Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Tinder’s ‘Project X’ Tinder, arguably, is one extended choose-your-own-adventure game; you swipe left or right to follow different paths. So it’s fitting that the dating app is making a choose-your-own-adventure streaming series. Variety reports that the show, kept secret during production and known as “Project X,” is set as the apocalypse nears, forcing characters to choose who they want to spend their last night with. It's reportedly set to debut next month. “The show will upload directly to the Tinder app, and users will be able to swipe right or left (the service’s basic function of approving or denying a potential love match) and advance the plot as they see fit,” Variety writes. Agency 72andSunny was a producer, Variety says. Tinder hired its chief marketing officer, Jenny Campbell, away from the agency last year. But this project seems like a good consolation prize. ‘Peacock’ There’s a lot of streaming-related news today: NBCUniversal revealed that it will call its subscription- and ad-supported service Peacock, a nod to NBC’s classic logo. “For us, it’s the perfect nod to the legacy without being too on the nose,” Bonnie Hammer, the streaming service’s chairwoman, said, as quoted by... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-18 10:00:00 UTC ]
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The prize is divided into 20 print categories, and three additional ebook categories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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How To Poo On A Date and The Origin of Faeces make the Diagram Prize shortlist for the oddest book title of the year. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pocklington - nicknamed Pock - is a small market town in the Yorkshire Wolds, about 13 miles (or 21 kms) from the city of York.Its population of 8,337 is served by a weekly newspaper, the Pocklington Post, which was chosen by its owner, Johnston Press, to pioneer the publishing of user generated... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google’s Android is now the most popular smartphone operating system in the UK – so publishers can no longer just talk about iPhone and iPad apps. But despite its increasing market dominance (on mobile anyway) the Google propo ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble acknowledged Monday that it has cut jobs throughout the company, but insisted that a report that said it had laid off its entire Nook hardware staff was “incorrect.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big libraries get all the attention. But in late September of 2013, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) issued an interesting report on small and rural libraries in the United States. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“In recent years, new bookstores have virtually mushroomed in the city of Sofia," says Rumyana Tsvetkova, reporting for Radio Bulgaria, Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From the Fly to Zero Core, the most exciting titles in the music market are put together on a shoestring and given away in shops. We talk to the editors proving that print can still thrive• See the best free magazines in pictures hereA few months after its creation, the Fly magazine almost came... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pointing to strong titles, a growing backlist, and retailer optimism, Diamond Book Distributors, the trade book unit of Diamond Comics Distributors, reported that its 2013 sales rose by “double digits” over 2012 in the U.S., Canada, and international markets. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As more readers favor Kindles and iPads over pulp-based books, Chantal Restivo-Alessi of HarperCollins is mining digital data to determine how publishers can maximize profits.Having worked at EMI records for over a decade, Chantal Restivo-Alessi knows what it's like to have the digitization of... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time and The New York Times Magazine put Hillary Clinton on the cover this week. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After months of trying to negotiate a deal behind the scenes, Charter Communications is publishing details of its offer to buy Time Warner Cable (which split from Time Warner years ago). Despite a bid that including debt is enough to nab 20 or so ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tony Jordan secures rights to 40 EMI songs for 10-part series Stop! In the Name of Love, partly inspired by 'jukebox musicals'The co-creator of Life on Mars is developing a TV drama series, partly inspired by the success "jukebox musicals" such as Mamma Mia!, featuring famous Motown hits such as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Comedians, punks and sportspeople now among 'notables' in the online reference work, once the preserve of the great and goodThe Dictionary of National Biography has charted the lives of the British establishment for 130 years. But while entry into its prestigious pages after death used to depend... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week, Ruth Rendell claimed that reading novels is a dying art. Sadly, she might have a pointNo one can say precisely why John Williams's novel Stoner has become a bestseller almost 50 years after its first publication. After all, plenty of books, "forgotten" or otherwise, are recommended by... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Value of film and TV downloads, streams and subscriptions rises to £621m, and number of tracks streamed doubles to 7.4bnAfter five years of decline, sales of entertainment products such as music, films and video games were growing again last year because of booming digital services such as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Frederator Books, the ebook imprint of Frederator, the YouTube cartoon producer, is launching a new ebook series starring Catbug, an animated character spun off from Frederator’s wildly popular YouTube cartoon show Bravest Warriors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2013 hasn't been especially kind to Facebook. The Facebook Home app launcher, announced in April, was poorly received by consumers. Then, in June, the social media service fell under the scrutiny of privacy advocates as information surfaced about Silicon Valley's relationship with the NSA. But... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus will publish a fourth book in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, to be written by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first fiction acquisitions by Headline’s Mari Evans, who moved to the company from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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