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 Issue Date: 01/21/2025 | Click headlines for full story, pics, video or to comment
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Trump Issues An Executive Order To Suspend TikTok Ban. But Can It Stick?
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform’s users even as national security questions persist. TikTok’s China-based parent ByteDance was supposed to find a U.S. buyer or be banned on Jan. 19. Trump’s order could give ByteDance more time to find
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Live Events Helped Netflix Score 19 Million More Subscribers In Holiday-Season Quarter
Netflix added nearly 19 million subscribers during the holiday-season quarter to help propel its earnings beyond analysts’ projections, capping the video streaming service’s best year yet in a sign that its expansion into live programming is paying off. The numbers released Tuesday covered a October-December period highlighted by Netflix’s streaming of a widely watched fight
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AI Discipline Added To The One Show 2025; Lars Bastholm Named Jury President
In anticipation of the continued rising impact of AI in marketing, The One Club for Creativity has added a new Creative Use of Artificial Intelligence discipline to The One Show 2025. The new discipline celebrates the partnership between human creativity and this emerging technology in the evolution of creative work and process. The new AI
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“Super Poll” Uncovers Viewers’ Attitudes and Preferences Relative To Super Bowl Spots
Recently, Fox announced that it has already sold out all of its advertising inventory for this year’s Super Bowl, with advertisers paying as much as $7 million for a :30 spot. And why not? The Super Bowl is consistently the most watched U.S. television event, averaging more than 120 million viewers per Nielsen. Not only
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Director Jessie Zinn Joins Avocados and Coconuts For Her 1st U.S. Representation
Production agency Avocados and Coconuts has signed director Jessie Zinn for commercials and branded content, marking her first representation in the U.S. Blending documentary and fiction, the South Africa-based Zinn has turned out work for a range of clients, including Ciel Properties, Belmond, Sonnenglas, and Ngwenya Glass. Her documentary films have screened at festivals, including
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Dozens of firms pull ads from Japanese network over sex scandal linked to its staff and celebrity
Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials on Fuji Television amid allegations company officials tried to cover up a sex scandal involving one of the country’s most famous TV hosts. The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the super popular male band SMAP and now a popular host at Fuji
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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children’s books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago. Feiffer’s wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive
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“Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical “Wicked,” was named Tuesday as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest still operating, said Erivo will receive her Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast Feb.
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Matthew Thunell joins 9iFX as VP of business development & strategy/exec producer
Woman-owned creative studio 9iFX has brought Matthew Thunell aboard as VP of business development & strategy/executive producer. With a unique blend of entertainment, defense, and aerospace expertise, Thunell is perfectly positioned to accelerate 9iFX’s mission of creating visionary visual solutions for both the entertainment and defense sectors. Over his 20-year career, beginning at Lucasfilm/ILM, Matthew
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Trevor Noah is tapped to once again host the Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are sticking with their man: Trevor Noah will host the show for the fifth consecutive time, the Grammys announced Tuesday. The comedian, best known for hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” from 2015 to 2022, will once more be front and center Feb. 2, when the awards show is broadcast live from
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