Snapchat May Take on Pinterest in Visual Search, With a Little Help From Amazon
The potential of Snapchat entering the visual search arena might be enough to rattle Pinterest a little bit, but what if Amazon was one of Snapchat's launch partners in the project? Application...
View ArticleHow Marketers Can Prepare for Unintended Consequences of AI
Today, a great deal of attention goes into applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to advertising. And the value that AI can bring to marketing is unquestionable, from creating thousands...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood Wants to Protect Your ‘Freedom to F*ck’ With New...
Dear New Yorkers: Planned Parenthood of New York City has an important message for you all. If you want to continue to love and sleep with the person (or people) of your choosing, you might want to...
View ArticleHow a Year Without Awards Offered Fresh Perspective and Also Showed Their...
I'll admit it, I really love winning awards. I'll also admit, I really don't love work that was only created to win awards. What happened to doing this for the pure satisfaction of the thing itself?...
View ArticleTwitter Is Getting Ready to Remove Locked Accounts From Follower Totals
Twitter users who pride themselves on having a high follower count might soon have their egos slightly bruised. The company is getting ready to remove accounts that have been locked over the years, a...
View Article3 Ways Brands Can Adapt to Meet Consumer Needs
At a pop-up event in London last year, The Economist magazine served commuters ice cream topped with locusts and coffee made with water from a portable toilet, drawing attention to the current affairs...
View ArticlePinterest Rolled Out Collaboration Tools for Groups
Pinterest Wednesday introduced new collaboration tools for its group boards, on mobile and web, enabling Pinners to more easily plan events and projects. The company said in a blog post that its new...
View ArticleFacebook Is Facing the Maximum Allowable Fine in the U.K. Over Cambridge...
The Information Commissioner's Office, the privacy regulator in the U.K., is threatening Facebook with its maximum penalty over the Cambridge Analytica user data scandal, but the punishment would be...
View ArticleOn the Adweek Podcast: Celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Sports
This week, Adweek is honoring the most badass women in sports, including alpine racing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin, Adidas vp Alegra O'Hare and Lara Price, COO of the Philadelphia 76ers. Check out our...
View ArticlePharrell Williams, Spotify’s Newest Curator, Shares His Inspirations and...
In March, Spotify and the creative collective Saturday Morning launched Black History Is Happening Now with a central purpose: to encourage a yearlong celebration of the cultural and historical...
View ArticleAudio Offers a Wealth of Marketing Opportunities, and It’s Time for Brands to...
As technology frees consumers to program their own media menus, digital audio has never held more appeal. The ubiquity of smartphones, along with the rise of voice-activated speakers and cars with...
View ArticleCMO of Saatchi & Saatchi’s Team One Is Heading to Creative Shop Trailer Park
Trailer Park, the Engine Group-owned full-service creative shop, announced today it has hired Howard Moggs as senior vice president and development director. Moggs joins the company from Saatchi &...
View ArticleYouTube Is Rolling Out a New Copyright Match Tool to Catch Re-Uploads of...
YouTube is introducing a new Copyright Match tool to help creators sniff out re-uploads of their content on other channels, after testing it for nearly one year. Product manager Fabio Magagna detailed...
View ArticleMcCann Health Fires Global CCO Jeremy Perrott ‘Following an Investigation’
McCann Health global CCO Jeremy Perrott has become the second major creative leader in two days to be abruptly fired for unspecified behavioral violations. Less than 24 hours after Ogilvy terminated...
View ArticleBMB Completes Management Overhaul With Arrival of New CEO
Cheil Worldwide agency BMB has hired Jason Cobbold as its new CEO. Cobbold will begin the role in October, leading BMB's management team and working to rejuvenate the agency's offering across its...
View ArticleNetflix Ends HBO’s 17-Year Emmys Streak as the Most-Nominated Network
Netflix continued its ascension to the top of the television industry today as the 70th Emmy Awards nominations were announced. The streaming service ended up with 112 nominations, edging out HBO's...
View Article3 Ways Creative Agencies Can Take Innovation a Step Further
Over the past decade, we've witnessed an explosion of new channels. Brands have more opportunities for engagement than ever. The tools for content creation have grown more powerful and yet also more...
View ArticleFrom Solemn and Lovely to Silly and Hilarious, Here Are the 5 Ads Up for an...
While certainly best known as a celebration of television's biggest hits and stars, the Emmy Awards also bestow a trophy to one advertisement each year. So among this morning's slew of Emmy nominations...
View ArticleCan a Little Spike Lee (and a Lot of Brooklyn) Save Uber From Its Troubled...
It's a few minutes before the house lights come down at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the premiere of Spike Lee's new "joint," Da Republic of Brooklyn. Standing off to the side--largely...
View ArticleWhy Brands Can Ignore Telegram—for Now
You've undoubtedly read in the past few months about social applications that offer heavily encrypted messages that can self-destruct and a faster delivery system than most platforms, along with...
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