Tik Tok partners with IPG Mediabrands on a three-year initiative to provide the network’s clients with custom programs to help them build “an authentic presence” on the platform. The companies are forming what they are calling a “Creator Collective,” which will offer IPG Mediabrands’ clients with hands-on guidance to ensure that their content connects with TikTok’s audience. The campaign’s first program will be a quarterly series of “Creator Camps” where creators will offer strategic counsel and feedback on clients’ upcoming campaigns. Tik Tok president of global business solutions says that the partnership is intended to help clients “create a steady stream of content that resonates with our community .”
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New York Times columnist Frank Bruni is heading to Duke University, where he will join the faculty of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, starting July 1. He will continue to write his newsletter for the Times, in addition to staying on as a contributing opinion writer. Bruni joined the Times staff in 1995, and has served in a wide variety of positions there, including restaurant critic, metropolitan reporter, White House reporter and Rome bureau chief. Before coming to the Times, he worked at the New York Post and the Detroit Free Press, where he was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer for feature writing. “I’ve worked with Frank in Washington and know that he is a rare talent in American journalism,” DeWitt Wallace center director Bill Adair told the Duke Chronicle. “He will bring tremendous depth to our program.”
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Amazon now accounts for more than 10 percent of all digital ads in the U.S., according to a report from research firm eMarketer. The company’s ad revenue climbed to $15.73 billion in 2020, which eMarketer estimates is a jump of 52.5 percent from 2019. While Google (28.9 percent) and Facebook (25.2 percent) still top Amazon by a fairly wide margin, the report predicts that the company’s share of the digital market will continue to experience steady growth, hitting 12.8 percent by 2023. Google appears to be on the losing end of Amazon’s rise, with eMarketer predicting that its share of the digital ad marketing will fall to 26.6 percent by 2023.
Fox News Media issued a pretty sparse release to announce the departure of one of its stars. “Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” it reads.
Brunswick Group partner John Simons has joined CNN as senior director of business & media. He held top jobs at Time and the Wall Street Journal.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
Boston Globe Media acquires InstaTrac, a company that provides subscription-based services aimed at making government information easier to find, track, and understand... AARP names former New Republic CEO and publisher Michael Caruso as its SVP and chief content officer, unifying the organization's portfolio of media, live events and digital platforms... The Fund for American Studies, an educational nonprofit, awards its inaugural Journalism Excellence Fellowships.
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
