Ted Chung Talks Working With Snoop Dogg, and Creating Multicultural Campaigns
Ted Chung is the founder of marketing firm Cashmere Agency, which focuses on multicultural campaigns for brand all over the world. Cheddar visits his Los Angeles location to talk about how brand marketing is changing, and what brands need to do to stand out from the crowd when it comes attracting millennials.
Chung discusses the importance of focusing on multicultural marketing, and how brands need to fully reflect the people who are purchasing their products. He also practices what he preaches by employing 90% multicultural employees, and 50% of the company's leadership roles are women.
Chung is also Snoop Dogg's long-time business partner and a co-investor in many of the artist's entertainment ventures. Chung explains how he met Snoop, and how they started working together almost 10 years ago. The duo are currently working on a Netflix project called "Coach Snoop," a docu-series following the rapper and a group of kids in his Snoop youth football league. The series will be out at the beginning of 2018.
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
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