Cryptocurrency has an image problem. After a wave of momentum and buzz, including a Super Bowl 2022 full of crypto ads, the collapse of crypto network Terra and exchange FTX’s bankruptcy last year sent the market into disarray. The fallout means that for the average consumer viewing crypto today, “the prevailing feeling is mistrust,” said…
Samsung is playing into people’s anxieties around switching phones with an ad inspired by teen horror movies such as “Friday the 13th.” The spot is a follow-up to last year’s “Join the Flip Side,” by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, which promoted the mobile brand’s foldable range through a satirical thriller in which the protagonist is haunted by…
After winning the coveted Film Grand Prix at Cannes Lions for the comedic spot “R.I.P. Leon,” Apple continues the “Relax, It’s iPhone” campaign by slowing it way down. The new ad, “Tractor,” follows a similar model of using humor to cleverly showcase an iPhone feature. Set to Ludacris’ track “Two Miles An Hour,” the minute-long…
Warning: Google Chrome’s latest campaign might “Break Ya Neck.” That’s because the search engine has partnered with the legendary purveyor of some of hip-hop’s fastest flows, Busta Rhymes, alongside fellow rapper, Lil Yachty, and McLaren F1 racing driver, Lando Norris, for a high-octane music video showing how Chrome satisfies the need for speed. In the…
Instacart’s chief marketing officer Laura Jones calls this the “year of brandformance” for the 11-year-old online grocery platform. The amalgam comes from two functions of the marketing department, brand and performance. Those teams had reported to separate leaders, but Jones, who joined from Uber two years ago, felt they would perform better for clients and…
Danish high-end consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen has released a global campaign to promote its new brand direction, featuring a range of interactive avatars that represent the musical taste of each user on the brand’s website. With the introduction of the brand direction “See Yourself in Sound,” the near-100-year-old company, which designs and manufactures…
With a market cap of $2.89 trillion, Apple remains the world’s most valuable company. It should come as no surprise, then, that the device, technology, entertainment and services behemoth is also a brand darling. For the second year in a row, Apple has topped Kantar’s BrandZ Global Rankings with a valuation of $880 billion. Apple’s…
The Valley’s hype machine has been in full grind mode since the dawn of AI as a mass market tool. Since the start of 2023, I’ve seen a lot of over-the-top nonsense masquerading as product promotion, but what I saw last week in venture capitalist Mark Andreesen’s verbose defense of the technology, is unprecedented. This […]
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Once upon an Internet moment, Twitter was a big deal. Then a braggadocious billionaire bought the company and within minutes the social media platform’s engine began to sputter and its wheels flatten. Flash forward to the present. An internal presentation obtained by The New York Times reveals that Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five […]
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“Brand decides to advertise” might seem like an unusual headline, it’s one that’s taken over the business press following Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas. That’s because after two decades eschewing conventional advertising in favor of word of mouth, emails, incentivized referrals, and a front-facing founder and chief executive in Elon Musk, the brand…
It was on Nov. 30, 2022 that the prototype of ChatGPT went live. Within weeks, hype was spreading around the world about the detailed responses the bot produced, leading to seemingly every other LinkedIn post offering an insight into the use of artificial intelligence. Advertising, an industry that gravitates toward shiny new things, pivoted from…
Crocs owners are known to wear their shoes one of two ways–seamlessly changing from “sport mode” to “relaxed mode” by moving the strap on the clogs to the front or back. The brand is now expanding this idea to the world of gaming, as it aims to grow its international fan base virtually through a…
Crocs owners are known to wear their shoes one of two ways–seamlessly changing from “sport mode” to “relaxed mode” by moving the strap on the clogs to the front or back. The brand is now expanding this idea to the world of gaming, as it aims to grow its international fan base virtually through a…
Crocs owners are known to wear their shoes one of two ways–seamlessly changing from “sport mode” to “relaxed mode” by moving the strap on the clogs to the front or back. The brand is now expanding this idea to the world of gaming, as it aims to grow its international fan base virtually through a…
In the wake of a troubling period for digital currencies, OKX–the second largest crypto exchange by trading volume–has one-upped a recent campaign from rival Coinbase that claimed “it’s time to update the system” when it comes to financial services. OKX stated more emphatically that “the system needs a rewrite.” In a global brand campaign to…
The Writers Guild of America is out on strike. After six weeks of negotiations with Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount, and Sony (under the umbrella of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers), members of the strongest writer’s union in the land collectively walked off the job. It sounds like a […]
Discriminating against people due to their age is a pox upon advertising and media houses. It’s bad business, and another bad business practice is the last thing that these industries need, right now. Ageism is also a particularly perplexing issue emanating from professional workers who truly ought to know better. Given that everyone who is […]
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With the rise of artificial intelligence and automation, it is no surprise that some individuals are beginning to worry about the future of writing. As machines become more advanced, they are now capable of not only mimicking human speech but also producing entire articles, reports, and even novels. This has led to the development of […]
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AI. Have two letters in combination ever received the hype, press, and speculation behind them that AI presently enjoys? One has to wonder what’s so special about the latest shiny object and exactly who stands to gain the most by seeing artificial intelligence take off. The pace of AI-related product releases and promotions since November […]
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Recruiters are calling Austin Anglin, an art director at the independent Atlanta agency 22Squared. They aren’t interested in interviewing him. Instead, they want to reach an art director named Alex Irving. The caveat? Irving isn’t human. They’re the pseudonym behind the AI-produced creative portfolio Anglin created with his co-worker, 22Squared senior copywriter Emmy Murf. Using…
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