Note: To make sense of what is quickly becoming a vast and complex agency technology ecosystem, Adweek is reporting on each of the major platforms. This story is the fourth in a series covering agencies’ audience management platforms. Previously, Adweek reported on Omnicom’s Omni, Horizon Media’s blu. and Havas’ Converged. Most people know The J.M….
If you’re one of the 433 million people who have opened Spotify recently, you may have noticed the app has become more interactive. There are Q&As on podcasts where audiences can offer suggestions for future guests. Some audio ads have clickable links. You can even create your dream band – and corresponding playlist – via…
If you happen to be among the 444,000 Instagram followers of L.A.-based Camden “Cammie” Scott, you know the sort of content the perky creator is likely to drop into your feed. She breezes through topics like health, wellness and wardrobe. But the 31-year-old really likes to talk about skincare. An average Instagram video will feature…
When the Philadelphia Flyers introduced Gritty in 2018, the googly-eyed orange mascot became an instant sensation. Whether motivated by joy, fear or intense bewilderment, the internet could not stop commenting on the professional hockey team’s bearded creature. Then came Murph, Nerf’s first-ever mascot. Debuting in June, Murph is an anthropomorphic character made out of 10,000…
Since its limited release in February, a handful of publishers, supply-side platforms and data-management platforms have been experimenting with seller-defined audiences (SDA), a communications protocol developed by the IAB Tech Lab that aims to put audience segmentation into the hands of publishers. Currently, three publishers representing several thousand websites are actively passing bid requests following…
In February, start-up brand Voylok launched its website. A week later Russia invaded Ukraine. The brand had been working for a year to build an ecommerce platform to sell traditional boots handcrafted in Northern Russia and sold from the U.K. After the invasion, the burgeoning brand became untouchable. It is still fighting to survive five…
In the fall of 1966, the London-based film producer Albert Broccoli was strolling around the Tokyo Motor Show when a car grabbed his eye. It was a prototype from Toyota, a sinuous, cat-like coupe called the 2000GT. Broccoli was in Japan to scout locations for his next film, 1967’s You Only Live Twice, the fifth…
Publisher CafeMedia, which runs sales for titles like MacRumors and Stereogum, has managed to recoup millions of dollars in previously blocked ad revenue over the last two years. Between October 2020 and June 2022, CafeMedia detected over 500 million pages with ad blockers running on them. Thanks to ad-block recovery firm Blockthrough, it was able…
As any marketer will know, building consistent long-term brand success is an incredibly difficult thing to achieve–especially in periods of economic upheaval. Having endured a pandemic and now a war in eastern Europe, the last two years have been erratic for global brands to traverse. By comparison, the previous eight years marked a much calmer…
Omnicom Media Group’s largest agency, OMD, found a way to measure attention and harness those metrics, which it now uses in client planning. The Attention Requirement Calculator (ARC) was built with Omnicom’s data strategy arm Annalect. The company tells Adweek the tool saves clients time and money. “Attention impacts every stage of the design process,…
Phrases like “psychiatrip” and “supply pain” probably didn’t make it into Bill Bernbach’s vocabulary. But these terms–which refer to the influx of psychedelic therapy and economic frustration–are examples of the coined vernacular that lives at the core of Day One Agency’s culture reports, also known as its Predictionary. “Projects like the Predictionary help us to…
Could a robot do your job? If you asked any creative this question, the answer would most likely be a firm “no.” But a new experiment in artificial intelligence (AI) art direction has delivered some striking and thought-provoking results that might make some think twice. The “Ad Intelligence” project has reimagined ads for 10 iconic…
The business news publisher Morning Brew, an Axel Springer property, launched its 10th newsletter Monday morning, a product called CFO Brew that aims to reach readers in strategic and corporate finance. The publisher has grown rapidly since selling a majority stake to Insider in October 2020 that valued its business at $75 million. It generated…
Throughout his 50-year career in menswear, George Zimmer has seen, selected and sold pretty much every variety of sport coat, from single-breasted to double, corduroy to cashmere, houndstooth to plaids to pinstripes. But despite the millions of jackets he’s looked at, there’s one he can never forget. It’s a 100% polyester number. Big lapels. In…
Note: To make sense of what is quickly becoming a vast and complex agency technology ecosystem, Adweek is reporting on each of the major platforms. This story is the third in a series covering agencies’ audience management platforms. Previously, Adweek reported on Omnicom’s Omni and Horizon Media’s blu. Like all of the large holding companies,…
As airlines around the world struggle to keep up with travel demand, Airbnb is looking to continue a successful run that began after the earliest period of the pandemic. This spring, the lodging-share company made its “work from anywhere” staffing policy official. The move reflects Airbnb CEO and founder Brian Chesky’s view that “travel as…
“The sales of a brand are like the height at which an airplane flies. Advertising spend is like its engines: while the engines are running, everything is fine, but, when the engines stop, the descent eventually starts.” This is a well-known paragraph written in 1989 by Simon Broadbent in The Advertising Budget: The Advertiser’s Guide…
LIV Golf enticed golf greats including Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson with guaranteed nine-figure deals. Attracting advertisers might be a little tougher. The newly formed tour debuts in the U.S. this weekend with an event at the Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Plains, Oregon–just outside of Portland. LIV Golf promises eight events consisting of…
The past six months has been a game of whack-a-mole for Instacart as multiple challenges have arisen for the grocery delivery brand. A business darling during the pandemic, Instacart cut its valuation by almost 40% to $24 billion in March after originally being valued at $39 billion after its most recent funding round in 2021….
The thick and musty playbook of marketing tactics contains a chapter that comparatively few brands have the nerve to consult. It concerns those gambits that, in the never-ending quest for the public’s attention, are–for lack of more tactful terminology–deliberately ridiculous. Case in point: the recent product reveal from the folks at Wright Brand, part of…
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