Super Bowl ads aim to comfort and connect
NEW YORK – Super Bowl ads each year offer a snapshot of the American psyche. The chance to break into the psyche and (virtual) watercooler talk of an estimated 100 million viewers who will be watching the CBS broadcast of Super Bowl LV on Sunday. This year’s Super Bowl will showcase more than 20 first-time advertisers — more than double the 8 from last year if you exclude campaign ads, according to a tally by research firm iSpot. It’s a bellwether when a brand can afford the estimated $5.5 million cost-of-entry for a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl. In stark contrast to last year's Super Bowl, which featured campaign ads from both Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg, politics is out of sight this year.
'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' will end in 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, from left, Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, and Kendall Jenner arrive at the Kardashian Kollection launch party in Los Angeles. After more than a decade, Keeping Up With the Kardashians is ending its run. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye" to the reality show, Kim Kardashian and other members of the extended Kardashian-Jenner family said in a statement Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' will end in 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, from left, Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, and Kendall Jenner arrive at the Kardashian Kollection launch party in Los Angeles. After more than a decade, Keeping Up With the Kardashians is ending its run. After more than a decade, Keeping Up With the Kardashians will be ending its run next year. The new season begins Sept. 17, with the final season to air in 2021. The series, which debuted in October 2007, begat 12 spin-offs, including Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami" and Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian."
US Marshals put Fyre Festival merchandise up for auction
NEW YORK More than three years after the highly publicized Fyre Festival famously fizzled out in the Bahamas, merchandise and other minor assets are up for sale courtesy of the U.S. Marshals Service. Marshals announced that 126 items from the festival will be auctioned off, with proceeds going toward the victims of Billy McFarland. McFarland acknowledged defrauding investors of $26 million in the 2017 Fyre Festival and over $100,000 in a fraudulent ticket-selling scheme after his arrest in the scam. Kendall Jenner Agrees to Pay $90,000 in Fyre Festival LawsuitThe festival, billed as an ultra-luxurious event and the cultural experience of the decade, was supposed to take place over two spring 2017 weekends on the Bahamian island of Exuma.
Gigi Hadid, Irina Shayk and More Models Auction Their Clothes for 'British Vogue' to Benefit NAACP
Twenty-three of the world's biggest models are auctioning designer pieces from their closets for two great causes. Gigi Hadid, Irina Shayk, Kendall Jenner, Joan Smalls and Ashley Graham are among fashion's brightest stars who have teamed up with British Vogue for a special project called the Way We Wore Auction, to raise money for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and NHS Charities Together (United Kingdom's National Health Service). The clothes and accessories worn in selfie photos that the models took while quarantining from home, featured in the July 2020 issue of British Vogue, are available for bidding on the Hardly Ever Worn It website. Hadid's boyfriend, Zayn Malik, joins in on her selfie as his back shows his tattoos and a Dior saddle bag that's up for auction. Hadid, who is pregnant with the couple's first child, wears a Fenty denim jacket and corset dress.