John Oliver Dragged Both Kid Rock And Bud Light After The Right-Wing Freakout Over The Beer Brand’s Partnership With A Trans Influencer

HBO John Oliver waded into the conservative freakout over a Bud Light ad campaign featuring trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, and the Last Week Tonight host had plenty to say about Kid Rock and Budweiser’s weird, 9/11-themed response to the backlash. After explaining that this whole debacle began after of one sponsored video showing Mulvaney opening …

An influencer brand partnership manager’s five tips for helping creators double their monthly income

Being an influencer isn’t a career path you learn in school. Neither is becoming an influencer brand partnership manager for content creators. But for Sean Scott, the founder of The Partnership Expert, a boutique consultancy that helps creators land brand deals, it was a natural next step in his career.  Scott started working as a …

American Express Announces A Coachella Partnership With Depop And Flo Milli, And Special Blackpink Merch

Getty Image As festivalgoers are flocking to California today for the start of Coachella’s first weekend this year, American Express has announced a new “global, multi-festival” partnership with Depop — and are launching the first “Festival Edit” run on-site. To celebrate, the two companies enlisted none other than Flo Milli to curate a special collection …

Suga Just Made His NBA Fandom Official As A League Ambassador, A Partnership Extending To His ‘D-Day’ Tour

Getty Image Suga has been a fixture courtside at a few NBA games this season, beginning with the reigning champion Golden State Warriors’ preseason matchups against the Washington Wizards in Japan last fall — where Naomi Osaka complimented him on a particular BTS song — and including the Dallas Mavericks’ visit to Los Angeles in …

Beyoncé And Adidas Reportedly Have Mutually Agreed To End Their Ivy Park Partnership

Ivy Park Beyoncé and Adidas have mutually agreed to end their partnership, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Beyoncé will retain ownership of her Ivy Park brand. It was first reported in February that the partnership was troubled; according to internal earnings documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the Ivy Park brand had underperformed under …

FBI’s cybersecurity infosharing partnership breached, hacker selling details for $50,000

A hacker is attempting to sell a database containing the personal information of more than 88,000 members of InfraGard, an FBI-affiliated organization that helps the bureau partner with security experts in the private sector. The data, as first reported by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, first appeared on a notorious hacking forum on Saturday and is …

Adidas Says Its Partnership With Kanye West Is ‘Under Review’

Getty Image Kanye West might get his wish soon. The mercurial rapper-designer has been straining against his partnerships with Adidas and Gap for the better part of a year (longer, if you include the last time he raised a stink about his supposed treatment at the two companies). Today, a little under a month since …

50 Cent Announces His Departure From His Partnership With Starz

Getty Image In April, Curtis Jackson, alternatively known as 50 Cent, exclaimed that he only had five months left of his deal with the company Starz, about whom he shared some complaints in the past regarding their treatment. Today, he’s announced his departure from his partnership with the network. Together, they worked on Power, the …

Why Did Kanye Leave Gap? The Yeezy Partnership Is Over

In fact, Kanye took to social media to post part of the official letter on his Instagram Stories on Sept. 15, 2022. The letter states that Gap breached the initial contract by failing to release “40% of the Yeezy Gap assortment in brick-and-mortar retail stores during the third and fourth quarters of 2021.” Unfortunately, the …

What Does Paid Partnership Mean on TikTok? Explaining the Label

This program allows for two-way interactions between creators and brands. Advertisers launch branded campaigns and encourage creators to take part in them, and develop a brief explaining what the campaign involves. Then, creators can decide which campaigns they want to be a part of, and begin creating content accordingly. If a creator’s video is selected, …

T-Pain on Dad Jokes, Comedy Goals, and His Laffy Taffy Partnership (EXCLUSIVE)

So, in a match made in heaven, T-Pain is teaming up with Laffy Taffy to judge the candy brand’s joke-writing contest, dubbed “Your Jokes, Our (W)rapper.” The rapper and singer will be picking the winner for the “best laff,” who will win a grand prize of $5,000. In an exclusive interview with Distractify, T-Pain opened …