Facebook Announced a Data Abuse Bounty Program
Facebook has already made verbal commitments to better safeguard users' personal data, and Tuesday, the social network made a financial commitment. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal,...
View ArticleWalmart Is Partnering With Postmates to Expand Its Grocery Delivery Services
Walmart has added logistics company Postmates to its list of grocery-delivery partners. The two will serve customers in Charlotte, N.C. In March, Walmart said it planned to tap into its network of more...
View ArticleHow a Fixation on Digital Led to a Lack of Talent Diversity in Agencies
The past decade brought us a digital revolution, and with it came a wide range of distinct concerns for the marketing and advertising industry: the question of transparency in the media supply chain,...
View ArticleInstagram’s New Camera Format Enables Users to Focus on One Person in a Photo
Instagram introduced two new features Tuesday: a Focus camera format and an @mention sticker. Focus is located next to Superzoom on the Instagram camera, and it enables users to create photos or videos...
View ArticlePayPal Close to Wrapping Up 6-Month Global Creative Review
PayPal, the online money transfer company also behind social app Venmo, is said to be narrowing down on two finalists in a global creative review that spanned six months, according to sources with...
View ArticleOne Month After Acquiring Scripps, Discovery Unveils Unified Upfront for Its...
There was no time for celebration when Discovery Communications closed its deal to acquire Scripps Networks last month. Instead, Jon Steinlauf, the former Scripps ad sales chief who was named chief...
View ArticleA Glam Hostel Gets Put to the Test When Mariah Carey Is Accidentally Booked
If the ultimate in '90s divas deems a hostel a solid choice, then it's got to be good for us mere mortals, right? In a ridiculous but rather funny spot for Hostelworld, a shiny black limo pulls up to...
View Article5 Things We Learned From Mark Zuckerberg During Day 1 of His Congressional...
This afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent several hours answering questions from dozens of U.S. senators in Washington, D.C. The questions varied from explaining the basics of ad-tech to...
View ArticleParkland Students Are Asking Advertising’s Brightest Minds to Help Grow the...
The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School know the news cycle is fast and furious. Momentous stories that once would have dominated the news for weeks now only hold the nation's attention...
View ArticleHere Are the Metrics Your Brand Should Be Using
Measuring the digital engagement that customers have with your brand is key to making sure they remain customers. But what metrics do leading brands like Pandora, The New York Times and National...
View ArticleThis Film Festival’s Bleak, Intense Look Into the Future Will Leave You...
As sure as the jacaranda trees bloom every spring in Southern California, the Newport Beach Film Festival launches a quirky, cinematic work of art to promote its weeklong event. This year is no...
View ArticleFrom Interaction to Internet: Gen Z Flips the Sales and Social Script
When Gen-Zers go to physical stores, they leave their wallets at home. Smart marketers don't care. Unlike their grandparents, Gen Zers--people born between 1997 and 2013--don't view stores as the final...
View ArticleAdidas Created Earth Day Soccer Jerseys Made From ‘Upcycled’ Plastic Ocean Waste
Adidas has announced its game plan for Earth Day this year, and the brand hopes it will have soccer fans, players and ocean conservationists alike screaming GOOOOOOOOOOAL! Parley for the Oceans, a...
View ArticleLinkedIn: Here’s How to Stop Users From Finding You by Your Email Address,...
By default, LinkedIn allows users to find other members on its platform by searching for their email address or phone number. If you want to stop users from being able to find your profile that way,...
View ArticleHow Out-of-Home Media Companies Must Reinvent Themselves as Publishers to...
For the past five years, industry leaders have been heralding the golden age of out-of-home (OOH) advertising, predicting it will evolve into a medium that could do pretty much anything. The rhetoric...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Product Stand Out During the Customer Journey
If you've ever walked through Times Square in New York, you've definitely experienced slow walkers ahead of you. They're usually tourists looking up at all the beautifully lit billboards telling them...
View ArticleFuse Media Heads Into Upfront With New Branded Content Studio
With ratings among its core millennial demographic on the rise last year, Fuse Media is heading into this year's upfront event with a new branded content studio, Fuse Collab, to help create branded...
View ArticleThe Handwritings of Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and John Lennon Are Now...
There's something viscerally personal about the handwriting of musical greats, whether its their feverishly scribbled drafts of lyrics or their introspective letters to peers and loved ones. Now the...
View Article5 Lessons Big Brands Can Learn From Startups
Show me an established category, and I'll show you a startup that's disrupting it (or about to). The trusted rules of the road for managing and marketing brands simply don't cut it on the fast and...
View ArticleSurfing Legend Lisa Andersen Ascends a Mountain of a Wave in Mother’s Final...
Beauty is about much more than youth and appearance. That's the message cosmetics brand No7 has conveyed with its ongoing "Ready" campaign, highlighting the stories of women who have defied the odds to...
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