Facebook has revealed that a photo API bug has exposed the private pictures of 6.8 million users through third party apps over a 12 day-period, in yet another privacy breach.
Users who used Facebook Login and granted permission to third-party apps to a…

Chevy’s global chief marketing officer (CMO) Tim Mahoney will step down on March 1, according to GM’s statement to Ad Age.
The news comes after GM’s plan to reduce 15% of its employees as part of a broader cost-cutting plan, was announced. No replaceme…

Transport for London’s (TfL) advertising agent, Exterion Media has banned an advertising campaign from dating app Lumen claiming that the ad sexually objectifies the model.
The campaign features 58-year-old Paul Orchard, wearing only braces, holding a …

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has named global bank Citi as an international partner until 2020.
As part of the partnership, Citi will sponsor 18 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) which includes Australia, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Costa…

The board of MDC Partners has approved a one-time “retention incentive” award for five senior executives of the company that is conditional on continued employment through the successful closing of a significant transaction in 2019, according to an SEC…

After coming under fire this week for creating a monkey figurine with overly large red lips in a style reminiscent of racist caricatures of black people, Prada apologized and announced Friday that it will stop selling the offending products. .The high-…

Facebook discovered yet another privacy hole in its service. This time there was a flaw in the platform that let apps access people’s photos that should not have been available.On Friday, Facebook disclosed a “bug” in its photos APIthe platform for dev…

If you’re reading this, I have yet to succumb to the avalanche of gotta-get-this-out-the-door-before-2019 pitches or the sheer amount of sugar cookies that have landed on my desk this week. Not sure which one will end me first.Giddy up for a very newsy…

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Pat Mahomes regularly evades 300-pound linemen with ease, but now he’s facing a more formidable opponent: Tony the Tiger.Mahomes, 23, is preparing to launch a signature breakfast cereal, “Patty Flakes,” the second-year pl…

It’s perhaps no surprise that Amazon is its own best customer when it comes to advertising on its site, often promoting its own products in top positions. But this has led to frustration among rival brands who have found themselves trying to compete ag…

Every weekday we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs. The ads here ran on national TV for t…

Facebook Watch receives 75 million viewers a day, according to new statistics shared by the company. But despite its growth, the platform is still a fraction the size of its most important rival, YouTube, and some media companies are concerned by the p…

Brands continue to invest heavily in above-the-line content, and television is still seen as the place brands want to be. Each week, in partnership with Kantar Media, The Drum looks at which brands have been investing the most in newly-launched creativ…

No replacement has been named for Tim Mahoney, who took on the role in 2013 and led initiatives like the brand’s “Find New Roads” marketing platform.