New York Film Academy (NYFA) Filmmaking alum Issa Rae was up early Monday morning as the nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced, with the usual mix of snubs, sure things, and surprises. Rae, a graduate of NYFA’s Filmmaking workshop at our Los Angeles campus in 2005, presented this year’s nominees with actor John […]
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New York Film Academy (NYFA) Alum Issa Rae Presents 92nd Academy Award Nominees
Majority of Advertisers Used Advanced TV Solutions in 2019
Today, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company (Nasdaq: CMCSA), announced that according to a new survey of over 300 marketers and agencies, advanced TV is being used by the majority of advertisers to reach their target audiences. Among these solutions, OTT/CTV was purchased by the highest percentage (66%) of advertisers over the past month. Addressable TV (household-level […]
2019 Holiday Sales Were Up 4.1 Percent
Holiday retail sales during 2019 grew 4.1 percent over the same period in 2018 to $730.2 billion, the National Retail Federation said today. The numbers exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants. Online and other non-store sales were up 14.6 percent over the year before at $167.8 billion and are included in the total. “Having […]
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Salsify, a product experience management (PXM) platform that helps brands win on the digital shelf, announced the availability of Salsify for Social Commerce today. Salsify for Social Commerce enables brands to use Salsify to manage the entire social selling journey for consumers, from product discovery to research to buy across multiple channels. This full range […]
NAB Show Executive Leadership Summit Announces New Partnership With Variety
NAB Show will partner with Variety to produce the third annual Executive Leadership Summit (ELS), taking place Sunday, April 19 in Las Vegas. As part of the collaboration, Variety Intelligence Platform will issue exclusive access to a special report that will present an overview of the media business with unprecedented scope. The 2020 NAB Show […]
Record Number of Library Systems Achieve 1 Million+ Digital Book Checkouts in 2019
Rakuten OverDrive announced today that 73 public library systems from the US, Canada, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand each enabled readers to borrow over 1 million ebooks and audiobooks from their catalogs in 2019. This represents the most systems ever to reach this milestone led by Toronto Public Library serving over 6 million titles for […]
Adverty is Now a Unity Technologies Asset Store Publisher
Adverty AB (publ) is now a Unity Technologies Asset Store publisher, providing developers with easy access to its ad technology. Planned launch early 2020. Adverty, the leading seamless in-game ad tech company, is developing a version of its Unity SDK to be enabled on the Unity Asset Store, a marketplace where all creators can find, […]
Telaria Appoints Digital Publishing Veteran, William Jones, as Head of Publisher Development in EMEA
Telaria, Inc. (NYSE: TLRA), the complete software platform that optimises yield for leading video publishers, today announced the appointment of former Digiday Commercial Director, William Jones, as Head of Publisher Development, EMEA. As the latest addition to the growing EMEA team, Jones will work closely with Telaria’s expanding network of premium video publishing partners to […]
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Liberty Global Announces Executive Leadership Changes in Europe: Severina Pascu will join Virgin Media as CFO and Deputy CEO, Baptiest Coopmans to become CEO of UPC Switzerland
Liberty Global plc (“Liberty Global”) (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK), one of the world’s leading converged video, broadband and communications companies, announced that Severina Pascu will join Virgin Media as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective February 1, 2020. Ms. Pascu is currently CEO of Liberty Global’s Swiss operations, UPC […]