Last January, YouTube used Sundance as a forum to pitch its six-second ad format to brands. That's continued this year, with YouTube returning to Sundance to showcase its six-second ad format. But this year, there's a new twist: Creative agencies were tasked with telling classic tales, from Cinderella to Rumplestiltskin, in the six-second format. "Last...
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YouTube Partnered With Creative Agencies to Tell 6-Second Versions of Classic Tales at Sundance
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High School Basketball Will Now Be Livestreamed on Twitter Thanks to Gatorade and Intersport
High school hoops junkies can now get their fix on Twitter, with the help of Gatorade and Intersport. Twitter has been a staple of the college basketball recruiting circuit since its inception, used by both players and coaches. In fact, in August 2016, the NCAA changed its rules to allow coaches to like and retweet...
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Bose Names WPP Global Agency Partner Across Creative, Media and Digital Marketing
After a review, Bose has selected WPP as its global agency partner across creative, media, localization, production and digital marketing. The business will be handled by a "custom-built team" of WPP shops, which were not identified by the company or agency. Bose declined further comment and WPP deferred back to the client. However, a person...
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Quicken Loans Puts Its $400 Million Media Account in Review
Online mortgage lending giant Quicken Loans has launched a review of its media buying and planning account. "After nearly two decades, Quicken Loans has decided to open the RFP process for a new media planning and buying agency," a Quicken Loans representative said in a statement provided to Adweek. "Our in-house marketing agency and our...
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How Davos Can Help Marketers Gain Greater Global Purpose
As global leaders gather in Davos next week to try to create a shared future in a fractured world, what's the role of marketers and creative agencies? In this era of seismic disruption, technology is overturning entire business models and transforming the way that customers live, buy and think. Marketing today requires thinking well beyond...
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Diversity Finally Comes to Facebook’s Board of Directors
Facebook's board of directors welcomed its first African-American member, as American Express chairman and CEO Kenneth Chenault will take a seat effective Feb. 5. Chenault has been with American Express for 37 years, and he is retiring as chairman and CEO effective Feb. 1, to be succeeded by vice chairman Stephen Squeri. Zuckerberg said in...
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The Facebook Community Boost Show Is Set to Hit the Road
After last week's news that Facebook is revamping its News Feed, small businesses needed some good news from Facebook, and they received it in the form of an update on the Facebook Community Boost program, which was originally announced last November. Facebook Community Boost is aimed at helping small businesses in the U.S. grow and...
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This Campaign Found a Hilariously Gross Way to Raise Awareness of Testicular Cancer
We're getting pretty well-versed in testicular cancer awareness ads, and in the weird--sometimes creepy--ways associations find of getting people to do something we oddly all hate doing: checking ourselves regularly to ensure early prevention. Here's the Colombian League Against Cancer's approach. It might not be the most imaginative, but we like how the act of...
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NBC In Talks to Secure White House Interview on Super Bowl Sunday
NBC News is still hoping to secure an interview with President Trump on Super Bowl Sunday, a tradition that goes back more than a decade. "Without getting into specifics, I can tell you that there have been conversations between NBC News and the White House about a conversation format, the timing, the location, those sorts...
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Instagram Added Activity Status to Instagram Direct
Instagram's latest update to its iOS and Android applications borrowed a feature from sister app Facebook Messenger. The app's messaging feature, Instagram Direct, now includes activity status, which adds a line below user names sharing the last time those users have been online. Users can opt out of the feature, but should they do so,...
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Soccer Club Inter Milan Is Telling 110 Stories for its 110th Birthday, With Emojis for Every One
One of the neatest things about living outside the U.S. is discovering soccer culture, which is as strident and culturally charged as football is in America. On March 9, Italian club F.C. Inter Milan will turn 110 years old. To celebrate that historic benchmark, in November it launched "He110, this is Inter," a massive project...
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WhatsApp Just Rolled Out an Android App for Small Businesses
Businesses on Facebook have the Facebook Pages Manager application, and businesses on Messenger have Analytics for Apps data for their Messenger bots. And now, businesses on WhatsApp have some tools of their own. The Facebook-owned messaging app announced the launch of WhatsApp Business, a free Android application for small business owners on the platform, which...
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A Deeper Look at David Marcus’ 6 Trends for Facebook Messenger in 2018
Facebook Messenger has come a long way since vice president of messaging products David Marcus left his post as president of PayPal to join the social network in June 2014. Marcus shared six trends that he believes will emerge for the messaging application in 2018 in a note published on Facebook Tuesday. Those trends were:...
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Why Mastercard Is Adding a Charitable Aspect to Its Long-Running ‘Priceless’ Campaign
Mastercard has added a new wrinkle to its famed Priceless campaign, which has already spanned two decades. The company worked with its creative agency, McCann, for the last year to develop the addition to the campaign. Called "Start Something Priceless," the new effort is meant to inspire people to do something they have always wanted...
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Who Is Billy? Coppola Winery’s Comical Short Film Has Two Wildly Opposing Theories
We hear a lot about "storytelling" in one form or another these days. It's become one of the most overused and hotly debated buzzwords in the business. Now, acclaimed commercial director Rodrigo Saavedra of The Directors Bureau puts storytelling in sharp focus for Francis Coppola's winery in "The Red Stain," a 10-minute brand film that...
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Hyundai Will ‘Surprise Millions’ With Its Super Bowl Ad, Says New Teaser
Hyundai will tease its Super Bowl ad during both the NFC and AFC Championship games on Sunday. The teaser will also be available for viewing online and on the brand's social channels. It suggests a kind of follow-up to last year's "A Better Super Bowl" from Hyundai agency of record Innocean, with the brand promising...
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Havas Veteran Returns as Chief Strategy Officer for North America
Today, Havas welcomed back Tim Maleeny as chief strategy officer for North America. Maleeny will work out of the agency's New York office and will also serve as president of Havas New York, under the leadership of Havas New York CEO Laura Maness, and executive sponsor for the agency's TD Ameritrade account. "As we continue...
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How Greenpeace Used Minecraft to Stop Illegal Logging in Europe’s Last Lowland Primeval Forest
There's a kind of life within forests that you can feel only when you've stopped to pay attention. We're not talking about animals; we mean the trees themselves, which are even able to communicate using a nifty network of fungus (sometimes adorably dubbed "the Wood Wide Web"). But most of us live far from nature,...
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Avocado Selfie Emojis Are Almost a Thing, Thanks to Avocados From Mexico’s Super Bowl Digital Push
For the past three years, Avocados From Mexico has delighted Super Bowl viewers with wacky TV spots. The brand has also always given consideration to its digital Super Bowl-related presence, and this year will be no different. Avocados From Mexico has already announced it will return to the Big Game for a fourth consecutive appearance,...
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Dish Network Launches Creative Review
Dish Network has launched a creative review, a source with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed to Adweek. The source added that the review is being handled by New York search consultancy Avidan Strategies, is still in its early stages and includes "a long list" of unspecified agencies. Incumbent Camp + King was invited to...
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