Here’s What We Can Expect With Media Quality in 2019 After a Not-So-Stellar 2018
In 2018, media quality was the number-one issue threatening digital performance for brands and marketers. Challenges in brand safety, ad fraud and viewability all grew more sophisticated and complex....
View ArticleCBS Says It Is at a ‘Contractual Impasse’ With Nielsen as Talks Continue
As CBS continues discussions with Nielsen about a new contract to replace the one that expired on Dec. 31, the network said publicly this morning what it had been saying privately for days: It is at a...
View ArticleTwitter: Here’s How to See the Latest Tweets First
Twitter recently brought back the ability for iOS users to view their timeline in reverse chronological order (to see the latest tweets first), rather than seeing "the best tweets" first. Our guide...
View ArticlePinterest’s Jon Kaplan Pins 3 Marketing Predictions for 2019
Pinterest global head of partnerships Jon Kaplan shared three changes that he sees coming to marketing in 2019. Kaplan wrote in a blog post that he believes brands will move more ad dollars to contexts...
View ArticleMightyHive’s Co-founders Are Joining S4 Capital’s Board
MightyHive co-founders Pete Kim, CEO, and Christopher S. Martin, COO, will join the board of Sir Martin Sorrell's S4 Capital, signaling the direction that the "new age/era" digital advertising and...
View ArticleCadbury Will Hide Its Eggs in Other Brands’ Ads and Challenge Fans to Hunt Them
Most brands just want you to watch their ads. Cadbury wants you to watch everyone's ads. That's because the Mondelez-owned U.K. chocolate brand will be hiding its famous Cadbury Creme Eggs in print,...
View ArticleWith One Month Until the Super Bowl, CBS Is Quietly Racking Up Robust Big...
Super Bowl LIII is exactly one month away, and even though CBS has been unusually quiet about its Big Game ad sales this year--now that former chairman and CEO Les Moonves is no longer around to tout...
View ArticleDoorDash Jumps on the Autonomous Delivery Bandwagon
Delivery company DoorDash is partnering with self-driving car company Cruise to test food and grocery delivery early this year via an autonomous vehicle in San Francisco. A rep said the company will...
View ArticleVice-Owned Virtue Names New Creative Lead, Moves Beyond Parent Company’s...
Virtue wants brands around the world to know that it's no longer one with Vice. Just over one year after officially consolidating its marketing divisions under one umbrella, folding the Carrot brand...
View ArticleHere’s How Messaging Is Positioned to Dominate in 2019
Messaging is the most frequent digital activity that a person does, period. In 2018 alone, the four largest mobile messaging apps (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Viber) held 4.1 billion combined...
View ArticleAfter Over a Decade, The Economist Released Its First Brand Ad to Sustain...
For the first time in more than 10 years, The Economist will run a brand ad. Developed by Proximity and dubbed "Never Stop Questioning," the 40-second spot from the London-based publication will run on...
View ArticleQ&A: Salesforce’s Chris O’Hara Wants Marketers to Capitalize on the Data...
If you want to learn about data, Chris O'Hara is the right person to ask. O'Hara, who leads global product marketing for Salesforce Marketing Cloud's suite of data and audience products, is a big...
View ArticleMastercard Hires Its First Chief Experience Officer
Mastercard has added a new position to its C-suite: chief experience officer. The company has hired Donald Chesnut from SapientRazorfish for the newly created role. Chesnut will officially join the...
View ArticleYouTube: Here’s How to Stop Videos From Auto-Playing on the Home Feed
YouTube recently updated the home feed in its mobile application so that videos will now automatically begin playing (without sound) as users browse. If you want to stop videos from automatically...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in the Digital Health World at This Year’s CES
As the world's biggest consumer tech show boots up in Vegas, I find myself pondering a mischievous question: Will the innovations that cut through at CES 2019 be a triumph or a failure of marketing?...
View ArticleApplying Hemingway’s ‘Iceberg Theory’ to Native Advertising Creates an...
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway's last work of fiction, is a slim and deceptively simple volume built with modest sentences. But beneath each letter is something that imbues the work with a...
View ArticleIntuit Brand TurboTax Announces Its Return to the Super Bowl
TurboTax has confirmed that it will return to the Super Bowl in 2019. CBS is selling ads for the Feb. 3 broadcast of Super Bowl LIII for just north of $5 million for 30 seconds of air time. At this...
View Article72 School Buses Became a Mile-Long Moving Billboard About the Scope of Human...
Atlanta is used to traffic logjams, but at least this one was for a good cause. A caravan of 72 school buses formed a mile-long billboard earlier this week to raise awareness of Georgia's massive...
View ArticleNew Year, New Teammates: NFL Announces Partnerships With Caesars...
The NFL is ringing in the new year with two groundbreaking partnerships. On Thursday, the organization announced its first casino sponsor, Caesars Entertainment, and on Friday, it named Intuit TurboTax...
View ArticleConsumers Have Made Their Needs Loud and Clear, yet Brands Keep Missing the Mark
In a fast-paced, competitive landscape, brands are doing everything they can to stand out and connect with the new consumer. But how many brands are actually reaching the consumer in a meaningful way?...
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