Robert Downey Jr. to Host Series on AI for YouTube Red
YouTube ordered a new series on artificial intelligence that will be hosted and narrated by actor Robert Downey Jr. Google-owned YouTube Red will release the eight hour-long episodes next year. The...
View ArticleHuge Bolsters Global Executive Team With New Creative, Design, Strategy, Data...
Today Huge announced a series of internal promotions that will reshape the IPG agency's global leadership team. This news follows the promotion of Michael Koziol to global CEO in March. That...
View ArticleWhile Well-Intentioned, VR Is Rooted in Privilege and Disregards Those in Need
Like lots of people in the world, I've spent some quality family time roaming my neighborhood trying to capture little cartoon monsters on my cell phone. For many of us, Pok?mon Go was our first...
View ArticleSchweppes Brazil Made a Dress That Measures How Often Women Get Groped
We're a far cry from weird sexual innuendos now, Schweppes! The brand tapped Ogilvy Brazil to create something it calls the "Dress for Respect." More than just an awkward pun, the dress is outfitted...
View ArticleTwitter Is Expanding the Signals It Uses to Detect Bad Behavior
In its quest to further decrease the abusive content that litters the site, Twitter said it has begun using "behavioral signals" like tweets from unconfirmed emails and people signing up for multiple...
View ArticleHow the Supreme Court’s Decision on Sports Betting May Influence ESPN’s...
After his network's upfront presentation today, ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro told reporters that Monday's Supreme Court ruling--which strikes down a 1992 federal law prohibiting betting on college and...
View ArticleAqua Teen Hunger Force Returns, Briefly, So That Carl Can Promote Deadpool 2
Much like the invincible Deadpool, you can't keep Carl Brutananadilewski down. The gruff and volatile suburbanite survived the 2015 cancellation of Aqua Teen Hunger Force after 11 seasons, with his...
View ArticleDentsu Improves Organic Growth for Q1, Attributes 13% Profit Drop to Overwork...
Dentsu released a report on its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of 2018, revealing a third consecutive quarter of organic growth while also reporting a decline in operating profit....
View ArticleFacebook Just Introduced a Youth Portal for Teens
Facebook doesn't seem to be buying in to all of the studies saying that teens are leaving Facebook. The social network Tuesday introduced its Youth Portal, which it described as "a central place for...
View ArticleThese Agency Creatives Made an A-to-Z Sexual Harassment Guidebook for the...
This week, the ad industry took tentative steps toward addressing sexual harassment within its ranks, as Time's Up Advertising held 14 meetings across the U.S. and Canada. During the Facebook...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Brands to Stop Complaining About Privacy Issues and Take an...
Facebook's ongoing collision with any remaining societal expectations of privacy has lit the world on fire with heated debate. As noted by The New York Times columnist Kevin Roose in his recent column,...
View ArticleFacebook Is Releasing 3 Features to Make Its Stories Easier to Use
Facebook announced three new features that are coming to Facebook Stories, initially launching in India and then going global shortly thereafter. Photos and videos captured via Facebook Camera will...
View ArticleStoli Taps Composer Hans Zimmer to Evoke Boldness With a Sonic-Driven Campaign
Vodka makes everything a little bit louder, and Stoli is capitalizing on that with its new sonic-driven campaign. In collaboration with agency Fred & Farid, Stoli launched a new global advertising...
View ArticleAxe Clarifies Much-Discussed Lyric From Recent Campaign: It Does Not Say...
For the first time in recorded history, something positive (or at least mildly amusing) has emerged from the rancid sewer that is the YouTube comments section. Earlier this year, Axe and its creative...
View ArticleWhy Conan O’Brien Says He’s ‘the Most Excited and Energized’ He’s Ever Been
At the start of her 2018 pitch to advertisers, Turner president of ad sales Donna Speciale promised, "Today will be different; it has to be." And while the upfront did include some return bits--"This...
View ArticleAccenture’s MXM Hires Publicis Groupe Vet as Creative Operations Director
Meredith Xcelerated Marketing (MXM), the New York-based digital agency that was acquired by Accenture Interactive this March, welcomed former Publicis executive Bill Hughes as creative operations...
View ArticleVice Media Will Show How Companies Go Environmentally Friendly in New...
Overture, an organization that brings together companies to advocate for global humanitarian issues, and Vice Media announced a new partnership to create a series of videos spotlighting companies that...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Gets More Social
Navigating the world became a whole lot easier 13 years ago, when Google launched Google Maps. Within two years, Google started to make Google Maps a social experience by allowing users to post reviews...
View ArticleTBWA Teamed Up With YouTube Influencer Jacques Slade to Raise Awareness of...
TBWA\Chiat\Day New York worked with Thomson Reuters Foundation on a campaign utilizing the popularity of "unboxing" videos to educate viewers about the reality of an issue they probably associate with...
View ArticleA New Line of ‘Bittersweet’ Ice Creams Commemorates the Crappy Year Mexico’s...
As 2018 rolls into summer, it's tempting to think that the world really did end in 2012 and we're all living in the hell we deserve. This sentiment is perhaps loudest in the United States, but Mexico's...
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