By Kyle O'Brien A batch of Hollywood stars and celebrities are telling some questionable facts about moustaches to get the word out about men’s health charity Movember. Stephen Fry, David Oyelowo, Stephen Merchant, survival star Bear Grylls, fashion expert Tan France and singer Nicole Scherzinger have gotten together to tell tall tales of moustache prowess to champion the upper lip hair and encourage people to get involved in this year’s fundraising campaign. The charity has created a humorous twist on the traditional public service announcement, explaining why the moustache is so important. ‘Moustache Facts’ features Fry giving an introduction to the cause Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy John McCarthy Business broadsheet The Financial Times is offering up its inhouse experts to business inspired by its modern media evolution. It will leverage its vast reader databanks and inhouse expertise to add another revenue driver to its stable, a consulting firm called FT Strategies. The Nikkei-owned company has plans to diversify its revenue with the launch of a business consultancy featuring its data scientists and business insights. It offers access to the minds behinds the title’s healthy subscriber growth to brands and businesses who hope to replicate the success. FT chief data officer Tom Betts will lead the boutique consultancy by helping Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy John Glenday Facebook has unveiled a package of measures designed to counter potential interference in the next UK general election as it seeks to demonstrate that it has regained control of its platform. Outlining these measures via an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, the social network vowed to extend its transparency measures for political ads to any advert relating to social issues such as immigration, health and the environment. The firm has also pledged to improve its Ad Library systems and will establish a dedicated UK election operations centre as soon as a date is set for a vote. Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreBy John Glenday Australia’s newspapers have united in a show of unity to publicise their opposition to tough new secrecy laws in the country by voluntarily redacting their front pages. The coordinated action campaign, entitled ‘Right to Know’ comes in response to attempts by the government to crack down on whistleblowers and in some cases, the practice, of journalism itself – most notably by a raid on ABC’s Sydney headquarters and the home of a News Corp journalist over the summer. Tensions have been rising in the country following a series of court cases involving the leaking of government secrets to the press; Read full story › Source: The Drum...
Read MoreDanny Wallace’s absolute favorite Chinese beauty and lifestyle video blogger, Your Highness Qiao Biluo, offers fresh lessons in the art of faking it. Until just recently, if you’d asked me who my absolute favorite Chinese beauty and lifestyle video blogger was, I might not have had a very satisfactory answer for you. In fact, some of you might even have begun to suspect that I didn’t actually have an absolute favorite Chinese beauty and lifestyle video blogger at all. But all that changed during my research for a new project all about lying, when I stumbled across a young woman who immediately became Read full story › Source: The Drum...
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