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Putting paid social behind creator content ensures it reaches the people you want it to. Without a strategy for content distribution, you’ll end up with lots of awesome content that (almost) nobody sees. Distribution can include reusing content in your own brand ads which is definitely a viable approach. This article focuses on how to increase the impact of influencer content through their profiles. Influencer marketing + a distribution plan becomes “Influential Media”, which combines authentic storytelling and targeted media distribution....

Angela Ahrendts has officially taken the reins of Apple’s new Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores. Ahrendts’s last day as the CEO of Burberry was yesterday, and Apple’s website has been updated to reflect Ahrendts beginning her work at Apple today. Her biography, which can be found on Apple’s executive leadership website, explains her role at Apple: The biography also provides a quick recap of her experience in retail and accolades:...

Fans of Neil Gaiman have long been lucky to see a number of the author’s properties adapted to screen with positive results. From Stardust to Coraline, Gaiman’s unique take on fantasy offers a somewhat darker counterpoint to traditional tales of whimsy. Perhaps his two most ambitious and well-regarded works, however, have long been stuck in development. While the film adaptation of Sandman still seems to be moving ahead in fits and starts, American Gods is finally coming to TV later this year on Starz....

The popular anthology horror show American Horror Story is home to some of the evilest, sadistic, and most unforgivable characters in television. The series, created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, is true to its name and pushes the boundaries of horror. Several characters have become nightmarish icons in popular culture. AHS features some sickening people who have demonstrated their evil and ruthless nature. Some were motivated by demonic possession and others were simply psychopaths....

Analog for Mac received an update today that includes the eight beautiful filters from Analog Camera for iPhone which we reviewed at launch last week. If you haven’t already tried Analog for Mac, it allows you to edit and add filters with varying intensity, frame and crop, and share photos on your Mac to Facebook, Flickr, CloudApp, and other services. It’s a great time to try Analog for Mac as it adds new filters and drops its price in half for the next few days....

This week, Apple announced that it would be investing $200 million in glass supplier Corning as part of its new Advanced Manufacturing Fund. While the investment may seem straightforward on the surface, invest in a glass company for screens, analysts believe that it actually goes much deeper than that… As noted by CNBC, a pair of analysts on Friday expressed that there’s much more to this investment than just display glass....

It seems that Animal Crossing: New Horizons might not include DLC or microtransactions after all, as the official ESRB rating for the game has been updated to remove all references to in-app purchases. Nintendo has wholeheartedly embraced DLC with the Switch, which has included expansions for games like Pokémon Sword & Shield and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Animal Crossing games on Nintendo systems in the past have managed to avoid DLC or paid content....

Eve HomeKit Light Strip sees 25% discount Arlo Pro 3 security cameras discounted to new lows Notable features here include a wire-free and weather-resistant design, which makes it easy to stick these cameras up just about anywhere. You’ll receive 2K feeds with HDR support across the board so you can easily zoom in on the action when visitors or packages arrive. I’ve been using this setup for a few months now and have to say; it’s well worth the investment....

Back in the 2000s, TV saw the rise to dominance of reality programming, with both broadcast and cable networks seemingly in a mad dash to greenlight any and all reality shows they could get their hands on. While the reality genre persists today, it’s far from the juggernaut it once was, which the majority of the most popular shows on TV now back to being scripted programs. Still, for a time, the American public was eating up reality TV content at a pace almost faster than it could be produced....

Jetpack Joyride is an arcade running (or in this case, flying) game similar to the likes of Temple Run. The hero of the game, Barry Steakfries, is propelled by tapping on the screen once or several times depending on how high you want him to go. With game controls this simple, it’s hard not to play over and over again. The object of the game is to steer your way through a laboratory riding a jetpack, making sure to avoid getting zapped by electric rods while collecting coins and tokens along the way....

Angular version 1.0, which is known as AngularJS, was released in 2010 by Google Angular version 2.0 was released in September 2016 Angular 4.0 was released in March 2017 Angular 5.0 was released in Nov 2017 Angular 6.0 was released in May 2018 Angular 7.0 was released in Oct 2018 Angular 8.0 was released in May 2019 Angular 9.0 was released in Feb 2020 Angular 10.0 was released in June 2020 Angular 11....

[This is a review of American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson episode 10. There will be SPOILERS.] - Anyone who regularly watches television would be hard-pressed to think of a recent program with greater potential to be a complete garbage fire than FX’s American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. The salacious media frenzy surrounding the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and the subsequent circus that was the trial of O....

Most would assume that the currently free on-contract iPhone 3GS will discontinue with the introduction of the sixth-generation iPhone later this year, but one analyst claimed its life would go on. According to Jefferies analyst Peter Misek in a note released last night (via Fortune), Apple signed an agreement “with a major global distributor” that will bring the iPhone 3GS to pre-paid carriers and developing countries for an even cheaper price....

Update: Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves reached out to us with some clarification on his note to clients earlier today noting the “commentary in our note was our interpretation and our thoughts based on the meetings we had”: While recent reports claimed Apple is in deep negotiations with cable operators to create a new cable TV platform for Apple TV, many also tied the reports to the possibility of a full-fledged Apple HDTV....

The M1 MacBook Air debuted almost a year ago at this point, in fall 2020, to much fanfare and a great critical reception. However, it appears customers will have to wait a while for the next big update. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that the new MacBook Air with upgraded Apple Silicon (M2?) is not scheduled to arrive until the third quarter of 2022 or, in other words, it’s still about a year away....

Andy Cohen, the executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise, revealed which of the Real Housewives stars he relates to the most. The Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen host said he had a hard time narrowing down just one, so he came up with four housewives to whom he most related. Cohen, who is now synonymous with the Real Housewives franchise and his late-night talk show on Bravo, started out at Bravo as the vice-president of programming....

Ant-Man 3 isn’t part of Marvel’s Phase 4 slate, so does that mean the sequel has been cancelled? San Diego Comic-Con 2019 saw Marvel go all out in its Phase 4 blowout, revealing the next two years worth of movies for theaters and shows for Disney+; they also unveiled Mahershala Ali as Blade and confirmed the future of mutants and the Fantastic Four in the MCU. Despite the multitude of announcements, one franchise was strangely omitted from the event: Ant-Man....

BioWare’s Anthem video game is EA’s first new IP in a decade, but it’s being compared to everything from Destiny to the studio’s own Mass Effect series - but the thing is, Anthem seems to be correcting Destiny’s mistakes. From the get-go, Anthem has been an ambitious project for BioWare, as they’re tackling facets of the gaming industry that they aren’t all too experienced with, but what’s interesting is that they’re approaching the new title as if it were another BioWare game - the good BioWare games, that is - and that is what’s going to set the game apart....

American Horror Story star Jessica Lange, who was a mainstay for the show’s first four seasons, opened up about her thoughts regarding her favorite season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series. Since 2011, the FX series has developed an incredibly loyal, opinionated fanbase. Because American Horror Story is an anthology series, it is ripe for debate regarding which seasons of the show are the best, the worst, and why. Though there is lots of shared space for returning cast, with several names being prominently featured in the central focus of the series on the whole, Jessica Lange is one of the most beloved actors of the franchise along with her co-stars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters....

Ahead of Apple’s fiscal Q2 earnings call later today, a note from Barclays analysts points to chatter among investors that Apple is eyeing a major acquisition of a media company. The report from analysts Mark Moskowitz and Daniel Gaide claims that the move could allow Apple to achieve its services growth goals that could otherwise slow alongside iPhone sales, and that an acquisition of a company in the cloud services as opposed to media is also a possibility....