Was This Little-Known British Ad the Most Emotionally Engaging of 2017?
Wait, we're not done with the 2017 lists yet! Here's an intriguing one from research firm System1 ranking the 10 most emotionally engaging spots of the year--based on testing of 705 award-winning or...
View ArticleThese 6 Digital Stats on Alexa, Brand Safety and Snapchat Grabbed Our...
The whirlwind of last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is in the rearview mirror now. Not surprisingly, the event was full of data and stats about everything from the Internet of Things to...
View ArticleAnna Faris Pushes Kind Protein Bars by Reading Horrible Reviews of Rival...
This is a real offer: Try a healthy snack that tastes like some combination of hyena crap, garbage, resentment and sawdust. Bring it on, you say? The marketer Kind feels confident that its new...
View ArticleHow Davos Can Help Marketers Gain Greater Global Purpose
As global leaders gather in Davos next week to try to create a shared future in a fractured world, what's the role of marketers and creative agencies? In this era of seismic disruption, technology is...
View ArticleDiversity Finally Comes to Facebook’s Board of Directors
Facebook's board of directors welcomed its first African-American member, as American Express chairman and CEO Kenneth Chenault will take a seat effective Feb. 5. Chenault has been with American...
View ArticleThe Facebook Community Boost Show Is Set to Hit the Road
After last week's news that Facebook is revamping its News Feed, small businesses needed some good news from Facebook, and they received it in the form of an update on the Facebook Community Boost...
View ArticleThis Campaign Found a Hilariously Gross Way to Raise Awareness of Testicular...
We're getting pretty well-versed in testicular cancer awareness ads, and in the weird--sometimes creepy--ways associations find of getting people to do something we oddly all hate doing: checking...
View ArticleNBC Is in Talks to Secure a White House Interview on Super Bowl Sunday
NBC News is still hoping to secure an interview with President Trump on Super Bowl Sunday, a tradition that goes back more than a decade. "Without getting into specifics, I can tell you that there have...
View ArticleInstagram Added Activity Status to Instagram Direct
Instagram's latest update to its iOS and Android applications borrowed a feature from sister app Facebook Messenger. The app's messaging feature, Instagram Direct, now includes activity status, which...
View ArticleSoccer Club Inter Milan Is Telling 110 Stories for its 110th Birthday, With...
One of the neatest things about living outside the U.S. is discovering soccer culture, which is as strident and culturally charged as football is in America. On March 9, Italian club F.C. Inter Milan...
View ArticleWhatsApp Just Rolled Out an Android App for Small Businesses
Businesses on Facebook have the Facebook Pages Manager application, and businesses on Messenger have Analytics for Apps data for their Messenger bots. And now, businesses on WhatsApp have some tools of...
View ArticleA Deeper Look at David Marcus’ 6 Trends for Facebook Messenger in 2018
Facebook Messenger has come a long way since vice president of messaging products David Marcus left his post as president of PayPal to join the social network in June 2014. Marcus shared six trends...
View ArticleWhy Mastercard Is Adding a Charitable Aspect to Its Long-Running ‘Priceless’...
Mastercard has added a new wrinkle to its famed Priceless campaign, which has already spanned two decades. The company worked with its creative agency, McCann, for the last year to develop the addition...
View ArticleWho Is Billy? Coppola Winery’s Comical Short Film Has Two Wildly Opposing...
We hear a lot about "storytelling" in one form or another these days. It's become one of the most overused and hotly debated buzzwords in the business. Now, acclaimed commercial director Rodrigo...
View ArticleHyundai Will ‘Surprise Millions’ With Its Super Bowl Ad, Says New Teaser
Hyundai will tease its Super Bowl ad during both the NFC and AFC Championship games on Sunday. The teaser will also be available for viewing online and on the brand's social channels. It suggests a...
View ArticleHow This Agency Made Netflix’s Eerie Booth for Altered Carbon the Breakout...
Netflix's bizarre campaign at the Consumer Electronics Show for its upcoming sci-fi show Altered Carbon may have seemed like a quick and viral public relations stunt, but the event was actually highly...
View ArticleFacebook Inked a Big-Time Esports Livestreaming Pact With ESL
Esports giant ESL announced an agreement to bring two of its top competitions--the CS:GO Pro League Counter-Strike: Global Offensive competition (with WESA, the World Esports Association) and the ESL...
View ArticleThe Cast of Stranger Things Owned the SAG Awards Red Carpet on Twitter
Netflix drama Stranger Things dominated Twitter during the red carpet leading up to the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Sunday night. The five...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Wants Facebook to Pay Publishers a Fee for ‘Trusted’ News Content
News Corp. executive chairman and 21st Century Fox executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch is taking on Silicon Valley. The media mogul released a statement today noting that if Facebook is going to...
View ArticleAmazon Go Has the Potential to Change How Customers Think About Automation
Amazon Go, a convenience store where there's no need to stand in a checkout line, sounds like something out of a millennial dream. But it's now a reality, and it finally opened its doors today in...
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