Facebook: we are not listening to your conversations to sell ads

Stan Chudnovsky, head of product for Facebook Messenger, was swift to refute the suggestion that Facebook was listening in on conversations so it could target ads.

Should the Coca-Cola truck be parked for good to combat the nation's obesity crisis?

Coke’s famous brightly lit HGV is under fire from health campaigners in the city of Liverpool.

Adobe enlists help of influencers for university pop-ups

Adobe is touring UK universities with influencers to help students develop their skills with its Creative Cloud services.

Amy Winehouse and Sherlock Holmes statues wrapped in red coats for Wrap Up London

London’s statues have been wrapped up in bright red coats to encourage people to donate their spare garments.

Snap Q3 earnings report disappoints investors again

Achieving 87% of the target analysts were expecting, Snap Inc struggles to establish its credibility.

Wavemaker drives global Alibaba Singles Day campaign

The Group M agency is tasked with increasing the ecommerce event’s impact beyond China and beyond overseas Chinese people.

Step up to stop the abuse

The ad industry has too often failed to deal with the issue of sexual aggression, even when an entire company has been aware there’s a problem.

Standing by is no longer an option in the gender equality fight

As the industry begins a post Weinstein purge, neutrality is not an option, says MediaCom’s chief transformation officer.

How Diageo and RPM scored by appointing a second Captain Morgan

There’s only one Captain Morgan – except on 2 May 2016, when the Diageo rum brand shared the spotlight with Leicester City’s Wes Morgan after the club’s historic Premier League win. The work won the Marketing in the Moment category at Campaign’s Marketing New Thinking Awards, held in association with Sky Media.

Payback time: What makes an agency acquisition work?

Holding companies have been spending hefty amounts on snapping up ad agencies to fill gaps in their capabilities or regional offerings. Why do some deals enrich all parties while others end up in write-downs or the courts?

The conversation: Direct Line's Evans and Saatchi & Saatchi's Huntington on revolutionary thinking

In our latest monthly feature about marketers talking to their agency partners, Direct Line’s Mark Evans and Saatchi & Saatchi’s Richard Huntington discuss beating first impressions and big thinking in a neglected sector.

Rankin the risk-taker: the photographer talks breaking rules, copycats and real beauty

The photographer has built his career on pushing boundaries. Now, through his creative agency The Full Service, he is helping brands do the same.

Movers and shakers: WPP, AMV, Fold7, VCCP, Co-operative Group and more

Welcome to Campaign’s weekly round-up of the hires, departures and promotions across the industry.

Credit Card-Sized Solar Chargers – The 'Sunslice' Solar Charger is Impossible Compact

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Sunslice’ Solar Charger comes as an impressive piece of equipment that will provide users with a way to carry the advanced technology with them anywhere given the impossible compact…

Liminal Rural Houses – Tab House Helps Urban Denizens Move from the City to the Country (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) There’s no doubt that city life and country life are two entirely different modes of being, and Tab House is specifically designed to help draw those two worlds slightly closer together. Built…

Fake City Photography – Gregor Sailer's 'Potemkin Villages' Highlight Fake Cities Around the World (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Potemkin Villages are fake cities. The name itself stems from an 18th century dictum from Catherine the Great commanding Field Marshall Potemkin to build artificial settlements that would disguise…

This Ad Is Trolling Readers of a Major Literary Magazine in the Best Way

How do you get readers of a major literary magazine to notice your advertisement? Put a big typo right in the headline. That’ll rile them up! That was the fun, troll-ish strategy employed by a Kentucky advertiser in the new issue of Oxford American. “We speak you’re language,” says the full-page ad, placed on behalf…

Wings for Heroes, But Not Wings To Fly

A soldier comes home from a deployment and his buddies are there to greet him and treat him to a plate full of wings and the magic of DVR. It’s the kind of storybook narrative that “Madison Avenue” is famous for. Here’s the reality. On Saturday, November 11, 2017 all Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in […]

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Snapchat User Growth Disappoints in Another Down Quarter

The latest financial results for the messaging and media company Snap included higher costs and a net loss more than triple that of a year ago.

Thomas Barrack’s Colony Capital Ends Bid for Weinstein Studio

Talks broke down after the private equity firm took a closer look.