Verizon Media is expanding its long-standing ad sales arrangement with Microsoft as the telecom giant's ad-tech unit looks to solidify its footing in the marketplace. The telecom's supply-side platform now represents display inventory...
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Creating a Super Bowl commercial that 100 million people will both like and want to talk about with friends is difficult. Pulling it off amid high unemployment, intense political division and a pandemic that has taken the lives of...
Being woken up by the dull, white noise of helicopters overhead seems to be the new norm these days in D.C. On Inauguration Day, my mind was wandering many unknowns, wondering about the "what ifs" had lockdown and a pandemic not been...
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s “The Masked Dancer.”) The Cricket contestant was bumped off “The Masked Dancer” Wednesday and revealed to be singer-songwriter Brian McKnight. But before...
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Season 5 premiere of “Riverdale.”) It was only a matter of time until Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) found out that her boyfriend, Archie Andrews (KJ Apa), and her BFF, Betty...
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s “The Masked Dancer.”) Fox’s “The Masked Singer” spinoff series “The Masked Dancer” eliminated its fourth contestant on...
Photographs have the power to communicate layers of meaning instantaneously, and they play an important role in documenting the world around us by helping us to make sense of it all. Pictures capture pleasure, sorrow, anger and fear...
Vice President Kamala Harris won accolades for her fashion at the inauguration on Wednesday — but did “The Simpsons” once again predict her choice of attire? For her swearing in as the nation’s first female vice...
How do you encourage middle-aged dads, a demographic oat milk brand Oatly says is most reluctant to ditch dairy, to ditch dairy? You shame them into it with a series of comedy ads and create a website called helpdad.com to arm their kids...
The CW’s “Walker, Texas Ranger” reboot, “Walker,” premieres Thursday, introducing “Supernatural” alum Jared Padalecki in the iconic title role of Cordell Walker, which was played by Chuck Norris...
While Crave TV's Letterkenny may be full of fast-talking offensive slang, K. Trevor Wilson finally had to ask fans to stop quoting one inappropriate phrase to him in real-life.
As a child, Alex Pierce was not allowed to play with toy guns or anything that resembled them. Even Nerf guns were off limits. "My mom was super strict about that," recalls Pierce, an associate creative director at Hawkeye, an agency...