Starbucks is launching its own production studio, Starbucks Studios. The studio, according to a statement on the brand’s website, will “produce original entertainment and tell stories that deepen connections and spark conversations.” Starbucks is launching the studio in partnership with Sugar23, a media company founded by Oscar-winning producer Michael Sugar that specializes in connecting brands…
Disney’s logo and branding are a tale as old as time–but even classic stories need a new chapter every now and again. In March, Disney+ unveiled its full Hulu integration for bundle subscribers, combining the Disney+ and Hulu libraries in one application. This came with refreshed branding, an opening orchestral mnemonic created by Oscar-winning composer…
Edible, the company formerly known as Edible Arrangements, has named Crossmedia its performance media agency of record. Chief marketer Kevin Keith said the business ran an “express RFP,” eschewing a pitch consultant. The three-meeting process began in late December, and Crossmedia won the business by March. The CMO declined to reveal how much the account…
In December, the marketing technology firm Epsilon named Jeff Smith its new chief marketing officer. Smith succeeds the company’s former marketing leader, Jon Beebe, who stepped down last year to found the consultancy, QuirkWerk. For more than 25 years before joining Epsilon, Smith worked in marketing or data-adjacent roles at companies including Oracle, Nielsen, LiveRamp…
Kimberly-Clark’s incoming chief growth officer, Patricia Corsi, who will start the role on July 1, is in a good position. Prior to the pandemic, the company’s chief executive, Michael Hsu, was reluctant to invest more money in marketing. “Back in 2018, 2019, I did not feel we had all the capability we needed to spend…
The first billboard ads date back to 1835 when Jared Bell debuted 50-foot-high placards to advertise the Barnum & Bailey Circus in New York. However, after nearly two centuries static posters remain popular among marketers, and as 2024 has shown so far, billboards still get people talking, even if it’s for the wrong reasons. In…
In an industry where agency-client relationships often only last a few years, what Maker’s Mark and Louisville agency Doe-Anderson have forged is exceeding rare. They’ve partnered for more than five decades, with a relationship built on respect, collaboration and a deep understanding of what the brand means to its consumers. The brand has gone from…
Much like The Emperor’s New Clothes, where the tailor exposes the vanity of his ruler, the unveiling this week of Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of King Charles III has been very … revealing. The portrait has been met with both gasps of astonishment and ridicule throughout the world, as well as the expected praise. The dramatic…
If you weren’t familiar with breastfeeding brand Swehl before this week, you surely are now. This week, the company’s 45-foot billboard featuring cookbook author Molly Baz, her pregnant belly, a rhinestone bikini and two lactation cookies covering her breasts took over Times Square. Since then, people across TikTok and the media have sounded off on…
This week, A-list Hollywood talent including Mark Wahlberg, Scarlett Johansson and John Legend, pitched marketers on their creative projects at the Way Upfronts, ADWEEK has learned from a source familiar with the first-of-it’s-kind event. The virtual upfront is Oscar-winning producer Michael Sugar’s brainchild and debuted on Tuesday and Wednesday. Sugar, alongside his partner, Matt Rotondo…
After a global media review spanning more than four months, Fossil Group is consolidating its account with the Stagwell agency Assembly. The brand is winding down its regional relationships with 15 agencies and will now entrust Assembly with its integrated media management and data and measurement duties across all of its paid channels. “This has…
Five-time Grammy winner Mike Post has composed the music for the best-known TV shows of the last two generations, including The Rockford Files, Magnum, P.I. and L.A. Law. But a singular moment in his career came when producer Dick Wolf called him about Law & Order, for which Post had just written the title theme….
The David Yurman Company has wrapped up a four-month-long traditional and digital media review led by the media consultancy ID Comms. The business includes four markets–the U.S. and Canada in the Americas and France and the U.K. in Europe. The luxury jewelry brand operates 49 retail stores globally, and at more than 300 authorized locations…
Even by Southern California standards, the traffic jam created by motorists heading home from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is notorious. In the hours after the annual concert’s end, tens of thousands of revelers sit bumper to bumper on Interstate 10 as far as 60 miles west of the grounds. There’s not much…
When Sponsorship Research International polled 7,000 consumers in 1995 to see how well they recognized brand logos, it found that the McDonald’s logo trounced the Christian cross: 88% of consumers identified the golden arches, compared to 54% who could identify the religious symbol. In today’s attention economy, the potency of logos is crucial, especially for…
There’s a new chief in town: the chief brand officer (CBO). Does this mean the CMO role is becoming obsolete? Not at all. It simply means many companies are recognizing the shifting landscape of customer engagement and the implications and opportunities for better brand-building. In most organizations, the CBO role complements the CMO, where both…
Katherine Chan is Duolingo’s global head of social media, responsible for the outrageous social media stunts that make Duolingo a household name, and build brand affinity for its mischievous green owl mascot, Duo. On Tuesday, April 9, from 2:25 to 2:50 PM EDT, Chan will appear on a Main Stage panel at ADWEEK’s Social Media…
While some A-listers shirk the paparazzi, others accept the press pack are part and parcel of show business. Some celebrities even stage their own photoshoots, inviting photographers to capture seemingly candid moments and shop them around the tabloids. Now advertisers including Velveeta, CeraVe and Italian luxury brand Bottega Veneta are taking a leaf out of…
Dunkin’ is now Donuts’. If you were groggily scrolling social media on April 1, you may have briefly fallen victim to one of many brand pranks: Califia Farms unveiling a pickle-flavored creamer, the Duolingo owl starring in a multilingual musical on ice, and Nathan’s Famous hotdogs coming aboard JetBlue. April Fools’ Day has evolved from…
Dunkin’ is now Donuts’. If you were groggily scrolling social media on April 1, you may have briefly fallen victim to one of many brand pranks: Califia Farms unveiling a pickle-flavored creamer, the Duolingo owl starring in a multilingual musical on ice, and Nathan’s Famous hotdogs coming aboard JetBlue. April Fools’ Day has evolved from…
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