U.K. Government Report Calls for Investigation Into Digital Advertising Market
The realities of digital advertising are so damaging to local and investigative news in the U.K. that a report commissioned by lawmakers is proposing government intervention across the digital media...
View ArticleEcommerce and Retail Brands Need to Put More Emphasis on Their Customer
In an unforgettable scene from Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts walks into a boutique in Beverly Hills with the clear intention of buying glamorous clothes with funding from her new client. Except she is...
View ArticleOn the Adweek Podcast: Lessons From Challenger Brands
Last week at our Brandweek: Challenger Brands event, founders and CMOs from some of today's hottest companies came together to talk shop. C-suite execs from big names like Peloton, Levi's and...
View ArticleWhat Instagram Influencers Can Teach Brands About Community Management
It's 2019 and influencers are quickly cementing themselves as brands and customer service experts in their own right. Every day we see influencers who are growing powerful customer networks and forming...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s Intelligent Hiring Experience Will Debut Late This Summer
LinkedIn will rebuild its core hiring tools--LinkedIn Recruiter, Linkedin Jobs and Pipeline Builder--into a single platform later this year, Intelligent Hiring Experience. The professional network is...
View ArticleHow Kellogg’s Is Taking a Commerce-Driven Approach to Marketing
As a U.S. institution that houses some of the world's most recognizable brands, there is practically an expectation that a consumer-packaged-goods company on the scale of Kellogg's will buy commercial...
View ArticleMr. Peanut and Dr. Ruth Are Dishing Out Valentine’s Day Advice on Twitter
Mr. Peanut is capitalizing on his recent #MVP victory in Twitter's #BrandBowl53, landing a Valentine's Day date with Dr. Ruth. Through Valentine's Day (Thursday), people can tweet their questions on...
View ArticleMarketers Continuously Fail to Understand the True Value of Media
Brands spend billions of dollars on media during Super Bowl Sunday. The digital side of that spend generates mountains of actionable data for marketers, but one basic question will go unanswered: Did...
View ArticleSmartyPants Vitamins Never Tried to Be Cool—and That’s How It Found Success
Many new brands hitting the market these days make a splash with trendy ad campaigns and dreamy packaging and design. That may initially catch a consumer's attention, but SmartyPants Vitamins...
View ArticleCBD Sparkling Water Brand Recess Opened a Pop-up Oasis for Creatives
When you step inside Recess' new pop-up, located at 680 Broadway in New York, it's like stepping into a laid-back, neon-filled coffee shop. But instead of enjoying a cappuccino, anyone who steps inside...
View ArticleWhat to Expect as Amazon Delves Deeper Into Smart Homes and AI
Amazon recently announced its plan to develop AI-enhanced homes through Plant Prefab, a company that specializes in high-quality, sustainable prefabricated homes, by integrating Alexa devices into what...
View ArticleAn ‘Overwhelming’ Underwear Aisle Inspired This Challenger Brand
It describes itself has having "the world's most comfortable undies." But startup undergarment maker MeUndies says the inspiration for the colorful and cozy underwear doesn't come solely from in-house...
View ArticleThis Is How Bethenny Frankel Learned to Trust Her Instincts
From The Apprentice: Martha Stewart to Real Housewives to her Skinnygirl empire, Bethenny Frankel's road to riches has been paved with an intense entrepreneurial drive. But while she's always had the...
View ArticleHow to Navigate Between YouTube and Facebook Watch as a Video Content Creator
YouTube and Facebook Watch compete head-on. They compete for eyeballs and market share. But they also compete for talent--in the content creators producing videos for each platform. The problem is that...
View ArticleDisney’s Intense Frozen 2 Trailer Hints at How It Will Follow Up the No. 1...
Disney sequels have, as a rule, been just plain awful. They are the direct-to-video, questionably canonical cash grabs made by a studio that has traditionally seen its core films as one-off endeavors....
View ArticleInstagram and Twitter Are Dealing With Bugs Affecting Follower Counts, Like...
It's getting buggy out there in the world of social media, as Facebook was joined by Instagram and Twitter on the list of platforms experiencing difficulties. A bug on Facebook Tuesday automatically...
View ArticleHow to Prepare a Media Strategy That Can Survive in an AI-Focused World
Once an empty buzzword in the marketing world, extensive advancements in machine learning have made artificial intelligence a necessary and pivotal instrument in a marketer's toolbox. Movies will show...
View ArticleWhat Successful Organizations Do to Create Diverse Workforces and Inclusive...
Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams co-founded Jopwell--a diversity hiring platform focused on matching Black, Latinx and Native American students with major companies--after spending a few years buying...
View ArticleTwitter Is Checking In at the Scorer’s Table for the 2019 NBA All-Star Game
LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry or James Harden? National Basketball Association fans can choose which one of those four players will be featured in a complementary Twitter...
View ArticleFrom Streaming to Late-Night, 6 Things We Learned About TV’s Future at TCA...
After 16 long days and well over 100 panels, the Television Critics Association's winter press tour has finally wrapped. During the past two-and-a-half weeks, more than 50 broadcast, cable and...
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