Ford built the Bronco from 1966 to 1996. Collectors of the mid-size SUV have pleaded with Ford to return the Bronco to its lineup. Their requests are being answered. The Bronco, which will be assembled at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, will go on sale next year. The new 2021 Ford Bronco reveal event […]
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In 2018, Coca-Cola launched #RefreshtheFeed giving its social media accounts a complete factory reset. Coca-Cola’s new social strategy was “rooted in optimism, uplift, and connection.” Now the beverage icon is going to pause paid and organic posts on all social media platforms globally for at least 30 days, effective July 1. Chairman and CEO, James Quincey, […]
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Hit pause on hate. That’s the call-to-action issued on June 17, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL. Their new Stop Hate for Profit campaign asks businesses to suspend advertising on Facebook’s services during July. The campaign’s partners, including Color of Change, Common Sense, Free Press, and Sleeping […]
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Some people and brands took the day off yesterday. They didn’t fill their social media timelines with promotional material. Instead, many opted to place a black rectangle in their stream as a way to show solidarity with the anti-racist, anti-fascist movement. Of course, many brands had no business wading in these waters. For example: Want […]
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Steak-umm is frying minds and taking names on Twitter. Not everyone is impressed, but I am. media literacy in the internet age is incredibly difficult to develop. you have to navigate special interest groups, trolls, ads, conspiracies, fake accounts, satire, sensationalism, and beyond, in order to find credible source material and relevant experts buried under […]
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Social media is so great—legions of new customers can find you on The TweetFaceTube and just like that, you are in business! I am sorry. I misled you. The above lede should have read: Wake up—your social media followers are not customers and a great many of them are not your prospects, much less qualified […]
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Loneliness. Along with the spread of deadly disease, and the global economic impacts from the spread, loneliness is a real problem. The following public service announcement illustrates the hard truths of our situation today—if you’re dating, and you do not live together, you can look (and smile and sext and so on) but you can’t […]
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This website is unbound, and do its size and the breadth of coverage, somewhat difficult to navigate. You can search by topic, but then what? Then you must scroll and click to get to the best material Adpulp has to offer. Unless I intervene and aggregate the aggregator (me). Which is precisely what I am […]
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Social media marketing is for grown-ups. Naturally, adults come in all ages, because adulthood is about exercising emotional maturity, not about circles around the sun. Case in point, Wendy’s social media team decided to support its own product launches (Wendy’s has launched a Breakfast Baconator, a Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit, and a Maple Bacon Chicken […]
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Meet Li Ziqi. The 29-year-old is one of China’s biggest social media stars. She has 22 million followers on the microblogging site Weibo, 34 million on Douyin, and another 8.3 million on YouTube (which is banned in China). Ziqi lives in the village of northwestern Pingwu, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China. She began posting rustic-chic […]
Are your clients feeling down in the dumps? Reports indicate a sourness in the land of titans. Fear of Uncertainty Is Bad for Business In an analysis of online content from more than 58,000 chief executive and chief marketing officers, the overall confidence among global CEOs and CMOs is down more than 20 percent, with […]
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Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of @Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, made some interesting Tweets today to announce Twitter’s new policy that bans all political advertising from the platform. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A […]
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Mark Zuckerberg testified, a.k.a. whined a lot, in front of Congress this week. U.S. Representative Katie Porter from California, a law professor and graduate of Harvard Law, cross-examined the witness. She asked Mark if he cares about privacy as he claims to do, why is he arguing in federal court that consumers can’t hold Facebook […]
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People love food-focused programming. Yet, many food brands rely on TV to carry their messages, which is an expensive way to build an audience of buyers. San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B, one of the nation’s largest family-owned businesses with 350 stores throughout Texas and northeast Mexico run lots of TV commercials but only has 32K subscribers […]
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Do you know Mark? Mark knows you. Do you know who does know, Mark? Chris Hughes knows Mark. Hughes was there along with fellow Harvard undergrads Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Dustin Moskovitz when Facebook was founded in 2004. Incidentally, Adpulp was founded a few months later that same year. Because Hughes knows Mark, Hushes […]
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Facebook blows technicolor chunks. Let’s count off a few of the leading reasons for the giant suck. Facebook lies about its traffic, inflating their numbers by 900% in some cases. Facebook allows politicians (and Russian agents) to run paid lies on its platform. Facebook is the world’s largest excuses factory. The San Jose Mercury News […]
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I first made my way to South By Southwest in March of 2003. The conference, the city of Austin, and the creative industries have all changed considerably since then. It was just 16.5 years ago, but in our accelerated, digitally-disrupted world things happen fast. To make my point even clearer, when I first attended South […]
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Satire is salve for the witty. Novelist, Creative Director and Freelance Copywriter, Kathy Hepinstall Parks, is witty. This is how she rolls on LinkedIn: Sure, LinkedIn is laughable at times; yet, millions of professionals, a.k.a. thought workers, rely on it. Chances are good you’ll head over there in a few clicks to seek a job […]
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Digital media is one of those inventions, like television, with the potential to change the world for the better. Instead, many digital spaces have become a cesspool, and a cesspool is an unhealthy place for marketers wanting to connect with future customers. Meet GARM Some of the world’s largest advertisers including Adidas, Diageo, Mars, Procter […]
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Serial content is the best content. Satirical serial content that resurrects a classic ad campaign from the 90s whilst skewering social media? Even better. Case in point, Bud Light has introduced seven new “Internet Heroes of Genius” spots on their YouTube channel. Bud Light has long had a well-honed sense of humor. What’s changed is […]
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