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Google tweaked its privacy policies to set data to automatically delete after 18 months for new accounts and will notify its billions of existing

Jun 26, 2020
Google Updates Auto-Delete Privacy Policies
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Consumer intelligence firm Resonate finds four U.S. consumer audiences, broken down according to their willingness to engage with reopened businesses following the COVID-

Jun 26, 2020
Resonate Finds Four U.S. Consumer Segments Based on Their Comfort Levels with Business Reopenings Following COVID-19
Profiles

Capitol Communicator is running “Up Close and Personal” profiles of communicators in the mid-Atlantic. In this profile we feature James Early. Photography for

Jun 25, 2020
Up Close and Personal: Getting to Know James Early, Independent Creative Director and Brand Strategist
Advertising

Historian Bob O’Connor could not believe the GEICO ad was still on the radio, reports The Washington Post, “but there it was. The

Jun 24, 2020
GEICO Pulls “Fort Pillow” Ad
People

Robert Zirkelbach, executive VP-PA at D.C.-based Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, above, joins ExxonMobil as head of global issues and

Jun 22, 2020
D.C.-Area Updates: ExxonMobil, GMMB and Subject Matter
Media

The Maryland-based broadcast group Sinclair Broadcasting will launch a “headline news service” that will air across Sinclair’s CW and MY network stations

Jun 22, 2020
Sinclair Broadcasting to Launch “Headline News Service” in 2021
Jobs

By Mitchell. P. Davis Broadcast Interview Source (BIS), the company which publishes the Yearbook of Experts®, ExpertClick.com and runs News Release Wire.com,

Jun 22, 2020
Interns-On-Call.com Offers PRSSA Students an Opportunity to Promote Their Skills
Brand Creep

Capitol Communicator is running an industry commentary series by Dennis Goris, president and creative director at Goris Communications. You can find more Brand Creep

Jun 22, 2020
I’m Laughing
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Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, which owns the ‘Eskimo Pie’ dessert, said it would be changing the product’s brand name and marketing. “We

Jun 22, 2020
‘Eskimo Pie’ to be Renamed by End of Year
Media

The Washington Post will create more than a dozen positions designed to “enhance coverage of the growing national discourse on race in this historic

Jun 22, 2020
Washington Post to Create Newsroom Positions Focusing on Race, Including Managing Editor for Diversity and Inclusion
The Creative Now

By Cade Martin As a kid, I spent many a dinner at a table surrounded by friends of my parents, an eclectic cast of

Jun 20, 2020
The Creative Now: A Chat with John Gundlach, Co-Founder, Mighty Good
Agency

By Maja Husar, Associate Director of Brand Planning, RP3 Agency How can brands contribute to reducing racism? A few lessons from behavioral science. Racial

Jun 18, 2020
Consumer Culture in Flux: Fuel For Thought #3
Marketing

Following an announcement from Quaker Oats that it will rebrand Aunt Jemima due to its racist origins, companies that make Uncle Ben’s, Mrs.

Jun 18, 2020
Uncle Ben’s, Mrs. Butterworth’s and Cream of Wheat to Review Branding
Agency

GMMB released a statement announcing changes related to diversity, equity and inclusion.  The GMMB statement follows: Just as we have spent our existence as

Jun 17, 2020
GMMB Announces Changes Related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Advertising

Quaker Oats will remove the controversial image of Aunt Jemima from its line of maple syrups, pancake mixes and other foods starting at the

Jun 17, 2020
Quaker Oats to Remove Aunt Jemima Image from Packaging and Rename Brand
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