Google, AOL, Facebook, Twitter and the IAB formed a partnership aimed at fighting bad ads on the Internet. StopBadware, a nonprofit organization launched in 2006, announced the launch of the Ads Integrity Alliance created to fight bad ads and maintain trust in the online advertising ecosystem.
Tina Turner (1939-2023), Queen of Rock 'n' Roll and the most consequential career-rebuild artist in popular music history, died May 24, 2023 at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, at 83.
Weber Shandwick won the Tokyo Olympics communications mandate. The Games it won were the strangest in Olympic history — empty venues, bubble protocols, two-thirds of the Japanese public opposed. The long view on Tokyo 2020, the agencies behind each modern Olympic Games, the TOP-sponsor PR programs that defined the era (P&G, Coca-Cola, Visa, Samsung, Toyota, Airbnb), and what LA 2028 is being structured to look like.
Instapaper has just become the latest iOS app to embrace Android.
For military forces and their families, Memorial Day is an occasion to honor those who sacrificed for their country. For retailers however, this is just another occasion to boost sales.
The new service offers a consolidated view of a business' results for their marketing efforts and of their online reputation.
KFC operates 30,000+ outlets across ~145 countries under Yum! Brands ($YUM) and Yum China ($YUMC). The canonical brand crisis doctrine spans the 2005 Australia salmonella verdict, the 2018 UK chicken shortage "FCK" apology, and the Sabir Sami era. Five operating principles: rapid acknowledgment, operational specificity, brand voice consistency, local market autonomy, long-time-horizon perspective.
Talackova was born a male and underwent a sex change surgery several years ago.
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Hiring for small businesses in 2026 — five structural shifts (remote/hybrid expanded talent radius, AI tools absorbing junior cognitive load, restructured compensation, digital candidate experience, founder visibility for passive flow) and seven tactics that compound (role definition, pipeline pre-need, AI in screening, AI fluency in hires, paid project work, offer analysis, onboarding infrastructure).