It’s been a strange few days for brand safety, from the initial news of Elon Musk’s X lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media to the shock that GARM would be shutting down. What’s surprising is not the fact that it had happened–as a podcast advertising leader, I’ve seen firsthand how the org’s approach…
Elon Musk’s ownership of X (formerly Twitter) has not been without its challenges and criticisms. Since buying the social media platform in 2022, Musk has been in the headlines over misinformation, buyer’s remorse, warring with advertisers, and more. Now, X has driven the nonprofit Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) to close its doors after…
Charli XCX may be our “favorite reference,” as she sings on her hit album “Brat,” but “weird” is the Democrats’ new favorite way to refer to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. One digital billboard, which ran from Aug. 9-12, sought to harness this confluence of internet memes….
As Vice President Kamala Harris inches toward securing the Democratic nomination for the nation’s top office, both parties are pouring more dollars into advertising. The Harris campaign has debuted its first major push into paid media since President Joe Biden exited the race on July 21. The $50 million ad buy is set to run…
Given the state of American politics, the next three months are set to be some of the most important and fascinating times for those of us who tell stories and build communities for a living. Never before have we had the tools and opportunities available to appeal to a population that is deeply segmented while…
After President Joe Biden ended his 2024 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party has a new challenge: quickly reintroducing Vice President Kamala Harris as the next president. Since Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, a majority of Democratic delegates have endorsed Harris, making her the likely candidate to run against Republican former President…
Ad spend on TikTok year-over-year has been growing, but that growth has cooled since a potential U.S. ban was announced in March. Meanwhile, the platform’s user growth, especially among younger people, is flagging, according to data shared by five sources. TikTok’s ad spend in March–the month the potential ban was announced–was up 19% year-over-year, according…
On this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Suzy founder and host Matt Britton is joined by Dmitri Siegel, chief creative, brand and digital officer at Urban Outfitters. They explore how Urban Outfitters leverages in-store experiences to drive social media engagement, the balance between creativity and performance marketing, and the evolving expectations of Gen…
The next 6-to-12 months present marketers and brands with a potent concoction of phenomena that are sure to, at a minimum, cause shifts in media economics and, at a maximum, completely upend entire advertising programs and their measurement models. Add to the mix the emotional instability these events cause in us as consumers, and we’re…
The burgeoning national political season isn’t just about campaign promises and competing candidate agendas: It’s about advertising. According to Forrester Research, 82% of B2C marketing executives in the U.S. have concerns about marketing their brands during this year’s presidential election cycle. Advertisers, publishers and platforms will face additional challenges as an even greater deluge of…
Despite 2023 being viewed as a year of evolving international turmoil, we are seeing a stabilization of the global issues that matter most to people globally and in the U.S. “Poverty, hunger and homelessness” is the most important issue for people worldwide according to Revolt’s annual index ranking of the 50 issues that matter most…
On Feb. 17, as former President Donald Trump prepared to face 34 felony counts in his hush money trial in New York, he found time to head to Philadelphia to attend Sneaker Con. And there, standing at the podium, he announced the launch of his new Trump-branded sneakers. Price: $399. The Never Surrender hightop in…
‘Conscious consumerism,’ the commitment to making purchasing decisions based on social, economic and environmental impact, is on the rise. 63% of Gen Z say they will only purchase brands that stand with them on issues, and 90% expect brands to be involved in causes that improve the world. Gen Z is the fastest-growing and most…
It has been 100 years since the Equal Rights Amendment, which explicitly prohibits sex discrimination, was introduced to Congress. Yet over the past century, it has still not been signed into law, meaning that women are not guaranteed equal rights to men under the U.S. Constitution. A new campaign, created by agency Ogilvy for former…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Wall Street’s regulatory body, today approved rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions and climate change-related risk. In a reversal from the initial proposed rules, which the SEC first published in March 2022, the final rules won’t require companies to disclose scope 3 emissions, which refer…
Both the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal have cut or restructured their Washington, D.C., bureaus recently, decisions that appear counterintuitive given the coming presidential election later this year. But both sets of cuts share a variety of strategic explanations, particularly retrenching to core competencies in order to focus on content that drives…
As we collectively wade into 2024–crafting budgets, plans and strategies for the year ahead–there are two events for which we must prepare: cookie deprecation and the U.S. elections. If they don’t get their plans in place now, political campaigns and brand advertisers will be left scrambling for impressions in the middle of the $10 billion…
The fifth week of the monumental U.S. vs. Google antitrust trial has cast a glaring spotlight on the revenue-sharing deal between Google and Apple–worth a reported $10 billion–over the latter’s position as the default search engine. Now, the legal basis for that deal is being questioned. If the courts find it illegal, Google’s massive search…
Amidst the flurry of generative AI developments, Adweek’s weekly AI roundup captures the latest news, regulatory proceedings, and business developments revolving around generative AI. Here’s this week’s update: On the policy and legal front: Arranged by the trade organization News Media Alliance, representing over 2,000 publishers and the interests of the news media industry, numerous…
California’s hotly debated Delete Act (SB 362), if passed, could upend the ad-tech data broker market. The proposal appears to be moving quickly, coming in less than a year after the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) went into effect in January. And, since it’s a legal matter about privacy, you can bet there are a…
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