David Miami Announces Key Leadership Changes Following Co-Founder Departures
A few months after two of its co-founders left to launch a new venture, David Miami has announced a series of major leadership changes. Fernando Musa, who took over as the agency's chairman after...
View Article10 Brand Activations That Weren’t to Be Missed at This Year’s SXSW
Each year, brand marketers come to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, to showcase immersive activations for the festival's thousands of attendees. This year, brands brought their best experiential...
View ArticleA Researcher’s Quiz App Deceptively Harvested Data for Political Research,...
A British data analytics firm known for helping political campaigns including Donald Trump's presidential bid, has been suspended from using Facebook's advertising platform. Facebook late on Friday...
View ArticleLisa Quiroz, Time Warner’s First Chief Diversity Officer, Has Died at 56
Lisa Garcia Quiroz, president of the Time Warner Foundation and svp and chief diversity officer of Time Warner, passed away Friday at age 56 after a 16-month battle with pancreatic cancer. A Harvard...
View ArticleFacebook Is Testing Several New Products for Creators on Its Platform
Facebook Monday announced that it is testing several new products aimed at creators on the social network, including an Android version of the Facebook Creator application it launched for iOS last...
View ArticleThis Web Design Company Is Launching Its Own Ecommerce Business to Compete...
Webflow, a web design platform, is throwing its hat into the growing ecommerce ring with today's beta release of Webflow Ecommerce, a new platform that lets virtually anyone create an ecommerce site...
View ArticleTiny Kitchen Made Mini Versions of Top Chef Dishes During Split-Screen Ad...
The stakes were huge on the Top Chef finale this season, but where in the world did they find that itty-bitty cut of beef, a doll-sized doppelg?nger of the winner's most memorable dish? Leave that to...
View ArticleCan Amazon Chip Away at Google and Facebook’s Digital Ad Dominance?
Data aggregator eMarketer today released a report indicating Google and Facebook's (aka 'the duopoly') dominance of the digital ad market is about to be less dominant, as "smaller players" like Amazon...
View ArticlePublicis.Sapient Nabs Chief Marketing Officer From Deloitte
Publicis' digital business transformation unit, Publicis.Sapient, turned to global consultancy Deloitte to find its new chief marketing officer. Teresa Barreira will serve in the role and be tasked...
View ArticleUber Suspends Self-Driving Tests After Autonomous Car Kills Pedestrian
A self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz. Sunday night in what is being described as the first reported fatal car crash involving an autonomous car. According...
View ArticlePinterest Shopping Ads Are Now Available to More Brands
"Hundreds of businesses" are getting access to Pinterest Shopping Ads, which it began testing with "a couple of dozen" retailers--including Ulta, Venus, Overstock, Lowe's, eBay, Wayfair and IKEA...
View ArticleWe’re in a Retail Renaissance and Focusing on Data Is What Separates the...
Despite reports of hard times in retail, which most recently included the death of Toys R Us, a new report from Salesforce and Deloitte says we're actually in the midst of a retail renaissance, which...
View ArticleSamsung’s Cheil Expands Its In-House Content Marketing Divisions to the U.S.
Cheil North America today announced that it's taking its content marketing units, which first launched in Toronto in 2014, to the United States. Cylndr Productions will open shop in Ridgefield, N.J.,...
View ArticleWieden+Kennedy Is Losing the Founder and the Managing Director of Its Tech...
Nilesh Ashra and Paulo Ribeiro--the founder and managing director, respectively, of Wieden + Kennedy's creative technology group The Lodge--recently announced that they will be leaving the agency to...
View ArticleU.S. Air Force Retains GSD&M With $741 Million Contract
The U.S. Air Force decided to continue its relationship with GSD&M following a review process that took about a year. GSD&M, which has partnered with the Air Force for 17 years, will continue...
View ArticleGoogle Announces Initiative to Help Publishers and Combat Fake News
At a press event in New York, Google announced today that it's rolling out the Google News Initiative, in which it's investing $300 million over the next three years. The goal is to help publishers...
View ArticleWhy the CEO of Glossier Thinks Retail Companies Need to Invest More in the...
Retail companies like to emphasize that they put the customer first, but in reality, it doesn't always shake out that way. Enter Glossier, a beauty brand that tailors its packaging and in-store...
View ArticleFacebook’s Data Predicament Isn’t Likely to Affect Advertising on Instagram
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is presumably sweating a little this week. The social platform's market cap dropped by $50 billion, and government officials on both sides of the Atlantic call for answers...
View ArticleYouTube Is Making It Easier for Users to ‘Go Live’
YouTube users on desktop can now livestream without dealing with encoders or additional software, and the Google-owned video site is working on adding that capability to specific mobile devices "in the...
View ArticleAmazon Is No. 1 on the 2018 LinkedIn Top Companies List
Amazon vaulted its way to the top of the 2018 LinkedIn Top Companies list, swapping positions with last year's leader, Google parent Alphabet, which came in second. They were joined in the top five by...
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