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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Telecom giant Verizon hired Leslie Berland, previously the top marketing exec at Peloton and Twitter, as CMO. Berland will assume the role of executive VP and chief marketing officer at Verizon, effective Jan. 9, 2024.

Yaccarino, a graduate of Penn State University, served as the chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, acting as «the strategic and operational bridge across the entirety of NBCUniversal's global networks, properties, and business units,» according to her profile on LinkedIn. Her role involved monetizing the company's networks, digital and streaming platforms, distribution and commerce partnerships, and client relationships.

Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie and the rest of theToday anchors debuted an extremely fun Super Bowl commercial ahead of the big game on Friday February 11. The commercial featured all of the show’s anchors back in the 1970s in a classroom in the spot for the She Can STEM campaign for Ad Council, which hopes to inspire girls, non-binary kids, and trans youth to stay in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Ethan Shanfeld As part of the initiative to increase awareness of mental health concerns, MTV Entertainment Group is leading the charge to establish the first-ever national “Mental Health Action Day” on May 20 during Mental Health Awareness Month.MTV Entertainment Group said more than 150 brands, nonprofits and cultural leaders, including NBCUniversal, Univision, Vice Media, the Ad Council, Born This Way Foundation, Ben & Jerry’s, Kate Spade, Kenneth Cole and GLAAD, have signed on for what is

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama appear in a new campaign introduced by the Ad Council encouraging Americans to get vaccinated.

Natalie Oganesyan editorWhether through bubbles, frequent testing or outdoor workouts, sports leagues have largely adapted to the challenge of bringing sports back to viewers.

Eli Countryman Allyship has been one of the most helpful shifts in bringing about diversity, equity and inclusion, said Vernā Myers, Netflix’s vice president of inclusion strategy.“When people get busy becoming an ally they discover all sorts of powerful things and they become part of the solution,” she said during episode nine of Variety‘s Rebooting the Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, on Tuesday.The episode covered “The Entertainment and Media Workforce,”

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe final episode of Variety’s Rebooting The Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 10 a.m.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe ninth episode of Variety’s Rebooting the Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 10:00 a.m.

Eli Countryman Media consumption has seen large-scale shifts in recent years, but not typically as rapid as the patterns created by the COVID-19 pandemic.Closed stores, theaters and businesses drove many consumers to streaming in unprecedented levels, and technology has increasingly allowed for targeted advertising.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe eighth episode of Variety’s Rebooting The Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, will debut on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m.

ViacomCBS is the latest to launch a get-out-the-vote campaign with "Vote For Your Life," a mass voter registration effort aimed at addressing the various challenges Americans will face as they try to cast their ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with the Ad Council,the nonpartisan campaign encourages active and early civic engagement during the2020 election season, particularly from young, first-time and Black and Latino voters.

Eli Countryman Insurance for a $60 million film has increased tenfold in the age of COVID-19. And that’s just one of many changes film industry professionals have had to face.In the sixth iteration of Variety‘s “Rebooting the Entertainment Industry” streaming room series, sponsored by PwC and the Ad Council, Variety senior reporter Elaine Low moderated a conversation on the future outlook for growth in the industry.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe seventh episode of Variety’s Rebooting the Entertainment Industry series, sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, will debut on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe second season of “Rebooting the Entertainment Industry,” sponsored by PwC and Ad Council, will begin its five-episode run on Sept. 15.

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WWE stars are used to flattening each other in the ring, but now they’re doing their part to help flatten the curve by educating fans about how to prevent spreading COVID-19.

By Jill Goldsmith

Some of the nation’s biggest media outlets and the White House are readying a blitz of public-service messages aimed at getting Americans to take as many steps as possible to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.