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The leaves are changing, temperatures are dropping, and everywhere you look are ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, black cats, boogeymen–and marketers conjuring up some wicked fun of their own. While Halloween has spiritual significance, the mainstream associations with the holiday are rooted in consumerism. A National Retail Federation survey showed Halloween spend is projected to rise 5%…

The eyes of the car-buying public are usually trained on the flashy new offerings at the New York International Auto Show or, more realistically, on whatever models are on the lot at the nearby dealership. So it’s a good bet that few Americans took note of a virtual event that Volvo Group held in Gothenburg,…

Say you need a new stick of deodorant. You walk into your local drugstore and find the product you want. Except you can’t grab it. It’s sitting right there on the shelf among an assortment of brands and varieties, but it’s locked inside a plastic case. You press a button to alert a store employee…

The industry has long moved past the idea that advertising only exists in a handful of silos, like TV, print and radio. Savvy marketers can use anything as a canvas for an ad, such as the ice of a hockey rink, footprints or eggs. It takes innovative strategists to develop unique media plans that can…

The Definitive Guide to Public Relations Coups–if there were such a book–would surely record a groundbreaking event in 1966. That spring, a publicist from Milton Bradley placed a call to NBC and got a new game called Twister onto The Tonight Show. The episode aired the evening of May 3. With Ed McMahon and fashion…

With nearly 50 million Americans changing jobs this year, the Great Resignation is quickly becoming the Great Migration. People aren’t simply starting new roles; they’re choosing new ways of working. For marketers, changing jobs should be like launching an exciting new campaign. Instead, it feels like leaping from a ledge. Half of all new hires…

Type in a prompt like “email,” and several entirely original stock images of computers and messaging will be created instantaneously. A few more clicks and inputs will generate a host of text snippets suggested for ad copy. That’s how a new tool from a startup called Omneky lets brands–usually growth-hungry apps and ecommerce sites–pair artificial…

Mick McConnell’s marketing career began with a stack of rejection letters from some of the top architectural firms in New York. The now-North America CEO of agency Superunion had the misfortune of graduating from architecture school into an early 1990s recession and found that few firms were hiring. So he was willing to do the…

Though summer is typically for socializing and taking scenic vacations, creator, writer and star Quinta Brunson spent the months in preproduction for the highly anticipated second season of her ABC runaway hit, workplace comedy Abbott Elementary. Things are much different for the in-demand showrunner this time around. Between her ensemble’s collective popularity and an expanded…

Conan O’Brien considers himself a lucky guy. And not only because he was fortunate enough to spend 28 years reinventing late-night, first when he was NBC’s surprise pick to replace David Letterman as Late Night host in 1993, then followed by an innovative 11-year run on TBS’ Conan, which ended in June 2021. O’Brien is…