Indoors in July? Console Games Were One of Facebook IQ’s Topics to Watch
July is perceived as a month for outdoor activities, but when the temperatures got too high, Facebook users turned to console games, making them a Topic to Watch for the month, according to Facebook...
View Article4 Ways Media Companies Can Take Advantage of a New Era of Native Advertising
The media industry is in the midst of huge changes that are demanding new revenue models, innovative new product configurations and a willingness to explore untapped markets. With traditional...
View ArticleFacebook Expanded Its Level Up Program and Revealed Its Gamescom Plans
Facebook launched its Level Up Program in June for video game content creators, designed to help livestreamers grow their audiences on the social network. The program was originally limited to users in...
View ArticlePre-Roll Ads as Talent Contest? The Longer You Don’t Skip, the More Votes...
Extra Gum is making the medium the message with Extra Support Acts, a campaign that turns YouTube pre-roll ads into a platform that gives 16 emerging Australian music acts a significant audience boost...
View ArticleEveryone Is Your Mom in This Crazy Delta Stunt That Guilts You Into Flying Home
On the continuum of maternal guilt trips, Delta Air Lines may have carved out some new, good-natured ground with a stunt that encourages Seattle residents to fly home to see their mothers. Created by...
View ArticleThe Top 20,000 Facebook Pages Posted More Content During the Second Quarter...
Social media management tool Buffer teamed up with content marketing tool BuzzSumo to analyze more than 43 million posts from the top 20,000 brands on Facebook during the second quarter of 2018, and...
View ArticleChuck Norris Gets Replaced by Truck Norris in This Wonderfully Over-the-Top...
Chuck Norris is no stranger to advertising, but it's rare we see him not throwing a roundhouse kick or being portrayed as a meme-era Paul Bunyan capable of impossibly epic deeds. (His last ad...
View ArticleBarbarian’s New Receptionist Is an Echo Show Named ‘Barb’
Digital agency Barbarian Group's new receptionist, Barb, doesn't collect a paycheck, isn't getting breaks or benefits and can work endless overtime. Barbarian, however, isn't violating New York State...
View ArticleAmazon Is Losing Its Smart Speaker Dominance, According to New Report
Amazon is no longer the smart speaker king. A report from research firm Canalys this week found that Google Home shipments outpaced those of Amazon's Echo products for the second straight quarter as...
View ArticleA Fruit Rocket Is Actually the Best Bad Idea Pitched in These Delightfully...
Creative that comes out of the Pacific Northwest has its charms. On one hand, work from Portland and Seattle can have an edge, (see: early Nike work from Wieden + Kennedy), and on the other, it is at...
View ArticleHavas CCO Explains Their Odd Internal Video Starring Juice Bars and Poop Emojis
Havas North America is a little different, and the privately owned network doesn't do things quite like all the other ad agencies you know. At least that's what co-chairman and chief creative officer...
View ArticleHow an Apple Vet Ended Up Starting Verizon’s In-House Shop
For Andrew McKechnie, the journey from joining global agency FCB as a copywriter in January 2001 to becoming svp and CCO of Verizon in February 2017 was a steady climb. "I worked up the ranks in a...
View ArticleBerlin-Based Design Agency Edenspiekermann Brings a European Approach to the...
Creative design shop Edenspiekermann of Berlin has spent the past two years importing its Euro-design vibe to America via its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles and offices in San Francisco and Chicago....
View ArticleArtificial Influencers Are Attracting the Attention of Brands
Shudu Gram, a South African Instagram model with flawless dark skin and a perfectly symmetrical face, has garnered 130,000 followers since appearing on the platform a little over a year ago. She's...
View Article4 Major Changes Up Next for the Newsroom
The core of the news business can be so intense and dynamic that it leaves little room for innovation. That's why the ecosystem of the newsroom--and the journalists within it--is often last to...
View ArticleThis Study Shows Holding Companies Will Lose Market Share Until They Become...
Forrester Research last week released a new report, "Agency Holding Companies Need A Brave New Business Model," which concludes that agencies and holding companies need to adapt to meet the evolving...
View ArticleGoogle, Ogilvy and the Unstereotype Alliance Create ‘Lioness’ App to Unite Ad...
Ogilvy, Google and the UN Women's Unstereotype Alliance have joined forces to show how technology can be used to unite advertising's female professionals worldwide, with the hopes that it will then...
View ArticleHere’s What Consumers Hate Most About Your Emails
Half of U.S. consumers in a recent survey said their preferred channel for contact from brands is email--but there's a lot they don't like about it. Adobe's 2018 Consumer Email Survey found that email...
View ArticleCondé Nast Gives Unduplicated Look at Readers Across Print, Social and Digital
Cond? Nast worked with MRI and comScore to produce an unduplicated measurement of its readership among print, digital and social. The measurement offers a more transparent look at the audience for each...
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