When Tesla launched in 2003, its mission was to “to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing compelling mass market electric cars to market as soon as possible.” Fast-forward almost 20 years and every major car manufacturer has entered the ring, from Volkswagen to Toyota, Peugeot to Ford. EV sales now account for 10%…
In 2022, winter came early to Ukraine. As temperatures plunged below 0 degrees celsius in November, the Russian military targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Despite that, the creative communications industry has continued to work through the combat, finding ways to operate amid the peril remaining Ukrainians face. Everyone is playing their own part in keeping Ukraine…
If a brand pays an agency for working on its ad campaign without the agency feeling undervalued or the brand feeling ripped off, congratulations: You’ve mastered agency compensation. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) recently released its Trends in Agency Compensation survey of advertising industry professionals and found there’s still some question of how to…
Specialist media publisher Future plc., which houses more than 250 editorial titles including TechRadar and Marie Claire, has increased the viewability of digital ads on its recently acquired Kiplinger title after migrating the site to its proprietary backend platform, Vanilla. Ad viewability, a metric defined by the IAB that reflects whether an ad rendered and…
At the end of 2022, Paris eclipsed London as Europe’s most valuable stock market, knocking the U.K.’s capital squarely out of the position it’s held since 2003. The knockout dovetailed with a report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which showed the U.K. economy was lagging behind fellow G7 nations. Canada, France, Germany,…
It was a banner year for one of connected TV’s biggest players, and Roku is bringing that momentum into 2023. As competition becomes even more fierce in the advertising-supported world, Roku knows it’s been here for years. After climbing to surpass 70 million active accounts to wrap up 2022, Roku is leaning even more into…
Throughout Adweek’s end of year coverage for 2022, we’ve seen buyers comment on how the ad market has changed, heard TV execs and insiders reveal what they’ve learned and reviewed how the biggest streamers stack up. Now, it’s time to look ahead. To help close out our year in review stories, Adweek asked 18 TV…
As the media industry heads into yet another uncertain year, Adweek spoke with five publishing executives to see what they expect to come in 2023. After nearly three years of unpredictability, confident predictions are in short supply. There is general consensus that the first quarter will be difficult, but several expressed optimism about the back…
Whether Elon Musk remains at the helm of Twitter or hands over the reins to someone else–Myspace founder Tom Anderson, anyone?–the platform is in for more seismic changes following the mogul’s $44 billion acquisition of the platform in October. After eliminating or accepting the semi-voluntary resignations of more than half the platform’s prior staff (an…
For every woman who bets on a sporting event in the U.S., there are four men exchanging high fives in the sportsbook around her. For women who want to place bets, the gender imbalance they encounter among sports bettors has deep roots in its illegal, male-dominated history. For gaming companies and their marketers, it’s a…
Throughout 2022, agency leaders faced activists hellbent on holding firms accountable for the work they do for major polluters. In 2023, policymakers are joining the chat. Much of this year’s activity was seen at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. The ad industry returned to the French Riviera for the first time since the beginning…
Repetition and frequency are drilled into every advertiser as key to winning eyeballs and new consumers. Ads are notorious for being more effective after many viewings, as repeating a message multiple times can increase brand awareness and consumer recall, if done correctly. But some ads make great first impressions. They grab the viewer immediately and…
More people are buying pre-loved items as they make greener choices, but there’s a long way to go to fix the fashion industry’s climate ills. Between 2021 and 2022, brands’ adoption of resale grew by more than 300%, according to a report by resale platform thredUP, with dozens more apparel companies expanding their online stores…
Not many of us will get the chance to sit by the fire in a cave full of Whoville delicacies like Who Pudding during the winter, or ghost hunt in a firehouse equipped with proton packs for Halloween. These unique worlds have been transformed into a reality through rental spaces where fans’ favorite stories are…
Kristyn Cook has never served a day as a company’s chief marketing officer. When she assumes that role for State Farm on Jan. 1, 2023, however, she’ll do so having lived with parents who were State Farm agents since she was 11, opening her own State Farm agency in Chicago 15 years ago and helping…
For nearly a decade, the digital advertising ecosystem has been dominated by a handful of social media platforms, whose data-rich targeting, ease of use and reliable performance revolutionized the field. But according to proprietary data collected for Adweek by executive research firm NewtonX, a confluence of emerging factors has loosened the platforms’ stranglehold on the…
Over the last two years, as the value of the cryptocurrency market reached dizzying new heights, publishers that covered the industry shared briefly in its wealth, with exchanges like Coinbase, Crypto.com and FTX spending lavishly on advertising to acquire new customers. But since April, declining adoption and waning consumer trust in the technology have led…
The Home Depot first sponsored ESPN’s College GameDay in 2003, when the majority of U.S. viewers watched broadcasts on bulbous cathode-ray tube televisions. At the time, Home Depot centered around professionals and homeowners. It had offshoots like The Home Depot Supply, the Home Depot Landscape Supply and Expo Design Center aimed at a growing housing…
The modern agency C-suite is one of rapid change. The typical top-down structure is slowly flattening and the roles of each C-suite position are constantly being altered. Adweek has dedicated a series of stories analyzing what being a modern agency C-suite member entails, talking with people holding those positions at agencies big and small, and…
Anheuser-Busch InBev has had quite a year. The planet’s biggest brewer, which claims to make one out of every four beers sold around the globe, was named Creative Marketer of the Year at Cannes, top advertiser by marketing intelligence firm WARC and most effective marketer by nonprofit Effie Worldwide. “Our creative marketing capabilities continue to…
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