Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi will play the Super Bowl halftime show: Monday Wake-Up Call


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Skittles ran Super Bowl ads from 2015 through 2017, but this year (like last year) it’s planning an elaborate stunt on Super Bowl Sunday instead. The Mars Wrigley brand is selling tickets to something it calls “Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical,” as Ad Age’s Jessica Wohl reports. There’s a still-to-be-announced celeb attached for the Feb. 3 show at New York’s Town Hall; tickets range from $30 to more than $200, with proceeds going to charity. Wohl adds that the half-hour show will feature a 17-member cast, original songs and a live band. DDB Worldwide is working with Pulitzer-finalist playwright Will Eno on the show. Which is interesting, because Eno’s most famous work, according to The New York Times, bears the influence of Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Edward Albee and Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man.

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Gatorade: Gatorade Jordans

Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans

When Jordan Brand created a collection celebrating Michael Jordan’s career that leveraged Gatorade’s iconic Be Like Mike campaign, Jordan Brand was poised to grab all the attention, relegating Gatorade to a supporting role. Our challenge was to keep Gatorade at the center of the conversation—to make sure that even while shopping for shoes and shirts, athletes and sneakerheads alike remembered that Gatorade had been there throughout Michael Jordan’s career, fuelling the athlete inside the shoes.

To do it, we turned individual Gatorade bottles into pixels and assembled them into the shape of the limited-edition Jordans. Three installations were placed at flagship Foot Locker stores around the country.

Conan O’Brien Wants to Scare Himself With the New, Shorter ‘Conan’

The host of TBS’s “Conan,” which returns Jan. 22 in a half-hour format, talks about ditching his desk, embracing the unknown and Calvin Coolidge. Really.

4 key takeaways from CES


By the numbers, CES is an impressive circus of gadgetry. The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was spread out over nearly 3 million square feet last week, with 4,500 exhibitors showing their wares the latest in 8K screens, giant drones, walking cars, robot pets and automobile prototypes that would make Bruce Wayne jealous (but will never see the light of day).

Despite the sheer number of things on display at CES this year, the hottest items most relevant to marketers and game-changing for average consumers can’t even be seen. From the artificial intelligence increasingly powering, well, everything, to the forthcoming fifth generation of telecommunication technology, the most exciting stuff at CES couldn’t be touched.

Here are four key takeaways Ad Age correspondents picked up from the floor and from conversations with gimlet-eyed experts.

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Gatorade: Gatorade Jordans

Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans
Gatorade Outdoor Ad - Gatorade Jordans

When Jordan Brand created a collection celebrating Michael Jordan’s career that leveraged Gatorade’s iconic Be Like Mike campaign, Jordan Brand was poised to grab all the attention, relegating Gatorade to a supporting role. Our challenge was to keep Gatorade at the center of the conversation—to make sure that even while shopping for shoes and shirts, athletes and sneakerheads alike remembered that Gatorade had been there throughout Michael Jordan’s career, fuelling the athlete inside the shoes.

To do it, we turned individual Gatorade bottles into pixels and assembled them into the shape of the limited-edition Jordans. Three installations were placed at flagship Foot Locker stores around the country.

HBO: HBO Coordinator, Multicultural Marketing (Temp)

HBO Coordinator, Multicultural Marketing (Temp):

HBO:
OVERALL SUMMARY Looking for a dynamic, self-motivated marketing professional to join our team of culture experts.  The Multicultural Marketing team…
New York City, New York

DoubleVerify Buys Leiki in Effort to Protect Brands From Awkward Advertising Moments

The concept of brand safety is one that members of the public are now largely aware of, with articles in mainstream press publicizing how ad tech can lead to blue-chip brands appearing alongside controversial content, primarily on Facebook and YouTube. However, the nature of brand safety alongside the intricacies of programmatic advertising, whereby ads are…

Basel Braille by Takeout, Miami

BASEL BRAILLE was a room full of fun facts and two performers. The catch? All fun facts were written on the wall in the tactile writing system Braille that could only be read out loud by the blind performers from the National Federation of the Blind.
As a result, visitors of BASEL BRAILLE were tricked into interacting with a blind person for the first time in their lives. Once the ice was broken with a fun fact, visitors engaged in genuine conversations that broke down the barriers between the sightet and the blind and changed their perception on blindness.

CREDITS

Advertised brand: National Federation of the Blind
Advert title(s): Basel Braille
Headline and copy text (in English): The Only Show During Art Basel That You Can Only See When You Cannot See.
Media (see available options below): Experiential
Advertising Agency: TAKEOUT, Miami, USA
Agency website: takeout.agency
Agency Instagram account: @get_takeout
Creative Director: Cris Cordero & Elisa Sain
Art Director: Cris Cordero & Elisa Sain
Copywriter: Cris Cordero & Elisa Sain
Illustrator: Cris Cordero & Elisa Sain
Photographer: Arne Engelen
Additional credits: Videographer: Arne Engelen, Giano Currie

Why Privacy Standards Need to Catch Up With the Rapidly Advancing Internet of Things

In his day job, Peter Bihr is a strategic consultant who provides big tech companies and the occasional government with policy work, research and product advice around Internet of Things (IoT) technology and other emerging platforms. But earlier this year, Bihr set out to solve one of the many problems that marketers face when using…

7 TV News Titans Who It Turns Out Were Not Too Big to Fail

Over the last 15 years, TVNewser has documented the downfall of some of the most high-profile TV news personalities–journalism professionals who had been welcomed into homes day after day for years, only to be undone seemingly in an instant. Below, a look at some of the most notable TV-news flameouts since 2004. Dan Rather In…

Brand Safety Is More Than Just a Programmatic Problem. It Plagues Paid Search, Too

Mention the term “brand safety” to those with a cursory knowledge of how online advertising works and it conjures images of content farmers fueling ad networks to game the convoluted programmatic ecosystem of legitimate ad dollars. The end result is that ads from household brands are then served on low-quality websites containing everything from fake…

How a Cable News Blog Turned Into a Top Source for the Highs and Lows of Broadcast Media

Television news matters. The networks should be monitored, scrutinized, criticized and applauded when appropriate. And all of the scrutiny makes TV news better. That was the simple idea behind the launch of my blog CableNewser 15 years ago. I was a television news junkie, and I wanted to read more about the shows, the stars…

Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer Open Up About Making Morning TV History

In 2005, one year after the launch of TVNewser (now owned by Adweek), morning news history was made when Robin Roberts joined Diane Sawyer as anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America. It marked the first time ever that two women had hosted a national morning news show. They worked side by side for five years,…

How Barbara Walters, Adweek’s TV News Legend, Changed the Industry ‘Forever’

Barbara Walters reinvented TV news during her five decades in the business. In 1974, she became the first female co-host of an American news program on Today (though she had already been doing the job unofficially for a decade); and two years later, ABC Evening News named her the first female co-anchor of a network…

Mediator: Chilling Notion for 2020: Disinformation Will Be Homegrown

Reports that a group of Democrats used online disinformation in the Alabama Senate race in 2017 raise the question of how low will the next presidential campaign go.

These 30 TV Newsers Fueled the Industry’s Incredible Evolution Over the Past 15 Years

On Jan. 1, 2004, a Towson University college freshman named Brian Stelter (now chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide and anchor of Reliable Sources) launched a potent little blog about the TV news business. First called CableNewser, then renamed TVNewser that July when it joined the Mediabistro Blog Network, it quickly became the go-to industry…

Herb Kelleher Passionately Pursued His Company’s Purpose

Herb Kelleher, the founder and philosopher of Southwest Airlines, passed away this month at the age of 87. According to his obituary in The New York Times, Mr. Kelleher, was a lawyer who moved from New Jersey to San Antonio to start his own law practice. Then in 1967, one of his clients, Rollin W. […]

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After Stephen King Tweeted at a Maine Paper for Cutting Book Reviews, It Gave Readers a ‘Scary Good’ Offer

The Portland Press Herald in Maine said it would bring back its local book reviews if the author and his followers brought in 100 new subscriptions. They brought in twice that.

‘The Upside’ Takes Kevin Hart to No. 1 Amid Oscar Controversy

“The Upside,” starring Hart and Bryan Cranston, exceeded box-office expectations in the same week that Hart definitively ruled out hosting the Oscars.

Tecnicalidade 106 – Uma mão considerável

Mais um Janeiro e mais uma CES! Rafael Silva e Rodrigo Gonzalez comentam no primeiro Tecnicalidade de 2019 sobre os produtos que mais curtiram na maior feira de tecnologia para consumidores do mundo! Eles também comentam sobre mudanças de smartphones e como tem sido essa experiência além dos dois primeiros gadgets da semana, um útil, …

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