Millions of Fortnite Users Were Vulnerable to Hacking, Researchers Say
Millions of players of the hit online game Fortnite may have been vulnerable to a security breach that gave hackers access into user accounts, security researchers said on Wednesday. A bug in the...
View ArticleMedMen’s CMO Is Creating a Safe and Welcoming Space in the Growing Cannabis...
How do you market a category that has almost no historical consumer behavior data, no precedent on best practices, an outdated stigmatism of shame and is still illegal in many states and federally?...
View ArticleA Bug Affected the Protect Your Tweets Setting on Android as Far Back as...
An undisclosed number of Android users who enabled the Protect Your Tweets setting on Twitter may not have been protected, after all. In a post on its Help Center, the social network said Twitter for...
View ArticleThis London Agency Gave People a Lift by Redesigning Their Elevators
An elevator isn't the first place one thinks of for a chance to have some interesting interaction. Most of the time, the ride up and down is an exercise in people gazing forward quietly, or sneaking...
View Article5G Isn’t a Reality Yet, but It’s Looking Promising
Just because everyone's thinking about 5G doesn't mean everyone understands what it is or what it might imply for their industries and brands. You might have a better idea if you'd attended CES where...
View ArticleChevron to Review Its Global Media Business After 16 Years With WPP
Energy giant Chevron, a longtime staple of WPP's client roster, has placed its global media planning and buying business in review, a company spokesperson confirmed this week. "Chevron's global media...
View ArticleThere Was No War on Christmas on Facebook and Instagram in December
People on Facebook and Instagram were caught up in the holiday spirit in December, as Christmas and New Year's Eve absolutely dominated conversation on both networks for the month, according to the...
View ArticleHow 3 Legacy Brands Are Using Tech to Personalize Beauty
While products you'll soon see in retailers like Best Buy made up the bulk of this year's CES activations, brands that you more often find in the aisles of CVS and Walgreens also took part. Neutrogena,...
View ArticleLuke Wilson Gets Uncomfortably Close in Colgate’s Super Bowl Ad
Get ready to up close and personal with Luke Wilson's smile--and his mouth--in Colgate's ad for the Super Bowl LIII. The 30-second spot which will air during the second commercial break of the third...
View Article3 Retro Design Themes That Are Suddenly Resurgent in Modern Culture
Whether it's from a desire to escape the anxieties of modern life or simply an artistic form of nostalgia, the visual techniques of the recent past are now helping define the look of the present. In...
View ArticleGoogle Is Expected to Get Hit With a Third Antitrust Penalty
The European Union is expected to soon announce another antitrust fine against Google--this time related to its AdSense advertising platform, according to a report from Bloomberg. Commissioner...
View ArticleMcCann Ends 4-Year Battle Over U.S. Army Contract
More than four years after the U.S. Army first announced that it would be reviewing its advertising business in November of 2014, McCann has dropped its final legal fight against the government,...
View ArticleFacebook Is Testing LOL, a Video Feed of Memes, to Try to Win Back Teens
Facebook is taking another step to stem the tide of teens leaving its platform with its test of LOL, a feed of memes in the form of videos and GIFs. A spokesperson for the social network said, "We are...
View ArticleOK, Lil Jon Heads to His Local Diner in Pepsi’s Super Bowl Teaser
Lil Jon likes to serve his soda old school style. PepsiCo has enlisted the Atlanta rapper behind early '00s "crunk" hits like "Turn Down for What" and Usher's "Yeah" for the last entry in its trio of...
View ArticlePepsi Is Blanketing Coke’s Hometown With Ads as Atlanta Prepares to Host the...
If there's one question that arouses more intense emotions than any other in Atlanta, it's likely this: "Is Pepsi OK?" In Coca-Cola's home turf, "Coke" and "soda" are synonymous, which isn't too...
View ArticleFate/Grand Order Was the Most-Tweeted-About Game in 2018
There were some 1 billion tweets about gaming worldwide in 2018, and Twitter shared a look at some of the topics that generated the most buzz on its platform last year. The countries and regions that...
View ArticleLittle-Known Watch Brand Offers Conservative Rebuttal to Gillette’s ‘Best in...
In a way unseen since Nike's controversial Colin Kaepernick campaign last year, P&G shaving brand Gillette all but dominated the cultural conversation last week with "We Believe," a digital...
View ArticleWhatsApp Users Globally Can Only Forward Messages to 5 Conversations...
WhatsApp began a test in July of limiting the number of people users could forward messages to, eventually capping that number at 20 globally and five in India due to both the climate in that country...
View ArticleFacebook Is Extending Its Test of a Petition Feature for Local Issues in News...
Facebook has been testing Community Action, a feature that enables people to share petitions about local issues on News Feed, in select U.S. markets over the past several weeks, and that test group is...
View ArticleQ&A: The Founder of Bombas on Why Brands Shouldn’t Think Too Hard About...
Does the world need a company that peddles $12 socks? That wasn't the question that Bombas founder Randy Goldberg initially asked himself. It was, rather: "How can we solve a societal problem?" Socks...
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