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Dec 06, 2024
Top of the Ticker: ABC News is saying goodbye to its longtime home on New York's Upper West Side. The network is moving south to 7 Hudson Square, site of the recently opened Robert A. Iger building, named after the Disney CEO. The Mouse House is consolidating its New York operations into the new complex,...
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Dec 06, 2024
In only its second year hosting the NFL Black Friday game, Amazon has had no problem staying on offense and moving forward. Drawing 13.51 million viewers to see the Kansas City Chiefs eke out a 19-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders--and increasing its audience 41% from the roughly 9 million who watched the New...
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Dec 06, 2024
Donald Trump's love/hate relationship with Fox News Media was all love on Thursday night. The president-elect received the inaugural Patriot of the Year award during Fox Nation's sixth annual Patriot Awards ceremony, held in Brookville, NY. Chants of "USA!" echoed inside the Tilles Center for Performing Arts as Trump walked onto the stage and was...
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Dec 06, 2024
Nadja Bellan-White, who has been serving as CEO of creative agency M&C Saatchi SS K since January, was promoted to CEO of M&C Saatchi North America Group. Prior to joining M&C Saatchi Group, Bellan-White spent three years as global chief marketing officer at Vice Media Group. She brings extensive agency experience, as well, with nine years...
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Dec 06, 2024
The ongoing threat of a TikTok ban just got more serious. Today (Dec. 5), a U.S. federal appeals court upheld a law that requires TikTok's owner, Chinese tech firm ByteDance, to divest itself of the app in the United States by early next year, or face a ban. Unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the decision...
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Dec 06, 2024
Brands went bonkers for AI this past year, as they increasingly adopted the growing number of tools available to facilitate mundane tasks throughout the creative process and create new kinds of work. While consumers still feel conflicted about brands use of the technology, some marketing departments have found savings by leaning on generative AI in...
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Dec 06, 2024
TikTok took a hit in Washington, D.C., Friday, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a law that requires Chinese-based parent company ByteDance to sell the popular video-sharing social platform by Jan. 19 or see the application banned in the U.S. The likely next step for TikTok and ByteDance is an...
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Dec 06, 2024
Interpublic Group is betting on commerce and retail media. The holding company has agreed to acquire retail analytics firm Intelligence Node. Exact terms were not disclosed, but the acquisition is valued at $100 million, which includes the price of the deal and the costs to scale Intelligence Node. Intelligence Node's 120 employees will become part...
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Dec 06, 2024
Happy Friday to all who celebrate! In this week's edition of stories we didn't write up for one reason or another, we see Byron Allen (pictured) is suing McDonald's, saying the company discriminates against black-owned businesses, and in the "I guess?" category of news, we see a bunch of anchor dudes have been named to...
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Dec 06, 2024
The Ad Council, at its 70th annual public service award dinner Thursday night, honored Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger as an outstanding corporate citizenship, including his support for multiple Ad Council efforts, and the event raised a record-breaking $9.2 million to support its efforts. The event was co-hosted by actors Angela Bassett and Lilly...
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Dec 06, 2024
Allen & Gerritsen (A&G) has launched a customer experience technology agency, CeCo Digital, to help marketers keep and grow loyal customers beyond the sale. The agency has tapped Bain partner Raj Heda to lead the new spinoff. CeCo Digital aims to provide marketers with integrated systems across communications, customer experience, and loyalty. The agency will...
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Dec 06, 2024
Veteran news director Ed Trauschke is retiring from Raleigh, N.C. CBS affiliate WNCN. He joined the station in 2017. His last day at WNCN will be Friday, December 20, 2024. "For the last seven years Ed has overseen the growth and development of our newsroom. He's helped guide CBS 17 News to new heights, instilling...
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Dec 06, 2024
Of all the creative assets in a brand marketer's toolkit, few are as humble (or essential) as the lifestyle photo--those stills and videos that feature a smiling model appearing alongside the product. Scores of agencies stand at the ready to book talent for jobs like this--often slender younglings who'll pair their good looks with a...
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Dec 06, 2024
Cue the scene: me, 14 years old, sitting in the bleachers at my middle school dance. Not one girl wanted to dance with me. I couldn't figure it out. I had what I thought were top-tier dance moves. But there I was, sulking in a dimly lit corner, on the top row where no one...
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Dec 06, 2024
With a valuation of $157 billion and a string of strategic moves, OpenAI is setting the stage for what could be a transformative 2025. The company is pushing to dominate the AI landscape by recruiting top advertising talent from Google and Meta, launching a search-integrated ChatGPT, and exploring ad-driven revenue as it refines its for-profit...
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Dec 05, 2024
Dave Griek will join News Channel Nebraska as evening anchor next week. "I am honored to continue my career as evening anchor with News Channel Nebraska," Griek said. "This state is full of wonderful people, and I sincerely thank everyone who has allowed me into their homes, and given me their trust over the last...
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Dec 05, 2024
The digital media company Conde Nast laid off a number of its top executives, along with key events, social media, and editorial staff, in a targeted round of cuts Thursday evening, according to interviews with four current and former staff. A representative for the company confirmed the layoffs but declined to share their exact scope....
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Dec 05, 2024
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...
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Dec 05, 2024
Ulta Beauty is a powerhouse in the retail and beauty industries, blending innovation with a guest-first philosophy to create unmatched experiences. With over 1,400 stores and 50,000 associates, Ulta Beauty has redefined what it means to connect with beauty enthusiasts. In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Suzy founder and host Matt Britton...
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Dec 05, 2024
When sports-first streamer Fubo closed its 2024-25 upfront season, revenue from upfront commitments was up over 40% compared to the previous year, which is an all-time high, according to the company. The platform saw the most growth across advertisers from automotive, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods categories. According to Fubo, 40% of advertisers that made...
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Dec 05, 2024
Alex Cooper, the popular podcast host of Call Her Daddy is ready for her next act: entering the beverage space. Cooper unveiled the launch of her hydration drink, called Unwell Hydration, on Dec. 4 at The New York Times' DealBook conference. The name is a nod to the podcast network she also runs called Unwell...
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Dec 05, 2024
Live from Brandweek 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, the Marketing Vanguard podcast welcomes Sofia Colucci, CMO of Molson Coors, for an in-depth exploration of modern marketing leadership. In this dynamic conversation, Colucci shares her remarkable journey from innovation specialist to CMO, offering insights into building world-class marketing capabilities and driving business transformation. The 2024 Marketing Vanguard...
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Dec 05, 2024
Interpublic Group has sold experience design and technology agency Huge to private equity firm AEA Investors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. As part of the transaction, AEA Investors will combine Huge with Hero Digital, a customer experience company it already owns. AEA Investors said the combined agency will become one of the largest...
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Dec 05, 2024
How do you watch TV? Also, why are you doing it in the bathroom? Those are some of the questions Peacock explores in its new brand campaign, "Watch However, Watch Whyever." According to Peacock, its new set of ads acts as a playful riff on familiar viewing habits. One spot pokes fun at the infamous...
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Dec 05, 2024
How do you watch TV? Also, why are you doing it in the bathroom? Those are some of the questions Peacock explores in its new brand campaign, "Watch However, Watch Whyever." According to Peacock, its new set of ads acts as a playful riff on familiar viewing habits. One spot pokes fun at the infamous...
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Dec 05, 2024
Today (Dec. 5), wedding planning brand The Knot Worldwide announced the appointment of Raina Moskowitz as chief executive officer (CEO). She will succeed former CEO and founder Tim Chi, effective Jan. 21, 2025. Moskowitz is the latest chief marketing officer (CMO) to move into a CEO position. She joins from Etsy, where she served as...
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Dec 05, 2024
Julia Collier is the new chief marketing officer for J.Crew, the brand's parent company, J.Crew Group, announced today. Collier joins from Skims, where she was most recently senior vice president of marketing. She spent more than four years at the Kim Kardashian-owned company, which she joined ahead of its launch in 2019. The hire comes...
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Dec 05, 2024
Signing Off: ABC News senior executive producer Marc Burstein is retiring from the network after a career that spanned over four decades. Burstein led the special events unit, which covered such significant stories as the 9/11 terror attacks as well as the just-concluded 2024 presidential election. "After producing literally thousands of special reports and countless...
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Dec 05, 2024
The new year trend predictions have already started rolling in. Pantone has crowned "Mocha Mousse" (a warm, mellow brown) as its Color of the Year, Goldman Sachs has forecast "solid" global economic growth in 2025, and the chances of an Oscar Best Picture nomination look high for Wicked and Emilia Perez. What else will be...
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Dec 05, 2024
Publicis Groupe is looking to ride the growth wave of its Publicis Connected Media unit--which includes its digital experience agencies, martech firm Epsilon, influencer marketing shop Influential, investment arm PMX and Publicis Media--with several executive moves, highlighted by the promotion of Dave Penski to lead all Connected Media operations. The aim of Publicis Connected Media...
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Dec 05, 2024
Throughout my career in media, I have observed many industries in which responsible marketers practice self-regulation or strictly adhere to government regulation. Why? Because marketers and the media understand well that, for better and for worse, what they do powerfully influences consumer behavior. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walt Hickey authored a book last year with a...
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Dec 05, 2024
If this was ever a discreet, below-the-radar trend--wearing adult diapers to live concerts so as not to miss a moment of the show--it's not anymore. That's because Liquid Death, which doesn't do anything quietly, is jumping into the fray via an improbable but pragmatic alliance with personal care behemoth Kimberly-Clark. The result is a goth-inspired...
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Dec 05, 2024
The digital media company Vox Media is implementing layoffs and a substantial restructuring of its lifestyle properties, according to an internal memo obtained by ADWEEK. The changes will primarily affect the titles Thrillist, PS (formerly PopSugar), and Eater, as well as the media production and technology team, chief executive Jim Bankoff wrote to staff on...
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Dec 05, 2024
It's the end of an era for both Mercedes and Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton as one of the most iconic partnerships in racing reaches the finish line. Ahead of Hamilton's final race for Mercedes in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday (Dec. 8), the auto brand is sending him off with a heartfelt...
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Dec 05, 2024
This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of Nov. 25, 2024. The long Thanksgiving holiday resulted in all three networks experiencing week-to-week declines in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo. Double-digit drops in both measured categories were recorded during this slow news period. Fox News continued to...
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Dec 05, 2024
Adriana Mendez will join Milwaukee, Wisconsin NBC station WTMJ as the station's new morning anchor. Mendez will co-anchor alongside Tom Durian. She replaces Symone Woolridge, who announced her departure in September. The station said Mendez started at the station in reception more than a decade ago, commuting each day from Kenosha. "It's been an emotional...
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Dec 05, 2024
Tools of the Trade is a feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair of...
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Dec 05, 2024
Citibank's chief marketing and content officer Alex Craddock believes that despite the power of AI, the magic of great creative still comes from humans. Craddock joined Citi in May from BlackRock after a restructure to oversee its marketing department and set a new strategy for original content and thought leadership, ADWEEK reported at the time....
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Dec 05, 2024
Keith Edwards who has worked at Eu Clair, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WQOW since 1981 is one of many staffers who have reportedly "vanished from the station this week," according to Volumeone.org. The biographies of WQOW of at least half a dozen staffers have been scrubbed from the station website. WQOW and its La Crosse-based sister...
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Dec 05, 2024
Perplexity's Publisher Program, which distributes revenue to media outlets when their content appears next to ads on the AI search platform, has recruited its second batch of publisher partners. The San Francisco-based startup now works with over a dozen global media titles, including the Los Angeles Times, Blavity, The Independent, Prisa Media (the leading Spanish-language...
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Dec 05, 2024
After a record-breaking season, the WNBA's winning streak continues. A new report from data analytics firm Morning Consult, which tracks how consumers perceive thousands of brands each day, reveals no brand's reputation rose more throughout 2024 than the WNBA's. "It's rare that a sports league ever makes any type of ranking that we put out,"...
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Dec 04, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump will break his extended hiatus from non-Fox News legacy media outlets this weekend. With one month to go before he re-enters the Oval Office, Trump is set to speak with NBC News' Kristen Welker on this Sunday's edition of Meet the Press. It's his first network interview since Election Night, when the...
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Dec 04, 2024
NBC News' Today remained America's top morning show in both total viewers and the advertiser-prized Adults 25-54 for the Thanksgiving week of Nov. 25. However, this week's win comes with a big caveat: the show's performance was boosted by its annual coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which typically lifts Today to a win...
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Dec 04, 2024
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend understandably led to lower viewership across all three evening newscasts during the week of Nov. 25. NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt was the lone standout during this holiday period. The flagship NBC newscast avoided steep audience erosion in both total viewers and the advertiser-coveted Adults 25-54 demo. Note: The weekly...
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Dec 04, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a jab at The New York Times' high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI while speaking at The New York Times' own DealBook conference. Altman discussed all things artificial intelligence, including the future of artificial general intelligence while speaking on Dec. 4. He also spoke about the New York Times' ongoing lawsuit against...
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Dec 04, 2024
Ty Steele will join Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV as anchor for the stations 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. Steele will work alongside Kimberly Gill, Kim Adams, and Hobie Artigue beginning December 16. He'll replace longtime WDIV anchor Devin Scillian, who announced his retirement after 30 years. "When Devin let us know his plans to...
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Dec 04, 2024
On the day of the release of ChatGPT 4.0, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted "her"--a reference to the 2013 science fiction film in which an AI chatbot named Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson, develops an intimate relationship with her human user. The tweet called attention to a new feature for the product: voice mode, allowing...
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Dec 04, 2024
OpenAI has found its first chief marketing officer (CMO) in former Coinbase CMO Kate Rouch. At OpenAI, she will oversee marketing AI chatbot ChatGPT to consumer and enterprise audiences, reported Ad Age. More broadly, she will focus on communicating the company's mission to "develop AI as powerful as human cognition, known as artificial general intelligence...
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Dec 04, 2024
Disney is adding a new player to the roster, with ESPN now coming onto the streaming platform. As it did with its Hulu tile on Disney earlier in the year, Disney is now bringing an ESPN tile to the streaming service for its bundle subscribers in the U.S. Additionally, the company has revealed all Disney ...
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Dec 04, 2024
A Super Bowl spread is only as good as the cracker holding it. Ritz crackers is entering the Super Bowl advertiser lineup for the first time this year, with a 30-second spot by The Martin Agency, director Jake Szymanski (Funny or Die, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates), and production companies Gifted Youth and PXP....
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Dec 04, 2024
Zendaya is accidentally doing her part to increase the viewership of local TV. Boston ABC affiliate WCVB accidentally captured b-roll footage of the Hollywood star strolling around town with her mom. The clip aired on the station's 6 p.m. newscast on Sunday, without anyone at the station noticing. Topsfield, Massachusetts resident Chloe Mitchell saw the...
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Dec 04, 2024
Longtime Hearst Television executive Shawn Oswald has been named president and general manager of Hearst Television's Milwaukee, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WISN. He will take over for Jan Wade, who is retiring at the end of the year. This is a return to WISN for Oswald, who was the national sales manager from 1998 to 2000....
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Dec 04, 2024
TikTok shared the year's most memorable businesses, creators, cultural icons, moments, and trends on its platform in the U.K. with Wednesday's release of Year on TikTok 2024. Man in Finance landed @girl_on_couch a talent agent and a record deal, but it was just one of 2024's top memes, joining Brat Summer from @charlixcx, "very demure,...
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Dec 04, 2024
Beyonce leaned into her cowboy era, a gecko grew up, a barf bag went viral. Michael Cera pranked the nation, Waldo had an existential crisis, Ben Affleck realized his boy band dreams, and a potato chip lover got stuck in a time loop. The best ads of 2024 took us on a wild, inventive, funny,...
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Dec 04, 2024
As the 2026 World Cup approaches, The Home Depot is building toward a different kind of game day. This morning, FIFA announced The Home Depot as the "Official Home Improvement Retailer" for FIFA World Cup 2026 in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. With 2,345 stores across all three host nations, The Home Depot will...
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Dec 04, 2024
Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun likes to put his own spin on the obligatory company-wide Holiday memo leaders are obliged to send in Q4. Every year, he sends out a "Wishes" film, sending seasonal greetings to staffers and outlining a wish-list for the year ahead. For the 2024 edition, Sadoun has enlisted everyone's favorite Paris...
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Dec 04, 2024
To mark the 10th year of Spotify Wrapped, the streaming giant is celebrating the unique and surprising ways artists and creators have shaped fans' lives around the world. On Wednesday (Dec. 4), Spotify launched its global "2024 Wrapped" campaign, which over the past decade has become the platform's biggest marketing moment of the year and...
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Dec 04, 2024
It doesn't take an eagle eye to see there's something amiss in the just-launched Zevia holiday campaign. From the first frames, the 30-second spot proudly declares its AI-generated shenanigans in the form of Santa improbably traveling by drone, not sleigh, while other humanoid characters sprout multiple extra limbs and smile through twinkle-light teeth. As a...
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Dec 04, 2024
NBA 2K and Genius Sports found the cheat code for drawing more fans to the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup: Turn it into a video game. As TNT Sports' networks and platforms show the tournament's quarterfinal and semifinal knockout rounds across its networks and platforms, NBA 2k and Genius Sports will use graphic overlays and in-game...
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Dec 04, 2024
The digital media company BuzzFeed Inc., which owns BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and the properties Tasty and First We Feast, is facing a potential $124 million debt crisis related to funds it raised in June 2021 to finance its acquisition of Complex Media. According to the contract governing the deal, the creditors who lent BuzzFeed the money...
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Dec 04, 2024
Rigby is on a freelance gig. His day job is sniffing out cadavers for the police department, but today, the frisky retriever is on a soundstage in front of a camera. In a few minutes, a bunch of kids will kick off a taco party. Rigby's only job is to look cute--and not eat the...
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Dec 04, 2024
The evolution of influencer marketing has brought unparalleled opportunities for brands. But it's also created some murky tactics, including undeclared partnerships and hidden collaborations. That's where marketing analytics platform Ravineo, which officially launched on Nov. 12, comes in. Ravineo lets brands and agencies make smarter, data-driven decisions about their influencer strategies in real time, using...
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Dec 03, 2024
Fox News primetime host Sean Hannity introduced a new long-form monthly interview series on Tuesday--aptly titled Sean--on the streaming service Fox Nation. The interview series captures candid conversations with guests from sports, entertainment, and politics, diving deep into their lives, passions, and perspectives. It will also provide behind-the-scenes stories and unfiltered discussions about the moments...
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Dec 03, 2024
WTVT vice president and news director John Hoffman has announced that he will retire in February 2025. Hoffman has been in the role for the Tampa, Florida Fox-owned station since 2010. "I've been blessed with a newsroom full of experienced professionals who hold the station's reputation close to their hearts. Because I grew up at...
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Dec 03, 2024
Walmart is officially even more connected to connected TV. Today, the retail giant closed its $2.3 billion deal for TV manufacturer Vizio, which was first announced in February. In a press release, Walmart noted that the purchase of Vizio and its SmartCast Operating System (OS), which has more than 18 million active accounts, will enable...
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Dec 03, 2024
It's not all fun and games for toy manufacturer Mattel, which was hit with a class-action lawsuit Tuesday over a high-profile packaging error on dolls depicting characters in Universal Pictures' Wicked. Law firm Poulin Willey Anastopoulo filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of South Carolina resident...
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Dec 03, 2024
In this compelling episode of the Brave Commerce podcast, co-hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter sit down with Katie Williams, chief marketing officer of Haleon, parent company of consumer health brands such as Sensodyne, Advil and Centrum. A seasoned leader in the consumer packaged goods industry, Williams shares her unique journey, navigating two major corporate...
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Dec 03, 2024
With companies as varied as Uber, PayPal, and Home Depot all pushing into the advertising business, Americans are seeing more ads. The increase, however, isn't limited to tiny squares on a smartphone. In 2024, 68.6 million U.S. adults recalled seeing a video advertisement in a physical retail environment during the prior 30 days, according to...
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Dec 03, 2024
In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Suzy founder and host Matt Britton speaks with Peggy Roe, executive vice president and chief customer officer at Marriott International. Roe shares insights on the evolution of the hospitality industry, emphasizing the impact of customer loyalty and the role of first-party data in personalizing guest experiences....
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Dec 03, 2024
WRC anchor Leon Harris will "step away" from the Washington D.C. NBC-owned station's anchor desk after leaving the Thanksgiving newscast early. There was speculation on social media about why Harris left the 6 p.m. show. The station said he "appeared unwell" before disappearing. A quick check of tveyes showed the station went to an extended...
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Dec 03, 2024
Dan Kennedy will join Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA as morning weekend anchor and reporter. This is a move from within Tegna for Kennedy who anchors evenings at WVEC in Norfolk, Virginia. "Dan has an impressive track record of impactful journalism that showcases his deep commitment to the communities he serves," said Denisha Thomas, 11Alive news...
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Dec 03, 2024
Hellmann's is so brat. As brat summer turned into brat fall - with the pop star who inspired a thousand memes, Charli XCX, taking her Brat arena tour to the U.K. - Hellmann's became the latest brand to jump on one of the biggest social media trends of the year. Unilever's mayonnaise brand pulled off...
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Dec 03, 2024
Bumble's chief marketing officer (CMO), Selby Drummond, is leaving after four years with the dating app. The business confirmed she will exit in January to pursue an external opportunity. It did not state how her role would be replaced. Drummond joined Bumble in 2020 and served as its chief brand officer before taking on the...
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Dec 03, 2024
Many brands simply add a celebrity's branding when working with artists. But Olivia Rodrigio has partnered twice with Sony to make custom headphones. After developing a pair of earphones called LinkBud S last year, Rodrigo and Sony launched two new earphones in October that retail for $200: LinkBuds Fit and LinkBuds Open. Jordy Freed, director,...
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Dec 03, 2024
From the brand that packaged cannabis like top-shelf liquor for the 2023 holidays comes a new--even more covert--way to give the gift of ganja. Vivid, which has a devoted fan following among Missouri cannaseurs, has launched limited-edition containers modeled after bottles of wine and video game controllers. Opening these Trojan horses reveals the real present:...
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Dec 03, 2024
Domino's is inserting itself into the high stakes challenges of Squid Game ahead of the Netflix hit show's season 2 premiere, with ads showing pizza deliveries saving contestants from being eliminated. The campaign, created by agency WorkInProgress, features two ads based on episodes from Squid Game season 1, while integrating Domino's Emergency Pizza offer, a...
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Dec 03, 2024
The end of the year is a time of giving, as people and companies open their wallets during the holidays and charities capture the bulk of their donations for the year. One company makes sure its giving spirit is strong all year long by building community support into its operating model. LA-based production company Spark...
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Dec 03, 2024
Out-of-home advertising could reduce the carbon emissions of your ad campaign. Global OOH ad agency Billups worked with carbon intelligence firm Cedara to measure the environmental impact of OOH compared with other ad formats. Cedara's research found that billboards and other traditional OOH ads were 188% more efficient that programmatic display ads, 246% more efficient...
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Dec 03, 2024
This article was originally published in May 2024, and has since been updated with new information The first billboard ads date back to 1835 when Jared Bell debuted 50-foot-high placards to advertise the Barnum & Bailey Circus in New York. After nearly two centuries, giant posters remain popular among marketers, and as 2024 has shown...
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Dec 02, 2024
Toi Thornton has signed off from NBC Connecticut. Thornton was the weekend morning anchor at the NBC owned Hartford station. "LIFE UPDATE: This week is my final week at NBC Connecticut. Thank you to all of the people of Connecticut for allowing me into your homes every Saturday and Sunday morning! And to tell you...
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Dec 02, 2024
With a shortened holiday season, retailers cranked out a slew of promotions over Thanksgiving weekend, leading consumers to spend heavily. Sales are expected to reach $41 billion during the five-day shopping period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to ecommerce data tracked by Adobe. Consumers spent $6.1 billion--a 8.8% year-over-year increase--on Thanksgiving this year, according...
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Dec 02, 2024
Adobe has appointed former Intuit CMO Lara Balazs as chief marketing officer (CMO) and evp of global marketing, filling a post that has been vacant since February 2023. Balazs spent six years at Intuit, most recently as CMO and evp, general manager of the strategic partner group, where she helped reimagine the brand's marketing approach...
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Dec 02, 2024
TelevisaUnivision is making structural changes, CEO Daniel Alegre announced. During an earnings call in October, Alegre, who joined the company as CEO in September, noted that TelevisaUnivision was at a "pivotal point" in its evolution and was looking for better integration and operational optimization moving forward. In a memo to employees Monday, the CEO made...
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Dec 02, 2024
This article was originally published in August, and has since been updated with new information. Brands promoting ads featuring artificial intelligence, and tech capabilities at large, are not reading the room. Major brands such as Levi's and Toys R Us have eagerly experimented with AI in their marketing efforts. Tech giants like Google and Apple...
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Dec 02, 2024
This article was originally published in August, and has since been updated with new information. Brands promoting ads featuring artificial intelligence, and tech capabilities at large, are not reading the room. Major brands such as Levi's and Toys R Us have eagerly experimented with AI in their marketing efforts. Tech giants like Google and Apple...
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Dec 02, 2024
Today, management and production company Sugar23 and Fifth Season, the production and distribution company behind shows like Apple TV 's Severance, announced a new film and TV studio that aims to co-finance over $100 million in production with brand partners over the next three years. The two companies will work closely with brands to create stories...
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Dec 02, 2024
WRC anchor Leon Harris is making news after leaving the Washington, D.C., NBC-owned station's Thanksgiving night broadcast early. A clip posted to X showed Harris stumbling through scripts and speaking incoherently during the first seven minutes of the newscast. A quick check of tveyes showed the station went to an extended commercial break at around...
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Dec 02, 2024
Longtime sports director Alan Sillence is retiring from Yakima, Washington CBS affiliate KIMA after 31 years. "Thirty years ago I never would have believed I'd still be here, but it definitely grew on me," Sillence told the Yakima Herald-Republic. "I've run into a lot of people who say the same thing." He joined the station...
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Dec 02, 2024
The culmination of the 2024 presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump resulted in big numbers for Fox News and audience erosion for MSNBC and CNN. Trump's win was a big boon for FNC as it commanded the largest cable news share in its history with 62% of the cable news...
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Dec 02, 2024
It's been a busy year for Disney Advertising and the company's streaming platforms. In 2024, Disney saw 40% of its total upfront dollars earmarked for streaming and digital offerings, and it has taken steps throughout the year to bolster that side of the business, including now working with nearly 40 demand-side platforms, making investments in...
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Dec 02, 2024
From business tariffs to regulatory overhauls and anti-immigration policies, the cloud of Donald Trump's second presidency looms large over U.S. and global businesses. One department has already been weathering a public storm under atmospheric pressure from conservative activists: corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). At Adcolor's annual conference in Los Angeles last month, members of...
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Dec 02, 2024
As marketers know only too well, there are trade-offs with everything. And in the era of set-it-and-forget-it tools, that trade-off is one of spend efficiency for ads sometimes showing up in questionable environments. Despite grumbles, a lot of marketers have accepted that trade-off. But with AI fuelled made for advertising sites springing up, the phenomenon...
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Dec 02, 2024
Oscar Mayer's "Bologna Song" is one of the most iconic advertising jingles, inspiring everyone from "Weird Al" Yankovic to Homer Simpson to sing their own versions. The Kraft Heinz brand is celebrating the tune's 50th anniversary with a nostalgic campaign that turns singing into a form of payment. Created by agencies Johannes Leonardo and The...
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Dec 02, 2024
The independent food publisher Tastemade launched its first recipe app, Tastemade Cooking, in mid-November to deepen engagement among Tastemade subscribers and capitalize on the culinary fervor surrounding Thanksgiving. The app is technically the second in the Tastemade universe--the first, called Tastemade, is designed for streaming Tastemade video--and it aims to add value to a Tastemade ...
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Nov 29, 2024
Stop us if this scenario sounds familiar: A closely-watched election; voters split along party--and racial--lines; misinformation circulated as journalism; and an undercurrent of violence that grows stronger as voters head to the polls. That may sound like the presidential election cycle Americans just lived through, but those same events played out over 126 years ago...
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Nov 29, 2024
While the marketing world fixates on Q4's holiday rush, a golden opportunity lurks in plain sight: Q5, the "invisible quarter." Forget the myth that consumers hibernate after the holidays. With 45% of consumers actively hunting for post-holiday deals, this overlooked period isn't just a marketing lull--it's your launchpad into Q1. While competitors wind down their...
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Nov 29, 2024
As you're scrolling through Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals this week, your purchases just might make an appearance on the Las Vegas Sphere. Shopify worked with Sphere to create a real-time activation on the structure's Exosphere--which it claims is the world's largest LED screen--enveloping Sin City's immersive, globe-shaped venue. That screen opened up to...
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Nov 29, 2024
Tools of the Trade is a feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair of...
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Nov 29, 2024
This is TVNewser's basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of Nov. 18, 2024. All three cable news networks continued to see week-to-week declines in both total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo in the period following the 2024 presidential election. However, Fox News remained the most-watched of the three major...
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Nov 29, 2024
The weather outside may have been frightful ahead of Thanksgiving, but the Fox News crew sought to warm hearts with the network's fifth annual All-American Christmas Tree Lighting. Held the week before Turkey Day on Friday, Nov. 22, the event took place outside of FNC's midtown Manhattan headquarters and featured a bevy of the network's...
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