Chief Brand Officer Anuj Bhasin Gets to the Core of Gatorade
Neither the Portland Trail Blazers, the Miami Heat nor any other NBA team have announced where Damian Lillard will play this year, but Gatorade has a spot for him. The former NBA Rookie of the Year and...
View ArticleTerry Crews’ President Camacho ‘Leads From Behind’ in Colon Cancer PSA
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho has come from the future to encourage the public to "get your ass checked" in the latest entertaining installment from the Colorectal Cancer...
View ArticleYouTube Is Now TV—Here’s Why Food and Beverage Brands Should Embrace It
Food and beverage brands have enticed hungry consumers for decades with juicy chicken sandwiches and oven-fresh pizza in TV commercials at dinnertime. It's classic contextual advertising--matching a...
View ArticleGut Names Sandra Alfaro Its First US CEO
Sandra Alfaro recently left DDB Chicago without announcing where she might be headed next. The short mystery is now solved as Alfaro has been named the first U.S. CEO at independent agency network Gut,...
View ArticleMcCann Worldgroup Extends Reckitt Relationship With Durex Remit in Europe
Safe sex brand Durex has extended its relationship with McCann Worldgroup, which will become its global brand lead and see it tasked with the development of a new marketing communications model and...
View ArticleIRLY Is Rewriting the Rules of Connection for Gen Z
Meeting new people, especially through dating apps, can be uncomfortable. That's why IRLY does things differently. The app is tailored to Gen Z and offers a fresh approach to online dating. When...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Brand Podcast: Community and Collaboration
It's the season 3 finale of Let's Talk About Brand. Today, we have a very special guest: Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income. Flynn shares his journey of unintentionally building his personal brand...
View ArticleBarbie Marketing 101: The Road to Inclusion Doesn’t Happen Overnight
Our world has exploded in pink and Barbiemania has officially taken over. Mattel's bet that Greta Gerwig's new film Barbie can help re-energize the 64-year-old brand is paying off: the film sold an...
View ArticleInside Home Depot’s First Activation on Roblox
Figuring out how to show up on a new media channel and speaking authentically to that platform's audience can feel like a tricky puzzle for most brands. But when The Home Depot entered Roblox in March,...
View ArticleWomen’s World Cup Gets a Big Assist From Brands
At the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the ideal of equal pay for women's and men's players remains elusive. Evening out endorsements have proven similarly tricky, but brands are...
View ArticleThese Apple Ads Capture Breathtaking Dances Spanning the Globe
The latest installment of Apple's long-running and celebrated "Shot on iPhone" campaign shines a light on the universal expression of dance, through the lens of diverse photographers from around the...
View ArticleNicole Jeter West Gets Backup in Fight for Marketing’s Underdogs
If a private equity firm functions ideally, it purchases a struggling company or organization, fixes what's broken, and returns that entity to the world in better condition than it was found. When...
View ArticleA Rebrand Gone Wrong: Saying Goodbye to My eX
Over the weekend, Elon Musk announced a major change for Twitter. We all hoped it was a joke, that he wouldn't actually change the name of such a well-established brand. But as we've all come to see,...
View ArticleWill.i.am Taps IBM Watson Technology to Build His Own Creative Platform
Multihyphenate will.i.am does not sit idle for long. Seeing the creative challenges faced during pandemic lockdowns, the singer, songwriter, producer and tech entrepreneur embarked on a mission:...
View ArticleTwo Decades Ago, Corcoran Group CMO Christina Panos Revolutionized Real...
Even though she's worked there for 19 years, Christina Panos vividly recalls her first day at the Corcoran Group. It was 2004, and the luxury real estate firm at 660 Madison Ave. had hired her on as...
View ArticleHow GenAI Is Impacting Human Jobs Across the Ad Industry
The advertising industry is increasingly adopting generative AI for improving workflow and saving time on mundane tasks, albeit at uneven rates. Against the backdrop of this excitement is apprehension...
View ArticleParamount Finishes Upfront With Volume Increases
Paramount is crossing the upfront finish line. The company is now virtually done with negotiations, becoming the second major publisher after NBCUniversal to wrap the upfront. Regarding results,...
View ArticleFox Wraps Upfront With Growth in Sports, News and Tubi
Fox is joining the wrap party. Today, Fox became the third major publisher to announce it's closed upfront talks. The company follows Paramount, which closed talks this morning, and NBCUniversal, which...
View ArticlePeacock Climbs to 24 Million Subscribers as Industry Strikes Continue
A week after wrapping its upfront talks, NBCUniversal announced Peacock climbed to 24 million subscribers, a gain of 2 million from last quarter. That's nearly double the 13 million it reported just a...
View ArticleSWAC and PepsiCo Make HBCU Sports a Bigger Deal
During last year's Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) media day, commissioner Charles McClelland and then-PepsiCo North America president of multicultural business development Derek Lewis had a...
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