This Airline Ad About Emotional Reunions Is One You Might Love, Actually
Love, Actually may be a polarizing and cringe-inducing movie when viewed in 2018, but one moment inarguably holds up: the opening scene that shows touching, real reunions in Heathrow Airport's arrivals...
View ArticleCriteo’s Revenues Dip 5% as It Counts the Cost of Apple’s Cookie-Blocking...
Criteo posted a 5 percent year-over-year decline in earnings in the third quarter with revenues of $223 million, as the company continues to feel the impact of GDPR and Apple's embrace of...
View ArticleSpotify Threw a Colorful Day of the Dead Celebration to Honor Deceased...
D?a de los Muertos--or Day of the Dead--is upon us. The Mexican holiday kicks off on Halloween, serve as a day of celebration and remembrance for family and friends that have passed. This year, Spotify...
View ArticleBusinesses on Instagram Will Still Be Able to Search Hashtags on a Limited Basis
As part of changes to the Instagram Graph API (application-programming interface) that were announced in January and go into effect Dec. 11, the ability for businesses to search hashtags via the API is...
View ArticleMDC Integrates Social Content Shop Attention Into Media Agency Assembly
Assembly, the MDC Partners-owned full-service media agency, announced the integration of social content shop Attention into its business, bringing creative capabilities in-house. "There is a trend of...
View ArticleThe Two Teams That Played in the 2018 World Series Dominated Facebook,...
The 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox also hoisted the trophy for the most growth on Twitter and Instagram in October, while the runner-up Los Angeles Dodgers led Facebook in growth, according...
View ArticleReese’s Halloween Vending Machine Lets You Exchange Trash Candy for the Good...
In the hierarchy of Halloween candy, there are generally three tiers: At the top, obviously, are full bars, the Holy Grail of trick or treating. Then there are the mid-range favorites, like snack-size...
View ArticleTwitter Is Now Allowing Users Who Report Spammy Tweets to Provide More...
Twitter is now enabling its users to provide more information on the posts that they report as spam. The social network announced in a Twitter Safety tweet that users can specify the type of spam they...
View ArticleHow These 7 Horror Films Pushed the Boundaries of Movie Marketing
In the underappreciated 1993 movie Matinee, John Goodman plays a producer of B-grade horror movies with a penchant for the theatrical. Set in 1962, he's out to promote his new film Mant, about a man...
View ArticleDiscovery to Launch 6-Part Series on U.S.-Mexico Border
Discovery will spotlight law enforcement and other stories from the U.S.-Mexico border in a new six-part reality series called Border Live, which debuts Dec. 5. "The U.S.-Mexico border has been the...
View ArticleWhy KFC Turned a Tweet From One of Its Biggest Critics Into a U.K. Ad Campaign
KFC in the U.K. and Ireland clearly has no problem calling itself out. When the chain had to close many locations due to an unexpected chicken shortage, it ran one of the best apology ads of all time,...
View Article40% of Likely Young Voters Say They Haven’t Seen Any Political Ads
Television remains king of political advertising, according to new research from Adobe. A new report commissioned by Adobe and provided exclusively to Adweek suggests that the older you are, the more...
View ArticleIkea Sold a Product on a Global Scale by Tapping Into Local Values
Ikea's latest commercials in the U.S. and India are two excellent examples of how advertising can be successful by employing innovative storytelling skills specific to each culture, while maintaining a...
View ArticleHow Brands Can Ensure Influencers Hold Up Their End of the Deal
In a tale as old as time, yet another brand is learning what it means to vet agreements before moving forward with them. This time around, public relations firm PR Consulting Inc. is suing influencer...
View ArticleDollar Shave Club Names Adobe as Primary DSP Partner as It Accelerates Its...
The rise of direct-to-consumer brands is arguably one of the most distinctive trends in marketing during the digital era. Largely defined by their lack of reliance on middlemen, this new wave of brands...
View ArticleBBH Restructures Leadership in New York Office
BBH is restructuring leadership in its New York office. Brett Edgar was promoted to the role of managing director, while BBH New York CEO Anthony Romano is leaving the agency for an unspecified...
View ArticleOver 100 Agencies Are Rallying Behind This Bold Campaign to End Sexual...
More than 100 agencies in the U.K. are supporting a new campaign that aims to finally put an end to sexual harassment in advertising by placing executives right in the middle of some very uncomfortable...
View ArticleGod-is Rivera Joins Twitter as Global Director of Culture and Community
Twitter has hired God-is Rivera from VMLY&R in the newly-created role of global director of culture and community, effective Nov. 12. "As a black woman who has worked in industries in which I have...
View ArticleMacy’s Holiday Ad Is a Touching Tale of Being Apart From Those We Love at...
The Space Station is only about 250 miles from Earth, and astronauts are never alone there, yet it remains a perfect modern metaphor for isolation. The reason is simple: It's the ultimate mental image...
View ArticleAdweek’s Brand Genius 2018: These 10 Marketers Triumphed by Fearlessly...
We appear to be surrounded by geniuses these days. The day this issue went to press, news outlets referred to, among other people, a soccer star, a DJ, a Tesla owner and the inventor of avocado toast...
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