Julia Walker

1 week ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

NEW YORK: Melissa Ben-Ishay’s cupcake business, Baked by Melissa, has created a buzz with Tabasco-infused and Squishmallow-inspired cupcakes, “Caked by Melissa” and “Come Hungry” cookbooks and viral recipe moments. But the most valuable moments of Ben-Ishay’s culinary career occurred when she stepped into her own confidence, she told the audience at PRWeek’s Women of Distinction event on Wednesday in New York City.

1 week ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

Oboist influencer Spencer Rubin is on a mission to "casualize" classical music. The musician has amassed over 1.8 combined TikTok and Instagram followers with “day in the life” videos as a third-year student at the Juilliard School, covering trending songs on his double-reed instrument and playing duets with his oboist and violinist friends.

2 weeks ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

Spotify removes 200 podcast-disguised illegal drug advertisementsWhile Spotify removed over 200 fake podcasts advertising opioid and prescription drugs last week, dozens of the podcast-disguised online pharmacy advertisements are still hosted on the platform, according to CNN’s findings.

2 weeks ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

It’s been almost a year since Elon Musk warned his 219 million X followers not to trust WhatsApp and, separately, years of ongoing legal battles accusing WhatsApp, Facebook and Meta of violating consumer privacy. So it’s no surprise that the Meta-owned messaging app’s largest campaign to date reassures skeptics — including Musk, who accused WhatsApp of exporting data from its 3 billion users’ private messages “every night” — that no one, Not Even WhatsApp, can see or hear personal messages.

3 weeks ago | prweek.com | Julia Walker

Advertisers deny Musk’s allegations of an X boycottAdvertisers including Mars, Lego and Nestlé motioned to toss an antitrust lawsuit Elon Musk filed against them for pulling advertising from X (formerly Twitter) after Musk took over the app. Advertisers claimed X “disrupted its own business and alienated many of its customers” when it rolled back community guidelines to allow hate speech, disinformation and brand safety risks.