Posts made in March, 2016

on Mar 30, 2016

By Rebecca Stewart The Lad Bible has issued an apology to Prison Break star Wentworth Miller after it posted a meme mocking the actor’s weight gain. The backtrack comes after Miller took to social to blast Lad Bible for sharing the image, saying that the meme “stood out from the rest,” because it reminded him of his previous struggles with mental health after Prison Break finished in 2009. “Ashamed and in pain, I considered myself damaged goods. And the voices in my head urged me down the path to self-destruction. Not for the first time,” he said, adding: “I’ve struggled with depression Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Mar 30, 2016

By John Glenday Dating app Tinder has tied the knot with Humin after being drawn to the San Francisco-based start-up’s contact management expertise. Whilst terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed it is understood that Tinder will essentially requisition Humin’s east coast base for its San Francisco office – with senior staff all transferring to Tinder. This includes Humin co-founders Ankur Jain and David Wyler who will join Tinder’s executive team as VP of product and VP of partnerships. Tinder co-founder Sean Rad said that he had been motivated to snap up Humin in order to obtain their ‘experience and IP to accelerate our product roadmap’. The Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Mar 30, 2016

By Leonie Roderick Hagh has been with Heineken since 2013, when he joined as executive director global marketing. Previously, Hagh held positions at L’Oréal, Diageo and Lego. Heineken says it is currently hiring for a replacement. READ MORE: Heineken’s top marketer Søren Hagh on ‘rewiring’ the brewer for digital This is not the first time that the beer giant has promoted a marketing chief to managing director. In July last year, Heineken’s UK marketing boss Jacco van der Linden was made MD of Heineken China. As Heineken’s global marketing director, Hagh was keen to prioritise digital and quirky storytelling – despite upsetting some of Read full story › Source: Marketing Week...

on Mar 30, 2016

By Katie Deighton Yesterday (29 March) saw Snapchat update both its T&Cs and privacy policy, including new clauses on third party search results and information gathering. Noted by Marketing Land, which compared the social channel’s legal documents published on 28 October with the updated conditions, Snapchat’s new privacy policy states that “The services may also contain third-party links and search, [and] include third-party integrations”. This is an update from the previous document, which only made reference to third-party additions such as Pay To Replay. The reworking suggests there may soon be a way for advertisers to drop themselves into the currently basic search Read full story › Source: The Drum...

on Mar 30, 2016

By John McCarthy Microsoft’s fast-learning teenage girl artificial intelligence bot and neo-Nazi hate peddler returned to Twitter on Wednesday in similarly poor circumstances. The real-time machine learning experiment looked to have emulated some of the worst qualities of the web and was last week taken offline so the team could “make adjustments” to its coding and protocols. Following said rejig, the TayBot was resurrected on Wednesday just to find itself trapped in an apparent loop, repeating the phrase “You are too fast, please take a rest…” Followers were apparently spammed with said response although between the noise it did appear to functioning as normal Read full story › Source: The Drum...