Anti-Lockdown Protesters Get in Reporters’ (Masked) Faces

Journalists covering the pandemic have faced the wrath of people who are against social-distancing restrictions.

Abre abas demais em seu navegador? A ferramenta de agrupamento do Google Chrome está aí para te salvar

Se você é desses que diariamente testa os limites do recurso de múltiplas abas no navegador, a nova ferramenta do Google Chrome chegou para atender os seus pedidos de socorro. Em seu blog oficial, o Google confirmou nesta quarta (13) o lançamento de um novo recurso para a plataforma que permite reunir em “grupos” as …

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Campanha do Instituto Maria da Penha alerta sobre violência doméstica durante quarentena e mostra como pedir ajuda

Desde o início da quarentena no Brasil, muitas mulheres se tornaram mais vulneráveis à violência doméstica. Erroneamente estereotipada como uma realidade restrita à classe social de baixa renda, a violência doméstica ocorre em todos os estratos sociais e, infelizmente, é mais comum do que se imagina. Para alertar sobre esse grave problema que acontece em milhares de …

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School of Visual Arts and Brigham Young University Lead Winners in Global Young Ones Student Awards 2020

Joel Kupperman, Scarred by Success as a ‘Quiz Kid,’ Dies at 83

As a philosophy professor in adulthood, he would not speak of the World War II-era radio show (later on TV) that had made him famous and left him embittered.

1 in 4 Americans Want to Travel Immediately After Covid-19 Restrictions Lift

Since travel has come to a near total standstill during the Covid-19 pandemic, there will be a ton of pent-up consumer demand once travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders lift. That’s according to a survey by marketing agency Mower, which measured 1,000 Americans’ willingness to travel once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted (whenever that may be). It’ll…

Ford’s New Campaign Focuses on Its Role in Fighting the Pandemic

Although there’s present tension in America’s auto manufacturing industry, most companies have started to schedule workers to return to its factories. Ford is reopening in phases–it’s scheduled to open its doors on Monday–and has launched a campaign aimed for network television to remind everyone what its been doing since the outbreak of Covid-19. Created by…

Thrive Market Products to Be Integrated Into 9 to Wine With Kaitlyn Bristowe

Viewers of 9 to Wine, the new digital show from lifestyle entertainment company Kin, featuring Kaitlyn Bristowe, will be seeing a lot of Thrive Market. Kin and Thrive Market reached a marketing partnership that includes content integration, social cross-promotion and other marketing activities. Thrive Market is a membership-based ecommerce site that offers over 6,000 organic…

Ikea’s Quarantine Campaign Offers 6 Ways to Make Furniture Forts

Whether you’re in quarantine with kids who are increasingly desperate for entertainment or you’re simply longing for a time when life was safer and more innocent, Ikea Russia has you covered. The retailer’s newest campaign for the quarantine era perfectly captures that yearning sense of nostalgia by bringing old-fashioned childhood adventure into modern home. Created…

PBR’s First Campaign From 72andSunny Puts a Modern Spin on Old-Timey Advertising

It wasn’t long ago that 72andSunny’s Los Angeles office won Pabst Blue Ribbon, a brand that, at least in recent years, hasn’t done much advertising. With a number of new offerings under its belt, including a hard coffee and line of seltzers, PBR tapped 72andSunny to help spread the word and perhaps rejuvenate the beer…

Adweek Presents: The Way Forward—Restaurants and Retail

In the fifth installment of Adweek’s new livestreamed video series, Adweek Presents: The Way Forward, we’ll focus on how, during this health crisis, restaurant and retail marketers are quickly adapting their businesses to better serve their customers and support frontline and essential workers. Adweek’s editor and svp, programming, Lisa Granatstein, welcomes the Chipotle’s Chris Brandt…

Knight Institute to Sen. John Cornyn: Don’t Block People on Twitter

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University sent a letter to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) Wednesday urging him to stop blocking Twitter users from his @JohnCornyn account due to differing viewpoints. Cornyn’s office had not responded to a request for comment at the time of this post. The letter stops short of threatening legal…

Bud Light Reimagines Iconic Campaign in ‘Stay at Home Humans of Genius’ Ads

Bud Light just brought back its classic tribute to under-appreciated geniuses–but this time with a new shelter-in-place twist. In four new spots, the Anheuser-Busch brand salutes “Stay at Home Humans of Genius,” who make quarantining a little easier on the rest of us by making up new sports, singing from their balconies, giving enthusiastic air…

With Travel on Pause, Airbnb Looks to Long-Term Stays

For a brand that started out renting air mattresses, Airbnb’s business has grown substantially. It’s best known for its accommodation listings, ranging from an apartment in Downtown Brooklyn to Barbie’s Malibu Dream House. In recent years, it’s also developed an experiences business, which sends travelers on activities like accompanying cattle herders in Kenya or stargazing…

D&I TBD: Nina Kossoff on What LGBTQ People Want—And Don’t Want—From Advertising

On Episode 3 of D&I TBD, Adweek is joined by strategist Nina Kossoff. Currently on furlough from Matter due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Kossoff has sat on brand planning and strategy teams at Imprint Projects, McCann, Ogilvy & Mather and Barbarian Group. It’s not every day that two nonbinary queer people co-host a podcast about…

Heinz transforma ingredientes de seu Ketchup em cestas de doação para preparo de refeições

Pensando em como transformar os seis ingredientes que compõem o ketchup Heinz em refeições de qualidade para pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade, a empresa se uniu à Gastromotiva – organização sem fins lucrativos que visa a transformação social por meio da gastronomia – para lançar as Cozinhas Solidárias em São Paulo, projeto criado pela ONG …

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The Latest Agency Mashup Is Dentsumcgarrybowen

Move over, VMLY&R, because there’s a new longwinded agency name in town: Dentsumcgarrybowen. The new creative entity, which is part of Dentsu Aegis Network, encompasses Mcgarrybowen’s various offices around the world and a number of agencies that operate under the Dentsu name outside of Japan. A spokesperson for Dentsu Aegis Network said these agencies are…

Hendrick’s Gin Is Paying Bartenders to Toast Each Other on Social Media

In the latest of dozens of initiatives to mitigate the disastrous impact of the coronavirus pandemic on service industry workers, Hendrick’s Gin created a support campaign that it hopes will move organically through the bartending community, creating a domino effect and criss-crossing the country. The “Pour it Forward” initiative asks bartenders to record themselves demonstrating…

Disney’s Streaming Bundle Begins Major TV Push With First Spot Uniting All 3 Platforms

With most people stuck at home during the pandemic, family viewing on live and on-demand programming alike is through the roof. Disney hopes that many of them will find something to love–and pay for–in its bundle of streaming services. In its first-ever television push, which will kick off tonight during Fox’s The Masked Singer, Disney…

Duracell Puts MediaCom in Charge of $84 Million Global Media Account

Duracell has named GroupM’s MediaCom as its global media agency of record across 32 countries. “The future is battery powered. Duracell is an iconic brand, and it gives us great pride to welcome them back into the MediaCom family,” said MediaCom global COO Nick Lawson, who will take over as CEO in July as Stephen…