Target, MTV Blocked Ads From News Mentioning ‘George Floyd’ and ‘Protests’
Patience Haggin, The Wall Street Journal
Target Corp. also included stories that mention police-brutality victims such as Breonna Taylor on a blocklist last month.
Inside Facebook’s exclusive clubs for its top advertisers
Hannah Murphy, Financial Times
Facebook Inc. offers special perks to its biggest advertisers, such as birthday cakes, ski trips and dinners at the home of Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Bayer Freezes Facebook Advertising In July
Allison Schiff, AdExchanger
The pharmaceutical giant said it would pull its ad spending on Facebook for the month, but did not say whether the move is directly related to the #StopHateForProfit boycott.
Apple Disrupts Digital Advertising—Again
George P. Slefo, Ad Age
Apple Inc.’s SKAdNetwork is set to launch in September, and it will limit the amount of user data that ad networks and third parties can collect to protect privacy, presenting challenges for advertisers.
Google says it’s banning ads from ‘stalkerware’ services that allow people to spy on and track others
Katie Canales, Business Insider
Google said the change will take effect next month, prohibiting companies from promoting GPS trackers designed for spying.
ESPN Employees Say Racism Endures Behind the Camera
Kevin Draper, The New York Times
Black employees of the network have said long-standing practices have made it difficult for them to rise through the ranks, despite the fact that the company devotes a significant amount of its coverage to Black athletes.
The subscriber boost Disney Plus got from ‘Hamilton’ was much bigger than early reports suggested, according to new transaction data
Travis Clark, Business Insider Prime
New data from Antenna, a startup that tracks purchase and transaction data, shows that the release of “Hamilton” resulted in more than seven times the sign-ups in the United States for the streaming service than the previous four weekends in June.
‘Netflix for ears’: How a new serialized podcast is helping BMW shift into branded entertainment
Seb Joseph, Digiday
Other companies have also produced branded podcasts, but the automaker represents a rare example of a branded podcast focused on a fictional, original idea as opposed to fact.
Audible’s New Head of Original Programming Is Out After Just a Month
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg
About a month after his position with the Amazon.com Inc. division was announced, Brad Schwartz has left the company, where he was supposed to help Audible take on Spotify in podcasting.
NHL Celebrates Return To Play With Brand Spots
Tanya Gazdik, MediaPost
The campaign, created by NHL Studios and the league’s in-house marketing team, includes music from famous artists and will air on NBC, NBCSN, Sportsnet, CBC, TVA Sports and NHL Network.
Amazon’s Tiktok Ban Was A False Alarm, Capping Off A Whirlwind Week Of Suspicion Towards China-Backed App
Garett Sloane, Ad Age
Several major media outlets reported that Amazon. sent a note to employees telling them to delete the short-form video app, but the order turned out to be a false alarm.
‘It Would Be Like Losing a Little Bit of Me’: TikTok Users Respond to Potential U.S. Ban
Taylor Lorenz, The New York Times
Millenials and members of Generation Z have found communities and livelihoods on TikTok, especially during the pandemic, so the possibility of a ban sparked frustration and anxiety among users.
By Praising Trump, Goya President Angers His Core Latino Market
Amelia Nierenberg, The New York Times
The brand was particularly popular among Latino consumers, one of whom said the products remind her of her family, but now many are boycotting the company following comments from its leader praising President Donald Trump.
PepsiCo revenue falls 3% as pandemic hits beverage sales
Amelia Lucas, CNBC
Net sales fell to $15.95 billion, beating expectations of $15.38 billion, while the company experienced growth for its food items in the quarter.
Impossible Foods Has Joined Forces With Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp
T.L. Stanley, Adweek
The brand will work with Kaepernick’s nonprofit to hang out packaged with its products and serve cooker burgers from food trucks to families in several cities through the year.
Costco Didn’t Enforce Its Dress Code — Until Employees Started Wearing Black Lives Matter Masks
Brianna Sacks, BuzzFeed News
Costco Wholesale Corp. requires employees to look “professional” under its policies, but some said that the company never enforced the rule until it started sending workers home for wearing BLM masks.
Workers speak out against Black Lives Matter face mask bans, as companies like Starbucks, Taco Bell, and Whole Foods grapple with viral backlash
Kate Taylor and Hayley Peterson, Business Insider
Companies such as Whole Foods and Chick-fil-A Inc. have also banned employees from wearing Black Lives Matter gear, while others, such as Starbucks Corp. and Wawa Inc. have reversed course.
Toyota Says It No Longer Employs Staff Shown Mocking Floyd Death
Chester Dawson, Bloomberg
Two employees, one of them a supervisor, were caught on video with the supervisor kneeling on a file binder last month and saying “that will keep them down,” mocking the death of George Floyd.
Luxury’s future is digital: High-end brands are finally taking to e-commerce
Danny Parisi, Glossy
Luxury brands were known to have resisted e-commerce prior to the pandemic, but are now realizing that the shift to digital is here to stay.
From Flour to Canned Soup, Coronavirus Surge Pressures Food Supplies
Annie Gasparro and Jaewon Kang, The Wall Street Journal
Pasta and rice are also in short supply, as manufacturers such as General Mills Inc., Campbell Soup Co. and Conagra Brands Inc. struggle to replenish inventories.
Bucking Trends, Conagra Plans to Debut 2 Dozen Products This Summer
Paul Hiebert, Adweek
Many consumer packaged goods companies are reducing the variety of products they offer amid the pandemic, but Conagra Brands is introducing more than two dozen new ones, such as a meatless lasagna and a microwave popcorn made with avocado oil.
The World Is Drinking Less Coffee While Office Workers Stay Home
Marvin G Perez et al., Bloomberg
The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that coffee consumption is set to decline globally this year for the first time since 2011, even despite a significant increase in coffee bean purchases at grocery stores when consumers stocked their pantries.
College towns without college students have small businesses struggling
Isabella Simonetti, Vox
Some restaurants and stores rely on college students as their primary customers, but when schools closed, they found they had to try new tactics, such as takeout business and fundraising.
The rich are flying again — in the comfort of their private jets
Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
Several private jet companies have reported booking about 80 percent more flights after the pandemic hit the U.S., with many passengers who are new to private jets.
‘Buy Now Pay Later’ Is Having a Moment as Pandemic Changes Shopping Habits
Stuart Condie, The Wall Street Journal
Australian installment-payment company Afterpay Ltd., which markets itself as a cheaper and more responsible alternative to a credit card, is expanding into the United States with retailers such as Anthropologie and Free People.
WeWork on track for profits and positive cash flow in 2021, says chairman
Arash Massoudi et al., Financial Times
Chairman Marcelo Claure said the coworking company has benefited from increased interest in flexible office spaces from big companies amid the pandemic.
The cynic’s case for why brands need to double down on the Facebook ad boycott
Jeff Beer, Fast Company
Some brands have proven to be leaders when it comes to the movement to limit hate and disinformation on Facebook, while others seem to have joined the boycott more for the good publicity.
