WWF: Frog

WWF Print Ad - Frog

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a national conservation initiative of WWF Canada and the Vancouver Aquarium. It asks Canadians to take action and pick up trash anywhere water meets land.

WWF: Murre

WWF Print Ad - Murre

The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is a national conservation initiative of WWF Canada and the Vancouver Aquarium. It asks Canadians to take action and pick up trash anywhere water meets land.

Mirror to create single ad sales team after Express deal

Trinity Mirror and Northern & Shell’s titles will merge their ad sales teams in a single unit as well as pooling some editorial resources as part of a drive to save £20m a year.

Mars' Perfect Fit launches chatbot for tailored petcare advice

Mars’ petcare brand, Perfect Fit and agency Freuds has built a chatbot aimed at providing customised petcare advice.

Friday Morning Stir

-Sid Lee rings in “Payback Season” with a new campaign for H&R Block Canada (video above).

-Hyatt launched a global creative review for all 12 of its brands.

-TBWA Worldwide CEO Troy Ruhanen says “It’s Time to Stop Devaluing Creativity.”

-YouTube suspended ads on Logan Paul‘s channels, citing his “recent pattern of behavior.”

-The Drum explains “How Bud Light pulled off giving free beer to thousands of Philadelphia Eagles fans.”

-Adam&eveDDB launched “Here’s to Love” as the next spot in its “We Are Family” campaign for McCain’s.

-Dunkin’ Donuts CMO Tony Weisman says “We took our coffee message for granted.”

Virtual Lindsey Vonn Hits Slopes in Discovery's Own Olympics Push


Vying for a second Olympic gold on the slopes of South Korea, U.S. downhill skier Lindsey Vonn freezes mid-run.

Six-time medalist Bode Miller walks up to her crouched torso, pointing out the technical secrets of one of the fastest women on skis.

Such visual trickery in an augmented-reality TV studio is one of the tools that Discovery Communications is betting on to keep European fans glued to the Pyeongchang Olympics starting Friday. The games represent a moment of truth for the Maryland-based media company, a key holding of billionaire John Malone, as it seeks to make good on its $1.4 billion investment in the world’s foremost sporting event.

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With Facebook’s News Feed Changes, Canvas Ads Take Center Stage

With the announcement of the recent Facebook News Feed changes, which place emphasis on content from individual users over posts from brands, one thing is clear: Brands will not have as much organic reach as they once did. Brands will be looking for ways to stand out and reach consumers who aren’t already “fans” that…

Apple’s Sad, Sweet Short Film About a Mother’s Love Goes Viral in China

For Apple in China, there is plenty riding on the iPhone X. The U.S. tech giant has lost share in the world’s largest smartphone market in recent years, as aggressive Chinese rivals like Huawei have made inroads. The iPhone X launched in China in November, and while some early data looks positive for Apple, the…

Netflix mostra quais séries foram as primeiras a serem maratonadas pelos usuários

90% dos assinantes da plataforma de streaming já maratonaram pelo menos um seriado na vida

> LEIA MAIS: Netflix mostra quais séries foram as primeiras a serem maratonadas pelos usuários

Facebook está testando um botão para reprovar comentários

Não é o tão desejado “dislike”, mas já ajuda

> LEIA MAIS: Facebook está testando um botão para reprovar comentários

Bits: Farhad’s Week in Tech: HomePod Whiffs, but Elon Musk Does Not

In this week’s tech newsletter, a look at Apple’s new smart speaker, the Waymo vs. Uber trial and a billionaire’s rocket (plus his cherry red convertible).

Lotame Purges Its Data Exchange After Identifying 400 Million User Profiles as Bots

Lotame, one of the world’s largest exchanges for digital third-party data, announced on Friday that it has purged 10 percent of its over 4 billion profiles after identifying them as bots or otherwise fraudulent accounts. Lotame CEO Andy Monfried estimated that 40 percent of all web traffic is fictional. The industry, he said, is facing…

Why Businesses Will Struggle to Adapt to 2018’s Social Marketing Challenges

In its ongoing efforts to redefine popular beauty standards as part of its decade-long Real Beauty campaigns, Dove learned the hard way about the thin line that exists between positive social message and controversy. For a company that has so successfully promoted positive body image in the past, it must have come as a shock…

What You Need to Start Doing Now to Be Ready for GDPR

eMarketer projects that U.S. programmatic ad spending will reach $32.56 billion by the end of 2017. By 2019, more than four in five U.S. digital display ad dollars, or $45.72 billion, will flow via automated means–accounting for 83.6 percent of U.S. digital display ad dollars. Despite those numbers, programmatic advertising has been under attack for…

What Brands and Sponsored Athletes Can and Can’t Say, Wear and Do During the Olympics

Hyatt Launches Global Creative Review and Eliminates Chief Marketing Officer Role

The Hyatt hotel chain has parted with its creative agency of record MullenLowe and launched a global review for all 12 of its brands around the world, sources confirmed to Adweek. This news follows last month’s announcement that Hyatt would eliminate the global chief marketing officer role as part of an effort to “accelerate growth”…

Supplements brand Healthspan's pop-up aims to get people fit for their wedding

Healthspan, the vitamins and supplements brand, has set up a health and fitness space to help get people ready for their upcoming nuptials.

NBCUniversal’s Total Audience Delivery Metric Makes Its Olympics Advertiser Guarantee Debut

During the next two weeks, big names like Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin, Nathan Chen and Chloe Kim will dominate NBC’s Olympics coverage. But the Games’ advertisers will be focused on a different moniker: TAD. That’s short for Total Audience Delivery, the metric that NBCUniversal is now using in its ratings guarantees to Olympics advertisers. TAD…

To Sheep or Not to Sheep: Serta Debuts First Work from Leo Burnett


The sheep are baaaaaaaack in Serta’s new campaign, the first marketing work from the Hoffman Estates, Illinois-based mattress brand’s new lead creative agency Leo Burnett.

In an era of challenger brands, such as growing bed-in-a-box players Casper and Tuft and Needle, the heritage bed company is seeking to differentiate itself and re-energize with consumers.

In a new spot, Serta highlights the fictional Rick Blomquist of De Pere, Wisconsin and his comfortable life. Every day, Rick eats his comfortable breakfast in his comfortable, ranch-style home, and travels to his comfortable job in his comfortable shoes. Then, when he tries out a Serta mattress, surrounded by snuggly sheep, Rick realizes his life is only “sorta comfortable.” “I’ve been living a lie,” he mutters before a voiceover proclaims, “Not just sorta comfortable, Serta comfortable.”

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EE seeks to grow 'MiFi' brand with superfast antenna for rural consumers

EE has launched a 4G antenna that domestic customers can install at their homes, giving people who live in rural areas superfast internet access – a move designed to grow the brand’s share of the home broadband market.