Giphy 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"...
View ArticleTwitter Is Testing a New Way to Preview Other Profiles Without Leaving Its...
Twitter is testing a new way for its iOS users to preview profiles without leaving their timelines. The social network said in a tweet that iOS users can tap on any @ handle contained within a tweet to...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: Turning the Westminster Dog Show Into a Social Media...
Until a few years ago, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, established in 1877, was a one-day event cherished by an older audience of purebred enthusiasts who admired the parade of perfectly bred...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Video Sees Itself as a ‘Global Network,’ and Says It’s Not...
It's been exactly one year since Jennifer Salke accepted the job as head of Amazon Studios, and she gave reporters a state of the union at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in...
View ArticleAmazon’s New Program Lets Developers Reward Users With Gifts From the Site
Digital marketers are always on the lookout for technology that can deliver the right message to the right person on the right device at the right time. Over the years, there have been many who have...
View ArticleFacebook Removed 168 Accounts, 28 Pages, 8 Instagram Accounts in Moldova
Parliamentary elections will be held in Moldova Feb. 24, and Facebook took steps to safeguard the vote in that country from manipulation via its platform. Facebook head of cybersecurity policy...
View ArticleHow The Wonderful Company Created a Wine Brand for Millennial Rosé Lovers in...
Little about The Wonderful Company's new wine brand is practical. Brought from conception to market in less than a year, the JNSQ brand recently came on the market with a line of ros? and sauvignon...
View ArticleHow Maria Menounos Is Building the ‘ESPN of TV Talk’ With AfterBuzz TV
Maria Menounos is a host, an author, a podcaster and even a wrestler, but she is also the CEO and co-founder of a new type of network, AfterBuzz TV, which produces more than 150 hours of programming...
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