Nintendo Sends U.S. Media Account to Initiative Following Review
Nintendo has selected Interpublic's Initiative as its new U.S. media agency partner, sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed. AdAge first reported the news earlier today. The appointment...
View ArticleA Facebook Bug Is Affecting the Reach of Video Posts From Pages
Facebook page administrators have spent Tuesday dealing with a bug that is automatically adding audience targeting to their video posts, greatly diminishing their reach. Several page admins alerted...
View ArticleInstagram Is Encouraging People to #ShareBlackStories for Black History Month
Instagram is celebrating Black History Month with its #ShareBlackStories initiative. The official @instagram account will share Stories from creators including Tawny Chatmon, Paola "Pao Pao" Math? and...
View ArticleGiphy 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 ArticleBusiness Insider Will Integrate Taboola Feed to Give Readers a Social-Style...
Insider Inc., the parent company of Business Insider, today announced a partnership with content-discovery service Taboola that will see the publisher integrate the self-styled alternative to Facebook...
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 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 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 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 ArticleLee Clow Announces Retirement and Looks Back on a Career That Helped Define...
Today, one of advertising's leading lights officially hung up his hat. Lee Clow--the legendary creative behind such campaigns as "Think Different," the Energizer bunny and the Taco Bell chihuahua--has...
View ArticleTimeline: Lee Clow’s 50 Years in Advertising
1943 Lee Clow is born in Los Angeles, where he would later attend Santa Monica City College and California State University at Long Beach. 1968 Jay Chiat and Guy Day form creative agency Chiat/Day in...
View ArticleWhat Agencies Are Doing to Encourage Discussion, Reflection and Celebration...
Diversity can sometimes be a buzzword when it comes to corporate culture, but a number of agencies are putting their money where their mouth is and amplifying black voices in celebration of Black...
View ArticleNothing Says Love More Than a ‘Beef Bucket’ KFC Cooked Up in France
For Valentine's Day, KFC sparked a lover's quarrel with its chicken-lovin' fan base in France through social posts that announced the addition of a "Beef Bucket" to the restaurant's menu. "We decided...
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