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.
Stocks kick off the week with a rally after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the prospect of a trade war was "on hold" following an agreement to suspend tariff threats. Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils details of the souped-up Model 3. President Trump is going after the FBI. Fortnite is launching on Android phones this summer.
The rapper is also one of 47 collaborators who have partnered with Fila to bring back its classic line of Mindblower sneakers.
The actress, known for her roles in "Hall Pass" and "American Housewife," only got on Tinder at 35. In one night, she got more than 400 matches. She went on many of those dates and turned her experiences into the YouTube original series "Sideswiped."
The highly-anticipated wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle breaks with many of Buckingham Palace's norms. But their union is not totally unprecedented. Cheddar delves into the history of royal weddings past and how they transformed the British monarchy.
Uber's recently released national TV ad, featuring its new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, attempts to hit refresh for a company that has been hit by years of negative coverage. Meanwhile Facebook's new ad is more reactive to the recent Cambridge Analytica crisis, says Jon Swartz, a senior reporter at Barron's.
Suzanne Scott, who has been at the network since it was founded in 1996, was named its new chief executive on Thursday. The move is "refreshing" for a company that has been shrouded by sexual harassment scandals for almost two years, says Jeanine Poggi, media reporter at Ad Age.
The former winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race," also known as Roy Haylock, says the TV show transformed her life and helped her build a global brand. "I'm shocked at how many people are interested in what I'm doing," she says in an interview with Cheddar.
Google's video streaming platform is jumping into the music space with personalized playlists, a new, dedicated app and desktop player, and song downloads.
The affordable TV streaming service is testing out new features that will "make TV a much more social experience," says CEO Andrew McCollum.
It's the sound clip that's dividing the internet. Cheddar gets to the bottom of the mystery.
