Rachid Bilal and Troy Millings, founders and co-CEOs of business, education, and podcast platform Earn Your Leisure (EYL), will give the keynote address at the 14th edition of The One Club for Creativity’s hybrid Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) diversity conference and career fair, taking place September 26-27, 2024 at Convene at Brookfield Place in New York.
Bilal and Millings, who will speak in the morning of WAATBP’s second day, started EYL in 2018 as a media platform which gives rise to emerging and established content creators from the world of business, finance, and entrepreneurship whose perspective, expertise and in-depth insight have been undervalued and overlooked.
The platform has three top 100 podcasts including “Earn Your Leisure”, which has amassed over 50 million downloads and is consistently ranked in the top 20 business podcasts in the U.S. EYL has over two million followers across social media, 900,000 YouTube subscribers, and hosts live events across the globe including “Invest Fest,” the world’s largest financial literacy festival with over 14,000 attendees in 2022.
The platform also includes EYL University, an online educational platform and interactive community with over 12,000 active members and more than 200 archived webinars covering a range of business, finance, and entrepreneurial topics, making it one of the fastest growing private business education communities.
WAATBP is an annual gathering to address and correct the lack of diversity within the ad industry, bringing together Black voices from across the ad community–from students to C-suite leaders–to celebrate successes, examine challenges, and assert their rightful place at the table alongside their allies. Virtual panels, portfolio reviews, and recruiting sessions will happen online on September 26. The next day consists of in-person proceedings, kicking off with the keynote address, followed by additional presentations, crowdsourced panels, recruiting booths, and portfolio reviews.
In order to make the event as accessible as possible, WAATBP is free for job seekers and students to attend. Initial confirmed sponsors to date include Giant Spoon, Klick Health, Ogilvy, Team One, Verizon, and We Are Social, with more to come. Partnership opportunities are available for agencies and brands looking to help promote industry diversity.
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN's slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC's telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV's pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV's 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL's opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV's service.
Financial details of Disney's new deal with DirecTV weren't disclosed as part of Saturday's announcement. DirecTV's payments to Disney will be based on "market-based" pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney's video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN's forthcoming direct-to-consumer... Read More