Danny Trejo Joins L.A’s Insane Campaign About Not Being a Pain on the Train
This time last year, the L.A. Metro system and gonzo director Mike Diva introduced us to Super Kind, a colorful superhero and pop star who fights rude behavior on mass transit. Now she's got a...
View ArticleACLU Says Facebook Enabled Companies to Target Job Ads to Male Users
Facebook's job application tool, which was rolled out in February 2017 to carve into LinkedIn's dominance in that sector, just hit its first speed bump. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) teamed...
View Article10 Lessons Learned From a Rebrand
It's hard to describe precisely the feeling of dismantling a brand you founded, but I imagine it's a lot like gutting a house your family has called home for a decade. Every room is a memory. Every...
View ArticleHulu Is Reviving Veronica Mars Next Summer
TV's revival craze continues, as Hulu has placed a direct-to-series order for a new season of the Kristin Bell drama Veronica Mars, which will air next summer. The streaming service has picked up the...
View ArticleMagna Report Forecasts 2018 Ad Sales to Reach Record High of Over $200 Billion
Magna, IPG Mediabrands' intelligence unit, predicted in a report today that full-year advertising sales in the U.S. will pass the record $200 billion mark. For the first time, digital is also expected...
View ArticleThis Dystopian Sci-Fi Short Is a Surprisingly Effective Way to Promote Wool
The heroine of a new long-form ad touting Merino wool seems to have more working against her than just the unnatural fibers she's wearing. She has a crap job in a dreary factory (potentially hazardous...
View ArticleHow to Ensure Your Campaign Is as Brand-safe, Viewable and Fraud-free as...
The programmatic advertising landscape provides significant efficiencies, but also presents myriad challenges for the contemporary marketer. And with U.S. advertisers poised to spend $46 billion on...
View ArticleUM Retains Charles Schwab’s U.S. Media Business After a Review
Banking and brokerage firm Charles Schwab will continue working with Universal McCann (UM) as U.S. media agency of record, the company confirmed today. The decision came after a review that began in...
View ArticleAmazon Takes Third in the Latest Digital Ad Rankings
In the Olympics of digital advertising, Amazon has earned itself a bronze medal. That's because market research firm eMarketer says U.S. advertisers will spend $4.61 billion on Amazon's platform this...
View ArticleIn the AI Race, China Is Mere Steps Behind the U.S.
China and the United States are neck-and-neck in a technology race that could define the future of the economy. That's the premise of venture capitalist and former Google executive Kai-Fu Lee's...
View ArticleThis Startup Wants to Give People the Ability to Take Health Tests at Home
Your next health-related test may not be administered by a doctor, or a nurse. It doesn't have to be done at a sterile doctor's office or hospital. Thanks to a new startup called Know., you can get...
View ArticleInstagram Is Tinkering With Hashtags That Aren’t Displayed in Captions
Instagram appears to be testing two potential new features: the ability to add hashtags to posts without having those hashtags appear in the captions, as well as the option of setting specific...
View ArticleTo Promote Her Upcoming Show, This Finnish Pop Star Appeared as an AR Cartoon...
While brands have experimented with augmented reality on surfaces ranging from murals to milk cartons, a Finnish pop star is using the technology to layer herself into a comic book. To promote her...
View ArticleInstagram: Here’s How to Share a GIF in a Direct Message
Instagram launched the ability for users to share GIFs in Instagram Direct messages. Our guide will show you how this works. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Instagram application on iOS....
View Article4A’s Advertiser Protection Bureau Introduces Resources for Stronger Ad Buying...
The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's) Advertiser Protection Bureau (APB) introduced two new Advertising Assurance resources today, the Brand Safety Floor and the Brand Suitability...
View ArticleTech Skeptics Need to Face Their Fears and Embrace Artificial Intelligence
Some brands are still wary of incorporating AI into their customer engagement strategy. They would argue that they're technology skeptics--I would argue that they're technology ignorant. If you haven't...
View ArticleNASA Is Proving That Space Might Be the Final Frontier for Organic Social...
In the social media galaxy, gravity doesn't exist. At least for social media managers at the whims of algorithm changes, what's up one day is down the next. And forget about entropy, where a social...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Obstacles and Create Winning Ad-Tech Blockchains
It seems like every week a new whitepaper announces a revolutionary blockchain technology that will eliminate fraud and the 50 percent ad-tech tax, ushering in a new age of transparency, performance...
View ArticleAmtrak Selects Y&R-Led WPP Team as Agency of Record
Passenger railroad service Amtrak selected a WPP team led by Y&R as its new marketing communications partner. It's unclear at this time whether incumbent FCB New York, which was named agency of...
View ArticleExperiential Marketing and Social Media: A Killer Combo That Brands Aren’t...
Although the world is becoming more digital by the day, experiential marketing is gaining newfound momentum. While consumers are used to gathering information and making connections via electronic...
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