Hearts & Science welcomed A.J. Storinge from GroupM as its new executive director, media on the AT&T account. Storinge will be tasked with leading AT&T media across the New York, Atlanta and Dallas offices while reporting to Ralph Pardo, Hearts & Science president on the account. Last year, AT&T began the process of moving its...
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Hearts & Science Hires GroupM Executive to Help Run the AT&T Business
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Look Out, Trade Shows, Here Comes the Anti-Swag Swag Bag
Like many entrepreneurial professionals, Lynne Lambert sees a lot of swag in her business travels, and also like many professionals, she has to make a tough call about the swag bags she's found herself toting around trade-show floors. It goes like this: "Everything is heavily logoed, and I have to decide: Do I toss this?...
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Gucci’s ’60s-Inspired Student Protest Ad Misses the Point About Why We’re All Mad
It doesn't take a lot for people to stop believing in their institutions. It doesn't take much to dampen our sense of injustice and the motivation to force change. If too many messages conflict, too many injustices go unpunished and too much infighting is left to fester in our fresh-dug trenches, we can easily become...
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If You Thought Voice Was Easy, Wait Until Devices Make Predictions
Voice technology was everywhere at CES this year (toilets included), in large part because it's an easy, natural interface. But it still requires input from consumers--which, at least in marketing terms, means friction remains. "There are few things more natural than simply asking for something and having that thing brought to you," said Jason Snyder,...
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Twitter: Pokemon Was the Most-Mentioned Game Globally in 2017
Twitter took a look back at the video game-related content on its platform in 2017. In a blog post, Rishi Chadha, head of gaming content partnerships at Twitter, said more than 218 million tweets about gaming were shared by users around the world last year. In terms of mentions, the most-mentioned video game globally in...
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360i’s Fresh, Tech-Driven Thinking Pushed Its Clients to New Heights in 2017
"Let me start out by saying that here, creative is an adjective," says 360i chief marketing officer Abbey Klaassen when describing her agency's approach to media in 2017. "It's not a noun, like, 'that's the creative.' We are all creative." Before war rooms, viral tweets and voice specialties, when the phrase "social media" was still...
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How Brands Can Take Advantage of Instagram Stories
Once Instagram launched Stories in August 2016, the feature spread like wildfire. As of November 2017, Instagram Stories topped 300 million daily users. Instagram Stories offer social marketers a great opportunity to reach a higher number of people by taking advantage of one of the fastest-growing social networks. Instagram has reported that Stories have encouraged...
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NBC Olympics Weekend Ratings Declined From 2014
Saturday and Sunday were the two lowest-rated days for NBC's Pyeongchang Olympics coverage to date. Sunday's prime-time coverage of the 2018 Winter Games posted a Total Audience Delivery of 18.2 million total viewers, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data and digital data from Adobe Analytics. That's down 15 percent compared to the NBC Olympics' total prime time...
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How These 4 Brands Are Using Their Apps to Personalize Customer Experience
In mobile Darwinism, every app fights for a consumer's undivided attention and home screen, but the reality is they tend to stick with their go-to apps. And in fact, social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are the dominant species, comprising five of the top 10 free apps in the iTunes App Store. But it's...
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Marketers Need Structured Innovation to Achieve Real Progress
Innovation is a powerful force for business success, but big companies can sometimes be too slow to adapt. Corporate red tape, endless rounds of approvals and a general fear of failure foster cultures reluctant to give up on established ideas and solutions, even when they no longer serve the enterprise and its needs. Illustration: Alex...
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Serta Expands Your Comfort Zone in Amusing Ads From Leo Burnett
In Leo Burnett's first TV ad for Serta, we meet Rick Blomquist, a dude who likes to take life easy. Very easy. He starts his day with a comfortable breakfast of oatmeal and hard-boiled eggs, then drives to his cushy job at a slipper factory in a car tricked out with wooly seats and fleeced-line...
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In India, Tinder Unleashes a Bollywood-Inspired Appeal for Epic Adventure
An epic love story! Who doesn't want one? Bollywood's been selling them to us for years, so it's apt that the music-infused film industry is where Tinder India gleans inspiration for its latest work. "Start Something Epic," by BBH India and directed by Bharat Sikka, stars indie musician and actor Kavya Trehan as a standard-issue...
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Editor’s Letter: Adweek Unveils Its First-Ever Advisory Board
It should come as no surprise that covering media and marketing in this era of universal transformation is no small endeavor. Change arrives at a breakneck pace and leaves disruption, broken business models and obsolescence in its wake. Let's be honest, it can be frightening and the anxiety is often palpable across our entire coverage...
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AI’s Hidden Patterns Transform Content, Marketing and Advertising on Facebook
Artificial intelligence finds and identifies the best parts about human behavior. It matches our desires with the exact information, product or service we need, at the right time. It is increasingly used to improve search results, and it will be the driving force behind the changes in content production, target marketing and advertising that we...
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Facebook Messenger: Here’s How to Change Your Story’s Privacy Setting
Did you know that you can choose which users are allowed to see your Story posts on Facebook and Facebook Messenger? Our guide will show you how to change your Story's privacy setting within the Messenger application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Messenger app on iOS. Step 1: Tap the "Me" button in...
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Infographic: What Marketers Look for in an Agency
Just like any relationship, marketers and agencies need to cultivate and maintain their union--and not just during the honeymoon phase. New research from Provoke Insights shows that while cost is the biggest factor driving account reviews, several potential problems can result in agency-marketer relationships being on the rocks, including agency responsiveness and access to research....
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BlackBerry Refuses to Give Up
On Oct. 20, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was aboard a C-17 Globemaster military plane bound for Libya. While waiting for takeoff, Clinton--wearing a pair of dark sunglasses--began pecking at her smartphone, her face a mask of determination. Alert to an iconic moment, a Reuters photographer clicked his shutter. National media picked up the...
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This Agency Thinks Advertisers Should Put Their Money Where Their Ears Are
Every podcast fanatic's favorite host probably reads an ad for Sleep Number, MVMT Watches or Harry's at least once per episode--and that's because of Ad Results Media, which claims to be the world's largest podcast advertising agency based on IAB industry revenue estimates. Born out of a merger between Ad Results Advertising and Brown Bear...
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Mobile Is Changing How Fans Are Watching Sports. Here’s How Verizon Is Leading the Charge
Live sports has been the bedrock of linear television in the digital era. As everything else in entertainment has been disrupted and disintermediated, broadcast and cable networks have paid dearly to keep sports as appointment television. But changing viewer habits and new business opportunities are upending those assumptions, creating a new mobile-first paradigm for sports...
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Hornbach Made a Fancy Chair You Don’t Just Assemble but Actually Have to Build
Hornbach, dude. We love it when it's serious, but when it's weird, it can't be beat. The European DIY brand that once gave us the man who feels his house's pain has returned, this time in collaboration with designer and architect Sigurd Larsen. Together they've created the Werkst?ck Edition Lounge Chair. It's a smooth, markedly...
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