prestigious media companies today...
NBC News' Today remained in first place in total viewers and the advertiser-coveted demo of Adults 25-54 during the week of Dec. 30. But the morning show race was tighter during the final days of 2024 as only 8,000 total viewers separated Today from its main rival, ABC News' Good Morning America. The typically slow...
ADWEEK has partnered with AI Trailblazers to present the inaugural AI Trailblazers Power 100 list. We're seeking nominations to highlight the talent helping drive AI innovation forward in the marketing and advertising industry. AI Trailblazers is a vibrant platform dedicated to uniting marketers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists at the forefront of artificial intelligence. We're...
Jack Bamberger, TikTok U.S.' general manager of agency business, left the company on Jan. 3, according to a person with direct knowledge. A second source from an advertising agency told ADWEEK that a TikTok rep confirmed Bamberger's departure to them. The move coincides with TikTok's intensifying challenges, including a potential U.S. ban slated for January...
ADWEEK is shadowing Razorfish at CES this week. Follow along for more behind-the-scenes reporting from the event. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a big moment for agencies looking to set the stage for the year. For Razorfish, the Publicis-owned digital agency on the cusp of its 30th anniversary, this year's CES marks...
Only one evening news broadcast closed out the year with positive momentum, and that was the CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell. CBS News' flagship newscast recorded week-to-week gains in total viewers and Adults 25-54, while its ABC News and NBC News rivals saw modest dips in the last week of 2024. Still, ABC World...
In a move seen by some as an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump, Meta said Tuesday that it will scrap the third-party fact-checking program that has been in place since 2016 in the U.S. in favor of a Community Notes initiative, resembling that used on X (formerly Twitter). Joel Kaplan--who was promoted to chief...
The political news publisher The Washington Post began laying off 4% of its workforce Tuesday, the latest in a series of headaches to plague the storied news outlet over the last year. The reductions, which will affect fewer than 100 staff in total, will primarily affect its business divisions, which include the advertising sales, marketing,...
CES is not a tech show--it's a time machine. Each booth, keynote, and prototype offers a glimpse of the future. It's a cacophony of innovation, yet hidden within the noise are the signals that define tomorrow's consumer behavior, business models, and cultural shifts. For ad executives, the challenge isn't merely surviving CES; it's about seizing...
Today (Jan. 7), Stagwell Brand Performance Network announced it is partnering with independent audio media agency Ad Results Media (ARM). ARM has executed audio media strategy, creative, planning, and buying for brands like Molson Coors, BetterHelp, ZipRecruiter, and Liquid Death. The strategic collaboration will allow Stagwell's clients to expand its marketing across the audio creator...
