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Jordan Peele Will Helm Amazon Prime’s Lorena Bobbitt Docuseries

A four-part documentary series on the case of John Wayne Bobbitt and Lorena Bobbitt is coming to Amazon Prime with Jordan Peele as the executive producer, the company announced today. The series,...

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Adweek’s Yeah, That’s Probably an Ad Podcast Wins Folio: Award

Adweek's weekly podcast, Yeah, That's Probably an Ad, took home the 2018 Folio: Digital Award for best podcast. Adweek creative director Ron Goodman accepted the award at a luncheon Thursday at the...

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How Men’s Wearhouse Became a Bright Spot in the Declining Retail Space

Hundreds of traditional small and big-name retailers filed for bankruptcy last year, including Toys 'R' Us, Wet Seal, Payless ShoeSource and The Limited. As of Dec. 22, store closures in the U.S....

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Michael Wolff and Jeff Goodby Talk Advertising, Journalism vs. Social Media...

On first glance, Jeff Goodby and Michael Wolff might seem like polar opposites: one is the stoic creative director behind "Got Milk?" while the other is a journalistic firebrand happy to torch almost...

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The Weather Channel Is Transforming the Way We Think About Weather

The Weather Channel has been making waves lately, both as one of the few cable networks that posted year-over-year audience growth in 2017 and as one of the most recent acquisitions by media...

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How to Promote Toyota Camry’s New Safety Features? Build Them Into ‘the...

Creating a high-tech bicycle might not seem like the most obvious way to promote the safety features on a new car--but that's just what a Toyota affiliate and agency 22squared did to help peddle the...

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Facebook’s First Exclusive Stream of a Major League Baseball Game Gets Mixed...

Facebook continued to prove it's more than just a social platform with Wednesday's broadcast of a Major League Baseball game. The match-up between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets was the...

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What MRC Accreditation Actually Means for Facebook

Facebook is swimming in questions about how Cambridge Analytica improperly pulled data on millions of users, but it's also trying to smooth over one rough area for advertisers: measurement. On...

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The Atlantic Fires Columnist Who Said Those Who Get Abortions Should Be Hanged

The Atlantic fired recent hire and highly criticized columnist Kevin Williamson, who said people who get abortions should be hanged. Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg told staff in an email...

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With This New Deal, More Targeted Ads Are Coming to Your TV

The large cable companies that own NCC Media, the national advertising sales, technology and marketing firm, announced today that they will launch a new division to sell targeted ads to cable systems...

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5 Ways to Keep Up With Instagram’s Ever-Changing Algorithm

Remember all of the fuss back in March 2016, when Instagram introduced an algorithm that changed how posts appeared in feeds? Instagram found that users had more posts in their feeds than they could...

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SharkNinja Sends Its $60 Million U.S. Media Account to UM

Home appliance brand SharkNinja has selected IPG Mediabrands' UM to handle a large share of its U.S. media account following a review. "[UM's] intense focus on balancing both the art and science of...

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BBDO Bangkok Has Invented a Revolutionary Way to Turn Mosquitoes Into...

The agency was approached about helping raise awareness of mosquito prevention in the slums of Bangkok and other Southeast Asian cities. But instead of creating posters and fliers, BBDO Bangkok...

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The Fallout Continues Over Those ‘Egregious’ Sinclair Promos

Actress and comedian Amy Schumer canceled an interview scheduled for a local, Sinclair-owned TV station. And a slew of Democrats running for office have vowed not to have their commercials air on...

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How to Find the Corporate Partnership That Works Best With Your Brand

Sponsorships, discounts and donations. What has historically been a safe ground to build goodwill for your brand has suddenly turned into a reputational minefield. The social, political, environmental...

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John Oliver, Samantha Bee Throw Support Behind Unionizing The Onion

More than 150 writers and comedians are supportive of staff at The Onion unionizing, including Samantha Bee, John Oliver and Chris Gethard, who signed a statement of support. More than 90 percent of...

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Netflix May Spend $300 Million to Buy a Billboard Company

Brands have a wide variety of ways in which they promote their products. Print media, digital and linear television are considered mainstream marketing channels. But another method of advertising that...

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Agency Insiders Debate Whether the Erin Johnson Harassment Settlement Will...

The two-year legal battle former J. Walter Thompson global chief communications officer Erin Johnson waged against her employer and its onetime CEO Gustavo Martinez came to an end earlier this week,...

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Charles Schwab Places Its $100 Million-Plus Media Account in Review

San Francisco-based bank and brokerage firm Charles Schwab has issued an RFI for its U.S. media business. This marks the company's first formal media review since 2009, which saw UM San Francisco beat...

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Twitter Has Permanently Suspended 1.2 Million Accounts for Terrorism Since...

Twitter announced that it permanently suspended 274,460 accounts for violations related to the promotion of terrorism between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2017, bringing its total from Aug. 1, 2015, through...

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