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Breakfast is proving the rare bright spot in the coronavirus advertising slump. Companies that help provide the first meal of the day, like cereal makers, upped their ad spending more than 13 percent from February to March as more quarantined Americans suddenly find the time they need to eat breakfast, according to a new report. …
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Owners of many shuttered Big Apple restaurants are less worried about making rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic than they are about customer-density rules likely to be put in place once they reopen. Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert is hopeful that he can work with his landlord to keep the great, three-Michelin-star seafood …
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Video-game sales exploded last month as the coronavirus forced millions worldwide to hunker down at home looking for something to do. March spending on video game hardware, software and accessories jumped 35 percent from a year earlier to $1.6 billion — reversing a seven-month streak of declines to hit the highest March total since 2008, …
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Ansel Elgort has some serious balls. “The Fault In Our Stars” actor used a nude photo to get donations for COVID-19 relief on Tuesday. In the steamy shot, Elgort, 26, poses naked in an outdoor shower using just his hand to cover himself. “OnlyFans LINK IN BIO,” he captioned the pic, referring to the subscription …
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Oil prices continued a historic plunge Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic’s stranglehold on demand for fuel showed no signs of loosening any time soon. June futures contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude oil plunged as much as 68 percent to $6.50 a barrel — the lowest price in at least 50 years. And the May …
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Just call him Watergod. Foodgod donated an 18-wheeler full of drinks to Miami’s Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Miami Health Center last Friday to give healthcare workers a refreshing reprieve from their fight against coronavirus. The man formerly known as Jonathan Cheban described the experience as “such an honor.” “It was a really great …
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Hundreds of Amazon warehouse staffers are staying home on Tuesday in protest of their work conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, according to labor groups. Some 300 workers across more than 40 Amazon facilities in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and New York, among other states, signed a pledge to not work on Tuesday, Zachary Lerner, a …
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“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Kelly Dodd offered her surprising take on the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, calling it “God’s way of thinning the herd.” On Instagram, Dodd, 44, has suggested she was both tested for COVID-19 and recently traveled on an airplane. Responding to a commenter that took issue with her air travel …
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Gucci sales were hit hard at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis due to its strong reliance on Chinese customers, owner Kering said on Tuesday, though it added that the Italian brand should be well positioned for a recovery. Kering sales fell 15.4 percent, to $3.47 billion, in the first quarter, affected, like its rivals, …
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When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million people had 385 cases of infections. But even as cases in the country — which is in lockdown — have surged past 9,000, …
Breakfast is proving the rare bright spot in the coronavirus advertising slump. Companies that help provide the first meal of the day, like cereal makers, upped their ad spending more than 13 percent from February to March as more quarantined Americans suddenly find the time they need to eat breakfast, according to a new report. …
