Amazon Is Bringing Wi-Fi Routers In-House by Acquiring Eero
Amazon is acquiring mesh Wi-Fi start-up Eero in a move that will let the Seattle-based giant expand its ever expanding assortment of smart-home capabilities. The acquisition, announced today, gives...
View ArticleAT&T’s Upcoming Streaming Service Doesn’t ‘Need to Beat Netflix’ or Disney
One of the biggest TV industry face-offs will occur at the end of the year, when both Disney and AT&T roll out their new streaming services shaking up the OTT industry. But AT&T doesn't see the...
View ArticleComedy Central Takes Another 11:30 P.M. Swing With a New David Spade...
Ever since Stephen Colbert left for CBS in 2014, Comedy Central has struggled to find a suitable lead-out program to The Daily Show. After two short-lived efforts, the network is hoping the third time...
View ArticleMcCann Goes Through a Round of Layoffs in Detroit Following News of General...
IPG's McCann Worldgroup parted with a group of employees in the Detroit area today approximately one week after longtime client General Motors cut several thousand "white collar" jobs. Late last year,...
View ArticleNintendo Sends U.S. Media Account to Initiative Following Review
Nintendo has selected Interpublic's Initiative as its new U.S. media agency partner, sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed. AdAge first reported the news earlier today. The appointment...
View ArticleA Facebook Bug Is Affecting the Reach of Video Posts From Pages
Facebook page administrators have spent Tuesday dealing with a bug that is automatically adding audience targeting to their video posts, greatly diminishing their reach. Several page admins alerted...
View ArticleInstagram Is Encouraging People to #ShareBlackStories for Black History Month
Instagram is celebrating Black History Month with its #ShareBlackStories initiative. The official @instagram account will share Stories from creators including Tawny Chatmon, Paola "Pao Pao" Math? and...
View ArticleGiphy Wants Brands to Advertise in Private Messages
Alex Chung thinks online advertising "totally sucks." The CEO of Giphy didn't mince words when bemoaning the current state of digital media in front of an audience of brand marketers during the...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s AI Executive Order Means for Businesses
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling on government agencies to prioritize artificial intelligence efforts as worries grow that China may be outpacing the United States in...
View ArticleHow Boxed.com Plans to Compete With Both Online and Traditional Retailers
How does a startup like Boxed.com compete against juggernauts like Amazon and Costco? The New York-based wholesale retailer has come a long way since Chieh Huang started the company from his garage in...
View ArticleOscars All Access: Red Carpet Live Will Be Livestreamed Exclusively on Twitter
Oscars All Access: Red Carpet Live will be livestreamed exclusively on Twitter for the first time, starting at 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET Sunday, Feb. 24. It had previously been livestreamed via...
View ArticleFacebook Outlined Its Efforts to Protect Elections in Africa
Facebook detailed steps it is taking to safeguard upcoming elections in Africa. The social network is teaming up with local third-party fact-checkers in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon and...
View ArticleMartin Sorrell: Brexit Is a Perfect Metaphor for What’s Happening Between...
Sir Martin Sorrell closed out the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz., today with a sprawling conversation that touched on his feelings about retirement, the broken agency model, what...
View ArticleHow Criteo Is Trying to Navigate GDPR
As a programmatic player that was founded in Europe and one whose business model is so heavily reliant on ad retargeting, Criteo's performance is often deemed as emblematic of the fortunes of the wider...
View ArticleErrol Morris Takes Viewers ‘Behind the Foil’ at Chipotle
Chipotle's new campaign taking viewers "Behind The Foil" is all about transparency. Chris Brandt, who took over as CMO for the brand last March, explains that "Behind The Foil" grew out of the...
View ArticleMeet Masse, a Product Recommendation App That’s Free of Paid Promotion
Influencer marketing is big business. And while brands and influencers strive to make these partnerships as authentic as possible, there's a certain genuine quality that any paid promotion just can't...
View ArticleKabooki Opened a Pop-Up Lego Wear Store in London … With No Lego Wear
A pop-up store in the Fitzrovia section of London that was only open for business Wednesday had no merchandise whatsoever--and that was by design. Danish apparel company Kabooki, the company behind toy...
View ArticleThe Facebook Marketing Partners Program Added an Offline Conversions Category
The Facebook Marketing Partners program is now accepting applications for partners in its new offline conversions category. The social network's offline conversions tool enables advertisers to measure,...
View ArticleCan a Prefab Home Actually Be Stylish? This Upbeat Ad Hopes to Make the Case
Is homeownership in the U.S. a pipe dream or an attainable goal? For millennials, especially, skyrocketing prices around the country have often put home buying out of reach. The average new home, built...
View ArticleGoogle Plans to Invest $13 Billion on Data Centers and Offices Across the...
Google plans to invest $13 billion in data centers and office space this year. Google CEO Sundar Pichai today said the company is expanding its U.S. footprint, with plans to create "tens of thousands"...
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