Video Chat Comes to Instagram Direct
Three Instagram features that were announced at Facebook's F8 annual developer conference in May--video chat in Instagram Direct, the addition of topic channels to the Explore tab and new camera...
View ArticleDonald Glover Narrates This Simple, Illustrated PSA About Sexual Harassment...
If you're still on the fence about what sexual harassment in the workplace looks like (or sounds like), let Donald Glover break it down for you. The multi-talented Glover has lent his voice to an...
View ArticleIntel’s Fleet of Drones Is Back. This Time, They’re Celebrating Pride
With 300 drones, Intel lit up the sky to celebrate Pride month and to also show an ode to one of its LGBTQ employees. Intel's infamous drone light shows, which have taken over skies for the Super Bowl,...
View ArticleFox Enters the Wrestling Ring, Picking Up WWE’s SmackDown Live Starting in...
21st Century Fox still doesn't know whether Disney or Comcast will be its new parent company, but Fox Broadcasting's sports-heavy future has been solidified with a new five-year deal to bring WWE's...
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 ArticleThere’s a Reason You Want Subway, But Can’t Figure Out Why
You're hungry. Then, all of a sudden, there's a hankering for Subway but, for the life of you, you can't figure out why. A new campaign for the brand, leveraging some clever stealth techniques, might...
View ArticleTwitter Says It’s Identifying and Suspending More Bots and Spam Accounts
Twitter announced several updates in its efforts to thwart "inauthentic accounts, spam and malicious automation," highlighted by requiring email addresses or phone numbers when new accounts are...
View ArticleFacebook’s Largest Fundraiser to Date Inspires 2 New Features
Reunite an immigrant parent with their child: Fundraiser for RAICES has become Facebook's largest fundraiser to date, and it spurred the social network to add two new features to its fundraisers tool....
View ArticleOn the Adweek Podcast: What Happened at Cannes
Cannes Lions has come to an end, which means the traveling Adweek team are back and ready to recap everything that went down in the South of France. This week on Adweek's podcast Yeah, That's Probably...
View Article‘You Want Me to Write FCK on a Bucket?’ How KFC’s PR Crisis Became a Print Ad...
CANNES, France--Few things in life feel better than a perfectly timed obscenity. And luckily for KFC U.K. and Ireland, the brand found exactly that. When the chain faced widespread store closures due...
View ArticleFiat Chrysler Launches Major, Music-Filled Summer Campaign Across 5 Brands...
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is ready to cruise into the summer months with a major new marketing campaign that's all about music. Today, the company dropped new creative across five brands (including...
View ArticleIs Every Food Influencer Screaming About Ghee? Thanks to Organic Valley’s Ad...
Even a fairly proficient home cooks can get stumped by ingredients they're not familiar with. Ghee? What the hell is ghee? And how do I use it? It's basically clarified butter--mystery solved!--and all...
View ArticleFacebook Updates Its Test of Subscriptions in Instant Articles
Facebook began testing subscriptions in Instant Articles with 10 publisher partners last October, and Wednesday, the social network provided an update, as well as a look at what's ahead. Head of news...
View ArticleAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Went DIY on Her Campaign Ad, and It’s a Runaway Hit
On Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the system and the nation by handily defeating 10-term incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in New York's 14th congressional district, an area that represents...
View ArticleDentsu Aegis Snags One of Accenture Interactive’s Founders as New Carat...
Dentsu Aegis Network's Carat has hired Christine Removille, one of the founders of Accenture Interactive, as its new global president, replacing Will Swayne who has held that position since January...
View ArticleIt’s 2018—Does Your Google Home Know Where Your Children Are?
Earlier this month, a baby boy in the UK said his first word--it was Alexa. As technology continues to evolve and become more intelligent, people aren't ignorant about the impact it's having on...
View ArticleWPP Hires Lawyers to Probe Emails Sent to Current, Former Employees Following...
Erik Oster contributed to this report. WPP has hired two outside law firms to investigate several anonymous, encrypted emails sent to its current and former employees, which came from a WhatsApp group...
View ArticlePinterest Just Made It Easier to Save Pins on Desktop
Pinterest introduced a tweak to speed up the process of saving Pins on desktop. Rather than taking three clicks--clicking the save button, picking a board and clicking the save button again--users can...
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