Facebook Acquired Email Startup Redkix for Workplace by Facebook
Facebook's latest acquisition was completed with an eye toward its Workplace by Facebook enterprise offering, as email startup Redkix was scooped up by the social network. Redkix combined email,...
View ArticleFacebook Will No Longer Allow Exclusion of Certain Groups Via Its Ad...
Facebook signed a legally binding agreement earlier this week with the office of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in which it agreed to ensure that third-party advertisers cannot exclude ethnic...
View ArticleDomino’s Is Bringing Its Pizzas Into Augmented Reality With a National...
Domino's is turning its pizza boxes--and the pizzas that go inside them--into an augmented reality campaign. This weekend, the pizza chain will begin running a national ad campaign that lets Snapchat...
View ArticleTwitter Is Taking the Pitch for the 2018 MLS All-Star Game, MLS Homegrown Game
Twitter is lacing up its cleats for the 2018 Major League Soccer All-Star Game Presented by Target, which will take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta Aug. 1. Hashtag-triggered emoji were...
View ArticleCBS Ad Sales Chief ‘Fully’ Supports Les Moonves After Sexual Harassment...
Hours after the New Yorker published its explosive story in which six women accused CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves of sexual harassment and intimidation, one of CBS' top female execs said...
View ArticleAmazon Studios New Chief Says Prime Video’s User Interface is About to Get a...
After five months as the new head of Amazon Studios, Jennifer Salke unveiled her strategy for the streaming service--and promised that Prime Video's often-frustrating user interface is about to get a...
View ArticleMatthew Weiner’s Mad Men Followup For Amazon Gets a Teaser and Premiere Date
Amazon capped its appearance at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Los Angeles by releasing the first teaser and announcing a premiere date for The Romanoffs, which is Matthew...
View ArticleNetflix Thrives By Programming to ‘Taste Communities,’ Not Demographics
As Netflix continues to take over the TV industry--it now has 130 million subscribers in 190 countries, and will spend as much as $8 billion on original programing--the company says it has thrived by...
View ArticleTwitter Is Going the Academic Route to Measure Its Public Conversation Health...
Twitter revealed the winners of the request for proposals it issued in March to devise ways to measure the overall health of public conversation on its network. The social network said in March that...
View ArticleJohn Oliver Shredded Facebook With a Spoof of the Social Platform’s Recent...
John Oliver had some fun with Facebook's recent ad campaign during Sunday night's installment of HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver reimagined Facebook's...
View ArticleLuggage Company, Away, Reimagines the Miserable Airport Experience With a Fun...
A few weeks after Away, a luggage and travel company, raised a $50 million round of funding, the company opened up a pop-up shop in New York. Adweek visited the pop-up shop, dubbed "Terminal A," which...
View ArticleFred Rogers Is Returning to PBS, Which Will Air This Summer’s Hit Documentary...
One of PBS' most famous and influential personalities of all-time, Fred Rogers, will be returning to the public broadcast network in 2019. PBS has secured rights to Won't You Be My Neighbor?, this...
View ArticleColors Resonate With Consumers on a Subconscious Level. Here’s How Brands Can...
How you use color in your business can amplify or ruin your brand strategy. That's because color strongly influences human emotion and behavior. In the CCI: Institute for Color Research's study, 92.6...
View ArticleDeadpool Deadpan Reigns as Ryan Reynolds Snarks It Up for Toon Blast
Ryan Reynolds is known as an enthusiastic, creative brand collaborator. The star famously dove into Deadpool's marketing from the beginning, and his unique personality helped make the campaigns a...
View ArticleCBS Board Meets, Takes No Action Against Embattled CEO Leslie Moonves
CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves lives to fight another day. The CBS board held a previously scheduled board meeting today ahead of Thursday's quarterly earnings announcement. It said it took...
View ArticleQDOBA Hands Planning and Buying Duties to Marc USA’s Cogniscient Media
QDOBA Mexican Eats has chosen Marc USA's Cogniscient Media as its agency of record to handle all offline and digital media planning and buying duties following a review led by Select Resources....
View ArticleUnder Armour’s Top Marketing Executive Is Headed to Nike, Sources Say
The woman who spent the past eight-plus months overseeing Under Armour's global marketing efforts has accepted a position with Nike, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Earlier today,...
View ArticleTwitter Promoted Four Content Executives, Established a Content Creation...
Twitter filled two key content partnership positions by promoting from within. The social network confirmed that T.J. Adeshola, who has been managing partnerships with major sports leagues in the U.S.,...
View ArticleHow Google Home Is Improving Its Marketing to Close the Gap on Amazon
This year, more than 35 million Americans will use a voice-activated assistant device at least once a month. According to eMarketer, that's up nearly 130 percent since 2017. Amazon and its Echo line of...
View ArticleDJ Khaled Stunned by His Son’s Business Acumen in Wonderfully Weird Apple...
Hollywood loves a talking baby--whether that's with a fantastically strange tale of corporate greed (see: Boss Baby) or a surprisingly poignant account of babies speaking long before babies should...
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