Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Media Will Work With Athletes on YouTube Content
Creative development and media company Thirty Five Media, owned by National Basketball Association superstar Kevin Durant and his business partner, Rich Kleinman, announced that it will work with...
View Article9 Ways Networks and Streaming Rivals Are Fighting Back Against Netflix This Year
The Television Critics Association's winter press tour comes to a close today, capping 14 days in which approximately 40 broadcast, cable and streaming outlets presented their early-2018 shows to...
View ArticleFCB/Six Turned the Pride Flag Into a Data Slider to Help LGBTQ People Travel...
Global travel can be a complex undertaking for anyone, but it's especially challenging for members of the LGBTQ community. Many destinations welcome them with open arms and offer ample social and legal...
View ArticleOld Spice’s ‘Sweat Mop Boys’ Are Here to Deodorize College Basketball
Branded integrations at sporting events are usually forgettable affairs, with the sponsors seeming interchangeable and often unrelated to whatever they're slapping their name on. But it would be hard...
View ArticleLife Is Good, the Apparel Brand, Built a Machine Powered by Happy Thoughts
Apparel brand Life Is Good pours on the power of positive thinking in an unusual stunt that harnesses happy thoughts--well, brainwave patterns, actually--to turn on a tap and fill a glass of water....
View ArticleThese Adidas Sneakers Double as a One-Year Pass to Berlin’s Mass Transit
To get a whole bunch of people to change their habits and do the right thing, it helps to make the right thing sexy ... or at least provide a sexy incentive. That's the logic behind Adidas'...
View ArticleLexus Is Returning to the Super Bowl, This Time With a Marvel Spin
Toyota-owned luxury carmaker Lexus will return to the Super Bowl on Feb. 4, a company representative confirmed to Adweek. The spot will be tied to the release of Marvel Studios' new superhero movie,...
View ArticleNBC Will Air Winter Olympics Live in All Time Zones; Katie Couric Will...
With the Winter Olympics just three weeks away, NBC has made a surprise-yet-familiar pick--Katie Couric--to co-host the opening ceremony in the wake of Matt Lauer's departure from the network. The...
View ArticleNielsen Social Content Ratings, Week of Jan. 8: NFL Playoffs, College Title...
Football, of both the professional and amateur variety, dominated the Nielsen Social Content Ratings for the week of Jan. 8. This past weekend's four National Football League playoff games accounted...
View ArticleHow Fox Is Using the Post-NFC Championship Slot, Its Most Valuable Real...
As broadcast networks roll out new series each season, some of them rely on tried-and-true launching pads on their schedule, usually following their biggest shows. CBS uses the post-Big Bang Theory...
View ArticleBill Hader Stars in Pringles’ Very First Super Bowl Ad
Pringles has released a short teaser to its first Big Game ad, revealing Trainwreck actor Bill Hader as the star. He'll be showcasing "flavor stacking" in the Super Bowl LII 30-second spot on Feb. 4....
View ArticleKFC Made Some Very Weird Relaxation Videos to Help You Deal With Life in...
Remember when Don Draper's had his epiphany at the meditation retreat? It inspired him to dream up a famous commercial, but it could easily have led to something like KFC's "Comfort Zone," a...
View ArticleTaco Bell Made the Perfect Trailer for a Fake Movie About Why They’ve Never...
Ever wonder why Taco Bell doesn't sell fries? That question sets off Josh Duhamel on a epic quest in the brand's new faux movie trailer for a thriller called Web of Fries, which looks like the perfect...
View ArticleHuge President and CMO Jumps to Mattress Company Casper
Jeff Brooks, formerly president and chief marketing officer of digital agency Huge, has gone client-side, joining mattress company, and Huge client, Casper as CMO. Casper named Huge as its creative...
View ArticleMars Puts $1.4 Billion-Plus Global Media Business in Review, Looks to...
Mars, the confectionery, pet care and food conglomerate behind brands like M&M's, Snickers, Orbit and Pedigree, is placing its global media business in review as it looks to consolidate all...
View ArticleHGTV Launched a Design Assistant Facebook Messenger Bot
Scripps Networks Interactive launched an HGTV Facebook Messenger bot, designed to help users discover design inspirations that they can implement in their own homes. The bot, named Hazel, allows users...
View ArticleWas This Little-Known British Ad the Most Emotionally Engaging of 2017?
Wait, we're not done with the 2017 lists yet! Here's an intriguing one from research firm System1 ranking the 10 most emotionally engaging spots of the year--based on testing of 705 award-winning or...
View ArticleThese 6 Digital Stats on Alexa, Brand Safety and Snapchat Grabbed Our...
The whirlwind of last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is in the rearview mirror now. Not surprisingly, the event was full of data and stats about everything from the Internet of Things to...
View ArticleAnna Faris Pushes Kind Protein Bars by Reading Horrible Reviews of Rival...
This is a real offer: Try a healthy snack that tastes like some combination of hyena crap, garbage, resentment and sawdust. Bring it on, you say? The marketer Kind feels confident that its new...
View ArticleHow Davos Can Help Marketers Gain Greater Global Purpose
As global leaders gather in Davos next week to try to create a shared future in a fractured world, what's the role of marketers and creative agencies? In this era of seismic disruption, technology is...
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