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The Affluent Travel Collection (ATC) is celebrating its 20-year anniversary and its considerable accomplishments after three decades in business.“In 2005, TRAVELSAVERS expanded its marketing program into the luxury space with an initiative focused on upscale properties: great hotels,” ATC said. “Its aim was to drive affluent leads to advisors with a consumer magazine as its centerpiece.” Added Nicole Mazza, chief marketing officer: “Two decades later, we are still generating new business and new heights of success for our advisors. ATC has developed into a dynamic network that helps our advisors deliver exclusive rates, premium products and unmatched value for clients.”In…
YouTube has won exclusive rights to stream the Oscars starting in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday. The Google-owned platform outbid other contenders, including the Oscars’ longtime home ABC, ending the network’s streak of hosting the awards show since 1961 (with the exception of a brief period in the early 1970s). YouTube’s first show will be the 101st Oscars in 2029, and its deal will run through 2033. ABC will continue to broadcast the ceremony until 2028. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The news, which marks a landmark shift for one…
Chipotle will debut a High Protein Menu on Tuesday, December 23, with items ranging from 15 to 81 grams of protein per item.Source: Chipotle Mexican GrillChipotle Mexican Grill is entering the snack business.The fast-casual giant announced Thursday it will roll out its first-ever “High Protein Menu” later this month, featuring grab-and-go protein cups. Starting Tuesday, customers in the U.S. and Canada can buy a 4-ounce portion filled with adobo chicken or steak.The move is designed to re-energize demand as the chain known for massive burritos and bowls is grappling with slowing sales growth and a fundamental shift in how Americans…
YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard for use in the publisher’s industry-leading U.S. music charts. The decision is in response to a recent change Billboard made to its ranking formula, which continues to add more weight to paid, on-demand streaming compared with ad-supported, free streaming. Billboard justified its decision to adjust its age-old formula by saying that the change will “better reflect an increase in streaming revenue and changing consumer behaviors.” In other words, streaming now matters more than buying albums or songs, so it wants its charts to reflect that. However, YouTube doesn’t like the new formula because…
The Christmas holiday season is a time to step back from the busy pace of modern life and connect with our nearest and dearest instead of screens, apps and chatbots. Here are some suggestions on how to unplug from the online world for the next few weeks as you sit down for a festive meal, exchange gifts or take time out for some self-reflection.Do not disturb meYour phone already has built-in features that can help you stop getting distracted. To temporarily silence all those attention-seeking notifications, use the Focus setting on your iPhone or Android device. This mode is designed…
Intrepid Travel, a world leader in responsible travel, is offering travel advisors from the U.S. and Canada opportunities to experience some of the world’s most exciting destinations boots on the ground.The expanded FAM program running from March through December 2026 gives advisors hands-on access to Intrepid’s most in-demand destinations and designed to turn experiences into sales and long-term client trust. The global lineup features destinations across Central and South America, Europe, North Africa, and East Asia that include:BelizeGuatemalaTurkeySouth KoreaPeruMoroccoEach FAM is designed to showcase the diversity of Intrepid’s product range with themes including:March: Short Breaks in Guatemala and Belize June:…
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump. Isaacman’s confirmation comes a little over a year after Trump nominated him. It was a volatile year for Isaacman, though, as Trump pulled his nomination in June after becoming concerned about the billionaire’s “prior associations.” (Isaacman had previously donated to Democrats, something Trump was reportedly aware of when he first nominated the entrepreneur.) That led to months…
CEO and President of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav and CEO of Paramount Skydance, David Ellison.Mike Blake | Brendan McDermid | ReutersIt’s time for everyone’s favorite holiday tradition — CNBC’s annual anonymous media executive predictions! CNBC spoke with 16 of the most powerful and influential executives in U.S. media, sports and entertainment, who all offered a prediction for the year ahead, under the condition of anonymity so they could speak freely and make bold bets. This year, we break the forecasts into three categories: M&A predictions, sports predictions and miscellaneous. Before we begin, a few shoutouts from last year’s list.…
Like pretty much every other tech company in existence, Adobe has leaned heavily into AI over the past several years. The software firm has launched a number of different AI services since 2023, including Firefly — its AI-powered media-generation suite. Now, however, the company’s full-throated embrace of the technology may have led to trouble, as a new lawsuit claims it used pirated books to train one of its AI models. A proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Elizabeth Lyon, an author from Oregon, claims that Adobe used pirated versions of numerous books — including her own — to train…
According to Reuters, Instacart is currently getting the regulatory equivalent of a throat-clearing from the FTC, which has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand regarding its AI-powered pricing tool, Eversight. Put another way, the agency wants to know why some people are paying substantially more for their organic granola than others. The issue came to light after a study revealed that shoppers are seeing fairly different prices for identical groceries from the same stores — up to 23% higher prices in some cases. Instacart says these price tests were randomized, not tied to an algorithm that targets…