LinkedIn Marketing Labs Kicks Off Free Certification Program

LinkedIn began offering a free certification program through online learning center LinkedIn Marketing Labs to recognize professionals who have become proficient in advertising via its platform. The initiative debuted with two certifications: Fundamentals Certification (basic): For people who demonstrate expertise in launching LinkedIn ad campaigns and tactics. With this certification, they can run successful LinkedIn…

Hypebeast Offers Publishers a Blueprint for Wholesale Commerce

Publishers intent on owning the relationship with their audience might be overlooking a key opportunity: commerce. Hypebeast, an independent fashion publisher that covers the streetwear world, launched retail clothing market HBX in 2012, in the hopes of adding a fresh revenue stream by capitalizing on its readers’ affinity for luxury clothing. In 2020, HBX generated…

Team GB Auctions NFTs to Offer Fans Unique Connection to the Olympics They Can’t Attend

With the Tokyo Olympic Games set to officially start, Team Great Britain (GB) has become the first to adopt non-fungible tokens (NFTs) featuring the athletes’ previous achievements, which can be purchased through a dedicated store. The collectible digital items, minted within the blockchain to make them unique, will be sold to allow fans of Team…

McDonald's pledges to buy more from diverse-owned suppliers

The fast-food giant is dedicating a quarter of its $14 billion annual supply chain spending to firms owned by people underrepresented in business.

Twitter estuda acrescentar efeitos de voz ao Espaços

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Enquanto prepara o adeus definitivo do Fleets, o Twitter segue trabalhando para implementar novidades no Espaços. Agora, um vazamento sugere que, em breve, a plataforma de conversas por chamada de voz ao vivo receberão, em breve, um recurso que permite ao usuário acrescentar efeitos de voz. A novidade foi identificada por Jane Manchun Wong, especializada …

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Why Companies Need to Take the Lead in the Plastic-Free Movement

It’s no secret that there’s been an enormous cultural and consumer reckoning with our plastic usage. According to some estimates, roughly 8 million metric tons of plastic makes its way into the ocean every year, and by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the water. Even in the face of these alarming…

Grey Names Joint Managing Directors to Strengthen UK Leadership Team

Advertising and marketing agency Grey has hired Jonny Tennant-Price, former group account director at Droga5 and promoted Nathan Gainford, who was managing partner, to become joint managing directors. The duo will take on the roles to support the agency’s growth and operations as well as strengthen its creative product. They will report to the agency…

Anthony Bourdain Deepfake Controversy Points to Pitfalls of AI-Generated Content

A new documentary on the life of Anthony Bourdain is facing backlash after the director revealed he used machine learning techniques to clone the late celebrity chef’s voice and narrate select quotes of which no actual audio recordings exist. Morgan Neville, whose film Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain hit theaters last week, admitted in…

Giphy Integrates With Spotify

Audio streaming platform Spotify is getting visual following an integration with Facebook-owned GIF discovery platform Giphy. Verified music artists on Giphy–including Doja Cat, Conan Gray, The Kid Laroi, Post Malone, Nicki Minaj and The Weeknd–will be able to connect their clips, GIFs and stickers directly to associated music on the Spotify application. Giphy/Spotify Giphy/Spotify Giphy/Spotify…

Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen's Podcast to Become a Book

Crown is publishing “Renegades: Born in the USA,” a book adaptation of the podcast conversations.

Depois de Taylor Swift, agora é Billie Eilish que lança show de seu novo disco no Disney+

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Para um streaming que se vende como voltado a conteúdos para a família, o Disney+ nos últimos meses anda bastante musical quanto à compra de conteúdos externos. Isso porque depois de lançar o filme-concerto de Taylor Swift para divulgar seu mais recente disco, “Folklore”, e assumir a distribuição da agora minissérie “Get Back” de Peter …

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C-Suite Leaders from Hulu, Snap and Harry’s Join Season 2 of The Business of Marketing

Earlier this year, Adweek and SAP.iO debuted The Business of Marketing podcast, a new series where listeners learned from company leaders and innovators on how CMOs work collaboratively with their C-suite partners to drive business transformation. Over the course of the first season, we sat down with 17 executives from across the marketing landscape and…

Tony Hawk: Skateboarding Grew Up Long Ago, the World Is Only Just Noticing

Are marketers ready to meet skateboarders as they smoothly glide and defy gravity through the curved walls of constructed tracks for their Summer Olympics competition? “The IOC certainly thinks so,” Basia Wojcik, vp of sports at development and brand marketing agency The Marketing Arm, told Adweek. “Skateboarding is one of a handful of new sports…

HBO Max Adds Nearly 3 Million Subscribers as Streamer Finds Its Footing

AT&T is raising its expectations for year-old streamer HBO Max. The company, which is planning to spin out the WarnerMedia portion of its business to Discovery in a merger slated to close next year, told investors this morning that it expected its burgeoning direct-to-consumer streaming business to have between 70 million and 73 million global…

TikTok Dives Deep Into Its ‘Defining Spheres of Influence,’ Sound and Culture

While TikTok is clearly a visual platform, music and sound play an integral role in creators’ contributions to its community, and TikTok, in turn, plays an integral role in driving cultural trends. The video creation platform commissioned two studies from independent research and analytics groups to “dive deep” on its “defining spheres of influence,” sound…

Messenger From Facebook: How to Use Soundmojis

Messenger From Facebook introduced Soundmojis, a new version of regular emoji that have short sound clips attached to them. For instance, the Party Face emoji will play a short musical clip that says, “It’s your birthday.” Here’s how to use Soundmoji in the Messenger From Facebook application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Messenger…

Google to Add New Planning Tools to Its Display & Video 360 Buy-Side Solution

Google is rolling out two new tools for its Display & Video 360 buy-side solution to account for the surge in user adoption of streaming platforms. The aim is to enable marketers to plan full connected television and streaming campaigns via DV360, and not be limited to YouTube, incorporating their audio and video media across…

Alexa ganha opção de voz masculina

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No mercado há 7 anos, a Alexa desde sempre é definida por sua voz feminina, mas agora ganhou uma contraparte do outro sexo. De maneira muito silenciosa, a Amazon lançou na última semana uma versão da assistente virtual com um som masculino e batizada de “Ziggy”. Ela por enquanto está disponível apenas nos EUA, mas …

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Samsung foca em funcionalidades dos smartphones dobráveis em nova campanha

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Buscando destacar as funcionalidades dos smartphones dobráveis, a Samsung lança nesta quinta-feira, 22/07, uma nova fase da campanha da linha Galaxy Z no Brasil. Por meio de vídeos curtos, que serão divulgados nos canais digitais da empresa, a Samsung busca ressaltar como as pessoas podem ir além com os smartphones dobráveis em mãos, abrindo-se para …

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Washing Powder Ad Parody Highlight’s France’s Brand Purpose Messaging Skepticism

The people of France don’t believe much of the brand purpose messaging claims they see made by advertisers according to a study, and in response, a parody ad to highlight that finding has been produced. According to a study carried out by BVA for Parisian advertising agency Babel, which involved 1,002 people over the age…