JCPenney and SPARC Group joined forces to form Catalyst Brands, a new combination of iconic retail brands uniting Aeropostale, Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Lucky Brand and Nautica with JCPenney and its exclusive private brands, which include Arizona, Liz Claiborne, and Stafford. The new company also revealed that it sold off the U.S. operations of Reebok...
Airbnb is working with nonprofit 211 LA to provide free temporary housing to people who have been displaced from their homes or forced to evacuate due to the wildfires currently raging through Los Angeles County. The stays are funded by the property rental platform's nonprofit arm, Airbnb.org, with many hosts offering their homes free or...
Not even the pink aura of Barbie could save the top brass at Warner Bros. Motion Pictures from the effects of the pandemic and the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Writers Guild of America strikes, as the studio revealed a shuffle atop its executive ranks Wednesday. President of domestic distribution...
It's been a wild ride for Linda Yaccarino since leaving NBCUniversal in June 2023 to become CEO of X, and she discussed where that ride has taken her and where it might be headed during her keynote address at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Here are five key topics she touched on in her...
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...
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...
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...
Disney went live at CES in Las Vegas, unveiling an ad certification for live entertainment and sports, as well as biddable deals for the latter via its ad server. The first demand-side platforms to earn the new certification from Disney are Google Display & Video 360, The Trade Desk, and Yahoo DSP, while Magnite is...
PayPal Honey, a free browser extension that aggregates and applies coupons for shoppers on ecommerce sites, has been hit with a class-action suit from creators over allegedly manipulating affiliate links. As reported by Dexerto, attorney Devin Stone, whose LegalEagle YouTube account has nearly 3.5 million followers, filed the suit, which includes a request for an...
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which took effect in 2000, set the minimum age for social media users in the U.S. at 13. Lawmakers in Florida want teens to wait a bit longer. House Bill 3, which was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in March, went into effect at the start of the new...
When the hit song of 2024 shares a title with a product offered by your company, a collaboration only makes sense. Dunkin finally took its swing at tie-up with Sabrina Carpenter, the Grammy Award-nominated artist behind pop smash "Espresso." The brand and the singer joined forces on the Dec. 31 debut of "Sabrina's Brown Sugar...
The mood at Party City was far from festive Friday, as CNN reported that the retailer will abruptly shut down its stores and let all employees go at the end of the day, ending a run of nearly 40 years. Party City specialized in items such as balloons, Halloween costumes, and party goods, and CNN...
Omnicom Media Group (OMG) is bringing on PHD exec Katie Klein as chief investment officer, it shared with ADWEEK. Klein previously held the same role at subsidiary PHD USA. In her three years there, she built an integrated investment arm serving clients including Burger King, Delta Airlines, Diageo, Priceline, Uber, and Volkswagen Group. Prior to...
Helene Dick has joined independent creative agency Special US as head of strategy, the agency shared with ADWEEK. She will report to Special Group CEO Kelsey Hodgkin. Dick is a seasoned agency executive, having spent more than two years prior at TBWA\Media Arts Lab as executive director of strategy for the Apple account, where she...
Former IPG and Amazon Ads exec Amy Armstrong will join Publicis Groupe as chief revenue officer, a new role at the holding company, on March 1. Armstrong joins from Amazon Ads, where she was director of global customer development since June 2022, following five years as CEO of IPG Mediabrands' Initiative. Prior to that, she...
Dick's Sporting Goods has a new executive to lead its retail media network. David Young has joined Dick's as a vice president to oversee the ad business. The retailer launched its retail media network, Dick's Media Network, in 2022. He brings more than 20 years of experience in managing media and ad networks, most recently...
The House China Select Committee began issuing reminders on Friday that it is serious about the potential ban of TikTok in the U.S. starting Jan. 19. Committee chair Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) sent letters to Apple, Google, and TikTok Friday reminding them that barring a change in TikTok's...
The maxim that "all press is good press" was put to the test this week at Indian beauty startup YesMadam, which is dealing with the fallout from campaign that used a false layoff notice to shed light on workplace stress. According to several reports, employees at the company completed an internal wellness survey and then...
When Quicken Loans rebranded as Rocket Mortgage in July 2021, it sought to align the product with its parent company's (Rocket Companies) brand while showcasing its use of technology throughout the home buying process. Now that it's built some awareness with the new name, Rocket Mortgage is giving its brand a refresh. In partnership with...
IPG Mediabrands plans to lay off 103 people on Jan. 2., according to a WARN notice filed in the state of California. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires companies with 100 or more employees to provide notifications of facility closures or mass layoffs 60 calendar days in advance. IPG Mediabrands filed the WARN...
