Can You Tell Which College Football Bowl Game Sponsors Are Real or Fake?
College football seemingly expands its slate of bowl games each year. There are 41 this season alone. And most of those bowl games have sponsors looking to catch the attention of college football fans....
View ArticleCocktail Shakers Shook Up Facebook in November, Becoming a Topic to Watch
Facebook users were mixing it up in November, as cocktail shakers were one of Facebook IQ's Topics to Watch for the month. Cocktail shakers and related topics bar spoon, bartender, cocktail, cocktail...
View ArticleThis Electric Skateboard Company Just Received $60 Million in a Series B Funding
In an age where it feels like everyone is fed up with public transportation and traffic, other first and last mile options like skateboards and scooters are seeing new life. Take Boosted Board, an...
View Article17 Campaigns So Good, They Made Other Agencies Jealous in 2018
Asking an agency to pick its favorite 2018 work from its own catalog is a pretty easy task. Slightly more daunting, however, is asking one to select the best ads or campaigns other agencies created...
View ArticleAppsFlyer Sees Global App Install Spend Reaching $64 Billion in 2020
Mobile attribution and data analytics company AppsFlyer released its Global App Market Forecasts report, which provided predictions related to application install advertising spend and non-organic...
View ArticleWhat Motivated Stance to Drop Its First Ad Campaign After 9 Years in Business
Stance, which started as a sock brand and has since evolved to include T-shirts and men's underwear, launched in 2009. But it took until the summer of 2018, almost an entire decade into the company's...
View ArticleMarketers Need to Focus More Holiday Ad Spend on the Ample Opportunities...
Here's a holiday present for retailers: a new playbook. In a dynamic ecommerce environment, using last year's digital ad strategy is a non-starter. Consumer shopping habits change too frequently to...
View ArticleThe 7 Biggest Movie Marketing Moments of 2018
With so many media options available to modern audiences across all kind of platforms and devices, Hollywood marketers face greater pressure to get people's attention. They have to reach those...
View ArticleThe Biggest Account Shifts of 2018
Even as holding companies continue toward an uncertain future, it was the "big six" over the somewhat seemingly more stable independent agencies (in the U.S., anyway) that prevailed in some of the most...
View ArticlePriyanka Chopra Jonas and Bumble Created an Inspiring Anthem That Tackles...
If a woman crushes it at work and hits beast mode at the gym, should that be an open invitation to question her morals? The social connection app Bumble addresses that gender bias head-on in its debut...
View ArticleThe Data Behind a Few of 2018’s Most Successful Brand Scandals
No matter how hard you plan and how carefully you control your messaging, scandals sometimes hit. Brand scandals are all different, but one thing is universal: They can seriously tarnish a company's...
View ArticleInstagram: Here’s How to Ask for Music Recommendations in Stories
Instagram recently updated the questions sticker in Stories to allow users to ask their viewers for music recommendations. Our guide will show you how this works. Note: These screenshots were captured...
View ArticleFortune Magazine Officially Sells to Thai Businessman
Meredith has finalized its sale of Fortune magazine to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon, the magazine publisher announced today. The brand was purchased for $150 million cash by Fortune Media...
View ArticleA New Study Commissioned by Snapchat Reveals How Millennials Shop
Surprise, surprise millennials not only love to shop but they do it using a variety of payment methods. That and a few other notable data points are out today in a new study commissioned by Snap Inc....
View ArticleAgencies Have Been Resistant to Change, and They’re Dropping the Ball Again...
With every major technological shift, some companies evolve while others get left behind. Agencies in the face of programmatic are no exception. Programmatic has changed advertising for the better, and...
View ArticleAgency Holiday Cards 2018: Inventive and Creative Send-Offs to the Year, Part 3
Adweek's roundup of agency holiday cards continues with approaches including gaming, ASMR, animated videos and a take on Drunk History. Please find links to the rest of the roundups below: Agency...
View Article134 Million Shoppers Will Scramble for Gifts on ‘Super Saturday’
Brace yourself for yet another retail holiday. This time, it's Super Saturday, or the Saturday before Christmas, and it is upon us. According to a survey from industry body the National Retail...
View ArticleComcast Is Working With Spectrum and Viacom on a Blockchain-Based Identity...
Comcast's advertising unit today announced it is working with Spectrum Reach and Viacom on a blockchain-based offering that will help it better match audience data with advertisers in a...
View Article9 Holiday Movies the Whole Family Will Enjoy
'Tis the season for wrapping presents, decorating the Christmas tree and spending time with your loved ones. And what better way to enjoy a cozy night at home than to pop on a fun film that will...
View ArticleCaribou Coffee Data Breach Could Have Exposed Credit Cards
Customer data was stolen from more than 200 Caribou Coffee locations, the Minneapolis-based coffee chain said on Thursday. In a letter to loyalty customers, Caribou Coffee said credit card data and...
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