Facebook Rebrands, The Company Is Now Known As ‘Meta’

Remember Second Life? Facebook didn’t buy it, but now the social networking behemoth wants to become it. This is not a joke. Facebook has changed its company name to Meta. The word ‘Facebook’ now refers to just the social networking application and site. Meta was chosen as the new name because it points to Mark […]

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Agency Habitat in Fort Worth, Texas Is Making Bold Moves

Agency Habitat, a content-focused, full-service advertising agency will celebrate the grand opening of its new home by inviting Dallas-Fort Worth’s creative community to explore the company’s headquarters at an open house next week. The event will feature complimentary food and drinks from Fort Brewery, as well as music by DJ Sober. DFW creators, professionals, the […]

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Welcome to Palisades Tahoe

What’s in a name? If we’re talking about the Washington Redskins, the answer is simple—bias and overtly racist thinking are in the name. Same with Squaw Valley, the famous resort near Lake Tahoe. So, Squaw Valley is no more. Palisades Tahoe is the new name. High Country News spoke to Darrel Cruz, director of the […]

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Introduction to Marketing Effectiveness (A Primer)

“Marketing effectiveness” sounds like a webinar that someone once forced you to attend, or worse, a graduate seminar on the way to a Master in Business Administration. Perhaps, the term would benefit from a rebrand, because it’s not a seminar or webinar. Marketing effectiveness is the difference between failure and success. Given its importance, why […]

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The Word from Dole: We Are Wasting So Much Food

Food is the single largest component that takes up space in U.S. landfills.  U.S. residents waste almost 40 million tons of food every year – more than any other country in the world. In fact, the average American family of four discards $1,600 a year in fresh produce. This colossal waste contributes to global warming […]

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Republic of Gilead? Or Republic of Texas? That Is the Question

Elected officials in Texas today are reckless, careless, anti-freedom offenders. They’re also largely unchecked by the opposition party. Thankfully, corporations are able to use their power and money to provide a counterbalance of sorts. For instance, starting this week people with no training whatsoever can stroll around the Lone Star State armed, loaded, and ready […]

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Now on Spotify: Magically Delicious Sugar-Coated Grooves

General Mills-owned cereal brand Lucky Charms is in the entertainment business. I’m happy to see the packaged goods brand recognize it and act on it. According to The Drum, Lucky the Leprechaun has dropped his debut album, “Magically Delicious,” which is now available across all major streaming platforms but promoted exclusively on Spotify. The album […]

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Airbnb Steps Up To Help Afghan Refugees Find A Safe Place to Stay

Airbnb and Airbnb.org will provide temporary housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees worldwide. The company’s CEO, Brian Chesky, announced the move yesterday on Twitter. The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees in the US and elsewhere is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our time. We feel a responsibility to step up. — Brian Chesky […]

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Visa Updates Its Brand Story and Brand Identity

“Visa has long stood for trust, security, acceptance, and inclusion.” Sorry. I pulled that from the press release. Let’s start over. How do you relate to the Visa brand? If you’re like most people, it’s pretty simple. Visa is a credit card that enables instant gratification. But Visa seeks to be more than a mere […]

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Deloitte Digital Wants to Make ‘Brand’ A C-Suite Priority

How do brand managers convince their peers inside the company that the company they work for competes on brand? How do these same brand managers move the discussion away from brand identity to brand experience and prove that better brand experiences lead to more sales, greater customer satisfaction, and increased valuations? Maggie Windsor Gross, head […]

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Speed Up, It’s Time for the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway

Branded events and pro sports with a limited number of fans in attendance are back. This Sunday, the NASCAR Cup Series rolls into Darlington, South Carolina for The Goodyear 400. It’s also NASCAR’s Official Throwback Weekend and while this adds a festive nature to the race, the reality of COVID-19 (and the need for widespread […]

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Vital Farms Takes “Cage-Free” Out of Its Cage

Advertising that reveals brand truth is advertising that’s worth making, viewing, and sharing. Vital Farms—the largest supplier of pasture-raised eggs in the country—understands this, and is wisely using their brand truth to establish a competitive advantage. Let’s look at some of the ads the company has made over the past few years. Austin’s creative powerhouse, […]

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Bee-Two-Bee Is In Need of Some New Buzzy Buzz

With industry conferences and live events now off the table because of COVID-19, business-to-business marketers are busy looking for new avenues and new methods to help them connect to prospects and current customers. According to Carla Piñeyro Sublett, the chief marketing officer of NI (formerly known as National Instruments), spells it out in a lengthy […]

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Make the Logo Better!

In the beginning, there was pulp. We took this excess fiber from the communications industry and made it into something. This is what our logo looked like in 2004 when the site launched and for many years thereafter. Thank you, Shawn Hartley. In 2017, I hired a designer in Portland who had recently graduated from […]

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It’s Always Story Time, Now and Forever

What’s your story? Whatever it is, Netflix wants to connect you and your story to one of its stories, and the 21st-century studio has so many stories to play. Here’s a commercial all about it. While the commercial isn’t much of a story, When ScarJo speaks, people do listen. In her gravel voice, she posits […]

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Football Is Back (To the Delight and Disgust of Millions of Americans)

“Football is a microcosm of America.” LaDainian Tomlinson said so, and he’s right. This ultra-American game is violent by design. One team acquires the territory of another. Like the land on which the game is played, football’s territory is highly contested, and this constant striving and insecurity is a mirror into the American soul. So […]

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Your Brand Is A Cocktail, Serve It Wisely

This new article by Toby Donaldson in Adpulp’s Emerging Voices series is made possible by the generous support of Looney Advertising in Montclair, NJ. Brand is coming back into vogue. Skepticism of Martech-led short-termism is reaching CMOs and CEOs, so much so that the Gartner CMO survey ranks brand strategy as the most vital marketing […]

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Project Pandora’s Box: Apple’s Cheeky Take on Working From Home

Do you know this woman? Maybe you are this woman. Maybe you work with her. Maybe you live with her. I wonder aloud because I find the portrayal of her work style and her work ethic striking. She is all in, of that, there can be no doubt. When the unreasonable boss-lady chirps her unreasonable […]

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Welcome to Voltage Valley and Its New American-Made EV Pickup Truck

Pickup truck drivers with good credit and a concern for the environment will one day soon be able to drive the new all-electric Endurance by Lordstown Motors. Our ability to evolve… I like that framing. Manufacturing in Ohio and throughout the Rust Belt has required a massive injection of money and new thinking for decades. […]

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Jeep Beep Beeps. The New Bronco Bucks.

Ford built the Bronco from 1966 to 1996. Collectors of the mid-size SUV have pleaded with Ford to return the Bronco to its lineup. Their requests are being answered. The Bronco, which will be assembled at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, will go on sale next year. The new 2021 Ford Bronco reveal event […]

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