After a year of limited collaborations in many industries across the U.S. due to Covid-19, the yearning to connect and collaborate with others has reached a notable high. The need to connect different communities safely has added a crucial component to making creative spaces more collaborative. To celebrate the the 10 year anniversary of Reddit's...
The joinable calls option that WhatsApp debuted for group calls in July is now integrated with group chats on the Facebook-owned messaging application. WhatsApp said Monday that group calls are now contextual to group chats, and they can be joined right from the chat tab. The joinable calls feature enables people to join calls even...
Amazon-owned autonomous driving startup Zoox is set to test its mettle on the rainy, hilly streets of Seattle with a new expansion of its self-driving car trials in the Washington city. Top line Zoox has already been experimenting with fleets in San Francisco and Las Vegas for more than three years, but the company said...
The Shake Shack location at Hudson Yards in New York will be a Snap Shack through Thursday (Oct. 21). Timed to coincide with an ad industry event, Snap Inc. is taking over the restaurant and supplementing the Shake Shack menu with an augmented reality try-on mirror, free food, custom Snapchat lenses and limited-edition Snap Shack...
Walmart is bringing back early holiday sales in what it calls Black Friday Deals for Days, but with a twist: This year, its Walmart+ members will get a four-hour head start on digital discounts in November. The retailer is grouping its Black Friday offers into three events, starting online on Nov. 3 and in stores...
Twitter pulled the plug on its test of a Heads Up prompt to warn people who were about to join potentially heated discussions. Product lead for conversational safety Christine Su told Kurt Wagner of Bloomberg during a Twitter Spaces chat Friday that user feedback on the feature was not favorable A spokesperson for the social...
Honda is taking a look in the rearview mirror--reflecting on its 73 years in transporting people on land, sea and air--to try to grab the attention of a younger generation of potential buyers. The campaign, dubbed "The Origin of Determination," is intended to be a "big tent" effort with a simultaneous nod to history and...
Discord Nitro subscribers have the option to use an animated GIF as their avatar. Our guide will show you how to set a GIF as your avatar from within the Discord desktop application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Discord app on Mac. Also note, this guide will show you how to choose a...
The pandemic remains one of the great disruptors the advertising industry has ever dealt with. Aside from throwing the global economy for a loop, it sped up the rate of ecommerce adoption, launched Zoom and other video conferencing apps to the top of the technology food chain and, most significantly, it altered the employment habits...
As with so many aspects of pandemic life, Americans continue to have conflicting views on in-person learning and whether schools should require vaccines to attend. A new Adweek-Morning Consult poll asked parents of 5- to 18-year-olds if they prefer hybrid or fully in-person learning: 39% said in-person while 36% said hybrid. That's down from a...
Rarely do we have an opportunity to watch an entire multi-billion-dollar industry take shape before our eyes, with every mistake on full display. That's one of the great things about participating in the CBD industry: everything is so new. To say that there's been a lot of mid-course correction in CBD marketing would be a...
We may come to understand our exit from the pandemic--our 'Pandexit' if you will--as the moment global society decided to start taking its existentialist responsibilities seriously. That might be the perfect moment, then, not only for brands and businesses to refine or even redefine their sense of purpose, but to form deep interlocking partnerships with...