Home Depot Is Building Out Visual Discovery and Shopping on Pinterest
Home improvement retailer Home Depot and visual network Pinterest have partnered to expand Pinterest's visual discovery feature--Shop the Look, with more than 100,000 shoppable products--to capitalize...
View ArticleSnapchat Beefed Up Its Snap Map Feature With Map Explore
Snapchat added a new element to its Snap Map feature that will bring users much more information from friends, as well as from the messaging application itself. Map Explore, which debuted Thursday,...
View ArticleZulily Keeps Viewers Off Balance With Zany Surprises in Its Wacky New Ads
"The whole world will be licking my legacy from their sticky fingers." "Why don't you try growing more feet for all those shoes?" "This got so dark. Quick, cut to a dog." Such lines punctuate Office of...
View ArticleYou Can Now Buy a Car at Walmart
With its pharmacies, eye doctors, salons and fast food joints, Walmart has worn many hats for quite a long time. Now, it's adding a new one: car dealer. Roughly 250 Walmart locations will soon have...
View ArticleGoodby Silverstein & Partners Beats Out Droga5, W+K to Win BMW Creative Review
BMW has named Goodby Silverstein & Partners as its new U.S. creative agency of record after a competitive review, the automaker confirmed today. In addition to brand creative, the agency will also...
View ArticleQ&A: Facebook’s Carolyn Everson on Privacy Changes and Protecting Consumers’...
Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement on Wednesday that Facebook plans to audit thousands of apps that might have had excessive access to user data on the platform until 2014, the...
View ArticleHow Blockchain Tokenization Provides a New Opportunity to Track a Product’s...
The resale market for sneakers is a billion dollars, the overall resale apparel market is $17 billion, used smartphones are $17 billion. From apparel to consumer electronics to cars, a significant...
View ArticleThis Gorgeous Instrumental Music Video Is Laced With Lyrics No One Can Hear
It's weird being an immigrant. You come into a country where no one speaks your language or understands your references and can barely gauge whether or not you're funny, smart or worth knowing. But you...
View ArticleInstagram: Here’s How to Add a Profile Link or Hashtag to Your Bio
Instagram introduced the ability earlier this week for users to add profile links and hashtags to their bios. Our guide will show you how this feature works. Note: These screenshots were captured in...
View ArticleHow Embracing a Political POV Can Forge a Deeper Connection to Consumers
Brands have power when they have a purpose, a strong point of view that they can use to change the world around them. Granted, there are risks, but they can be mitigated through authenticity. In their...
View ArticleSonos Pulls Facebook Ads Following the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Speaker manufacturer Sonos said in a blog post today that it was pulling its ads from Facebook and other tech platforms next week because the company is "concerned by the recent revelations about...
View ArticleThe Joy of ‘Dear Sophie,’ One of Google’s Early Humanizing Hits
It took a while for Google to learn how to do brand advertising. The company, founded in 1998, didn't embrace emotional storytelling until a decade later. An early success was "Parisian Love," a spot...
View ArticleThe Yankees Get a 9-Person Broadcast Booth in YES Network’s Fun 2018 Ad
It's a new season for charmingly goofy baseball promos. And following last week's new batch of spots for the Seattle Mariners, now we get the YES Network's 2018 promo for its New York Yankees coverage....
View Article4 Ways Online Video Content Can Better Connect With Viewers
2017 was an explosive year for online video content. In just 12 months, Netflix released over 200 new originals and YouTube Hulu launched live TV services. Despite an overwhelming increase in original...
View ArticleBaffled by Conceptual Art? So Are Will Ferrell and Joel McHale in This...
Museums are often pretty humorless when it comes to their artwork. It's rare for them to acknowledge that art can be confusing--particularly conceptual art, where the artist's choices can seem...
View ArticleJ&J Moves to Cut Costs By Consolidating Creative Work With Dedicated Omnicom,...
Johnson & Johnson, one of advertising's biggest spenders, has consolidated and streamlined its creative business with two dedicated teams of WPP and Omnicom agencies. This follows a closed review...
View ArticleMarina Filippelli’s Work Channels Her Experience as a Latina Mother and...
Marina Filippelli's first stint at multicultural agency Orc? was also her first job in advertising while she was in college. "I was an intern, and then made my way around different departments [while]...
View ArticleAfter Facebook’s Algorithm Change Devastated Organic Reach, How Are...
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that the site's News Feed algorithm would further emphasize posts from friends and family, publishers that hadn't diversified across many...
View ArticleHQ Is Awarding 6-Figure Prizes This Week Thanks to Integrations With Nike and...
HQ, the mobile trivia game, has scored two major brand partnerships: Warner Bros and Nike. This week the twice-daily game, which can be played at 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., will have unique prizes and bigger...
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