YouTube Gift Codes Are Available via Amazon in the U.S. YouTube gift codes are now available for purchase via Amazon in the U.S. The Google-owned video site said in a blog post that the gift codes can be used to pay for subscriptions to YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Premium or YouTube TV. They can also
Instagram Begins Requiring Birthdays for All New Users Instagram now requires all people signing up for a new account to provide their birthdate, and anyone under 13 will be prohibited from starting an account. The Facebook-owned social media network's terms of use, amended Wednesday, now requires new members to be at least 13 years old
Ford Is Making Car Parts From the Skin of McDonald’s Coffee Beans In a new partnership with McDonald's, Ford is using coffee chaff--the dried coffee bean skin that comes off during roasting--to build car parts. The United States produces around 1 million pounds of coffee chaff per week, according to Debbie Mielewski, Ford's senior technical
These Ordinary Ads Feature Only People With Disabilities, and That’s the Point Though people with disabilities make up the largest minority group in the world, less than 3% of characters in North American television shows have a disability. (And, of these, 95% are played by able-bodied actors.) To counter this lack of representation, a coalition
McDonald’s Serves Up Branded Merch Online for the First Time Leading up to the holidays, McDonald's is offering its customers a permanent place online called the Golden Arches Unlimited to shop its branded goods, the fast-food chain said. McDonald's will offer a rotating seasonal selection, which currently includes items such as a beanie and a
General Mills’ 150-Year-Old Brand Is Tackling a ‘Billion Acts of Good’ PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--General Mills has been around for more than a century, but its relatively new mission is still less than a year old. At the annual Brandweek summit, I caught up with Brad Hiranaga, the company's chief brand officer of North America to
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Virtual MVPDs Were Supposed to Help Save the TV Industry—What Went Wrong? In mid-November, Hulu + Live TV became the latest live TV streaming service to hike its prices. Hulu's live television offering, which came onto the market at $40 a month in 2017 and jumped to $45 in January, now costs consumers another $10
YouTube Addresses the Second of Its 4 Rs of Responsibility YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki introduced the Google-owned video site's "four Rs" approach toward responsibility in August, and step No. 1, Remove, was detailed in September. Tuesday brought a blog post outlining the second R, Raise Up. The four Rs are: Remove: YouTube removes content that
Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Stepping Down Alphabet has announced that its CEO and its president, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, respectively, have stepped down from their roles and that Sundar Pichai, the current Google chief exec, will now also assume the role of CEO of parent company Alphabet. The change is
