NBC won't air the Golden Globes

Hi and welcome to Insider Advertising for May 11. I'm deputy editor Lucia Moses, filling in for Lauren Johnson, and here's what's going on:

• NBC won't air Golden Globes.
• Apple's advertising hire.
• WarnerMedia's top tech execs.

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NBC is refusing to air the 2022 Golden Globe Awards and called for the HFPA to reform

• NBC will not air the 2022 Golden Globes awards and called on its organizer, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, to make reforms.
• The decision comes after the Los Angeles Times reported on financial practices and a lack of diversity at the HFPA.
• The Globes have also been criticized by stars like Scarlett Johansson.

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Apple just made a major hire on its ad-platforms team, and it's the latest sign of the company's growing advertising ambitions

• Former Facebook product manager and "Chaos Monkeys" author Antonio García Martínez has joined Apple, Lara O'Reilly reports.
• The move marks the latest signal that Apple is looking to grow its fledgling advertising business while making it hard for advertisers to target its mobile users.
• Apple's been hiring ad experts and just rolled out a new ad format.

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WarnerMedia's tech leadership powers businesses like HBO Max and Xandr. Here are the 10 most powerful execs under its CTO

• Insider identified the top tech execs at WarnerMedia.
• They report to Richard Tom, a frequent collaborator of WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar.
• They include AT&T and Warner Bros. veterans, Xandr execs, as well as some Hulu alums.

Read the story.

More stories we're reading:

• Vice Media Targets Valuation of Nearly $3 Billion in Proposed SPAC Deal (WSJ)
• 40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg urging Facebook to abandon plans to build an Instagram app for kids under 13 (Insider)
• "You may never see those numbers again": Can cable news pass the post-Trump test? (Vanity Fair)
• Shopify employees found a noose emoji uploaded to Slack. Its CEO then silenced internal discussions. (Insider)
• Apple TV+ has released shows to critical acclaim and word-of-mouth buzz after stumbling at launch (Insider)
• Amazon and Walmart are facing off on a new battleground: healthcare (Insider)

That's it for today. See you tomorrow and reach me in the meantime at lmoses@insider.com or on Twitter at @lmoses.

- Lucia