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These BuzzFeed Videos Are Unexpectedly Impacting Local Businesses Around the World One series visits restaurants in a range of price points By Sami Main From taco trucks to ice cream sprinkled with edible gold, the video team at BuzzFeed's Worth It has seen--and eaten--it all. Worth It follows BuzzFeeders as they try three similar foods at three different price points to determine which was their favorite. "I like how involved the audience has become," said Steven Lim, a BuzzFeed...
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Twitter’s Livestreaming Sports Lineup Now Includes the Arena Football League Five games will be available to the social network's users globally By David Cohen Twitter will indeed offer livestreamed football games in 2017--they will just be played on shorter, indoor fields. The social network announced an agreement with the Arena Football League to livestream five regular-season games, starting this Saturday. The games will be available to logged-in and logged-out Twitter users globally via afl.twitter.com or @AFLarenaball. The schedule follows...
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The Comic Triumph of ‘This Is SportsCenter,’ a Campaign Years Ahead of Its Time MullenLowe's Tim Vaccarino picks his three favorite ads ever By Tim Nudd Advertisers today like to jump into the fray in social media with pithy insights and gags about current events. But ESPN has been doing that for decades, on television, long before Twitter or Facebook existed. The cable sports network's "This is SportsCenter" campaign, dreamed up by Wieden + Kennedy in the mid-1990s, has set the...
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This Alternative to Cable Puts Some of the Internet’s Best Video on Your TV—and It’s Free Pluto TV offers live programs from digital content creators By Sami Main Pluto TV subscribers won't find major networks like ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox, but they'll have access to more than 75 live TV channels across all different topic areas. For cord-cutters or cord-nevers who are into programming that comes straight from the internet, Pluto TV is a strong option. Viewers can watch content from networks...
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CBS Chief Glenn Geller Won’t Return Following Heart Attack Longtime network scheduler Kelly Kahl will take his place as Entertainment president By Jason Lynch CBS Entertainment president Glenn Geller, who had been sidelined for the past two months after suffering a heart attack, won't return to the network as planned, and will be stepping down from his role, CBS Corp. announced today. UPDATE: The network has promoted Kelly Kahl, formerly senior evp of CBS Primetime and the network's longtime...
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Squatty Potty Drops Kathy Griffin Over Shock Photos With ‘Beheaded’ Trump CEO calls comic's stunt 'deeply inappropriate' By Tim Nudd Condemnation of Kathy Griffin has been swift and bipartisan after images emerged from a photo shoot in which she posed with a replica of a bloody, severed head of Donald Trump. Now, Squatty Potty, which employed Griffin for an ad campaign that broke just a few weeks ago, has discontinued the campaign and cut ties...
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Jon Stewart and HBO Scrap His Eagerly Awaited, Long-Delayed Animated Series The comedian remains under contract to the network through 2019 By Jason Lynch Jon Stewart's eagerly anticipated post-Daily Show television project--an animated series that was supposed to debut in time for last fall's presidential election--isn't going to see the light of day after all. The premium cable network announced late Tuesday that it and Stewart are scrapping the deal, according to The New York Times. "HBO and Jon...
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