Agency Holiday Cards 2018: Inventive and Creative Send-Offs to the Year
It was a long year. Many agencies admit 2018 hasn't been too kind to advertising, but December tends to find them in mostly good spirits. Every year, as inevitably as cold weather and holiday specials,...
View ArticleOpenX Lays Off 100 as Part of Strategic Overhaul
Ad-tech company OpenX today confirmed it has laid off approximately 100 members of its global staff. The job losses are apparently the latest act in a strategic overhaul. The supply-side outfit...
View ArticleWhatsApp Group Voice and Video Calls Can Now Easily Be Started From Group Chats
WhatsApp introduced a slight tweak within its group chat feature that makes it easier to people to start group voice or video calls. People on the messaging application can now open up the group chat...
View Article5 Major Brand Fails of 2018—and What Every Marketer Can Learn From Them
Ah, 2018--what a year! While we'd rather not relive any of the events (this year felt like an eternity, huh?), let's take a moment to examine a few of the biggest brand blunders of the year to figure...
View ArticlePetco Adopts Anomaly as Its Creative Agency of Record
Petco, where the healthy pets go, announced today that it has selected a new creative agency of record following a review sparked this fall. MDC Partners-owned Anomaly will take on the account,...
View ArticleCompetition Comes to Snapchat in the Form of Lens Challenges
Snapchat users can now take on other Snapchat users with Lens Challenges, a new feature that debuted on the messaging application Wednesday. Lens Challenges invite people on Snapchat to create and send...
View ArticlePfizer and Glaxo Are Teaming Up to Create a Massive New Over-the-Counter...
Today, Pfizer and Glaxo--also known as Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline PLC--announced they will be merging their consumer healthcare businesses to create a massive new venture. In doing so, Pfizer and...
View ArticleD.C.’s Attorney General Is Suing Facebook for Its ‘Misleading’ Data Practices
Washington, D.C.'s attorney general, Karl Racine, is suing Facebook over its user data collection and protection practices. The lawsuit, filed today, alleges that the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company...
View ArticleWhy Seventh Generation Got Maya Rudolph to Sing a Song About Vaginas
In recent years, Maya Rudolph has found strange yet compelling ways to tout Seventh Generation's use of natural products. Now, the company is deploying Rudolph to help destigmatize the word vagina...
View ArticleGoogle May Be Biased—but Not in the Way Trump Thinks It Is
A week after a House Judiciary Committee hearing on search engine bias, Donald Trump was still crying wolf on Twitter, alleging tech companies like Google and the very platform he tweets upon favor his...
View Article2 Creatives Made a Fake Foundation to Promote a PSA-Style Music Video About...
In mid-November, Instagram and Facebook pages for what looked to be a new organization focused on sex education cropped up online. The organization, The Sexual Education Foundation, has quickly grown...
View Article4 of the Most Controversial Print Ads From Calvin Klein, Which Says It’s Done...
A 15-year-old Brooke Shields going commando. A 17-year-old Kate Moss going topless. Heroin chic, upskirt shots, exposed butt cracks (or entire butts) and a nonstop bacchanalia of group action. Calvin...
View Article9 Ways Advertising Can Take Advantage of Digital Growth in 2019
We're deep into the mechanisms of digital transformation. Retailers are gradually migrating to more automated customer experiences, there's an app for everything and algorithms rule advertising even...
View ArticleWhat Will it Take for Advertisers to Back Away From Facebook?
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Facebook gave its partners access to more personal information of its users than the company had previously disclosed, including friends' lists, contact...
View ArticleFacebook and Twitter Took Down Pages and Accounts in Bangladesh
Social networks turned their attention to Bangladesh this week, as both Facebook and Twitter announced the removal of pages and accounts engaging in what both companies called coordinated behavior in...
View Article2018 Saw Connected TV Prove Its Worth, but There Are Still Ways Data Can...
Skyrocketing growth of streaming audiences has spurred an insatiable desire for advertising on these platforms. Having spent most of the year on the front lines meeting with hundreds of local agencies...
View ArticleThe Bachelor Was Nielsen Social Content Ratings’ Most Social TV Show of 2018
ABC reality competition juggernaut The Bachelor was the most social television series in 2018 in terms of average interactions per episode on Facebook and Twitter, according to the year-end wrap-up...
View ArticleWhat Marketers Can Learn From Blippar’s Dissolution
It was with some surprise that we learned of the insolvency of Blippar, a much-heralded startup whose primary idea was to use mobile phone augmented reality to bring objects and physical advertising to...
View ArticleAgency Holiday Cards 2018: Inventive and Creative Send-Offs to the Year, Part 2
The submissions keep coming in, so we're going to keep highlighting the most interesting holiday cards of 2018. You can find the rest of the roundup here. Stay tuned for part three. &Barr -- "40...
View ArticleIBM-Powered AI Platform Wants to Reinvent the Influencer Marketing Model
A new content marketing platform is tapping artificial intelligence to match brands with content creators--but it doesn't consider itself to be in the influencer business. Built on technology from IBM...
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