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How Marketing Teams Can Unleash Personalized Creative at Scale

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Marketers today face enormous challenges in trying to break through with meaningful creative on digital and social channels. Ad blindness is at an all-time high, and audiences have grown up with increasingly high expectations for authenticity that speaks to them and captures their attention across various channels. Smart marketers know that they need to deliver...

Brand Safety Concerns Come to Twitter as Sponsored Tweets Run on Profiles Selling Illegal Drugs

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The brand safety issues that plagued YouTube and Facebook in recent years have now made their way to Twitter. The 4A's Advertiser Protection Bureau (APB), formed in April as an industrywide effort to address such issues, was alerted to an incident last week that saw sponsored tweets running on Twitter profiles created to promote the...

Indoors in July? Console Games Were One of Facebook IQ’s Topics to Watch

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July is perceived as a month for outdoor activities, but when the temperatures got too high, Facebook users turned to console games, making them a Topic to Watch for the month, according to Facebook IQ. The social network's research arm found conversation volume up 2.4 times both year-over-year and month-over-month for console games and related...

4 Ways Media Companies Can Take Advantage of a New Era of Native Advertising

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The media industry is in the midst of huge changes that are demanding new revenue models, innovative new product configurations and a willingness to explore untapped markets. With traditional advertising channels eroding, the time is ripe for new approaches to native content programs. Most existing programs are tailored to big brands, but they can be...

Facebook Expanded Its Level Up Program and Revealed Its Gamescom Plans

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Facebook launched its Level Up Program in June for video game content creators, designed to help livestreamers grow their audiences on the social network. The program was originally limited to users in the U.S., U.K., Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. However, in a Facebook Gaming blog post, Bob Slinn, head of games partnerships for Europe, the...

Pre-Roll Ads as Talent Contest? The Longer You Don’t Skip, the More Votes These Musicians Get

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Extra Gum is making the medium the message with Extra Support Acts, a campaign that turns YouTube pre-roll ads into a platform that gives 16 emerging Australian music acts a significant audience boost and a chance to perform live on a major stage. From now to Sept. 30, YouTube pre-roll ads viewed before any 5...

Everyone Is Your Mom in This Crazy Delta Stunt That Guilts You Into Flying Home

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On the continuum of maternal guilt trips, Delta Air Lines may have carved out some new, good-natured ground with a stunt that encourages Seattle residents to fly home to see their mothers. Created by Wieden + Kennedy New York, "Seattle to Mom" is clean fun and the crown jewels of the campaign are in-person stunts...

The Top 20,000 Facebook Pages Posted More Content During the Second Quarter of 2018

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Social media management tool Buffer teamed up with content marketing tool BuzzSumo to analyze more than 43 million posts from the top 20,000 brands on Facebook during the second quarter of 2018, and here's what they found: The pages they studied posted more content in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the first quarter...

Chuck Norris Gets Replaced by Truck Norris in This Wonderfully Over-the-Top Toyota Spot

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Chuck Norris is no stranger to advertising, but it's rare we see him not throwing a roundhouse kick or being portrayed as a meme-era Paul Bunyan capable of impossibly epic deeds. (His last ad appearance, for UnitedHealthcare, happily leaned into both.) This time around, Norris is selling the Toyota Tacoma, billed in the spot as...

Barbarian Group’s New Receptionist Is an Alexa Echo Show Named ‘Barb’

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Interactive marketing agency Barbarian Group's new receptionist, Barb, doesn't collect a paycheck, isn't getting breaks or benefits and can work endless overtime. Barbarian, however, isn't violating New York State labor law, because Barb is an Alexa-based tool connected to the messaging system Slack within an Echo Show, Amazon's smart speaker with display screen. Barb, who...

Amazon Is Losing Its Smart Speaker Dominance, According to New Report

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Amazon is no longer the smart speaker king. A report from research firm Canalys this week found that Google Home shipments outpaced those of Amazon's Echo products for the second straight quarter as the search giant grows its smart home business overseas. Chinese tech behemoths Alibaba and Xiaomi also clocked strong growth, whittling Amazon's market...

A Fruit Rocket Is Actually the Best Bad Idea Pitched in These Delightfully Quirky Ads for Sparkling Ice

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Creative that comes out of the Pacific Northwest has its charms. On one hand, work from Portland and Seattle can have an edge, (see: early Nike work from Wieden + Kennedy), and on the other, it is at times deliciously airy and fun (see: current KFC work from Wieden + Kennedy). For people who live...

Season 2 of Netflix’s True Crime Spoof American Vandal Will Focus On … Mass Pooping

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The first season of Netflix's true crime documentary spoof American Vandal left audiences wondering, "Who drew the dicks?" Now Netflix has unveiled the slogan for Season 2 of the series, which will air next month: "Who is the Turd Burglar?" Today Netflix released the first trailer for Season 2 of its Peabody-winning and Emmy-nominated American...

Google Is Collecting Your Data—Even When Your Phone Isn’t in Use

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It's widely known that Google profits handsomely from the vast amounts of data it collects from the billions of people who use its suite of applications, its mobile operating systems and its devices. According to new research released today, most of that valuable personal and location data is being collected when users are not informed...

KFC’s Gigantic ‘Double Colonel’ Might Seem Familiar to Game of Thrones Fans

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KFC's new Double Crispy Colonel Sandwich is, as the name implies, an unnerving tower of two chicken patties encased (unlike the infamous Double Down) in a bun. Obviously no mere celebrity iteration of Colonel Sanders is up to the job of selling this beast, so they're bringing in some added muscle. Enter Haf??r J?l?us Bj?rnsson,...

How Brexit Is Creating Opportunities for American Brands in the EU

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For U.S. firms planning European expansion, London has traditionally been the first touchpoint due to the language and cultural similarities for companies who could afford to start there. However, Brexit brings a lot of insecurity and potential disruption to that strategy. It is not clear which way the U.K. will go in terms of regulations...

How Brands Can Use AI to Boost Their Email Marketing Strategy

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For many marketers, email is the channel that delivers the highest ROI. But what if it could perform even better? Average open rates for email hover around 21 percent and click-through rates are a respectable 2.6 percent. The Data and Marketing Association says email offers the best ROI of any marketing channel and the lowest...

How Ritual Is Marketing a Direct-to-Consumer Vitamin Brand in the Age of ‘Pseudoscience’

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In the age of the wellness craze--often featuring health experts lacking classic credentials, DIY home medical remedies and somewhat extreme measures like juice cleanses--brands make bold promises using opaque marketing. Ritual, a direct-to-consumer vitamin brand that launched last year (and debuts its first major campaign this week) is betting on the opposite approach: Cold hard...

Telemundo, Mashable Partner for Regular Tech Programming on Linear TV

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Mashable and Telemundo are expanding their partnership to linear TV. The technology segment, dubbed El Pulso v?a Mashable, will air in Spanish every Tuesday on Telemundo's morning show, Un Nuevo D?a. A new digital video series co-produced by Mashable and Telemundo called Power Up will also launch online in English. "Continuing to invest in partnerships...

Top 5 KPIs Social Media Marketers Need to Track and Improve

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Social media is an important business tool. According to the 2018 Global Digital Report, there are over 3 billion active social media users. It's no wonder, therefore, that businesses continue to amplify their social media efforts in order to reach more customers. At least 88 percent of businesses use social media. Jumping on the bandwagon...
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