Vox Media Lays Off 50 Staffers
Vox Media is cutting approximately 50 employees--or about 5 percent of its 1,000-person workforce--from several of its sites and offering "role changes" to a dozen others. In a memo to staffers, CEO...
View ArticleA Quicker Way to Add People to Messenger Audio or Video Chats
Facebook just eliminated the need to hang up and launch a new audio or video chat on Messenger when users want to add more people to the conversation. Product manager Sarah Morris announced in a...
View ArticleGoodyear Packs Its Legacy-Rich Ad With Unseen Footage From Dale Earnhardt...
Legacies are often defined by a great name, and you can't make a name without a certain amount of stability. In a Nascar family, what's a better metaphor for stability than a trusty tire brand? That's...
View Article‘We Need to Talk’ Becomes the Rare Facebook Watch Show to Get Renewed
It's been six months since Facebook rolled out Facebook Watch, its vertical featuring original series from dozens of publishers and companies like Discovery Communications, Hearst and Quartz. However,...
View ArticleGroup Launches ‘3 Billboards’-Inspired Ads Calling Out Paul Ryan After...
Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic political action committee, launched a Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri-inspired campaign today demanding stricter gun control laws and specifically...
View ArticleAir New Zealand Launched an #EmojiJourney Campaign on Facebook, Twitter
Air New Zealand launched a new campaign on its Facebook and Twitter pages called #EmojiJourney. When users see an #EmojiJourney post on the Air New Zealand Facebook or Twitter accounts, they'll be...
View ArticleYou Can Experience What It’s Like to Be Inside Westworld With This Immersive...
South by Southwest attendees will get to experience what it's like to be part of Westworld. Well, sort of. HBO and Giant Spoon are building an immersive experience on two acres of land for SXSW to...
View ArticleCarmichael Lynch Launches ‘Runnin’ With Sasquatch’ Campaign for Jack Link’s...
Earlier this month, Carmichael Lynch confirmed it was not participating in Jack Link's creative review, conducted by agency search consulting firm Pile, with the agency instead being "evaluated on...
View ArticleYouTube Vows to ‘Improve Our Systems’ After Conspiracy Video Rises to No. 1...
On Wednesday morning, YouTube's No. 1 trending video used footage from a CBS Los Angeles video to suggest that David Hogg, one of the survivors of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas...
View ArticleAgencies Primarily Blame Clients for Inefficiencies, According to This...
A majority of advertising professionals don't think their agencies are operating as efficiently as they could be--and in most cases, they blame clients. That's the primary takeaway from the 2018 Agency...
View ArticleFord North American President Raj Nair Out Over ‘Inappropriate Behavior’...
Raj Nair, North American president for Ford, is leaving the company following an internal investigation into "inappropriate behavior." "We made this decision after a thorough review and careful...
View ArticleFacebook Just Announced Another Music Licensing Deal
Facebook followed up on the music-licensing deals it announced last month by reaching an agreement for its first "multi-territorial" music license with online licensing processing and licensing...
View ArticleNielsen Social Content Ratings, Week of Feb. 12: NBA All-Star Game, Olympics...
The 2018 National Basketball Association All-Star Game and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games dominated Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during the week of Feb. 12, according to the Nielsen Social Content...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Messenger Will Dominate 2018
When Facebook released Messenger in 2011, most people weren't aware of the capabilities and benefits it would eventually have. Fast-forward to 2017: There are more than 1.3 billion users and 60 million...
View ArticleSnapchat’s Ecommerce Strategy Hit a New High When It Sold Out the New Air...
Snapchat's latest viral lens didn't include a puppy face or a dancing hot dog. Instead, it focused on a life-size Michael Jordan augmented-reality lens promoting the new, unreleased Air Jordan III...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger: Here’s How to Delete or Archive a Conversation
Did you know that Facebook Messenger allows you to archive or delete your conversations when you're done with them? Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in...
View ArticleTwitter Is Taking Steps to Reduce the Effectiveness of Bots
Developers of bots that enable simultaneous tweets, retweets, likes or follows will have to go back to the drawing board before March 23. Twitter announced last month that it would be "limiting the...
View ArticleThis Incredible Instagram Account Shows What Life Is Like as a Visually...
You may have imagined what it would be like to be an Olympic athlete, maybe you're into skiing so you've imagined skiing down steep mountains with sharp curves at incredibly fast speeds. But have you...
View ArticleThe Chemical Brothers Entice Music-Lovers to Spiral Down the Rabbit Hole in...
It's the age-old hippie debate: Do we follow the rabbit down the hole? In an energetic new ad from agency VCCP, London's O2 arena entices hipsters to get out of their flats, as the Brits say, and take...
View ArticleScottish Soda Irn-Bru (Sort of) Apologizes for Ads Calling Women ‘Can’ts’
Scotland's iconic and notoriously cheeky Irn-Bru soda brand is back with a new ad campaign, and the response is probably exactly what the marketer was hoping for. Two new ads created for the Scottish...
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