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Aspiring Valorant pro and Twitch streamer S2Aval has been banned from the platform for blatant stream sniping. It's not just toxic players and hackers ...

Winning over generation Z has seen Afterpay, Samsung and Mars Wrigley populating Tik Tok, Snapchat and Twitch with video campaigns to support new product promotions. Life happens in five – seconds not minutes – for youth targeted by Mars Wrigley's latest collaboration with Twitch, the platform for gaming plus a side-serve of chat and entertainment. The campaign was launched to support Mars Wrigley 5 Gum and builds on a previous Twitch activation undertaken by the FMCG brand in 2020.   The partnership has launched Team Clutch, or streamers who tackle games like Fortnite, along with a video campaign featuring teens who dare to get a tattoo or pounce for a kiss at a party. Streamers include emerging Twitch creators, soleKEFS and PlayitShady, who join popular creator, Aussie Antics, with more Team Clutch members to come. The streamers are challenged to make concentrated, quick decisions in gameplay while entertaining their audience.  "Going live truly embodies the 'Life happens in 5’ spirit of adventure and this natural brand synergy led us to partner with Twitch,” said Mars Wrigley marketing director, Ben Hill. He hoped to replicate the success of last year's collaboration with Twitch.  According to Twitch head of sales A/NZ, Ricky Chanana, the…

Learn more about Justin Glaze, a painter from Baltimore, Maryland who wants to fall in love with Katie Thurston on The Bachelorette season 17. Justin Glaze made a big impression on the fans during the premiere of The Bachelorette season 17, and the fans want to find out more about this guy in order to judge if he's the right fit for Katie Thurston. The first night of a Bachelor Nation season is always somewhat chaotic given that the viewers - and, most importantly, the leads - are trying to learn all of these new faces and names. On night one, Katie met as many as 30 charismatic, successful, and good-looking men. But even harder than remembering 30 names and faces is to then eliminate seven guys that you literally met, and that's exactly what Katie Thurston had to do by the end of the premiere. Still, a whopping 23 men survived the first night and will get another shot at getting to know Katie a little bit better. These contestants have already proven that they are willing to do whatever it takes to stand out from the competition, but the final decision to save them or eliminate them will always be Katie's. Continue scrolling to keep reading Click…

LinkedIn has shared a new case study, which looks at how Johnson & Johnson used LinkedIn ads to help maximize COVID-19 vaccine take-up, and why they chose LinkedIn to reach key decision-makers and professionals. The study is the latest example from LinkedIn as to how brands are making best use of its ad tools, and with the platform seeing record levels of engagement, and continuing to add more users (now up to 740m members), the case for LinkedIn, particularly as business activity begins to ramp up, is strengthening every day. As explained by LinkedIn: "Johnson & Johnson decided to leverage LinkedIn Live to help promote its “Road to a Vaccine” documentary campaign, as the platform’s trusted environment and professional targeting capabilities helped them reach its desired audience. Further, a unique combination of Sponsored Content and Message Ads directed at the global healthcare industry also created awareness and drove viewership throughout the series." There are some interesting notes here, and pointers that could get you thinking about how you might also be able to utilize LinkedIn's various promotional tools to boost your messaging with just the right people. Check out the infographic below. Follow Andrew Hutchinson on Twitter

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- For years, many employees wanted to work remotely, but their bosses were skeptical.Now it appears the bosses are also boarding the work-from-home train.Employment website LinkedIn reported that job postings seeking remote workers have more than quadrupled compared to this time last year.A LinkedIn chart shows that in some industries the postings for remote work have increased more than 10 times the number of posts from this time last year."It's indicative of what we're seeing in the midst of the pandemic and post-pandemic," said Molly Galloway a human resources consultant with the nonprofit organization Catapult.She said the whopping 457% increase in remote job postings over last year reported by LinkedIn doesn't surprise her.Companies are realizing that allowing some employees to work remotely is seen by some job candidates as a benefit, she said.Of those responding to an ABC11 Facebook poll Thursday, 75% said they prefer working from home to being in the office.So they see it as a big benefit."We didn't claim it as much as a benefit in the past," Galloway said, "And now both an employer is interested in offering it as well as employees are asking for it and almost expecting it."But it's a…

Gustavo Banda spends one to three hours every day on Facebook trying to warn migrants desperate to enter the United States not to waste their money on human smugglers advertising their services on the social media platform.Banda is a pastor who runs a shelter in a church in Tijuana, Mexico, where migrants end up after being deported from the U.S. Many of them gave their life savings to human smugglers, known as coyotes, whom they met on Facebook and its encrypted messaging app WhatsApp, and who promised them safe passage to America. When people arrive at his shelter, they’ve often spent all the money they have, and many have experienced rape, violence and further extortion along the way.“I’m telling everyone that this is a complete lie,” he said, gesturing at a Facebook group in which migrants and coyotes appear to be interacting with one another on the laptop in front of him. “If they need help trying to cross, they should get a lawyer and do it the legal way and that I can help them.”Banda’s alarm about human smugglers promoting their services on social media is echoed by the Tech Transparency Project,  » Read More

By Laurel Mallory | June 10, 2021 at 3:54 PM EDT - Updated June 10 at 4:44 PM BRANCHVILLE, S.C. (WIS) - A 17-year-old is charged with murder in the death of a man killed during a Facebook Marketplace transaction in rural Orangeburg County, officials said. It happened around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on Saddle Ridge Road in Branchville. The wife of the victim called 911 saying her husband was shot during an armed robbery as they were trying to buy an ATV. Her husband, 34-year-old Alexander Presley, died at the scene. She told deputies she and her husband took their two children to meet up with someone selling the four wheeler Wednesday afternoon. When they got there, they met 17-year-old Edward Stokes, who also had a younger child with him, deputies said. After Presley gave Stokes money for the ATV, they loaded it onto a trailer attached to the couple’s vehicle. That’s when the victim’s wife told deputies she “had a feeling something bad was about to happen.” She said Stokes attacked her husband,  » Read More

Clicking around to find out who unfollowed you on Instagram is like signing up for devastation on the level of listening to Olivia Rodrigo on repeat. Losing a follower — even if it’s just one person, and even if you barely knew them — has a way of ruining a day (or at least a good portion of an evening).Think about when The Weeknd unfollowed Selena Gomez, or when Kylie Jenner (and then the rest of the Kardashian clan) unfollowed Jordyn Woods. Or that time when the entire beauty community on YouTube unfollowed each other during the summer of 2020. The social media act can be so dramatic it makes the news. (Celebrities, they’re just like us.) James, 27, says he hates when he loses a follower. “When someone unfollows me, it basically triggers my fight-or-flight response,” he tells Bustle — yet he can’t seem to look away. In fact, James admits to checking his analytics 50 to 100 times a day, or whenever he picks up his phone. And when his count goes down, it puts him in a bad mood.But, while some people need to investigate the unfollow, others decidedly... do not. You’re either staunchly in the track-each-and-every-unfollow…

Jun 10, 2021 Jun 10, 2021 Updated 14 hrs ago Tags Graduation Ceremony Cabrillo High School School Education Lompoc High School Attendance Maple High School Option Most Popular Congrats Class of 2021: Watch livestream options for Lompoc, Cabrillo High School graduations here 'Be bold': Santa Ynez Valley High graduates encouraged to follow dreams Orcutt teacher honored as Santa Barbara County 2022 Performing Arts Teacher of the Year Orcutt, Lompoc educators receive Crystal Apple Education awards Lompoc seniors pick up caps and gowns ahead of in-person graduation ceremonies Local Events

If you are sick of having to think up another great piece of content for your Instagram feed, or you are tired of knowing that every post you put up on your Facebook page is going to be seen by your mom, then perhaps it’s time to try a completely new social media app. Clubhouse is the latest craze among social media apps, and like most others out there, it offers its customers a point of difference that they can’t refuse. However, before we dive into talking about the point of difference, you need to know that Clubhouse is pretty exclusive. In fact, you need to be invited to use it, so only the lucky few actually make it all the way to having a Clubhouse account. Don’t worry, there is a good chance that you will be invited, and as time goes on, and Clubhouse becomes more popular, it will get easier to create your own account. The point of difference with Clubhouse is that it acts like a chat room,  » Read More