There was a time, not so long ago, when the chief competitive worry for a European broadcaster was the network down the street — the one with the slightly better game show and the marginally more appealing newsreader.
The list of places LeBron James has taken his talents now includes a destination that requires neither a press conference nor a chartered flight: YouTube.
The arithmetic of youth marketing has always been imprecise, but this fall the denim industry appears to be treating it less as a calculation than as a hedge fund.
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The line between creative vision and personal compulsion has always been thin in Hollywood, though it is not often that the distinction is tested with a snake-headed walking stick and a sprawling East Los Angeles nursery.
The conventional wisdom on Madison Avenue has long held that love stories should begin at the end — the moment of triumph, the couple gazing into each other's eyes, the implication that the product in question made it all possible.
The hangover from a World Cup is a familiar condition, though one that has historically afflicted American sports fans less acutely than their counterparts abroad.