Could These Be the Themes That Emerge at Next Year’s Cannes Lions?
The themes that emerged from this year's Cannes Lions festival were wide-ranging. Publicis' (sort of) departure from the 2018 event made the rounds, in addition to Martin Sorrell's reemergence....
View ArticleFacebook Hires Team Behind AI Startup in Battle Against Fake News
Facebook is beefing up its artificial intelligence team as its war on fake news continues. The social network announced Tuesday that it's hiring the team behind UK startup Bloomsbury AI to improve its...
View ArticleIntel Will Fly a Fleet of Drones in California to Celebrate July 4th
Who needs fireworks when you have drones? To celebrate Independence Day--and show off its own technology in the process--Intel is planning a drone-powered light show tomorrow night in northern...
View ArticleWalmart Accidentally Goes Political With Its ‘Impeach 45’ Clothing Line
It's the subject of great debate: How involved should brands be in the political zeitgeist? Undoubtedly, overtly political moves tend to galvanize the masses and can hurt, or alternatively help, a...
View ArticleDailey Answers the Question, ‘What Have Minorities Done for America, Anyway?’
In response to a rise of xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in the age of the Trump administration, Los Angeles agency Dailey decided to launch a campaign promoting diversity. At the 2016...
View ArticleThis Photo Campaign Captures the Beautiful Calm Before the Wimbledon Storm...
Wimbledon, one of the most prestigious, posh and iconic sports tournaments, has positioned itself as one of the most heavily attended events where fans and celebrities from around the world gather to...
View ArticleSee How MGM’s Universal Love Made an Impact During Stonewall Day
MGM's widely praised Universal Love, created by McCann New York, where top music artists re-imagined classic love songs as same-sex tunes, took to the road in the form of a special karaoke night in New...
View ArticleI’m Just Here for the Comments
Ever since Emily Weiss announced that her cult-status beauty blog, Into the Gloss, was expanding out of editorial and into product development with a skincare brand called Glossier, the concepts of...
View Article5 Tips for Delivering Deeper Consumer Connections via Video
It's nearly impossible to visit any social platform today and not be exposed to some sort of video content. Online media guru and LinkedIn superstar Gary Vaynerchuk posts his inspirational missives...
View Article5 Tips for Integrating Audio Into a Marketing Strategy
As music streaming, podcasts, audiobooks, smart speakers, connected cars and voice assistants have caught the public's attention, the amount of audio-friendly content space is multiplying by the...
View ArticlePairing Declared Data With Social Sentiment for Marketing Mastery
Marketing technology joined the advertising fray on the promise of being the industry's savior. But advertising, which had once been positioned as a creative, gut-driven industry, could now become a...
View ArticleDentsu Aegis’ Isobar Promotes 3 Executives to Global C-Suite Level
Isobar, a Dentsu Aegis-owned digital agency network, announced today that it has elevated three of its executives to the global C-suite level, effective immediately. Sue McCusker has been appointed...
View ArticleWhen Determining if Your Programmatic Should Be In-House or Not, Keep These 3...
Transparency is everything in digital advertising today. Years of fraud, brand safety issues, Facebook and Google's questionable practices and murky metrics have fostered distrust and prompted a push...
View ArticleIt’s Time for the Auto Industry to Get on the Same Level as Other Brands
Before I can turn the ignition key in my car, I need to complete one critical task. I affix my smartphone to the top of the dash, plug it in and render the car's god-awful native interface invisible,...
View ArticleFacebook: Here’s How to Stop Your Stories Posts From Being Archived
Earlier this year, Facebook began rolling out an Archive feature for Facebook Stories, which automatically saves the posts a user shares to their Stories after they disappear (Stories posts disappear...
View ArticleMore Than 5,000 People Entered Gimlet and Squarespace’s Contest to Host a...
Squarespace and Gimlet Creative asked users to submit their ideas for their own podcast series and the response has been overwhelming. In the three weeks since the contest has been open for...
View ArticleBritain’s Most Masterful Actors Endure Endless Annoyance for British Airways’...
Last year, U.K. stars like Gordon Ramsay, Thandie Newton, Rowan Atkinson and Ian McKellen suffered through a British Airways flight safety video under the idiotic direction of Chabuddy G. Now the...
View Article5 Ways AI Can Solve a Brand’s Marketing Problems
Artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to increase the stakes in the analytic, predictive and executional arms race needed to create and keep customer relationships. Marketing is at the...
View ArticleThese 4 Brands Are Thriving at Defining Moments
The digital advertising landscape has recently looked a lot like a minefield, thanks to fraud concerns, brand safety issues and the rise of ad blockers. For those reasons, Forrester predicted last year...
View ArticleBudweiser’s Cannes-Winning Search Campaign Has Been Hijacked by Another Brewer
As anyone who's ever dipped a toe in SEO can tell you, search is a fickle friend. Just when you think you have a winning strategy to drive people where you want them to go, someone else swoops in to...
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