How This Short Horror Film Is Confronting Bias Against HIV-Positive People

While medical advancements have been made since the first reported cases of HIV in 1981, there are lingering stigmas tied to the condition as people are still fearful of those living with HIV and AIDS simply due to their prejudice and ignorance of it. As a way to break down the stigma behind HIV, Casey…

Margaritaville becomes Major League Pickleball's first-ever title sponsor

The hotel and resort company’s announcement follows Major League Pickleball’s release of a new league format and expanded team roster for 2023. 

Why Spotify Opened a Pop-Up Café in Paris

Spotify Wrapped has become a cultural phenomenon. With users being able to view the data and insights collected from their Spotify playlists and share them with the world, the platform now annually creates a viral moment each December. Over the six years since it began Wrapped, the platform has turned data collection into a marketing…

Reddit Adds Latest Feed, Tweaks Home Feed Sort Controls

Reddit continues to tinker with its feed in an effort to make the platform easier to navigate for novices and veterans alike. In September, Reddit added a drop-down menu of feeds to its iOS application, including Home, News and Popular, as well as moving its home feed sorting options into the settings menu, and the…

How 5G implementation in sports stadiums amplifies brand value

Marketers will be able to measure the benefit of sponsorships based on time-viewed and engagement metrics.

Dell Lays Out a Vision for Sustainable Gadgets With Latest Modular Laptop Concept

Dell is unveiling a new proof-of-concept laptop that offers a glimpse at how gadgets of the future could be designed with electronic waste minimization in mind–if and when the company begins to mass-produce the type of easily repairable and recyclable components the computer contains. The prototype laptop is a new iteration of Concept Luna, the…

See this year’s most likeable holiday ads

This year’s list of the most likeable holiday ads includes commercials from Home Depot, T-Mobile and USPS, as ranked by survey data from iSpot.

Agencies Are Developing Their Own Products to Show Clients They Know How to Build a Brand

Grant Plotkin’s professional success began when he learned how to facilitate uncomfortable conversations. When Plotkin founded his own design studio in 2020, just a year after he graduated from Parsons, he wanted to give prospective clients a reason to trust him. He bought a domain name, solicited contentious questions from his circle of friends and…

Watch the newest commercials from Coinbase, Hulu, Kohl’s and more

Coinbase says it will “ignore the noise and keep building.”

Pew Research Center Studies How Teens Experience Cyberbullying

A new survey of 1,316 U.S. teens by Pew Research Center found that 46% of them experienced at least one of the six cyberbullying behaviors analyzed by the think tank. The six distinct behaviors studied by Pew were: Constantly being asked where they are, what they’re doing or who they’re with by someone other than…

Peacock's exclusive JetBlue deal aims to attract more subscribers

Airline and streaming service strike partnership, including loyalty program benefits.

Quad’s Clients Can Experiment With Pop-Up Shops in Its Latest Office in New York

Since New York is the mecca of marketing and advertising, it makes sense that a marketing company would want to wriggle like a worm into the core of the Big Apple. Looking to increase its visibility and fill client needs, marketing experience company Quad is opening an office in New York, located at 32 Irving…

Illinois Lottery picks Dentsu as creative AOR

The win consolidates media and creative with the agency.

New Identifiers Present a ‘Watershed Moment in Marketing’

Since Google announced plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome, we’ve seen a number of cookie-alternative identity solutions emerge. As more players enter the space, figuring out how to segment and measure audiences is becoming increasingly convoluted. Delphine Hernoux, chief data and analytics officer at Wavemaker, and Joe Anthony, chief executive and founder at Hero…

BBH USA CEO exits—agency names new president and chief strategy officer

Amani Duncan’s role won’t be filled as Agnes Fischer takes the president’s post and Alan Stout the strategy role.

GLAAD Praises Increased Inclusiveness of Disney Films

In a report on L.G.B.T.Q. representation in movies, the organization lauded the studio but noted some depictions were one dimensional or stereotypical.

NHL Sets Partner Activations for NHL Winter Classic Plaza

One-dozen official National Hockey League partners will host activations at the NHL Winter Classic Plaza Dec. 30 and 31, with newcomers including BioSteel, Caterpillar, DraftKings, Extreme Networks and Fanatics. The Pittsburgh Penguins will visit the Boston Bruins at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox, Monday, Jan. 2, at 2 p.m. ET,…

3 ways TV advertisers can overcome a fractured identity framework landscape

How advertisers can calibrate TV targeting and measurement across currencies, channels and devices, and identity framework that works across those silos 

An Alternate Reality: How Russia’s State TV Spins the Ukraine War

Leaked emails detail how Russia’s biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation’s security services, mined right-wing American news and Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning.

Pringles to return to the Super Bowl for sixth straight year

Ad will build on “Stuck In” theme from Pringles’ 2022 Big Game ad.