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Ikea promises you a good night’s sleep, but short of buying a bed from the global furnishings retailer, how can you enjoy the benefits? Memac Ogilvy Dubai came up with an innovative answer with its “S?mnig” print ad, featured on the back of United Arab Emirates’ Good magazine issue for April. The agency calls it…

By default, your LinkedIn feed contains trending or recommended articles that you can click on and read. But what if you’re not interested in seeing these articles? Our guide will show you how to stop trending articles from appearing in your feed. Note: These screenshots were captured in the LinkedIn application on iOS. Also note:…

Warning: This video contains images of extreme gun violence.

If they haven’t already, someone is soon going to ask you “What do you think of ‘This Is America’?” It’s a song by Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, who hosted “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, performed the song live on the show and then released the music video, above, on YouTube’s Vevo. Though the YouTube post of his “This Is America” performance on the “SNL” YouTube channel has, as of this writing, fewer than 100,000 views, the official music video has racked up more than 17 millionand has become a major media obsession and cultural talking point.

The NSFL (Not Safe For Life) video features a dancing, singing Glover engaging in hyperviolencee.g., he graphically shoots a guitar player in the back of the head at point-blank range just 50 seconds into the video. (The violence gets even worse later.) This comes right after Glover has sung,

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Nestl? is growing its coffee business. The company has just inked a $7.15 billion deal with Starbucks to market some of its products globally–well, outside of Starbucks’ coffee shops. The deal is pending regulatory approval. Should it make it past regulators–the companies expect the deal to close by the end of 2018–the brands will work…

Perennial Super Bowl presence Avocados from Mexico has chosen Energy BBDO as its new ad agency of record after a competitive review. The organization–which is a nonprofit trade group representing the Mexican Hass Avocados Importers Association and the Association of Growers and Packers of Avocados From Mexico–issued an RFP earlier this year, aiming to consolidate…

Warning: This video contains images of extreme gun violence.

If they haven’t already, someone is soon going to ask you “What do you think of ‘This Is America’?” It’s a song by Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, who hosted “Saturday Night Live” over the weekend, performed the song live on the show and then released the music video, above, on YouTube’s Vevo. Though the YouTube post of his “This Is America” performance on the “SNL” YouTube channel has, as of this writing, fewer than 100,000 views, the official music video has racked up more than 17 millionand has become a major media obsession and cultural talking point.

The “NSFL” (Not Safe For Life) video features a dancing, singing Glover engaging in hyperviolencee.g., he graphically shoots a guitar player in the back of the head at point-blank range just 50 seconds into the video. (The violence gets even worse later.) This comes right after Glover has sung,

Continue reading at AdAge.com

Now that the weeklong Digital Content NewFronts in New York is over, advertisers can prepare for the next round of presentations. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, which operates the Digital Content NewFronts, announced today that the first Digital Content NewFronts West will be held on Oct. 9 and 10 in Los Angeles. While the exact media…

As one of the most famous pieces of art at the Louvre in Paris, Venus de Milo has a pretty heavy work week: 13 hour days, six days a week. But what about when she’s off the clock? To promote its no-shell nuts, Wonderful Pistachios is launching a new campaign called “Sometimes Naked Is Better,”…