Hasta La Creative!

Black Americans are collectively expected to spend $1.4 trillion by 2020, according to Nielsen’s latest estimates, yet advertisers are still not marketing to diverse audiences. Bold Culture, the data-driven, multicultural communications agency that creative shop StreamLined recently launched is setting out to change that. The first in a series of white papers, Bold Culture’s “The…

Watson won’t be wearing anything fancy to the Grammys this weekend, but that’s not going to keep it from judging everyone else’s outfit. For the 60th anniversary of the music awards, the Recording Academy is partnering with IBM to bring its artificial intelligence to the red carpet. On Sunday night, IBM will deploy its AI…

There will be no controversial Super Bowl ads from domain provider and cloud platform GoDaddy this year, but that hasn’t kept the company out of the news. GoDaddy announced an agreement to acquire Main Street Hub, a full-service marketing platform aimed at enabling small businesses to optimize their social media marketing. The deal is valued…

Get ready for your mind to be blown by all the wonderful things you can put guacamole on (we’re talking toast, sandwiches, tacos and more) thanks to Avocados From Mexico. The trade group released a teaser for its 30-second Super Bowl spot, which will focus on the versatility of guacamole. GSD&M is handling the creative….

On the heels of its brilliant anti-bullying spot last year, Burger King has found another cause it can get behind, and promote with a clever in-store stunt–net neutrality. In December, you’ll recall, the FCC repealed net neutrality rules that regulated businesses that provide internet access to consumers–opening the door for broadband providers to potentially charge…

Why do runners run? Ashley Madison provides at least one answer in “Morning Run,” which turns out to be a humorous spoof on the tropes of sports advertising geared to women. Keep running, lady! Ashley Madison’s had a run of its own this past few years. In 2015, a security breach gave it two major…

Last fall, Diesel gave us “Go With the Flaw,” a gritty, glamorous celebration of ugliness, created by Publicis Italy and directed by Fran?ois Rousselet. Now, the second installation of the campaign, “Keep the World Flawed” (also directed by Rousselet), leans hard into the subject matter. Think of the first ad as a manifesto. This new…

WPP has made good on a promise it made in September to launch a next-generation global brand agency comprised of five of its consultancies and design shops by January. Today, the holding company opened the doors of Superunion, which combines WPP’s Brand Union, The Partners, Lambie-Nairn, Addison Group and VBAT. The agency said in a…

News Corp. executive chairman and 21st Century Fox executive co-chairman Rupert Murdoch is taking on Silicon Valley. The media mogul released a statement today noting that if Facebook is going to revamp its news feed to ensure it’s publishing the most legitimate, “trusted” news content on its platform, then it should pay publishers a carriage…

When it comes to experiential projects and emerging tech, most marketers are curious about their options and want to do more of both this year, but they’re not entirely sure how, according to a new study from brand experience shop AgencyEA. “All they know is they want tech at their events, but they don’t necessarily…