Hotels.com Booked the Longest URL in Internet History to Prove It Has More...
You know that Hotels.com can help you book a hotel, but you might be unaware that it also offers seaside cabanas, yurts and the occasional dolphin motel in lower San Diego. To expand on its well-known...
View ArticleYour Social Media Accounts Are Putting You at Risk: Here’s Why
The term cybersecurity has become so widely and frequently used that merely hearing the term brings the average consumer's alert level into the red zone. Like a lion crouching before its prey, as a...
View ArticleGoogle Scores Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year Award
Google has been named the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity's Creative Marketer of the Year for 2018. The tech behemoth is being celebrated not only for its creativity, but the company's use of new...
View ArticleAI, Not User Experience, Is Holding Voice Back From Its Full Potential
Every time I sign into any social media platform, someone has an opinion on the future of voice. It's either the future we all deserve from the technology at our fingertips or it's another passing fad...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake Is Back for Bai, and He’s Weirdly Obsessed With The Fruit...
Justin Timberlake feeds "braspberries"--blueberry-filled raspberries, which the pop star introduced for some reason last year on his Instagram feed--to an anchorman in Bai's send-up of cable-news...
View ArticleThe American Advertising Federation Just Kicked Bill Cosby Out of Its Hall of...
Today the American Advertising Federation announced the decision to rescind Bill Cosby's induction into the Hall of Fame after he was found guilty last week of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea...
View ArticleA Mysterious Microphone Let People Cast Judgments, Then Revealed the Star...
How would you describe someone who confronts their attacker? Who exposes confidential information to the public? Who dresses provocatively to prove a point? Passersby in L.A. were given the chance to...
View ArticleOmelet Co-Founder Who Left to Star in Food Network Series ‘The Grill Dads’...
Omelet co-founder and former chief brand officer Ryan Fey, who left the indie creative shop he led for 13 years in August and then popped up in December as the star of a reality series on the Food...
View ArticleKantar’s New Analytics Practice Aims to Provide Marketers the ‘Right’ Data
Despite widespread speculation about whether WPP will sell off its data investment management division Kantar, the organization is expanding. Kantar opened the doors today to a new global analytics...
View ArticleYouTube Adds Karate Kid Crane Kicks and ‘Wax On, Wax Off’ Easter Eggs to Its...
YouTube has set the bar sky-high for its new Karate Kid revival series Cobra Kai, which it hopes will become its subscription service's signature series a la House of Cards or The Handmaid's Tale. "I...
View ArticleTwitter Corrected a Bug That Caused Passwords to Be Stored in Plain Text
Twitter admitted Thursday that it fixed a bug that stored passwords in plain text in an internal log, stressing that the information in that log was contained within Twitter's systems and no passwords...
View ArticleYouTube Talked New Shows, Growth and Advertising Options at BrandCast
YouTube told advertisers on Thursday that it now has 1.8 billion logged-in users on its platform, acknowledging both the benefits and risks that come with that scale. At its annual BrandCast event in...
View ArticleWalmart Buys 75% Share of Flipkart, India’s Largest Ecommerce Platform
Flipkart must feel like the belle of the ecommerce ball. FlipKart, the Indian ecommerce marketplace, "has approved an agreement to sell about 75 percent of the company to a Walmart Inc.-led group for...
View ArticleShould Fintech Startups Start Shifting Social Media Funds to Traditional Media?
Social media has in many ways revolutionized communication between businesses and their audiences. For financial technology and pretty much every other industry, social media is no longer just an extra...
View ArticleMicrosoft Retains Dentsu as Global Media Agency of Record After a Closed Review
Dentsu Aegis Network has succeeded in defending Microsoft's global media planning and buying business, which is one of its largest accounts. Multiple parties close to the matter told Adweek that the...
View ArticleOpinion From a Gen Z: Facebook, Congress and the Generation Gap
The recent Facebook congressional hearings felt similar to trying to explain to my grandmother that she doesn't need to share my profile picture on Facebook and write, "Look at my beautiful...
View ArticleA Hospital’s Heartbreaking Portrayal of the Cancer Journey Shows the...
The Hospital de Cancer de Barretos, an internationally renowned children's cancer treatment center, has been renamed the "Hospital de Amor," or "Hospital of Love" to promote the power of love as the...
View ArticleChief Creative Behind Saatchi & Saatchi’s ‘It’s a Tide Ad’ Rejoins FCB
The chief creative behind Saatchi & Saatchi New York's "It's a Tide Ad," the Super Clio-winning spot which Adweek called the "runaway winner" for best ad of Super Bowl LII, is leaving the...
View Article3 Lessons From Heinz’s #Mayochup Craze That Will Elevate Your Social Strategy
The fastest way to build buzz for a new product launch? Move your product focus group to social media before the launch. Heinz recently developed a very successful social media campaign for its new...
View ArticlePinterest: Here’s How to Hide a Conversation from Your Inbox
Did you know Pinterest allows you to hide conversations from your message inbox? Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Pinterest application on iOS....
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