The documentary "One Stride: Chosen Family" premiered last weekend at Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles. Among the story's narrators is 27-year-old actress Mj Rodriguez, who plays Blanca in the FX show "Pose" and is part of the largest cast of transgender actors to appear as regulars in a scripted show. She has also appeared...
Barefoot Continues Its Legacy of LGBTQ Activism With a Documentary at Outfest Film Festival
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MDC Partners Parts With CMO and Other Corporate Executives Before Q2 Earnings Report
Agency network MDC Partners parted with several members of its corporate leadership team earlier this week, a spokesperson confirmed today. "Our MDC colleagues are truly family, and they represent some of the best in the business," read a statement. "As we look to the future and refine the structure of our organization to best support...
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Facebook’s Mark D’Arcy Moves Into Expanded Role as CCO
After leading Facebook's Creative Shop for the past seven years, Mark D'Arcy's role has expanded as he moves into the position as the platform's vp of global business marketing and CCO. He takes over for Sarah Personette, who left the social giant to become the COO of Refinery29 last fall. D'Arcy will maintain a significant...
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4 Key Takeaways on Bringing Diversity to the Field From the Multicultural Alliance Bootcamp
She Runs It, formerly known as Advertising Women of New York (AWNY), held a Multicultural Alliance Bootcamp yesterday to discuss the state of diversity in the marketing and media world. According to the organization, its Multicultural Alliance "works to foster a sense of community among members with multicultural expertise and interests and to infuse multiculturalism...
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Tom Arnold to Hunt Down Incriminating Trump Tapes for Viceland ‘Until He Resigns’
It only took one and a half days for the first truly bizarre panel at the Television Critic Association's summer press tour: Tom Arnold ranting for a half hour about his efforts to bring down President Trump. It's all part of Arnold's new Viceland show, The Hunt for the Trump Tapes With Tom Arnold. In...
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ACLU Says Amazon Tool Falsely IDed Elected Officials in Mugshots
As it appeals to Congress to stop law enforcement from using facial recognition technology, the American Civil Liberties Union tested out Amazon's tool Rekognition with images of the members of the 115th Congress themselves. The result: It incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with people in mugshots. In a release, the ACLU said it built...
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The Macallan Created a Virtual Reality Tour of Its New Whisky Distillery
If you tried to travel by train from New York City to Macallan's new distillery in Scotland, you wouldn't make it very far. However, the whisky brand's new virtual reality experience lets commuters take a 360-degree tour that's a little cheaper--and a little soberer. To celebrate the opening of its new $186 million distillery, Macallan...
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When This Condom Brand Dares, It Leads to the Truth About Intimacy and Trust
Get closer ... if you dare. In this highly entertaining, mostly SFW campaign, a bunch of twenty-somethings answer questions and tackle various challenges based on common relationship themes such as trust and intimacy. Developed by German agency +Knauss, and shot in crisp black-and-white, documentary-style, by youth culture maven Danielle Levitt, these "Dare to be Closer"...
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MDC Partners and CP+B File Motion to Dismiss Diet Madison Avenue Defamation Lawsuit
The legal entanglements involving anonymous whistle-blower group Diet Madison Avenue, MDC Partners, CP+B and that agency's former chief creative officer Ralph Watson moved into a new phase this week as the network and agency filed a motion to have his lawsuit against them dismissed. In short, the lawyers argue that Watson must resolve any and...
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Havas Germany Made Trees ‘Scream’ to Fend Off Illegal Loggers
Some of the last European primeval forests in Romania are being illegally depleted every day, and Havas Germany has had enough. The agency has launched an initiative to raise awareness not only that these forests being destroyed, but also to inform people that they still exist in the first place. The devices affixed to the...
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Facebook Launched a Pre-Emptive Strike Prior to Brazil’s General Election
General elections are coming up in Brazil in October, and Facebook detailed some steps it is taking to ensure that the social network is not used to compromise those votes. Head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a Newsroom post that the social network recently took down a network of 196 pages and 87...
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Viacom Purchases AwesomenessTV in Bid to Expand Portfolio
Viacom has just purchased multichannel network AwesomenessTV, which reaches a purported 158 million subscribers and boasts 300 million monthly views, in another recent move to expand its portfolio. The network sale was valued at a reported $25 million, though Viacom declined to comment on the exact terms of the deal. AwesomenessTV, a Gen-Z audience-targeted media...
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LinkedIn Added a Voice Messaging Feature
LinkedIn users who prefer saying it over typing it can now do so with voice messaging on the professional network. The feature is currently rolling out on LinkedIn's iOS and Android applications, with full availability expected in the next few weeks, and voice messages can be received on mobile and web. Senior product manager Zack...
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How YouTube Red Successfully Rebranded After Years of Sounding Like a Porn Site
Ever since YouTube launched its subscription streaming service, YouTube Red, in fall 2015, the platform's name has been the subject of a slew of jokes making light of its similarity to porn sites like RedTube. That's no longer a problem for the outlet, which rebranded as YouTube Premium in May, shortly after debuting its biggest...
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Facebook Acquired Email Startup Redkix for Workplace by Facebook
Facebook's latest acquisition was completed with an eye toward its Workplace by Facebook enterprise offering, as email startup Redkix was scooped up by the social network. Redkix combined email, messaging and calendar features in a single application, but that app will be shuttered following its acquisition by Facebook. Facebook said Redkix employees including co-founders and...
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Facebook Will No Longer Allow Exclusion of Certain Groups Via Its Ad Targeting Tools
Facebook signed a legally binding agreement earlier this week with the office of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in which it agreed to ensure that third-party advertisers cannot exclude ethnic and religious minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals and other protected groups from seeing their ads, and to implement those policy changes within 90 days. However, not...
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Domino’s Is Bringing Its Pizzas Into Augmented Reality With a National Snapchat Campaign
Domino's is turning its pizza boxes--and the pizzas that go inside them--into an augmented reality campaign. This weekend, the pizza chain will begin running a national ad campaign that lets Snapchat users play with the platform's new "shoppable AR" lens. The feature, which will be available on Saturday, lets users tap a button within Snapchat...
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Twitter Is Taking the Pitch for the 2018 MLS All-Star Game, MLS Homegrown Game
Twitter is lacing up its cleats for the 2018 Major League Soccer All-Star Game Presented by Target, which will take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta Aug. 1. Hashtag-triggered emoji were created for both the All-Star Game and the MLS Homegrown Game, a showcase of young talent from the league's youth development system, in which...
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CBS Ad Sales Chief ‘Fully’ Supports Les Moonves After Sexual Harassment Allegations
Hours after the New Yorker published its explosive story in which six women accused CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves of sexual harassment and intimidation, one of CBS' top female execs said that she was "fully" in her boss' corner. Jo Ann Ross, the company's ad sales chief and a 25-year CBS sales veteran,...
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Amazon Studios New Chief Says Prime Video’s User Interface is About to Get a Big Upgrade
After five months as the new head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Salke unveiled her strategy for the streaming service--and promised that Prime Video's often-frustrating user interface is about to get a major upgrade. Unlike competitors like Netflix, which are trying to pump out as much content as possible, "you won't see some giant volume play,"...
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