Mobile GIF platform Tenor is out with the list of its top 5 gifts this year. The company's co-founder and CEO David McIntosh explains what they say about sentiment in 2017.
The top five GIFs of 2017 are the guy blinking, baby crying, Jonah Hill's "yay," Shaq laughing, and Obama's "Oh yeah." McIntosh says negative emotion searches went up 31 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, positive emotions decreased 18 percent.
"We can get a great sense of how people are actually thinking and feeling," says McIntosh. Though GIF searches were more negative overall, searches for "laughing" nearly doubled since 2017.
Lisa McKnight, global head of Barbie and dolls, spoke to Cheddar about how Mattel's success during COVID-19 rested on its classic toy brands like Barbie, Fisher-Price, and Hot Wheels.
Russell Westbrook led a $63 million fundraising round for Varo Bank and is looking to help underserved communities with financial literacy, according to Donnell Beverly, president of Russell Westbrook Enterprises, and Varo COO Wesley Wright.
Cheddar's Michelle Castillo talks to frontline workers in keeping New York City's sprawling subway system running and safe amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken the lives of at least 136 MTA colleagues.
The latest on Tiger Woods' condition following a serious car accident, a global vaccination drive begins, why college enrollment is down, and more.
Authorities say there's no immediate evidence that Tiger Woods was impaired in a car crash that seriously injured both of the golfer's legs.
The coronavirus pandemic offered people the opportunity to connect with pets, and the number of adoptions and fosters surged throughout the pandemic. Cheddar's Chloe Aiello reports.
Advertising analytics company DoubleVerify found in a report that there was a 21 percent increase in "inflammatory news and political content" on websites following January 6.
The chief of the Cherokee Nation says it's time for automaker Jeep to stop using the tribe's name on its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee models.
Jill and Carlo are talking vaccine reinforcements, Israel's progress (and that SNL joke), plus Spotify taps Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama and Daft Punk calls it quits.
The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined.
