Editor’s Letter: The Delicate Balance Between Data and Creativity—the...
It has been a disheartening few months for anyone paying attention to, and concerned about, consumer privacy. Stories continue to roll out of Facebook about the dubious handling of user data, and GDPR...
View Article5 Steps to Help Creatives Survive the Digital Transformation
With increasing frequency, my conversations with industry colleagues and peers seem to evolve into a discussion around the impact of digital transformation on creativity. A year into my career...
View ArticleAdweek’s Creative 100: Meet the Multitalented Masters Behind Today’s Most...
True creatives do more than create great work. They define eras, advance new trends, dynamite the logjams holding back their industries and inspire a new generation along the way. Each year, Adweek...
View Article29 Rising Agency Stars Who Are Keeping Advertising Relevant, Fresh and...
Unafraid and unintimidated by change, today's emerging creative superstars reflect everything the ad industry aspires to be: diverse, principled, restlessly innovative and personally interwoven with...
View Article27 Senior Agency Leaders Who Are Charting a New Course for the Creative Industry
Yesterday's upstarts have become today's top-level talent, ushering in a new, digitally native generation of leadership. While many of them first arrived in the advertising world to find it dangerously...
View Article11 Branded Content Masterminds Who Are Elevating the Art of Marketing
Whether creating viral videos or bringing the potency of journalism to corporate content, each of the creators honored in this year's Adweek Creative 100 has elevated the art of branding through...
View ArticleMarketers Are Using Customer Data to Drive Smarter, More Creative Storytelling
Last winter, as the East Coast was being hammered by a series of blizzards, spirits vendor Pernod Ricard and its delivery service partner Minibar observed an intriguing data point. The lower the...
View Article15 Ad, Film and TV Directors Who Are Raising the Standard for Storytelling
The director Frank Capra once said: "There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness." Indeed, Adweek's picks for directors in this year's Creative 100 are notable for the...
View ArticleOne Year Later, Publicis Groupe Has No Regrets About ‘Eliminating’ Awards Shows
Will Publicis Groupe be present at this year's Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity? That depends on who you ask. Earlier this month, one of the festival's newsletters welcomed Publicis back into the...
View ArticleAdobe Has Created Five Fonts From the Lost Lettering of Original Bauhaus...
Last year, to kick off its "Hidden Treasures" campaign, Adobe partnered with an award-winning Photoshop brush maker and Oslo's Munch Museum to digitally re-create seven of painter Edvard Munch's...
View ArticleEdelman Has a Message for Cannes Lions This Year: We Do Creative Work, Too
For more than 65 years, some of the world's largest and most influential businesses, personalities and governments have turned to Edelman to help shape public opinion in times of crisis and celebration...
View Article2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Features Are Coming to Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger is introducing several features this week to mark Thursday's kickoff of 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia. Fans will have access to Camera Effects such as filters adding face paint and...
View ArticleMercedes Parent Forced to Recall 238,000 Diesel Cars Over Deceptive Software
Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler is recalling nearly a quarter of a million diesel vehicles after German regulators accused the company of installing deceptive software designed to trick emission tests....
View ArticleWhy Bozoma Saint John Left Uber After One Year to Become CMO of Ari Emanuel’s...
Longtime marketing veteran Bozoma Saint John, who will be speaking at next week's Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity on the topic of taking risks, has made another big leap of her own by leaving a top...
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Healthcare Industry
A growing number of startups are beginning to use artificial intelligence to improve--and in some ways upend--the healthcare industry. And that might be as simple as a diagnosing a cough or as complex...
View ArticleInfographic: Marketers Need to Stop Pandering to Millennials
With all the stereotypes surrounding millennials, marketers may find it tempting to fall into easy traps. But millennials will not be put into a box, and pandering to them will hurt your brand's image,...
View ArticleQ&A: Giant Spoon’s Laura Correnti on the Role Data Plays in Creativity
Laura Correnti, evp and managing director, media at Giant Spoon, is responsible for creating the vision and setting the guardrails for how the agency approaches the marketplace--from data strategy to...
View ArticleFuturist Faith Popcorn Explains Why Marketers Should Care About the Future of...
Futurist Faith Popcorn, founder and CEO of marketing trend shop BrainReserve, is kicking off the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity later this month with a declaration: Masculinity as we know it is...
View Article4 Ways Marketers Can Make Their Customer Data Informative and Inspiring
Data can inspire and inform, but first you have to know how to manage it. Own your own data The first step is figuring out what customer data you already have. If you don't have first-party data, you...
View ArticleCondom Ad Says Sex Is the Last Bastion of Intimacy in a Cold, Detached World
You won't see much skin in Sid Lee's futuristic brand film for Skyn condoms. Sweaty bodies intertwined in the throes of passion are nowhere to be found. Instead, we get a moody sci-fi scenario about...
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