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CVS Leads the Anti-Airbrush Movement

February 1, 2019

The concept of editing photos to make them more appealing for advertising has long been a hot-button issue. Recently, CVS has been doing its part to stop it, at least in the beauty realm. Last year, the retailer announced its decision to phase out all retouched beauty imagery in store, READ MORE >

Social Media Overtakes Newspaper as News Source

January 18, 2019

Some say print is dead, and some say it isn’t – but at least as a source of news, new studies from the Pew Research Center suggest that social media has begun to take over. According to the data, which released last month, one in every five adults in America READ MORE >

Skittles Set to Hit the Stage

January 18, 2019

For its Super Bowl strategy this year, Skittles will be putting on a show – literally. The brand recently announced that it’ll be putting on a 30-minute performance in New York City titled “Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical” on the day of the Super Bowl (February 3), instead of buying READ MORE >

Oscars to Run Without a Host

January 18, 2019

It’s been three decades since the Academy Awards have gone host-less, but it looks like this year’s edition will do just that. Near the end of 2017, social media users dug up offensive past tweets from comedian and actor Kevin Hart, who had been chosen as the host for this READ MORE >

New Gillette Ad Makes Waves

January 18, 2019

Gillette has been using the slogan “The Best a Man Can Get” as its tagline for years – and with a new campaign, the brand is taking it a bold step further. The 1:49-long video brings toxic masculinity to the forefront via video and audio clips that feature sexual harassment READ MORE >

Jay-Z is Now the Richest Musician in America

January 8, 2019

What do George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan have in common? As of this month, they are members of a very exclusive club: the only celebrities in America worth more than Jay-Z. The rapper came in at number 5 on Forbes’ yearly ranking of celebrity wealth, tied with READ MORE >

Disney Introduces Us to a New Aladdin

January 8, 2019

After seeing success with its live-action adaptations of “The Jungle Book” and “Beauty and the Beast”, Disney is getting ready to serve its next remake. Fans finally got an in-depth look at the new “Aladdin” in December, when Entertainment Weekly released a series of set photos. The most striking observation READ MORE >

Google Home’s Having a Hot Winter (So Far)

January 8, 2019

Amazon and its Alexa technology have taken the world by storm, but Google’s counterpart, the Google Home, has earned a lot of recent attention. At the beginning of November, Spotify and Google announced a partnership that would provide a free Google Home Mini device for subscribers to the Spotify Premium Family READ MORE >

Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? We Now Have an Answer.

January 8, 2019

One of the greatest debates in film history has officially been settled. “Die Hard” is, in fact, a Christmas movie. At least that’s what its production company, 20th Century Fox, wants us to believe. They’ve released a re-cut trailer for the film that portrays it as a lighthearted comedy and READ MORE >

A Superhero Turned Super Charitable

December 13, 2018

Deadpool puts its box office success to good use by donating proceeds to the charity Fudge Cancer. Every once in a while, a superhero has such power that it can affect people off screen. A perfect example – Deadpool. The R rated superhero, played by Ryan Reynolds, is back to READ MORE >

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