WhatsApp Is Getting Down to Business With Its New API
WhatsApp introduced an application-programming interface that allows businesses to manage conversations with users and gives users an easy way to start conversations with businesses. The Facebook-owned...
View ArticleFacebook and the National Urban League Will Team Up to Offer Digital Training...
The National Urban League is doing its part to help Facebook achieve its goal of training 1 million people and small businesses in digital skills by 2020. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl...
View ArticleAfter Reportedly Losing $120 Million Last Year, Condé Nast Will Sell 3 of Its...
Cond? Nast looks to sell three of its titles--Bridges, Golf Digest and W--partly due to a recommendation from Boston Consulting Group, The New York Times reported. The rumored sale comes after Cond?...
View ArticleCBS Board Hires Two Firms to Investigate Les Moonves Sexual Harassment...
The CBS board has hired two separate law firms to investigate the sexual harassment allegations against CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves in last Friday's New Yorker story. Meanwhile, Moonves...
View ArticleHoneywell Selects Custom IPG Agency as AOR
Honeywell is the latest client to turn to a holding company's dedicated unit approach. The multinational consumer and commercial goods conglomerate consolidated its advertising account by selecting a...
View ArticleH&M’s New Brand Tapped Into the Power of Influencers and Instagram Polls to...
For some creators on Instagram and Snapchat, their followers are the real influencers. Their followers decide what they like, what they want more of and will voice any dissatisfaction with the...
View ArticleEven With Wrestling and More Football, Scripted Shows Will Still Be a Big...
Fox chiefs Dana Walden and Gary Newman still aren't talking about their own futures after the Disney-Fox deal closes, but the Fox Television Group chairmen and CEOs are sharing more details about what...
View ArticleInstagram Stories Celebrates Its 2nd Birthday
Instagram Stories made their debut exactly two years ago today, and 400 million people now use them each day. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network said one-third of the most-viewed...
View ArticleTurner Finishes Its First Upfront Under AT&T With Double-Digit CPM Gains
Turner, which was one of the last media companies still involved in upfront talks, has finished its business. The company wrapped up its negotiations with double-digit CPM (cost per thousand viewers...
View ArticleAmazon Prime Video Is Coming to Comcast’s Xfinity X1
In a ploy to keep subscribers happy, traditional cable companies are continuing to partner with large streaming companies. In keeping with that, Comcast announced today that it agreed to launch Amazon...
View ArticleSonos Aspires to a Booming Future With Its IPO
To commemorate its IPO today, speaker company Sonos recreated the Nasdaq bell that opens each trading day. By the time the closing bell rang, Sonos closed up more than 32 percent. The long-anticipated...
View ArticleGetty Images Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Newsrooms Choose Better...
Getty Images is embracing artificial intelligence, starting with a way to help publishers pick photos. Today, the photo agency debuted a tool that uses AI to analyze a story and suggest photos that...
View ArticleLes Moonves Is Front and Center on CBS’ Earnings Call, but Doesn’t Address...
Almost a week after The New Yorker published its explosive story in which six women accused him of sexual harassment and intimidation, CBS Corp. CEO and chairman Leslie Moonves was front and center...
View ArticleMDC Partners Cites ‘Poor’ First-Half Results and Promises to Reduce Costs on...
Ad agency network MDC Partners called its financial performance for the first half of 2018 "poor" in an earnings call today but sounded more optimistic about the last six months of the fiscal year....
View ArticleIt’s Time for Advertising to Stop Perpetuating Negative Stereotypes About Aging
It's a truth universally acknowledged that a brand in possession of a good marketing strategy must be in want of a customer under the age of 35. So obsessed are we with millennials and Gen Z today that...
View ArticleThis PSA Tackles the ‘Mate Code’ That Keeps Guys From Stopping Their Drunk...
In a somewhat similar fashion to Palau, New Zealand takes its protection of the environment. As one enters the country, signs are prominently displayed articulating the strict laws designed to keep the...
View ArticleFX Opens Up Its Ad-Free FX+ Offering to All Current Subscribers
It's been one year since FX launched FX+, in which subscribers can receive commercial-free access to all of FX and FXX's current original series, as well as many library titles, for an additional $6 a...
View ArticleGetting Laid Off From Ogilvy Was the Hardest, Best Thing That Happened to My...
Last week, I celebrated my redundaversary: two years since I was made redundant from Ogilvy London. And I do mean "celebrated," as, honestly, it was the best thing that could have happened to me. Over...
View ArticleBurger Sales Quadrupled After IHOP Became IHOB
Remember that time when the International House of Pancakes decided to shock the world and changed its named to the International House of Burgers? At the time, you may have been one of the many...
View ArticleCoppola Winery Is Using Music Festivals to Educate Consumers About Its Canned...
In recent years, canned wine has become ubiquitous. The convenience of a can, coupled with clever packaging and more approachable messaging, has helped marketers grow millennials' interest in drinking...
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