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May 08, 2024
Disney and Max are a bundle of surprises ahead of upfront week. Top line Today, Disney Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new Disney , Hulu and Max bundle. The companies call it a "first of its kind" offering, with ad-supported and ad-free plans coming this summer. Between the lines The surprising news combines content...
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May 08, 2024
As it marches ahead with its turnaround plan, Gap has reinstated its chief marketing officer position, hiring PepsiCo's Fabiola Torres to fill it with a global remit. Torres will be the first person in two years to sit in Gap's CMO seat, which has remained unoccupied since the departure of Mary Alderete in 2022. The...
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May 08, 2024
After a global media review spanning more than four months, Fossil Group is consolidating its account with the Stagwell agency Assembly. The brand is winding down its regional relationships with 15 agencies and will now entrust Assembly with its integrated media management and data and measurement duties across all of its paid channels. "This has...
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May 08, 2024
In a globalized, post-colonial world, it's not easy to define Asian creativity. Creativity made in Asia? Creativity made by Asians, anywhere in the world? Creativity that has Asian inspirations and influences? Chances are, everyone will have their own definition of what "Asian creativity" is to them. And it could very well be that none of...
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May 08, 2024
If you thought awards season was over, think again. Clean Creatives, the campaign pressuring ad agencies to drop fossil fuel clients, brought back its F-List Awards today--but it's not one that most agencies would want to display in the lobby next to their Cannes Lions. Edelman, Havas, McCann and Ogilvy were each "dishonored" by winning...
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May 08, 2024
The last upfront season resulted in long negotiations with significant rollbacks outside of sports, and buyers wouldn't be surprised by a little deja vu this time around. The days of skyrocketing linear CPMs (cost per thousand viewers reached) amid declining ratings, fall schedules dictating dollars and early market movers are likely long gone. In this...
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May 08, 2024
We are still seeing the effects of the pandemic come to fruition, but one thing is very clear: We are all feeling more disconnected. The resulting epidemic of loneliness is well documented by health professionals, with 52% of Americans reporting that they feel lonely and 47% saying their relationships aren't meaningful. According to US Surgeon...
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May 08, 2024
Apple has revealed its thinnest product ever, the 13-inch iPad Pro. To show off this distinguishing feature, the brand crushed objects down to the new device's size. Created in-house, "Crush!" takes a playful approach to product demonstration. Using an industrial-sized crusher, Apple flattened a slew of products meant to represent things the iPad Pro can...
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May 08, 2024
Coca-Cola ads typically focus on the joy of drinking a cold soft drink, but the brand's latest campaign tosses the beverage aside in favor of other happy moments. Three spots, developed by WPP Open X and led by agency David Miami, capture the drink spilling out of the brand's iconic glass bottle. Moving backwards and...
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May 08, 2024
Disney Advertising struck a deal with Walmart Connect that allows advertisers to target Disney's streaming portfolio, including Disney and Hulu, using Walmart's shopper data, the companies announced today. In addition, Disney is joining Walmart's Partner Lab, a group of connected TV and social platforms that the retailer works with to test new ad formats and...
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May 08, 2024
The quick-service restaurant business is a sprawling, dynamic space, expected to grow to nearly $1.47 trillion by 2028 at a compound annual growth rate of 6%. It's a highly competitive category, with more than 420 brands spending more than $3.3 billion combined in yearly advertising. In this environment, QSR brands need to innovate and offer...
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May 08, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence models are only as strong as the data they are trained on. However, much of the high-quality human-created data available on the open web needed to train all these models is either copyrighted or tainted by racial biases and misinformation. AI firms are negotiating million-dollar deals with publishers or resorting to scraping...
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May 08, 2024
The team at Wieden Kennedy has a single mission: to use creativity and influence to change the world and impact culture. For John "JP" Petty, global executive creative director at the shop's creative social studio Bodega, this magic can only happen when the right client is on the other side of the table. In this week's...
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May 07, 2024
Meta introduced new products today that let advertisers use generative AI to create images and text. As artificial intelligence becomes more foundational to how marketers approach their jobs, Meta wants to maintain its reputation for being a one-stop easy button for brands. The social network will offer the capability for brands to upload existing creative,...
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May 07, 2024
When it comes to traveling, it's hard not to come across the Beis weekender or suitcases. Recently, the company was the official luggage and travel bag sponsor of the country music festival Stagecoach, bringing its signature style to the heart of the desert with a pop-up called the Beis Pit Stop. Inspired by vintage gas...
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May 07, 2024
If you inherited your agency or have just won the Powerball and are thinking of starting up, you can stop reading right now. This is for the bootstrappers, the freelancers, the one-man-bands, the scrappy ones. If you're going to bootstrap your own thing, you're going to have to learn to live with fear. The big,...
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May 07, 2024
In the fashion industry, people anticipate the first Monday in May when the annual Met Gala takes place. The looks that grace the Metropolitan Museum of Art's steps become conversation fodder for both industry leaders and social media observers. This year, sleep-aid brand Unisom and fashion designer Christian Siriano seized the glamorous moment with an...
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May 07, 2024
Brazilian social media users have coined plenty of names for different types of baldness, such as "the hairy bald" and "long forehead." Burger King got in on the game by dubbing the combination of a receding hairline and a bald spot "the bald thru," while luring customers to its drive-throughs. A film from agency David...
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May 07, 2024
Disney is welcoming marketers back to the wonderful world of upfronts, and global advertising president Rita Ferro can't wait to get started. Without Hollywood strikes keeping talent away this year, Ferro noted that Disney is "way ahead" in terms of planning, talent commitments and what the company will showcase at its May 14 upfront event...
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May 07, 2024
Thanks to a diverse media library and no financial barrier to entry, Tubi has emerged as the streamer of choice among a new generation of content consumers. Now, the Fox-owned FAST service seeks to extend its purple reign over that prized demographic by giving a leg-up to a new generation of content creators. Enter Stubios,...
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May 07, 2024
Remote possibilities are becoming a reality thanks to Amazon's new ad formats. Top line Ahead of its upfront presentation May 14, Amazon Ads is announcing an expanded suite of interactive and shoppable ad formats for Prime Video with remote-enabled capabilities. The new formats include shoppable carousel ads, pause ads and brand trivia ads. Between the...
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May 07, 2024
As brands sit down with publishers to discuss connected television (CTV) deals during this upfront season, they're asking for more efficient programmatic supply paths with fewer tech partners between buyers and sellers, six media buying sources told ADWEEK. "The publishers that will get the most money from us are the ones that eliminate the most...
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May 07, 2024
As brands sit down with publishers to discuss connected television (CTV) deals during this upfront season, they're asking for more efficient programmatic supply paths with fewer tech partners between buyers and sellers, six media buying sources told ADWEEK. "The publishers that will get the most money from us are the ones that eliminate the most...
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May 06, 2024
Buyers are looking to discuss several upfront priorities with Paramount, but mergers aren't what's "top of mind," according to ad sales chief John Halley. Last week, CEO Bob Bakish exited Paramount amid ongoing merger talks with Skydance Media. Meanwhile, Sony and Apollo also reportedly made a $26 billion cash offer to buy the company. However,...
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May 06, 2024
Recently, a list of the top McDonald's loyalty point holders was analyzed on social media. The leader of the pack was an individual with 1,370,044 loyalty points--enough for 913 vanilla cones, 456 medium fries or 228 Big Macs. The top holder of McDonald's loyalty points has 1,370,044 points, enough for 913 vanilla cones (best value,...
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May 03, 2024
Food is often described as a universal language that brings people together. In recent years, various content creators such as QCP have taken over social media with their food creations. Known for preparing different Italian dishes, Gianluca Conte--also known as QCP--has compiled some of his favorites in his new cookbook called Italian/American. If you spend...
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May 03, 2024
Britvic's soft-drink brand Tango produced some of the most celebrated and comical British ads of the 1990s. To reach a new generation, the brand and its agency VCCP London are returning to that humorous heritage with a "dangerously potent" platform. "Warden" shows an inmate being busted for having a can of Orange Tango--"the most powerful...
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May 03, 2024
Is Fierceness a creative agency in Sparta, New Jersey or a horse running in this year's Kentucky Derby? It's this year's favorite in the world's most famous horse race. What about High Wide & Handsome, Carte Blanche and Good Apple? If you said horses for any of those, you'd be wrong--they're all ad agencies. Seven...
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May 03, 2024
For an event that is 150 years old, the Kentucky Derby has made a lot of young fans in recent years. Beyond the Derby's layers of tradition that include bourbon-soaked mint juleps, big hats, bugling and blankets of roses, there is a growing audience that is seeing and interacting with sports marketing far differently than...
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May 02, 2024
Meta believes short-form videos are the future. At its NewFronts presentation on Thursday, the tech giant revealed a slew of AI-powered tools for ad buyers, helping brands connect with creators to reach wider audiences. Powered by machine learning, Meta now recommends creators to brands on its searchable Instagram Creator Marketplace. Brands can search for creators...
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May 02, 2024
Airbnb is hanging with the stars and wants to bring newbies along for the plane ride. The online marketplace for house and vacation rentals has launched Icons, a new category of experiences influenced (and some even hosted) by big names in music, film, television, art, sports and more. Airbnb guests will get the chance to...
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May 02, 2024
Airbnb is hanging with the stars and wants to bring newbies along for the plane ride. The online marketplace for house and vacation rentals has launched Icons, a new category of experiences influenced (and some even hosted) by big names in music, film, television, art, sports and more. Airbnb guests will get the chance to...
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May 02, 2024
These CBS series may go by different titles, but they are all Survivors. Following a year where dual Hollywood strikes delayed and pushed content, CBS is unveiling its new 2024-2025 primetime schedule ahead of the TV upfront. The lineup includes 18 returning series and strike-delayed shows such as Kathy Bates' Matlock and Damon Wayans' Poppa's...
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May 02, 2024
Snapchat showcased its augmented reality (AR) and generative AI capabilities to ad buyers during its NewFronts presentation. The platform unveiled AR extensions that let advertisers integrate AR Lenses into Snap's ad products, including Snap Ads, Collection Ads, Spotlight Ads and Dynamic Product Ads. The platform, which touts 800 million monthly active users globally, also announced...
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May 02, 2024
Welcome back to The Garage: Tools for Retail Media Innovation. Hosted by Evan Hovorka, vp of product and innovation, and Dan Massimino, director of marketing, from Albertsons Media Collective. The Garage dives into the why, the how and the who cares of retail media innovation. In our second special episode from POSSIBLE, our hosts sit...
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May 02, 2024
U.K. activewear brand Gymshark has made a series of executive hires to help it claim a bigger slice of the North American market, and it has a plan to take on its more established, homegrown U.S. rivals: Target gym-goers, not runners. The company, known for its seamless leggings and crop tops, has appointed former Abercrombie...
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May 02, 2024
Paramount is looking to make measurement moves ahead of the TV upfront. Top line Today, Paramount announced it's partnering with Mastercard and EDO for an enhanced measurement suite across all base media buys in linear and digital. Between the lines According to the company, the offerings broaden its attribution suite, delivering outcome-based metrics for advertisers...
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May 02, 2024
NBCUniversal doesn't want any surprises heading into this year's upfront week. Last year's NBCU upfront event from Radio City Music Hall had to overcome several unexpected hurdles. In addition to Hollywood strikes keeping entertainment talent on the sidelines, NBCU's former ad sales chief Linda Yaccarino exited the company for Twitter/X days before its upfront presentation....
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May 02, 2024
Audiences and sponsorship for women's sports grow in spite of a scattered broadcast landscape, not because of it. Sports Innovation Lab's Women's Sports Club NewFront gave marketers and ad agencies a clearer picture of women's sports offerings during its event at New York's NeueHouse Madison Square. Joining its audience credit and debit purchase data with...
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May 02, 2024
TikTok wants to lock in premium budgets and compete for TV dollars with new programming and measurement offerings. The social giant, which is announcing the initiatives today at its NewFronts presentation in New York, is expanding its slate of programming within its TikTok Pulse product, which lets brands target the top 4% of trending videos...
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May 02, 2024
Unilever's Lynx brand (named Axe in the U.S.) is known for its absurd and sometimes controversial ads. Its latest campaign from agency LOLA MullenLowe embraces that history with some particularly dark humor. Cannes Lions-winning directors Koen Mortier and Joe Vanhoutteghem (who work under the shared name Lionel Goldstein) created a pair of two-minute films to...
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May 02, 2024
Alex Little and Karsten Jurkschat climbed to the top of the creative world fairly quickly. The duo, originally from Melbourne, Australia, won the Australian Young Creatives of the Year, Cannes Young Creatives of the Year and the first Gold Lions for Ogilvy Australia within the same 18-month period. The two then created iconic campaigns for...
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May 02, 2024
News and culture publisher The Atlantic launched the first group subscription product in its 167-year history last summer, which has so far focused almost exclusively on reaching college students through their universities. Since going to market last April, The Atlantic has signed up more than 75 schools across the country to participate in the program,...
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May 01, 2024
According to the IAB, digital video will pass linear in ad spend in 2024. And with this new age of TV comes new strategies for reaching consumers. "Digital video is the future of video," David Cohen, IAB's president and CEO, said during the NewFronts Main Stage at Convene 225 Liberty on Wednesday. "Understanding next-generation solutions...
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May 01, 2024
Audio platform Spotify made its first appearance at NewFronts week on Wednesday evening, part of a larger bid from the streaming platform to attract advertising to its growing inventory of digital video. While Spotify remains predominantly a music, podcast and audiobook service, it has seen a notable uptick in video inventory due to the rise...
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May 01, 2024
When it comes to planning outfits for music festivals or themed events, many of us seek inspiration from Pinterest. This year, the platform had activations at Coachella for both weekends, bringing our mood boards and visions to life. During the music festival in April, Pinterest introduced a unique experience at Coachella called the Pinterest Manifest...
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May 01, 2024
In 2023, $247 billion--17.6% of U.S. online sales revenue--was lost to returns, versus the 14.5% return loss for items bought in stores. Once seen as an enticing benefit to attract customers (and keep pace with Amazon), free shipping and returns quickly became the norm for ecommerce. There was a cost to keeping these free, of...
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May 01, 2024
The tanned and shredded "lifestyle guards" in High Noon's new ads will reinflate your float, restock your cooler and retrieve your errant football. Hammock fail? The guys are on it. Grilling mishap? They appear instantly with extra provisions. The new campaign, from longtime agency of record Preacher, keeps the sun-soaked vibe of earlier marketing for...
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May 01, 2024
Longtime friends and collaborators Martin Short and Steve Martin have earned multiple Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards nominations for playing perpetually bickering friends in Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. Now the duo brings the same dynamic to the first commercial work they've done together, in agency BBDO New York's debut campaign for...
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May 01, 2024
Today, 100 chief marketing officers (CMOs), along with rising stars, academics and other C-suite execs, will convene at ADWEEK's annual Marketing Vanguard Summit in Chicago to discuss how to navigate an industry in flux. With the brightest marketing minds gathered in one room, speakers will engage as "provocateurs," setting the agenda for discussions with bold...
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May 01, 2024
Today, 100 chief marketing officers, along with rising stars, academics and other C-suite executives, will convene at ADWEEK's annual Marketing Vanguard Summit in Chicago to discuss how to navigate an industry in flux. With the brightest marketing minds gathered in one room, speakers will engage as "provocateurs," setting the agenda for discussions with bold takes...
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May 01, 2024
Yahoo Advertising has struck a data-sharing deal with retail media network Kroger Precision Marketing (KPM), ADWEEK can exclusively reveal. This will let advertisers target the national grocer's audiences programmatically through Yahoo's demand-side platform (DSP). The partnership marks KPM's second DSP partnership since last fall, and ushers in a new focus on commerce media for Yahoo...
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May 01, 2024
The beautiful people cruising around Majorca on a 60-foot yacht know exactly what they want in a new Ketel One Botanical campaign--namely, pulpy novels, breezy relationships, unlimited bocce and skilled bartenders. The cinematic 30-second spot--with a stunning golden hour setting, groovy background music and a smidge of Wes Anderson-style eccentricity--uses the characters to try to...
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May 01, 2024
Five-time Grammy winner Mike Post has composed the music for the best-known TV shows of the last two generations, including The Rockford Files, Magnum, P.I. and L.A. Law. But a singular moment in his career came when producer Dick Wolf called him about Law & Order, for which Post had just written the title theme....
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Apr 30, 2024
Amazon's ad unit keeps surging. That business grew to $11.8 billion, representing 8% of its total revenue. Amazon reported net sales of $143.3 billion during the first quarter of 2024, up 13% compared to the same three-month period last year. Year over year, Amazon's ad segment increased 24%, outpacing Google, but falling behind Meta for...
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Apr 30, 2024
The streaming platform and operating system Roku announced three blockbuster partnerships at its NewFronts presentation at The Glasshouse in New York on Tuesday afternoon, as well as a slate of new video programming. Roku, which now reaches over 81 million households, unveiled tie-ups with demand-side platform The Trade Desk, measurement service iSpot.tv and the publisher...
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Apr 30, 2024
Where men's sports often receive brand and broadcast support based on their potential, proponents of women's sports note that investment in their game hinges on proof of its value. This year's NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament--with help from Caitlin Clark and Dawn Staley--just provided its broadcasters at the Walt Disney Company and their brand partners a...
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Apr 30, 2024
Digital media company Conde Nast unveiled a slate of new video programming at its NewFront presentation at Highline Stages in New York this morning, emphasizing its expanded efforts in the world of sports, news and live events. The company, which houses more than a dozen editorial brands including the New Yorker, GQ, Vogue and Wired,...
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Apr 30, 2024
Selling creativity in large multinational companies can often be a laborious challenge. There is always pressure from the C-suite to maximize return on investment. And that's before we even get to the age-old subjectivity challenge--everyone in the business feels entitled to an opinion when it comes to a piece of creative work, whereas they'd rarely...
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Apr 30, 2024
In an upfront where buyers are focused on sports and artificial intelligence, Samsung Ads is looking to score big. At its 2024 IAB NewFronts presentation Tuesday, Samsung Ads, Samsung Electronics' advertising arm, announced several innovations, including a new lineup of sports, music, family and entertainment content on its FAST (free ad-supported streaming television) service, Samsung...
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Apr 30, 2024
Bumble has become the latest brand in the cluttered dating app landscape to get a makeover as it tries to reach generations fatigued with online dating. The dating app, which launched in 2014 with the distinguishing feature that only women users could make the first move with matches, has undergone a revamp with a refreshed...
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Apr 30, 2024
When you're about to become a parent for the first time, even strangers will go out of their way to offer encouragement and support. Our grizzled general contractor from South Jersey would sit me down daily to discuss what Mona and I were about to experience. This outpouring of love from unexpected places should serve...
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Apr 30, 2024
T-Mobile Advertising Solutions dove into its first IAB NewFronts with forays into retail media and streaming, as well as a plan to reach 240 million consumers and marketers through its screens. The company kicked off its announcement of broader T-Mobile Advertising offerings at Moonlight Studios in New York by declaring that it is starting a...
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Apr 30, 2024
Dairy farmers have made many efforts to get more people interested in milk products, from the genius "Got Milk?" campaign to the recent "Wood Milk" effort with Aubrey Plaza. Now, the Milk Processor Education Program (better known as MilkPEP) and agency Gale are continuing to educate and entertain, enlisting former Saturday Night Live star Vanessa...
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Apr 30, 2024
After surprisingly ditching its decades-long Carnegie Hall upfront week event in 2023, Paramount is set for another round of its "intimate, bespoke" upfront dinners. The company confirmed in January that it would once again host smaller client gatherings in lieu of a lavish, one-off upfront event, which a spokeswoman told ADWEEK is "more effective and...
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Apr 30, 2024
Going back 30 years ago, candy colossus Skittles debuted the slogan "Taste the Rainbow," which has since become one of advertising's longest-running campaigns. But while slogans can last for generations, brand packaging usually can't. The encroachment of visual stimuli via social media, competition from rival confectionary brands and other forces prompted the brass at Mars...
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Apr 30, 2024
Marketers looking for work last year might have had a hard time finding places to apply. Global job postings for marketing positions dropped 42% in 2023 compared with 2022, according to a new report from LinkedIn. The situation was more pronounced in North America, where year-over-year job postings fell 56%. The downward trend hasn't just...
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Apr 30, 2024
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has been going through a renaissance of sorts over the last year, revamping its offerings and finding new ways to reach loyal customers and find new ones. In January 2023, it released its "North Star" five-point plan to drive long-term shareholder value, and even partnered with Juicy Couture to design a...
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Apr 29, 2024
Today, Paramount announced Bob Bakish was stepping down from his role as CEO and from its board of directors. The news came amid ongoing exclusive acquisition talks with Skydance Media and ahead of the company's first-quarter earnings call, which Bakish wasn't expected to join. In the CEO's absence, Paramount Global has established an "Office of...
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Apr 29, 2024
Google used its NewFronts presentation today to tell buyers why they should be connecting to television with its DSP, Display & Video 360, a departure from previous years when the annual presentation to digital ad buyers focused on YouTube. "If you're not already taking a unified approach to your streaming, think about the efficient reach...
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Apr 29, 2024
Mom wasn't always a mom, you know. She had a life before childbirth, and it might well have included singing in a band, jumping out of an airplane and traveling the world. What if Mother's Day advertising highlighted those pre-maternal wild hairs and personality traits, which might be long buried but could still be very...
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Apr 29, 2024
Peacock may not be taking part in the 2024 NewFronts, but the NBCUniversal streamer is making its presence felt--with a price increase. Top line Beginning in July, the price of Peacock Premium, its ad-supported tier, will go up by $2 to $7.99/mo. The ad-free version, Premium Plus, will also see a $2 bump to $13.99/mo....
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Apr 29, 2024
Media agencies usually pay publishers on behalf of their clients, but not at the independent shop, Acadia. Its leader, Jared Belsky, has convinced 98% of the marketers he works with to pay suppliers directly, instead of entrusting that to his agency. Belsky, who once led Dentsu's 360i (now part of Dentsu Creative), told ADWEEK that...
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Apr 29, 2024
Crafting a larger-than-life narrative spurred by down-to-earth characters is one of director Kathryn Bigelow's trademarks as a filmmaker. Teaming up with Xfinity, Bigelow and her team have brought that lens to a touching reunion story among Air Force veterans ahead of Military Appreciation Month. Showing the way technology can help people forge and maintain relationships...
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Apr 29, 2024
Advertisers on Vizio can now buy ads to run when viewers hit pause, when the screen idles and on the smart TV's home screen. Those new ad formats, which the connected TV maker is announcing today during its 2 p.m. ET presentation at the 2024 NewFronts, are part of Vizio's fourth annual appearance at the...
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Apr 27, 2024
The city-based podcast and newsletter media company City Cast is on pace to generate $3 million in revenue and expand into its twelfth and thirteenth markets this year, according to founder David Plotz. The company is not profitable, and the revenues are relatively small for an 80-person outlet. But the figures also reflect substantial growth...
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Apr 26, 2024
When Google said this week it will delay the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome for the third time, it cited the need to give the U.K.-based Competition and Markets Authority sufficient time to review the cookie-replacement tools it's developing. These tools are called the Privacy Sandbox and the CMA, a regulatory body that must...
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Apr 26, 2024
Though NFL Draft viewership is lower than the league's usual standards for games, many sports would love to have a fraction of the audience that tuned in on Thursday to see Caleb Williams go to the Chicago Bears with the No. 1 pick. In 2023, the National Football League welcomed 11.29 million viewers to its...
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Apr 26, 2024
After President Joe Biden signed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S., its Chinese owner ByteDance is considering selling the popular platform. But a TikTok suitor would need more than both regulatory approval and the stomach to operate a social media company. It would also need the technical chops to rebuild its powerful...
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Apr 26, 2024
Live from New York, it's Telemundo's upfront. In addition to Telemundo presenting at NBCUniversal's upfront event on Monday, May 13, ADWEEK can exclusively reveal that Telemundo will host its event again later that evening at cultural center The Shed in Hudson Yards. To kick off the festivities, Telemundo will feature Saturday Night Live's Marcello Hernandez...
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Apr 26, 2024
The world has changed a lot since the early aughts, but Ogilvy and Mather's "Wanta Fanta" earworm is still going strong. The fun-loving spirit of the original campaign, first introduced to us by the dance group the Fantanas in 2002, has now been remixed and reimagined for Gen Z. Embracing enjoyment and pleasure over necessity...
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Apr 26, 2024
The double-length episode of Emmy Award-winning Disney family show Bluey, "The Sign," brought in more than 10.4 million views and made plenty of them cry as the characters stressed about the decision to sell their house. While the Heelers eventually decided to stay put, real estate marketplace Zillow and Ryan Reynolds' agency, Maximum Effort, used...
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Apr 26, 2024
Brands thrive by channeling their creative energies into what works--and away from what doesn't. Yet many marketers and agencies focused on DEI in marketing aren't hitting the mark when it comes to widening the aperture of the gender lens. Accordingly, they're missing the chance to invite people to see themselves in the products and services...
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Apr 26, 2024
Adam Scott, in the crucial moments before filming a scene, is preoccupied with his grooming, not his lines, and that's a problem even before he launches into a story about his dad's full and fabulous beard. The actor--an affable scene-stealer known for Parks and Recreation, Party Down and Severance--is starring as himself in an ad...
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Apr 25, 2024
Despite the threat posed to Google's search dominance by new generative AI competitors, revenue from the channel soared in the first quarter of 2024. Google brought in more than $46 billion in search revenue, a 14% year-over-year increase and the most the company's search revenue has grown in two years. Google once again branded itself...
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Apr 25, 2024
On this week's episode, ADWEEK's Jenny Rooney sits down with Taylor Montgomery, CMO of Taco Bell, as he shares insights into his journey, leadership philosophy and the evolving landscape of brand management. Recorded live during ADWEEK's Social Media Week event in New York, they discuss Montgomery's early career at Procter & Gamble, which provided him...
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Apr 25, 2024
Join hosts Cathy Hackl and Lee Kebler in this engaging podcast as they discuss the latest news and trends in technology and innovation. From Meta's opening of its Horizon OS to Apple's focus on enterprise and brainwave protection laws, they cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Discover the potential of brain implants for artificial...
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Apr 25, 2024
Today's business landscape demands a sophisticated understanding of consumer behavior and a nuanced approach to brand communication. In this episode of The Speed of Culture, host Matt Britton explores these themes with guest Doug Zarkin, a seasoned marketer known for his thought-provoking insights and dynamic leadership in brand strategy. This episode not only highlights the...
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Apr 25, 2024
Long before Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and his 776 Foundation arrived at The Sports Bra in Portland, Ore., this month, announcing plans to help franchise it, owner Jenny Nguyen envisioned a place for underrepresented communities to come together and watch underscreened sporting events. In February 2022--before Reddit co-founders, before pop-ups with Athletes Unlimited in Chicago...
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Apr 25, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery is continuing to lean in on data ahead of the TV upfront. Top line WBD announced Thursday that it is launching Olli, a first-party data platform that utilizes data, audience intelligence and adtech solutions to create seamless campaign planning, activation and measurement across the company's portfolio. In addition, the new first-party data...
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Apr 25, 2024
Ads for top-shelf liquor usually lean heavily and stereotypically into the 1% lifestyle, with beautiful people hanging out in exotic settings where the common folk aspire to tread. The new campaign for Belvedere 10, a $150-per-bottle line extension of the flagship vodka, goes for a slightly different kind of chic, while adding a dose of...
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Apr 25, 2024
When it comes to video ad sales, marketers don't need a linear path to success. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau's newly released 2024 Digital Video Ad Spend & Strategy Report, it's going to be a big year for digital video. The report, which comes ahead of next week's NewFronts events, noted that digital video...
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Apr 25, 2024
Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy and digital publisher CNET are teaming up to create a new retail media model, the companies said Thursday. The electronics retailer and the publisher are combining their ad inventory, allowing advertisers to buy across Best Buy Ads' retail media network and alongside CNET's tech-review-focused editorial content and measure whether ads...
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Apr 25, 2024
One of the most-discussed topics of 2024 will be the deprecation of third-party cookies, making other sources of data even more important to businesses. The most valuable of these other data sources is zero-party data, which is proactively provided by customers--typically because that customer actually wants to hear from the brand, and often because there...
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Apr 25, 2024
French news publisher Le Monde launched its English-language product, Le Monde in English, two years ago, with the goal of generating 30,000 subscribers by the end of 2023. It has since fallen short of that goal, according to business development officer Arnaud Aubron, though the publisher declined to provide an update on its exact subscriber...
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Apr 24, 2024
AI continues to drive Meta's year-long recovery. Revenue from its Advantage Shopping Campaigns (ACS) more than doubled since last year, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the Q1 2024 earnings call. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, reported a 27% increase in revenue, reaching $36.5 billion compared to $28.6 billion in 2023. Advertising...
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Apr 24, 2024
Meta Platforms saw advertising revenue grow to $35.6 billion during the first quarter of 2024. That's up 27% compared to the same three-month period last year. Following chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's cost-cutting "year of efficiency," which involved mass layoffs, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp now has 69,329 employees, down 10% compared with...
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Apr 24, 2024
Prolific actor Owen Wilson has a new gig, and at first glance, it may seem like he's playing tech entrepreneur Steve Jobs, complete with the trademark black turtleneck and PowerPoint presentation in front of a cheering crowd. "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," Wilson tells a rapt audience...
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Apr 24, 2024
Last year, global ecommerce sales totaled nearly $6 trillion and are expected to grow 10% this year. People expect nothing but the best shopping experience every time, and expectations increase every time they experience something better. This represents a sharp departure from how commerce has traditionally been approached--as a mere transaction after all the creative...
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Apr 24, 2024
Brands proactively testing alternative ways to find audiences, without using third-party cookies, are also wasting a chunk of that budget on sending too many ads to a narrow slice of publisher inventory, new data from the demand-side platform (DSP) Adform reveals. When buyers test alternative identifiers, like ID5, UID2, RampID, or a whole host of...
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