Behr’s ASMR Video Introduces You to the Soothing Sounds of Painting
Who knew paint could sound so good? Behr did. The paint manufacturer is hopping on board the ASMR train, releasing a nearly five-minute-long video filled with all the satisfying sounds associated with...
View ArticleMacaulay Culkin Is Home Alone Again at Age 38 in Google’s Update to the...
Oh no, someone left Kevin McCallister home alone once again! But wait, that's not all too alarming, given that actor Macaulay Culkin is now 38 years old. In Google's homage to and update of 1990's Home...
View ArticleSteen Strand Will Lead SnapLab, the Group Behind Spectacles, Starting in...
The SnapLab group at Snap Inc., which is behind its Spectacles camera sunglasses, will be under new leadership starting in February. Vice president of hardware Sahil Sharma had been leading SnapLab...
View ArticleCocktail Shakers Shook Up Facebook in November, Becoming a Topic to Watch
Facebook users were mixing it up in November, as cocktail shakers were one of Facebook IQ's Topics to Watch for the month. Cocktail shakers and related topics bar spoon, bartender, cocktail, cocktail...
View ArticleThis Electric Skateboard Company Just Received $60 Million in a Series B Funding
In an age where it feels like everyone is fed up with public transportation and traffic, other first and last mile options like skateboards and scooters are seeing new life. Take Boosted, Inc. an...
View Article17 Campaigns So Good, They Made Other Agencies Jealous in 2018
Asking an agency to pick its favorite 2018 work from its own catalog is a pretty easy task. Slightly more daunting, however, is asking one to select the best ads or campaigns other agencies created...
View ArticleAppsFlyer Sees Global App Install Spend Reaching $64 Billion in 2020
Mobile attribution and data analytics company AppsFlyer released its Global App Market Forecasts report, which provided predictions related to application install advertising spend and non-organic...
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 ArticleMarketers Need to Focus More Holiday Ad Spend on the Ample Opportunities...
Here's a holiday present for retailers: a new playbook. In a dynamic ecommerce environment, using last year's digital ad strategy is a non-starter. Consumer shopping habits change too frequently to...
View ArticleThe 7 Biggest Movie Marketing Moments of 2018
With so many media options available to modern audiences across all kind of platforms and devices, Hollywood marketers face greater pressure to get people's attention. They have to reach those...
View ArticleThe Biggest Account Shifts of 2018
Even as holding companies continue toward an uncertain future, it was the "big six" over the somewhat seemingly more stable independent agencies (in the U.S., anyway) that prevailed in some of the most...
View ArticlePriyanka Chopra Jonas and Bumble Created an Inspiring Anthem That Tackles...
If a woman crushes it at work and hits beast mode at the gym, should that be an open invitation to question her morals? The social connection app Bumble addresses that gender bias head-on in its debut...
View ArticleThe Data Behind a Few of 2018’s Most Successful Brand Scandals
No matter how hard you plan and how carefully you control your messaging, scandals sometimes hit. Brand scandals are all different, but one thing is universal: They can seriously tarnish a company's...
View ArticleInstagram: Here’s How to Ask for Music Recommendations in Stories
Instagram recently updated the questions sticker in Stories to allow users to ask their viewers for music recommendations. Our guide will show you how this works. Note: These screenshots were captured...
View ArticleFortune Magazine Officially Sells to Thai Businessman
Meredith has finalized its sale of Fortune magazine to Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon, the magazine publisher announced today. The brand was purchased for $150 million cash by Fortune Media...
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