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Tubi Brings Shoppable to the Super Bowl

3 February 2025 at 11:26
Tubi is bringing super deals to the Super Bowl. Today, Tubi announced The Tubi Red Carpet Shop, a new shoppable experience co-created in partnership with Shopsense AI. Through digital storefronts, viewers can purchase items curated across Tubi's collection of movies and TV shows, including more than 300 exclusive originals. All viewers have to do is...

Chuck Goudie to Join NBC Chicago as Investigative Reporter

By: Kevin Eck
3 February 2025 at 11:21
Chuck Goudie will join the investigative team for NBC 5 Chicago (WMAQ) beginning Monday, February 10 He left WLS in December after nearly 45 years on the air at the Chicago ABC owned station. Goudie will join the 'NBC 5 Investigates' team which features Bennett Haeberle along with veteran producers Katy Smyser and Lisa Capitanini....

NBC News and Other Outlets to Lose Pentagon Office Space

3 February 2025 at 11:05
A number of news organizations--including NBC News, The New York Times and NPR--were informed on Friday that they would be losing office space at the Pentagon. Those changes are part of a new annual media rotation program announced by the Department of Defense. Going into effect on Feb. 14, the program will see NBC and...

Sinclair Head of Programming Dave Howitt to Retire After 48 Years in Broadcasting

By: Kevin Eck
3 February 2025 at 10:45
Sinclair senior vice president of programming Dave Howitt will retire on March 31. Howitt has worked for more 30 of his 48 years in television at Sinclair. He was responsible for the acquisition of syndicated programming and program scheduling, overseeing syndicated programming efforts for 43 markets and 90 stations. "I've had the privilege of working...

Paramount and Nielsen End Dispute, Agree to Multiyear Deal

3 February 2025 at 10:11
The standoff is over. Today, Paramount and Nielsen revealed they've signed a new, multiyear deal for data and measurement, effective immediately. Karthik Rao, Nielsen CEO, and George Cheeks, president and CEO, CBS and co-CEO, Paramount Global, announced the news, which officially ends a contract dispute that had been going on since late last year. The...

Eager to Test Threads, Marketers Are Undeterred By Meta’s Brand Safety Roll Back

3 February 2025 at 10:01
A year and a half after its debut, Meta's text-based social platform Threads is testing its first-ever ads with "a handful" of brands in the U.S. and Japan, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri. Ads will appear as image posts sprinkled throughout the home feed and will only appear for "a small percentage of people,"...

BDG Faces Lawsuit for $2.7M In Unpaid Rent and Damages

3 February 2025 at 09:44
The digital media company Bustle Digital Group, which owns editorial titles including Bustle, Nylon, Inverse, and Elite Daily, was sued last week for nearly $3 million in unpaid rent and related damages by the real estate firm Columbia Property Trust. BDG stopped paying rent on its 315 Park Avenue South property in October 2023, racking...

How Marketers Are Bracing for Trump’s Tariffs

President Donald Trump's stiff 25% import tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico over the weekend--plus a 10% tariff on Chinese goods--has already triggered counter-tariffs, trade wars, and threats of legal cases. Mexico's tariffs have been delayed by one month, Bloomberg reported. For marketers whose brands want to continue doing business with the U.S.'s three major...

Why We Should Remember that Twenty Years Ago, the Home of the Super Bowl was a Human Rights Catastrophe

3 February 2025 at 09:29
For football fans curious to know the history of New Orleans' Caesars Superdome--which will host Super Bowl 59 on Sunday--its homepage features an interactive timeline brimming with trivia. Beyonce, the Rolling Stones, and Taylor Swift have packed the Superdome's seats. Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard have boxed beneath its dome. The 50-year-old venue has...

Bret Baier to Interview Donald Trump During Fox’s Super Bowl Pregame Show

3 February 2025 at 09:01
Fox News is bringing back a Super Bowl tradition as chief political anchor Bret Baier will interview President Donald Trump ahead of the Big Game. Their conversation will be pre-taped at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla. and air during the pre-game show at 3 p.m. ET. FNC says that Baier's interview with the...

White Lotus Season 3 Ad Partners Turn Commercials Into Content

3 February 2025 at 09:00
There are some major brands checking into The White Lotus for Season 3, and they are bringing more to the story than just ad dollars. Today, Warner Bros. Discovery Advertising Sales revealed more details about the brand sponsors activating around White Lotus Season 3, including American Express, Diageo, and Google Pixel. Through the partnerships, the...

CBS News to Provide Unedited 60 Minutes Transcript to the FCC

3 February 2025 at 07:34
CBS News reportedly intends to provide an unedited transcript of its 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris to the Federal Communications Commission. The move follows reports that the network's parent company, Paramount Global, is seeking to settle a legal case brought by President Donald Trump about the October interview between Harris and...

Coors Light Super Bowl 59 Ad Gives Sloths a Case of the Mondays

3 February 2025 at 07:30
In the Coors Light Super Bowl universe, humans live among anthropomorphized sloths who can't catch a can of beer if you toss one in their direction. After a "Case of the Mondays" campaign that planted purposely misspelled text in ads and pasted "Mondays Light" onto 12-packs of Coors Light, the Molson Coors brand unveiled its...

Mustaches Fly in Pringles’ 2025 Super Bowl Spot

3 February 2025 at 07:00
Anything is possible during the Super Bowl season. In the case of Pringles' latest Big Game ad, that means mustaches can fly. The 30-second spot, created by FCB New York, stars actor Adam Brody, who calls for help when a party runs out of Pringles. Hearing the sound of distress, the facial hair of Nick...

Doritos Crash the Super Bowl Ad Wins Space Battle for Creators

3 February 2025 at 07:00
Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ended a 10-year hiatus and months of voting and judging with an intergalactic snack battle that viewers felt was worth the fight. Doritos announced the return of Crash the Super Bowl in September, whittled thousands of contenders to just 25 by January, and introduced its three finalists by the middle...

Fast & Furious Goes Slow & Delicious in HΓ€agen-Dazs’ First Super Bowl Ad

3 February 2025 at 07:00
The action in the Super Bowl moves pretty fast, and the commercials seem to fly by as well. But one brand has enlisted one of the fastest franchises in cinema to show that you can slow down and enjoy yourself. Haagen-Dazs has taken on a brand platform of "slow," positioning its ice cream as a...

Annette King Exits Accenture Song And Calls Time On Exec Career

3 February 2025 at 06:54
Dame Annette King is exiting as global lead of Accenture Song's marketing practice and stepping back from executive leadership owing to a "recent health experience." In a statement, King said: "To those who know me, it's no exaggeration to say that this industry has been one of my great loves. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky...

Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg Stand up to Hate in Foundation to Combat Antisemitism’s Super Bowl Ad

3 February 2025 at 04:30
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism's (FCAS) second consecutive Super Bowl ad unites Tom Brady and Snoop Dogg to expose the often ridiculous and overinflated reasons behind hate. For Super Bowl 59, the nonprofit will air two 15-second spots, created by agency VML, featuring the football legend and rapper. "No Reason to Hate" urges viewers to...

NTSB Moves All News Updates About Recent Air Disasters to X

By: Kevin Eck
3 February 2025 at 06:35
The National Transportation Safety Board has announced it won't email reporters information about its investigations into the Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. air crashes anymore. "For media covering the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia--all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information will be posted to this X account," it wrote on Elon Musk's...

Morris Networks Drops News Director Titles, Creates New Leadership Structure

By: Kevin Eck
3 February 2025 at 06:19
Morris Networks, the owner of six stations in the South, has reorganized its news leadership and has replaced the title of news director with a local content manager. Morris, based in Savannah, Georgia, created a position overseeing all six of its stations "Russ Geller is news operations manager, working out of the Lexington station, for...

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