Huge Hires Young & Rubicam Chief Strategy Officer to Head Up Global Planning
Global experience agency Huge today announced the appointment of Dick de Lange as managing director and global head of planning. De Lange served as chief strategy officer of North America at Young...
View ArticleThe CW Will Expand Its Schedule to Sunday Nights in October
The CW is growing from five nights of programming to six next season. Starting in October, the network will expand its schedule to Sunday nights, for a total of 12 hours of prime-time shows each week....
View ArticleGoogle Chrome’s Crackdown of Bad Ads Is Only the Beginning
In 1929, the slaying of seven gangsters in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre delivered a wake-up call to Chicagoans and the American public about the destructive effects of Chicago's notorious gangs....
View ArticleAd Agencies Don’t Expect to Cut Down on Facebook as Site Continues Losing...
Despite yet another report about users under 25 fleeing Facebook, ad agencies appear to be staying the course, regardless of whether they've been bullish or bearish on the world's largest social...
View ArticleThis AI Tool Generates Personalized Shakespearean Sonnets to Give to Your Love
If a robot were to write sonnet, what would it sound like? And, perhaps more importantly, what would it feel like? This Valentine's Day, teams of developers and designers at Brooklyn-based agency Huge...
View ArticleLas Vegas’ Ad Agency Explains Why ‘What Happens Here, Stays Here’ Isn’t Going...
Is now the time for Las Vegas to come up with a new tagline? A recent story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal questioned whether R&R Partners' long-running "What happens here, stays here" tagline for...
View ArticleNBC Olympics Tuesday Ratings Were Down From 2014, but Streaming Figures Were...
Millions tuned in to NBC's Olympics coverage on Tuesday night to see snowboarding icon Shaun White win his third Winter Olympics gold medal, which consequently gave Team USA its 100th all-time winter...
View ArticleA Deserted Small Town Is Not What It Appears in This Magical New York Lottery Ad
Playing the lottery is all about chasing a fantasy. And a new ad for the New York Lottery's Cash4Life scratch-off game offers a delightful little vignette from one man's unexpected dream. In the :60,...
View ArticleSerena Williams Stars in New Lincoln Navigator Campaign
Lincoln has named Serena Williams as its new celebrity brand ambassador for the 2018 Lincoln Navigator. "Serena is an amazing athlete who has won 23 Grand Slams, but she also has a family and her own...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger: Here’s How to Create a Secret Conversation
Did you know Facebook Messenger allows you to chat with others in secret conversations featuring end-to-end encryption? Our guide will show you how to start a secret conversation in the Messenger...
View ArticleWhat Is Musicbed and Why Did It Create Hypertargeted Out-of-Home Posters...
If you're a creative director at an agency you might tune out ads more than the average person--even if the copy is incredibly clever. At least, that was the thinking behind Musicbed's hypertargeted...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army’s Marketing Chief Briefed Congressional Staff About Adweek’s...
Staffers at the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees recently called on the new head of the U.S. Army's in-house marketing division to brief them on the organization's advertising efforts,...
View ArticleHow French Directors Megaforce Captured the Spirit of London in Nike’s Wild...
Some Nike commercials are as memorable for their camerawork, and the way they're shot, as for their celebrity stars or message of inspiration. Guy Ritchie's stunning 2008 spot "Take It to the Next...
View ArticleiProspect Shakes Up Leadership With New U.S. CMO and First Chief Tech Officer
iProspect has named Belle Lenz its U.S. chief marketing officer and Joel Grossman its first-ever chief technology officer. Lenz was formerly communications director of the Americas for the global...
View ArticleRed Stripe Says That, Whatever the Cost, It Will Buy a New Bobsled for Jamaica
The Jamaican bobsled team has been a world-famous underdog since first appearing on the Olympic scene in 1988. The team's unlikely path to the global stage was made famous in the 1993 movie Cool...
View ArticleWhy Scannable Shelf Tags Could Improve the Retail Experience After Beacons...
Once upon a time, beacons--Bluetooth-powered devices that can push messages to smartphones--offered brands an opportunity to connect with consumers in physical retail locations and gather data about...
View ArticleNBC Olympics Ratings Took a Tumble on Wednesday Night
NBC's Pyeongchang Olympics prime time ratings took a bit of a tumble on Wednesday night. Per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data and digital data from Adobe Analytics, NBC Olympics' Wednesday prime-time...
View ArticlePokerStars Found a Dude With the Perfect Poker Face for Its New Ad
PokerStars puts on its game face and bids newbies to sign up for some online gambling action in fresh work themed, "You're already a great poker player." Hey, why not cash in that 401(k) and really...
View ArticleAdvertisers Must Keep Up With Cord-Cutters or Else Brands Risk Creating ‘Lost...
A coup d'etat is taking place across the television industry. It used to be that cable providers were the reigning powers of television, declaring what consumers would watch and when. Not home in time?...
View ArticlePerrier Just Remade Its Most Famous Ad, ‘Lion,’ Three Decades Later
Almost three decades after its spot "Lion," directed by Jean-Paul Goude, stormed the Cannes Lions festival, winning the Grand Prix in Film, Perrier has rolled out a remake of sorts--with everything on...
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