Penry Price is not quite “Open to Work” yet, but he announced on Wednesday he is stepping down from his longtime role as vice president of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Longtime Twitter veteran Matthew Derella will join the professional network to succeed him. Price revealed his impending departure in a video posted to LinkedIn Wednesday, saying…
Brendan Gahan wanted to work in advertising when he was a kid. The co-founder and CEO of LinkedIn influencer marketing agency Creator Authority–featured in the latest episode of video series Resume Rewind, sponsored by entertainment wiki hosting service Fandom–had an uncle who was a creative director at Wieden+Kennedy. Gahan’s first job was at a Sweet…
From sonic branding to perfumes and restaurants in New York and Sao Paulo, Mastercard has leveraged almost every sense to engage and assure customers. Now, it’s turning to touch. The brand is debuting a haptic logo, a distinctive series of vibrations that customers will “feel” via their phone when shopping online or using a payment…
B2B campaigns aren’t usually known for being flashy. They’re often filled with insider jargon and take a fairly cut-and-dry approach to their messaging. But they don’t have to be that way, as a new campaign for cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks proves with its sci-fi fantasy. Palo Alto Networks assembled an A-list team of Hollywood’s…
It’s been a tough few days for CrowdStrike and its biggest customer brands. Microsoft, Delta and others were directly impacted by the global outage on July 18, with many citing the blue screen of death as a sign that Y2K was finally happening in 2024. The incident unfolded when a faulty CrowdStrike update compromised 8.5…
First, The Walking Dead. Later, the Oscars. Now, Star Wars. Design and make software brand Autodesk is tied to an embarrassment of intellectual property riches, and its marketing is leveraging this to reach potential customers. Autodesk software is used to design elements of high-profile pieces of entertainment, including at Lucasfilm and Disney to bring the…
Business-to-business is, well, big business. (Its name alone contains double the business of B2C.) Consider this: U.S. B2B ecommerce sales are forecast to grow from $1.7 trillion in 2021 to more than $3 trillion by 2027, according to Forrester. And that’s just online. Plenty more hospital equipment and accounting software are sold IRL. ADWEEK’s second…
B2B advertising is boring. That’s what nearly half of business buyers told PR Web in a 2018 survey. And it seems to have gotten worse since then. In 2023, The Power of Provocation discovered that a staggering 82% of business decision-makers considered B2B marketing monotonous and repetitive, while a mere 1% believed it demonstrated a…
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…
One common misconception in business-to-business markets is that a great product guarantees success. While it’s true that an exceptional product, technology or customer experience can rapidly build your brand in the market’s consciousness, it doesn’t necessarily guarantee it. The real game-changer? The brand behind your product. Recent studies, including the Liquid x Avasta Challenger Index,…
In 2023, climate publisher The Cool Down set a goal of reaching 10 million monthly unique visitors, aiming to prove in its first full year of operation that it could reach a scaled audience of climate enthusiasts. After reaching nearly 30 million unique visitors in December, it has since set itself a new goal for…
In 2023, climate publisher The Cool Down set a goal of reaching 10 million monthly unique visitors, aiming to prove in its first full year of operation that it could reach a scaled audience of climate enthusiasts. After reaching nearly 30 million unique visitors in December, it has since set itself a new goal for…
Mastercard developed an inclusive generative AI chatbot catering to the diverse entrepreneurial needs of small and midsized businesses. People can ask Mastercard Small Business AI an array of questions in English and Spanish. Inquiries can span topics around crafting a business plan, exploring available grants for SMBs, guidance on the application process for those grants,…
American Express is ending its B2B year as it began: making big moves for small businesses. The last quarter has received special attention from Amex since 2010, when it launched Small Business Saturday as a counter to big-box Black Friday shopping. For this year’s 14th installment, it introduced the Door to Shop Small augmented reality…
Meta has hired Dentsu as the customer relationship solution provider for its encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp’s business-focused arm. WhatsApp Business is an extension app that allows companies to create a profile and then communicate directly with customers to offer updates and answer questions in real time. They are also able to send vouchers and offers,…
If a business is looking for growth, it helps to define that term before chasing it. Do you want a whole lot of new customers who’ll drive traffic and head count, but may only buy your product once? Or do you simply want people who know and love your products to feel comfortable buying more…
In the realm of B2B marketing, a subtle but pervasive problem looms–ironically, one of the industry’s own creation. Clarity and meaning have become casualties in an ongoing war of words that often serve little purpose beyond filling content quotas or satisfying superficial engagement metrics. As marketing professionals, we pride ourselves on our ability to craft…
The first day in a new job can be daunting, and that is no less true for the new urban and regional electric trucks being introduced by commercial vehicle company Scania, according to its new ad. With a series of films that follow one of the trucks through its induction into the company, from its…
LISBON, Portugal — Juan Pablo Ortega, co-founder of global payment management company Yuno, joined Adweek on Web Summit’s Startup University stage to talk about how he turned Rappi, the food delivery company he founded, into a so-called unicorn startup that’s captured a larger market in Mexico than Uber Eats. Ortega plans to replicate the success…
To break through in business-to-business marketing, a message has to look beyond improving the performance of a business to impressing and exciting the people behind it. Customer data platform Hubspot, for example, just acquired third-party B2B data provider Clearbit in early November. While HubSpot’s offered Clearbit to its App Marketplace customers since 2019, it can…
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