Ryan Reynolds and Sir Richard Branson team up to promote gin

Tie-up means Virgin flights have exclusive rights to serve Reynolds’ gin brand on board.

Take a Peek Inside Denny’s New Mammoth Rolling Restaurant

Today’s CMO has many missions–creating clever ad campaigns, promotional tie-ins, strategic partnerships, a vigorous social-media presence and so on. In that respect, Denny’s <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink…

Adobe and Salesforce Up Their Mar-Tech Arms Race With Their Recent Product Launches

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50 Intuitive Lighting Innovations – From Home-Sanitizing Lamps to Malleable Orientation Illuminators (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These intuitive lighting innovations range from home-sanitizing lamps to malleable orientation fixtures.

Notable examples that promote stress relief and a sense of well being include the Philips &#…

Remember When Taco Bell Bought the Liberty Bell? No? Better Watch This

With social media setting the agenda nowadays, brands…

Salesforce’s Latest Product Aims to Create a Complete Customer Profile for Companies

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Top 30 Fashion Editorials in September – From Age-Positive Portraits to Manga-Inspired Lookbooks (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These September 2018 fashion editorials range from age-positive model portraits to manga-inspired lookbooks. Standouts include Helmut Lang’s recent ad campaign by photographer Alexandra Leese….

Top 25 Customization Ideas in September – From Personalized Emoji Backpacks to Open-Source Footwear (TOPLIST)

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35 Examples of Smart Cleaning Products – From Hybrid Robotic Vacuums to AI-Powered Window Cleaners (TOPLIST)

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Diageo's Bulleit Bourbon funds tattooed leather mural

The piece will be unveiled in London before travelling to other European cities.

Stand Up To Cancer unites gamers on a new battleground in fight for research

Activity by Anomaly features characters from well-known games.

Schweppes to take over London Eye for Cocktail Week

Coca-Cola brand plans to turn the Eye yellow and run cocktail masterclasses in the pods.

4 Ways Marketers Can Achieve Personalization at Scale

As the customer journey continues to evolve, brands and marketers have to constantly question their assumptions to fully understand how to deliver value in the moment–based on where customers are and what they’re doing in the moment. Consumers today are being inundated with marketing content from every direction. If your brand is missing the mark…

Content Moderators Are Suing Facebook for Not Properly Protecting Them From Mental Trauma

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Tuesday Wake-Up Call: Instagram's founders are leaving Facebook. Plus, changes at Starbucks


Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for “Ad Age” under “Skills” in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: Instagram’s co-founders have resigned, which is bad news for the photo-sharing app’s parent company, Facebook. The New York Times broke the story that CEO Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, chief technical officer, plan to exit within weeks. Systrom later released a statement confirming the departures:

“We’re planning on taking some time off to explore our curiosity and creativity again. Building new things requires that we step back, understand what inspires us and match that with what the world needs; that’s what we plan to do.”

There may have been other motivations as well. Bloomberg News says the two “were frustrated with an unusual uptick in day-to-day involvement by (Facebook CEO Mark) Zuckerberg, who is now more reliant on Instagram for Facebook’s future growth.”

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Brand Slam: Revlon versus Yves Saint Laurent

The cosmetics sector lends itself well to experiential activity, but how does high-street trendsetter Revlon stack up against luxury counterpart YSL Beauty?

BBH lands global Western Union business

UK and US activity was previously handled by Mcgarrybowen.

Wunderman buys majority stake in martech company Emark

Emark’s headquarters are in the Netherlands but it also has offices in London, Barcelona and Poland.

Play it again Sam! / La copie du pianiste?

THE ORIGINAL?
Pioneer Car Audio Systems – 2007
“Let the road play”

Agency : Mc Cann Erickson, Madrid 
 (Spain)
LESS ORIGINAL
Viva Street Festival – 2018
“Street music is art

Agency : Core4, Bratislava (Slovakia)

Campaign50: Countdown of the 50 most effective celebrity campaigns (number 29 to 20)

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