Fox is joining the wrap party. Today, Fox became the third major publisher to announce it's closed upfront talks. The company follows Paramount, which closed talks this morning, and NBCUniversal, which wrapped negotiations last week. According to Fox sources, Fox Sports, driven by NFL, MLB,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2023-07-27 15:00:00 UTC ]
From the fog of a so-far-extremely-cursed 2020, do you even remember 2019 anymore? The albino panda? 30 to 50 feral hogs? The US women’s national soccer team at the World Cup? What else even happened? Roxane Gay is here to remind us with this recap, which also lists her favorite books of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-06 16:40:23 UTC ]
Hot off her starring role in the Women's World Cup, Megan Rapinoe has inked a two-book deal with Penguin to write adult and middle grade books on social justice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Digital media company Copa90 created clubhouses in Paris and Lyon to give its brand a boost IRL just like physical retail helps D2C startups grow. As the reigning Ballon d’Or winner, Ada Hegerberg is the best female soccer player on the planet. But the Norwegian star, who plays professionally in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-07-20 07:00:27 UTC ]
Dino, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has expanded its Football Heroes series with four new titles - Kirby, Marta, Morgan and Smith – ahead of the Fifa Women’s World Cup Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-22 09:04:19 UTC ]
The Digital Content NewFronts have always been a smorgasbord of little-known startups, mixed among the publishing stalwarts, searching for their big breaks the one time of year the whole industry is paying attention. But this year, it’s not the little guys with their internet-friendly names... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the heatwave and the World Cup in Russia, the UK print market sold 42 million books for £344.2m between the first week of June and the third week of August, via Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Brazilian national team has a lot in common with Samara, the sprawling city of 1.2 million where the Brazilians will play in the second round of the World Cup on Monday. Both the team and the city were once great, but now find themselves trying to rekindle past glories. Brazil won two World... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here's a look at the matchups for Thursday in the World Cup: GROUP H JAPAN VS. POLAND Where: Volgograd Time: 7 a.m. PDT. TV: FS1, Universo. The buzz: Japan needs a point against winless Poland to move on, although it can also advance with a Colombia loss in other the group game. Japan wins the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The prize used to champion unknowns and outsiders. But a 2014 rule change has cemented the neo-colonial cultural dominance of the US and the UKThe upstairs room of an indie bookstore. A book launch for a local author. Crisps and wine are being handed out, a buzz is in the air, congratulations... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has rushed through a second reprint of The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert after the Fifa arrests last week, which dominated news headlines around the world. The publisher ordered a 1,500 reprint of the book, only released... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google is turning its search trends into Twitter-friendly viral content, just in time for the World Cup.Inside a San Francisco office building, Google is trying its latest experiment: original sports journalism. When the 2014 World Cup began, Google unveiled a World Cup Trends Newsroom to turn... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
No soccer players, no references to Rio de Janiero or Brazil. Is this any way to launch a World Cup campaign?Johnson & Johnson thinks so. The official health-care sponsor of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil is kicking off its U.S. marketing effort for the games by hardly mentioning them.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]