Leaders of the tech industry were summoned by the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify in front of Congress on Wednesday, pressed on how safe their platforms are for children. First-time Congress testers like CEO of X Linda Yaccarino, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and CEO of Discord Jason Citron, joined seasoned figures like Meta CEO Mark…
Even for the most discerning home cook, it’s a burden that lays heavy: cooking more pasta than you need. That’s why, when it found out that one in four pasta dishes made globally are wasted, Italian pasta and sauce maker Barilla made tackling food waste its mission. Drawing on the Italian tradition of using pasta…
College football bowl games are steeped in history and tradition, a staple of the sporting calendar for more than a century. But some fans are beginning to voice their displeasure from the sidelines, with the sheer number of games becoming a particular sticking point. The 2023-24 season boasts a whopping 43 bowl games, with many…
Public perception can make or break a company. It’s the job and responsibility of a public relations expert or team to not only protect their clients’ reputation but also build awareness, credibility and trust through communications in a fast-paced, ever-shifting world. A lot has happened this year and so much will change in 2024, especially…
Public perception can make or break a company. It’s the job and responsibility of a public relations expert or team to not only protect their clients’ reputation but also build awareness, credibility and trust through communications in a fast-paced, ever-shifting world. A lot has happened this year and so much will change in 2024, especially…
Instagram has made public the number of times a post is shared–a metric that previously brands and creators could only see on the platform’s backend–indicating the growing importance of sharing as a success metric. Adweek and several other sources noticed the metric appearing alongside the paper plane share icon earlier this year, with one source…
The social publisher NowThis, whose trending news and entertainment videos often go viral on social platforms, has hired media veteran Sharon Mussalli as its chief executive officer–its first since the title was spun off from Vox Media in April. The newly independent publisher is now owned by Accelerate Change, a nonprofit media company whose portfolio…
During the fourth quarter of this year, advertisers had to act more flexibly, as the uncertain macroeconomic environment made reaching revenue goals more challenging, according to post-mortem conversations with several ad buyers. Reflecting this cautious landscape, ad prices were down this year on Meta and Google, after already dipping in 2022. CPMs (cost per thousand…
More than 100 brands have “fully paused” their ads or left the social media platform once known as Twitter, following an important report by Media Matters on how advertising from prominent corporations was appearing next to pro-Hitler, Holocaust denial, white nationalist, pro-violence, and neo-Nazi posts and accounts. Media Matters, a not-for-profit organization, has since been […]
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As though there wasn’t already enough risk for brands advertising on X, formerly Twitter, Elon Musk has now given ad buyers more reasons to consider stopping their investments on the platform. Musk called out Disney CEO Bob Iger at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, as well as saying that advertisers leaving the…
Ad tech is confusing, and brand marketers and agencies alike want to simplify it. There are an overabundance of vendors contributing to the industry’s complexity. The ad-tech market will reach $2.9 trillion by 2031, according to Allied Market Research. Adweek is reporting on one rising tech company each month that represents the future of advertising….
Elon Musk’s “Go f*ck yourselves” statement to advertisers leaving X has been defended by the social media platform’s chief executive (CEO) Linda Yaccarino, who said that the owner was stating the position of the company. Writing a post on X that included a video from the now infamous interview, Yaccarino said: “Today, Elon Musk gave…
If a company internship imparts some wisdom to the students it employs, that’s typically good enough. If those interns teach a company about itself, turn weaknesses into strengths and create a better future for everyone involved, that’s the ideal outcome. Seven years ago, General Motors paired its Chevrolet brand with the National Newspaper Publishers Association…
When people ask Sara Wilson about her former position at Facebook (now Meta), which began in 2013, she includes a caveat: “I worked with influencers, but now ‘influencer’ is a dirty word, so we call them ‘creators.’ “The early social media version of an influencer is largely negative,” continued Wilson, who is now the founder…
Adweek continued exploring the depths of the Creatorverse earlier this month at Social Media Week Europe. The event was held in the heart of London from October 10-11 and featured creators and marketers alike sharing their thoughts and expertise on the ever-expanding role of the creator in driving engagement and recognition for brands. With such…
As the latest Israel and Hamas war reaches its two-week mark, an overwhelming surge of videos and photos claiming to portray the ongoing turmoil has inundated social media platforms. So far, Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) is struggling to combat wartime misinformation, making advertisers even more cautious about returning to the beleaguered platform. The platform’s…
As the owner of brands such as Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Gatorade, PepsiCo’s core focus across its marketing is to tap into culture, demonstrate its relevance to consumers’ lives and engage them at their passion points. “You cannot build brands the way we used to,” stated Mark Kirkham, senior vp and CMO of international beverages…
Deep in the lockdown era of the Covid-19 pandemic and shortly after police in Minneapolis murdered George Floyd–sparking global protests against systemic racism and police violence–creator Dan Mosaku received a package as part of a brand partnership that he’d been hired for. Declining to name the brand onstage last week at Adweek’s Social Media Week…
Influencers and creators are not new additions to the marketing mix, yet brands leaders are still figuring out how best to work with this new school of talent. At the same time, a growing appetite for content across all platforms–from TikTok to YouTube–is taking its toll on the creator community. With marketers under pressure to…
Burger King has been a marketing powerhouse for decades, but TikTok was a whole new realm for the international fast food chain a few years ago. To help it navigate the new frontier in the U.K., Burger King turned to an independent social media agency that named itself after its mission to reinvent water cooler…
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