Future plc, the U.K.-based digital publishing company, shut down the 33-year-old consumer technology publisher Laptop Mag on Tuesday, a move that continues the company’s quiet consolidation of its brand portfolio. Fewer than 10 staffers were affected by the closure, which was communicated Tuesday in a brief Zoom meeting with employees, according to a recording of ..
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Fox Television Stations (FTS) has announced leadership promotions across multiple markets. Paul McGonagle, currently vice president and news director of WTTG Fox 5 Washington, D.C., has been named senior vice president and general manager of WJBK Fox 2 Detroit. He takes over for gm Greg Easterly, who is retiring. In addition, Amber Eikel has been ..
First on TVNewser: CBS News is bringing back Michael Solmsen as an executive producer of The Takeout with Major Garrett on CBS News 24/7. Solmsen was most recently with NBC News, where he launched and executive-produced NBC News Now’s Top Story with Tom Llamas. He began his career at CBS News as an intern for ..
Zohran Mamdani’s unexpected win as the Democratic nominee in New York’s mayoral primary stunned the political establishment. It also surprised the scrappy team of filmmakers behind his viral campaign videos. The agency driving the creative charge isn’t a traditional political consultancy but a small, Brooklyn-based collective that operates more like a guerrilla production studio than ..
Walmart is going to play a crucial role in NBCUniversal’s game plan for live sports. Today at Cannes Lions, during the NBCU takeover of FreeWheel Beach with Vive le Live, NBCU and Walmart announced a partnership that uses Walmart’s scale and shopper data to enable advanced audience targeting and cross-platform attribution in NBCU’s live sports advertising. This ..
A rather busy news week delivered positive results in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for all three evening newscasts for the week of June 9. From the rising tension stemming from the ICE arrests on the national front to the tragic airplane crash in India and the growing Middle East crisis in international ..
Agencies are increasingly taking private equity (PE) investment to grow and give founders a path to exit without selling to a holding company. Recent deals in the space span from indie shops like BarkleyOKRP and Chemistry taking PE backing, to holding companies like IPG selling agencies like Huge and R/GA to PE investors. While many ..
FCB has added another title to New York CEO Emma Armstrong’s remit: global chief transformation officer. The role expands her purview from the New York office to the agency’s global network. Armstrong, who has led FCB New York for five years, will now also oversee innovation and systems integration initiatives across the network, with a ..
Fox’s ad sales team continues to grow amid upfront talks. Today, the company announced it’s bringing in Puja Vohra as chief marketing officer and executive vice president of advertising sales, effective June 16. Vohra reports to Jeff Collins, president, advertising sales, marketing, and brand partnerships. In the newly created role, Vohra will develop and execute ..
Ads from major brands including Verizon, Amazon, and Popeyes ran next to sexually suggestive or racially offensive content on a popular short-form video platform XShorts, ADWEEK has confirmed. At the time of writing, XShorts has over a million downloads and is the top app in the free entertainment category on the Google Play store. It ..
