TurboTax Partners With Roku on Super Bowl Activation on Top of Its In-Game Spot
TurboTax is preparing for the Super Bowl with a sponsorship series on OTT service Roku, culminating in home screen activations kicking off the Big Game this weekend. Starting today, TurboTax is...
View ArticleSnopes Is Out of Facebook’s Third-Party Fact-Checking Program
Facebook's oft-mentioned stable of third-party fact-checkers will be missing one of its lead horses, as Snopes will not renew its partnership with the social network. Snopes began providing...
View ArticleWashington Post Will Use First Super Bowl Ad to Highlight ‘Courage and...
The Washington Post will have its first 60-second spot in the Super Bowl, and Tom Hanks will voice it. The ad showcasing the work of journalists will air in the fourth quarter, just before the...
View ArticleWix’s Fifth Super Bowl Ad Features Coding Supermodel Karlie Kloss
The website-building platform Wix will return to the Super Bowl for a fifth consecutive year with a 30-second spot featuring supermodel and tech enthusiast Karlie Kloss. It was produced by Wix's...
View ArticleHulu Will Crack Open Instagram’s Most Influential Egg, Revealing All After...
We've seen some interesting plays to break through the noise of the Super Bowl from brands like Skittles, which is foregoing a spot in the game this year to put on a Broadway play. Others will be going...
View ArticleADT Will Become a First-Time Super Bowl Advertiser This Sunday
Home security company ADT will make its Super Bowl debut this Sunday with a 30-second spot. The ad, produced by New York City creative agency Bear in the Hall, will run just before the start of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Super Bowl Activation Shows the Places a Player’s Side Hustles...
According to the NFL Players Association, the average career of an NFL player is just over three years. Additionally, data from the Wall Street Journal shows that players in some positions, like wide...
View ArticleA Chinese Washing Machine Brand Blatantly Lifted Design Army’s Stunning...
Last week, Pum Lefebure began to get a flurry of messages from her contacts in Asia, all with a similar question: "Have you seen this?" Co-founder and chief creative officer of the celebrated...
View ArticleJack Rogers, the Sandal Jacqueline Kennedy Made Famous, Is Stepping Things Up
Growing up in Hawaii, Lydia Park Luis saw many a brand of sandals and open-toed shoes. But she's still surprised over the one she didn't see: Jack Rogers, the tony sandals with the signature whip...
View ArticleModern Family Will End Its Run in 2020 After 11 Seasons on ABC
Karey Burke, who has only been ABC Entertainment president since November, found a way to make some noise during her first executive session at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in...
View ArticleProgrammatic Audio Exchange DAX Inks Deal to Offer Voice-Activated Ads
European radio giant Global's digital ad exchange has signed a deal with voice-activated ads company Instreamatic.ai to expand the availability of interactive audio ads in the United States. The...
View Article15 Fun Real-Time Super Bowl LIII Tweets by Brands That Ran TV Spots
Super Bowl LIII is in the books, but the Twitter account for Pringles remained in character through Tuesday, continuing the theme of its Big Game spot by changing the account's handle to Sad Device...
View ArticleBed-in-a-Box Brand Casper Wants You to Have FOMO—About Sleeping
In 2014, Neil Parikh, Gabe Flateman and Luke Sherwin were living in Brooklyn with a roommate named Kasper, a lanky German man who had a tendency for tiredness and was so tall his feet dangled off his...
View ArticleYouTube Saw Channels With 1 Million-Plus Subscribers Double in 2018
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki shared some of the Google-owned video site's 2018 milestones and her goals for 2019. The number of channels with more than 1 million subscribers doubled in 2018, and the...
View ArticleParalympic Fencer Beatrice Vio Says Even Crazy Dreams Are Possible in...
Nike Italy's new ad from W+K London encourages viewers to "Stop at Nothing." Directed by Georgia Hudson, the spot features Italian Paralympic fencer Beatrice Vio, who also provides the voiceover. "They...
View ArticleEditor’s Letter: The Customer Experience Has Changed Drastically in the Past...
Do you remember your first major purchase? Mine was a queen-size pillow-top mattress in a silvery brocade, and the experience of buying it was so soul-crushingly bad that it's stayed with me for 16...
View ArticleOrangetheory and Mirror Execs Compare Notes on Marketing Fitness’ Buzziest...
Orangetheory and Mirror are two of the buzziest brands working to shake up the roughly $32 billion U.S. fitness industry, per Statista. Ahead of our inaugural Brandweek: Challenger Brands summit in New...
View ArticleHow Geico Became the One Advertiser It’s OK to Love
What makes a Geico ad a Geico ad? The insurance brand has run an endless parade of humorous advertising over its 25-year relationship with The Martin Agency, and, creatively, the campaigns have been...
View Article‘The World’s Best’ Judge Alberto Belli Is Responsible for Several Viral...
Alberto Belli's path has been an unconventional one. Even though he started his career as a computer science engineer, he's always loved ads and marketing, and after feeling "miserable" in engineering,...
View ArticleAgencies of the Future Will Shift to Refocus on Culture and Talent Instead of...
Once upon a time, there were only two levers that agency leaders could pull to build a successful business. These were culture and people. A belief system designed to drive a certain set of behaviors,...
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