BBC
As part of his mayoral election manifesto, Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images from public transport in London. The Advertising Standards Agency received 378 complaints in 2015 about a weight-loss advert that asked customers if they were "beach body ready?"
Detroit Metro Times
The Detroit Zoo launched a new campaign this week called "A Zoo That Could" aimed at highlighting what it does beyond its 125 acres. "A Zoo That Could" aims to "provide an expanded view of the Detroit Zoo's impact on wildlife, wild places and the community." The campaign focuses on conservation, animal welfare, sustainability, education, and community.
San Francisco Chronicle
Lenovo will sell an advanced smartphone in September with depth- and motion-tracking cameras that could make remodeling a home much easier. The device uses technology from Google that allows users to map out and measure areas of their home using the phone's cameras.
Chain Store Age
The discounter has debuted Connected Living, an in-store experience dedicated to showing customers how connected products can work together to make life easier, more convenient and more efficient. The test is taking place in Target's Ridgedale location in Minnetonka, Minn.
The Guardian
The deal is for five years. Heineken has made a point of stressing it will be bringing innovation to promote the sport, specifically in social media and expect the relationship to further increase the visibility and popularity of F1 in new markets round the world.
Crain's Detroit Business
Shopper marketing has become a big part of many marketing budgets, but it remains largely absent from college marketing curriculum and something of a mystery even within marketing organizations. WPP's Geometry and Unilever have joined to help change that by backing an undergraduate course at Michigan State University that they believe is the first of its kind.
USA Today
The NBA launched the NBAmoji App, providing fans with access to a series of Finals-related animated emojis for download. LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and the rest of the players on the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers rosters all have their own emoji.
The New York Times
When Gracie Allen struggled to bake a cake on "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show" in the 1950s, an actress playing Betty Crocker stopped by to help. The Lone Ranger endorsed Cheerios, which sponsored that TV show from 1949 to 1957.
Brand Channel
Still searching for growth in a retail and apparel market where renaissance is proving difficult, Lands' End is taking a fresh tack-one that could prove its most significant product diversification under CEO Federica Marchionni. The company has introduced Lands' End Sport.
CarConnection
Most startlingly, the manual assumed that cars would always be driven by men, with women only riding as "co-pilots" in the passenger's seat or back seat. It also assumed that women don't wear pants. "If a lady's skirt is too short, we recommend that she travel in the backseat to keep our concentration."