Hasta La Creative!

Jonathan Balck, managing director of Boston-based creative agency Colossus, didn’t start his business with B2B work in mind. Founded in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, Colossus worked with consumer brands like Jack Daniel’s and Best Buy before it made a pitch for Athenahealth–a cloud-based network services provider for health care companies. Marketing in Athenahealth’s category…

For the first time in its history, Mediahub competed with the industry’s largest media agencies in 2023. Its work is edgy, and it’s embraced experiential elements for a long time. Six years ago, it created fake human bodies, encased them in liquid and installed them inside local bus stops. It made the news in West…

Let’s talk about consent. It’s a critically important subject for marketers. How we get it, how long it’s valid for, and how we maintain it. Typically referred to as permission-based marketing, consent is needed to allow us to land in a user’s email or messaging inbox with marketing offers and announcements. Because consent is a…

The year was 1984. Musicians like Queen and ’80s fashion were all about being free and embracing individuality, but those in LGBTQ+ communities faced scrutiny when wanting to live their truth. One might say starting an LGBTQ+ publication like Gay Times in that atmosphere was risky and maybe even dangerous, but founder Chris Graham-Bell knew…

Unilever’s chief brand officer, Aline Santos, is leaving the business after 35 years, signaling further changes within the marketing department of one of the world’s largest advertisers. Santos, who also held the title of chief equity diversity and inclusion officer for the CPG giant, will depart at the end of March. Her roles will not…

In this episode of Brave Commerce, Sarah Travis, president at Target’s retail media network Roundel, joins hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter to offer insights into the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of retail media, her perspectives on work-life balance and diversity in leadership roles. Travis reflects on her remarkable 13-year tenure at Google,…

Ice cream sales typically plunge with the temperatures, but an artsy black-and-white film from Unilever’s Magnum encourages consumers to use the treat as an escape from the winter blues. Created by agency LOLA MullenLowe and directed by Juan Cabral through MJZ Films, the 90-second “Find Your Summer” begins as a moody film depicting the bleakness…

PHD is on a mission to understand the future generation of marketing, one that will be completely reshaped by technology. For the past decade, it has been ahead of the game when it comes to focusing on the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive marketing transformation. That’s in part because it’s stuck…