Detroit Agency Sues Former Chief Creative Officer for Allegedly Conspiring to...
Detroit-based shopper marketing company The Mars Agency is suing its former U.S. chief creative officer Suzanna Bierwirth. The lawsuit accuses Bierwirth, who was appointed to the position last year,...
View ArticleGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee About...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended the company's data collection practices and insisted that the company's algorithms in its search results were absent of political bias considerations, he told...
View ArticleFacebook Is Testing Ads in Search on Its Mobile Apps and Marketplace
Two new stations may soon be added to the Facebook monetization train line. The social network revealed today that it is running a small test of ads in search results on its flagship mobile...
View ArticleHere’s How Santa’s Sleigh Would Look After Makeovers by Apple, Ikea and Other...
What if marketers like Apple, Ikea and Ferrari reimagined Santa's sleigh? That question's not exactly burning a hole in anyone's brain as we hurtle toward Christmas. Regardless, U.K. gifting company...
View Article7 Ways Marketers Are Catering Their Campaigns More to Gen Z Girls
For much of the last century, girls have found themselves in an ongoing struggle to have their innate talents recognized and valued on the same level as their guy counterparts. Teen boys were revered...
View ArticleWhite Ops Launched a PSA to Increase Public Awareness About Ad Fraud
In the last few weeks, ad fraud has been propelled into the public spotlight, with U.S. Senators, the FBI and the online industry's largest names waxing lyrical on its potential societal damage. This...
View ArticleBenjamin Moore Sends Lead Creative and Media Duties to Agencies Fig and Horizon
Benjamin Moore, the paint brand owned by Berkshire Hathaway, has named recently rebranded Fig and Horizon Media as its agencies of record for creative and media, respectively, following a review that...
View ArticleHow to Craft an Influencer Marketing Strategy That Will Outperform...
The rise of influencer marketing can be credited to the fact that the most impactful advertising comes from the people in our lives. With reports like Nielsen's Global Trust in Advertising saying that...
View ArticleFlouting Their Big-Time Endorsements, These Athletes Tried a New Product on...
Can you guess the identity of the pro athletes shown in this new ad campaign for fitness apparel brand, Snapbac? You'll have to--because Snapbac and its agency, Mother Los Angeles, won't say exactly...
View ArticleP&G Acquires Walker & Company, Maker of Beauty and Grooming Products for...
Walker & Company Brands, which owns Bevel, the shaving company for men of color and hair care company Form Beauty, which caters to women of color, is joining Procter and Gamble. The deal--Recode...
View ArticleThe Madison Square Garden Company Hires Former Hilton CMO to Lead Marketing Team
The Madison Square Garden Company announced today that it has hired Geraldine Calpin to serve as the company's new evp and CMO, effective immediately. Calpin will report to the company's president...
View ArticleThis Finnish Newspaper Put the Year’s Ugliest News on Ugly Christmas Sweaters
One brand trend that seems to keep moving at pace is that of the ugly Christmas sweater. Coca-Cola's 2013 popular "Coke Zero Sweater Generator" scaled the exposure of the phenomenon, and everyone from...
View ArticleIndustry Reacts to Google CEO Pichai’s Hearing on the Company’s...
On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat in front of the House Judiciary Committee for a couple of hours to explain how the tech company collects data and deploys its algorithms. It was the first time...
View ArticleLuke Wilson Will Star in a Comedic Super Bowl Spot for Colgate
Colgate is taking a comedic route this year, as it returns to the Super Bowl after first appearing in 2016. The 30-second national spot will air during the second commercial break of the third quarter....
View ArticleRyan Reynolds Shares the Mystical Secrets of How His Aviation Gin Is Made
How is Aviation Gin made? Probably not the way Ryan Reynolds tells it, but it's still worth taking the time to watch his new explainer on the spiritually cleansing process behind the spirits brand he...
View ArticleSynchrony Bank Teamed Up With Giant Spoon to Create This Immersive...
To promote Sony's new animated film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Synchrony Bank and Giant Spoon were inspired by the history of the superhero character. The result? An immersive, augmented...
View ArticleDriving Sucks, and Lyft’s New Work From W+K Reminds You All the Reasons Why
The next time you're about to get into a Lyft, pay attention to how you respond when the driver asks your name. I'm willing to put $5* on the fact that a good 90 percent of the time, you probably just...
View ArticleHow Can Your Brand Avoid an Experiential Fail? Envision the Worst Case Scenario
While most experiential marketing activations provide valuable opportunities for brands and consumers to connect in a real-time setting, the ones that fail generate the lion's share of attention and...
View ArticlePinterest Shared Its List of 100 Emerging Trends for 2019
Pinterest shared the 2019 version of its annual Pinterest 100 list, which highlights emerging trends on its platform for the coming year. More than 250 million monthly users come to Pinterest, with...
View ArticleFacebook Opens One-Day NYC Pop-up to Talk to Users About Data and Privacy...
Nestled inside New York City's bustling Bryant Park Holiday Village (an annual holiday market filled with booths from local food vendors and other small businesses) you'd expect to see a lot of...
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