Madonna Badger References More Than 15 Women’s Movements in a Stirring Appeal...
CANNES, France--Madonna Badger stepped on stage wearing black at the Cannes Lions closing awards show Friday night and delivered a stirring speech that summed up several recent movements to lift up...
View ArticleYouTube Unveiled New Monetization Options for Creators at VidCon
YouTube used VidCon in Anaheim, Calif., this week to reveal several new monetization options for creators on its platform. Chief product officer Neal Mohan said in a blog post that the Google-owned...
View ArticleTwitter Acquired Security Technology Outfit Smyte
Twitter giveth, and Twitter taketh away--quite abruptly, in the case of the latter. The social network announced in a Twitter Safety blog post that it acquired Smyte, a San Francisco-based technology...
View ArticleHow to Be Consistently Creative, According to Burger King’s Global CMO
Burger King CMO Fernando Machado and his team of ingenious creatives return from another Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity with a handful of Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. Last week, before...
View ArticlePublicis Memo Thanks Clients for Their ‘Commitment to Creativity’ at Cannes
It was a very different year for Publicis this year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, following the holding company's decision to refrain from submitting work in order to focus...
View ArticleWhat the Colonel Wished He’d Brought With Him to Cannes
CANNES, France--The Colonel was here Thursday for a panel on the evolution of the KFC brand, which in no small part is due to the creatives at Wieden+Kennedy. In fact, the Colonel was played by W+K ecd...
View ArticleAfter P&G and Publicis’ Support at Cannes, Free the Bid Worked With Twitter...
CANNES, France--Procter & Gamble, the world's largest advertiser, plans to invest in nonprofit Free the Bid with HP and Publicis so that the companies can help double the number of directors and...
View ArticlePublicis Group Chief Data Officer Announces His Exit After 13 Years
Publicis Groupe chief data officer Jason Kodish announced his resignation today in a lengthy all-staff email he seemingly copied and pasted into a public LinkedIn post. Kodish starts the email warning...
View ArticleHere’s How Audi Is Celebrating Saudi Arabia’s Historic Turning Point for...
Sunday was the first day women in Saudi Arabia were allowed to obtain their driver's license and drive cars, allowing for more independence and lifting the ban that had been in place since the 1950s....
View ArticleHere Are the Keys to Inspiring Creativity in Your Teams
Trust, latitude and a lot of patience. These are just some of the keys to ensuring creatives maintain their edge. Recently, at our Elevate: Creativity event, we talked with Brad Jakeman, senior advisor...
View ArticleWhat AT&T’s Acquisition of AppNexus Means
AT&T has acquired digital advertising technology company AppNexus, it said Monday, signaling that the telecom giant is looking to become a bigger player in digital advertising and siphon digital ad...
View ArticleOnce Again, Tiffany Haddish Will Help You Gleefully Part With Your Money for...
For those of us squarely in the "Tiffany Haddish Can Do No Wrong" camp, a new series of Groupon ads shows that, even in 15 seconds, she can reel you in. The star of The Last O.G. and one of the hardest...
View ArticleThe Trade Desk Releases New AI Tools Meant to Open Up Black Box Programmatic
The Trade Desk is using artificial intelligence to give marketers a clearer picture of where their programmatic dollars actually go. The ad platform announced three new tools on Tuesday meant to...
View ArticleInside Snapchat and Artist Christian Marclay’s Sound-Inspired Cannes...
It's been more than a year since Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel rebranded Snapchat as a camera company. The company certainly has changed the way we see the world through the lens of social media. It's...
View ArticleA Woman’s Shaving Company Is Putting Body Hair Front and Center in Its New...
Most shaving commercials for women are missing one critical element: a razor shaving a leg with actual hair--rather than bare skin. Billie, a women's shaving brand, wants to put an end to this taboo...
View ArticleHow This Baseball Fan Turned His Passion Into a Thriving Brand
A decade ago, Darren Meenan was screen-printing T-shirts in his parents' basement. The die-hard Mets fan didn't plan to turn his passion for The Amazins into a business. But 10 seasons later, his The 7...
View ArticleActors Grudgingly Entered a Stereotypical Casting Call, Then Learned Why They...
Fresh off the Cannes Lions, where a significant portion of awarded work either broke stigmas or illustrated greater representation, the Unstereotype Alliance in partnership with the United Nations...
View ArticleHow the Ad Industry Responded to Publicis’‘Pause’ at Cannes
Attendance may have been down--and not solely due to Publicis' decision to (mostly) sit out the festival--but many at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity this year noticed a positive...
View ArticleGoogle Is Retiring DoubleClick and Rebranding Its Entire Digital Advertising...
Google is rebranding its line of advertising products, retiring mainstays like DoubleClick while streamlining a new suite of services for media buyers, publishers and small businesses. This month and...
View ArticleDove Takes Another Crack at Industry Beauty Standards With ‘No Digital...
Dove has a reputation for disruption when it comes to advertising. Famous for the Dove Self-Esteem Project--its move to include only "real" women and girls in advertising, sans photoshop--the brand is...
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