With Nue Agency and its accompanying weekly newsletter Beats + Bytes, music marketer and talent agent Jesse Kirshbaum explores the intersection of music, technology, and brand marketing. Kirshbaum released the agency’s first Beats + Bytes 2024 Trend Recap on Tuesday Dec. 17, comprising the newsletter’s archives and top cultural trends at the center of those…
WPP has named former IPG’s McCann Worldgroup head of AI Elav Horwitz as its new evp and global head of strategic partnerships and solutions. Horwitz brings nearly nine years of experience at McCann, where she served as evp, global head of applied innovation and generative AI, integrating AI into creative workflows, as well as working…
Spotify is the latest brand to face criticism for using generative AI in its highly anticipated end-of-year campaign, Wrapped, released yesterday (Dec. 4). Disgruntled users took to TikTok, X, and Reddit to air their grievances with the campaign’s AI-powered features, calling the music streamer “lazy” and saying the work “flopped” for its lackluster design and…
Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He wrote a piece after the election about Elon Musk’s impact on the Trump brand. Here’s a small excerpt to chew on. It’s hard to overstate the success that a Trump-Musk axis has already had in rebranding Trump’s image.… In the company of Musk—redolent of […]
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named former SAP chief marketing and solutions officer Julia White as its new chief marketing officer (CMO). White will succeed Raejeanne Skillern, who is leaving to devote more time to her family and her board member roles. White left SAP in August after three-and-a-half years with the company. Prior to…
User experience (UX) research firm AnswerLab has appointed Megan Malli as its new chief executive officer (CEO). Malli joins from digital agency Huge, where she was global president. She assumes the role from founder and former CEO Amy Buckner Chowdhry, who will transition to board chair. The CEO transition comes as the company approaches its…
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI is officially moving forward with previously announced plans to begin testing ads within its search results. Initial agency and brand partners include Indeed, PMG, Universal McCann, and Whole Foods Market. The company said in a blog post announcing the move, “To fully deliver on our mission to spark the world’s…
The last time GoDaddy ran an ad during the Super Bowl, Donald Trump had just been inaugurated as president of the U.S. However, the company’s decision to return to next year’s game was driven by artificial intelligence, not politics. After eight years, GoDaddy will return to the Big Game with a 30-second spot scheduled to…
A weightlifting competition takes a surprising twist in an Apple ad demonstrating the performance of the M4 chips powering the new MacBook Pro. Created by agency TBWAMedia Arts Lab and directed by the collective Megaforce, the playful film depicts a weightlifter with extraordinary strength – a visual metaphor for the power of Apple’s M4 chips….
A radio station in Poland has replaced its human journalists with AI. The Associated Press reported that weeks after letting its journalists go, OFF Radio Krakow relaunched with what it said was “the first experiment in Poland in which journalists … are virtual characters created by AI.” The station in Krakow said its three avatars…
Apple on Thursday released the first scripted film for its Vision Pro virtual reality headset, providing a window into the future of immersive entertainment. The 17-minute film, Submerged, written and directed by Academy Award-winning director Edward Berger, takes viewers inside a World War II-era submarine which has been attacked by enemy warships. Through the eyes…
The Department of Justice submitted their proposed remedies to the August federal court ruling that Google illegally monopolizes search, arguing that Google should be prohibited from using their own products like Chrome, Android and the Play App store to advantage their search-related business. The proposed remedies might include a break up of the company, though…
Apple is touting the filmmaking capabilities of its iPhone 16 Pro with “Capture,” a short film that debuted Monday. Aoife McArdle directed “Capture,” which salutes classic cinematic tropes with real stunts and effects, demonstrating the iPhone 16 Pro’s ability to shoot Hollywood-quality video due to features like its 4K video resolution, 120-frame-per-second rate, and the…
“Under” was a recurring theme among the 1,000-plus women who took part in the fifth global women in tech report from Web Summit, released Wednesday–underpaid, underrepresented, and underfunded. The respondents felt underpaid, as nearly 51% believe they are unfairly compensated compared to men. They felt underrepresented, as more than one-half cited a lack of women…
Meta kicked off Meta Connect Wednesday, a two-day event comprised of demo experiences, developer sessions, keynotes, and networking opportunities, providing a look at new and future technology including artificial intelligence, its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and its Orion prototype augmented reality glasses. The annual event is perhaps best known for its 2021 edition in October…
To Greg Friend, advertising is a lot like lifting. Everyone reaches first for the dumbbells, but long-term growth requires focusing on the core. “Everybody wants to have nice arms,” Friend, vice president of insights and innovation at Nativo, said onstage during ADWEEK’s Brandweek on Wednesday. “You start to see the growth and the results right…
Mozilla, founded by Netscape employees in 1998 as a source of free internet software, teamed up with global branding agency Jones Knowles Ritchie on a rebrand aimed at encouraging people to “reclaim the internet as a global public resource, open and accessible to all.” The rebranding effort incorporated feedback from Mozilla employees, the broader Mozilla…
From sonic branding to perfumes and restaurants in New York and Sao Paulo, Mastercard has leveraged almost every sense to engage and assure customers. Now, it’s turning to touch. The brand is debuting a haptic logo, a distinctive series of vibrations that customers will “feel” via their phone when shopping online or using a payment…
Top marketers at Tinder and Hinge will be sharing their insights at Brandweek from Sept. 23-26 in Phoenix, AZ. Follow along here. Dating apps are giving the TikTok generation the ick — and that sentiment shows in declining use. A 2023 Axios / Generation Lab survey revealed that 79% of college and graduate students in…
A former Google advertising executive testified in the US antitrust case against Google, painting a picture of a company where it can be difficult to make change. The Department of Justice is trying to prove that Google’s ad business is a monopoly with tools that control how both advertisers and publishers buy and sell digital…
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