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Five days of impeachment hearings were a boon to programmers and accountants at the cable news networks. For the big broadcasters, not so much.
The daytime hearing audience ranged from a high of 13.8 million on opening day to a low of 11 million on the third day, the Nielsen company said...

Mike Maddaloni went to Amazon.com knowing exactly what he wanted to buy.
But instead of showing him the Synology router he was searching for at the top of his results, Amazon bombarded him with ads for hard drives and routers that he didn't want.
Maddaloni, a web strategist in...

President Donald Trump's reelection campaign and other Republican election groups criticized tech giant Google on Tuesday for making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people.
The GOP groups said the changes will lead directly to suppressing voter turnout and...

Cheil Worldwide has appointed Jayanta Jenkins as its global executive creative director for Samsung Mobile.
Jenkins is Twitter’s former global group creative director and most recently the global executive creative director at HP. He has also been global creative lead at Apple’s Beats by...

McMafia (U.K.) and Especial de Natal Porta dos Fundos (Brazil) earned best drama and comedy distinction, respectively, at the 47th International Emmy Awards this evening (11/25) during a black-tie gala event attended by 1,000 television professionals from around the world and...

The film Bombshell will be honored with the Producer Guild’s Stanley Kramer Award, an honor established in 2002 to honor a production, producer or other individuals whose achievement or contribution illuminates and raises public awareness of important social issues. The film will...

Production company Park Pictures has signed director Roger Guàrdia for U.S. commercial and music video representation. Breaking stylistic boundaries in digital media, the NYC-based director lends a dynamic cinematic style with a strong focus on interesting human subjects to international work...

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has revealed its documentary and television nominees for the 34th Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards. The ASC Documentary Award was inaugurated this year to recognize exceptional cinematography in nonfiction filmmaking.
Winners will be...

See It Be It, the Cannes Lions initiative aiming to achieve equal gender representation of creative directors and leaders across the global industry, has named Swati Bhattacharya, chief creative officer of FCBUlka, as the 2020 See It Be It Ambassador. Madonna Badger, CCO and founder of Badger...

Actress Yara Shahidi has joined the SeeHer advisory board. SeeHer is the Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) global industry movement for gender equality in advertising and media.
Shahidi is an acclaimed actress, producer, and change agent. Recently starring in the YA Romance The...