When Jaime Dávila was a development executive at NBCUniversal’s Bravo in the early 2010s, he saw firsthand the lack of Latinx representation in the TV industry. More than a half-decade later, he still sees a lack of TV and streaming shows starring Latinx people and created by Latinx people but now experiences it from the other side of the pitch meeting. Hollywood’s diversity problem has been longstanding and well-documented. From actors wearing blackface in 1915’s “Birth of a Nation” to the #OscarsSoWhite outcry in 2015 through to today, Black people, indigenous people and people of color have been underrepresented in movies as well as TV and streaming shows. Read more below. - Show buyers continue to see shows created by and starring Latinx people as niche programming and miss their mainstream appeal.
- After surviving the Black Friday rush, direct-to-consumer brands have a new challenge at hand: how to ensure their holiday sales aren't hampered by long shipping delays and going out of stock on certain items.
- For Wired, Cyber Monday and Black Friday ended up being the second and third biggest days for subscription sign-ups of the year, with each being approximately three times the daily average for the month of November.
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| Equality and Opportunity | | | | Show buyers continue to see shows created by and starring Latinx people as niche programming and miss their mainstream appeal. | | |
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howdy! | DIGIDAY+ MEMBER EXCLUSIVE | | | | After surviving the Black Friday rush, direct-to-consumer brands have a new challenge at hand: how to ensure their holiday sales aren’t hampered by long shipping delays and going out of stock on certain items | | |
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howdy! | Content & Commerce | | | | For Wired, Cyber Monday and Black Friday ended up being the second and third biggest days for subscription sign-ups of the year, with each being approximately three times the daily average for the month of November. | | |
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howdy! | WTF Influencers | | | | Ahead of this season, influencer marketing agency execs say here’s been a lift of between 20-30% from last year in requests for holiday influencer campaigns. | | |
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| Sponsored by Tipser | | | | Brands are striving to become more experience-led online through personalized product recommendations, customer reviews and product tutorials, but as e-commerce is set to boom they’ll need to do more to cater to consumers. | | |
howdy! | Awards | | | | Winners of the 2020 Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe — presented by MoPub, a Twitter company — served their audiences with the right messages at the right times. | | |
howdy! | Mobile | | | | The company that owns the license to make and sell Nokia-branded handsets is looking to take certain aspects of its media management in-house. | | |
| Business of TV | | | | In January, IAC decided it was no longer willing to finance CollegeHumor and sold it to Sam Reich, who had joined the company in 2006 to build out original video. |
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