Twitter’s #BrandBowl Is Back for Year 2 With a New Category for Video Views
The Super Bowl LII champion Philadelphia Eagles will not get the chance to defend their title at this year's Big Game, but will Pepsi, Doritos, Mountain Dew or Ally Bank become repeat winners at...
View ArticleUnilever Is Working on a Cross-Media Measurement Model to Help Gauge Campaign...
Unilever is working on building a cross-media measurement model for measuring the impact of marketing campaigns across the advertising ecosystem, an ambitious project that will be the first measuring...
View ArticleThanks to Ancestry, Six Strangers Learn How They’re Connected Via the...
Last December, six strangers were invited by Ancestry to a small tour in Brooklyn, where they assumed they would uncover some fascinating aspects of their family histories. What they didn't know was...
View ArticleTwitter Is Offering Up a Hefty Livestream Menu in the Run-Up to Super Bowl LIII
Twitter's preparations for Super Bowl LIII kicked into high gear as kickoff for the Big Game drew closer. The social network and the National Football League teamed up on special hashtag-triggered...
View ArticleCBS Says The World’s Best, Debuting After the Super Bowl, Isn’t Just Another...
Airing after the Super Bowl is one of the best time slots on TV: whichever show gets the coveted position is guaranteed to draw one of the largest entertainment audiences of the year. This year, CBS is...
View ArticlePinterest Reportedly Tapped Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to Lead Its IPO
Pinterest's long-anticipated initial public offering moved one step closer to reality, as Joshua Franklin and Carl O'Donnell of Reuters reported that the company hired Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan...
View ArticleFacebook Shuts Down iOS Version of Data-Sucking VPN After Damning Report
Facebook has shut the iOS version of a Facebook app that had allowed the social media giant to spy on young mobile phone users in exchange for cash--but the company will continue to pay young people...
View ArticleGirls Inc. Is Running a PSA About Empowerment During the Super Bowl
Girls Inc., the nonprofit focused on empowering and educating girls through mentorships and programming, is advertising in the Super Bowl with a CBS Cares public service announcement. Gayle King, host...
View ArticleHow NBCUniversal Is Unifying Its Ad Delivery
NBCUniversal has completed the first stage of a tech partnership with Freewheel to unify its ad delivery system, taking it one step closer to selling ad inventory to buyers across screens in a unified...
View ArticleEmployees Are Using Messaging Apps, Whether HR Knows or Not
Employees are using messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype for work-related communications on a regular basis, often without the knowledge or approval of the human...
View ArticleNate Cardozo Is Going From Scrutinizing WhatsApp to Working for It
Electronic Frontier Foundation senior information security counsel Nate Cardozo likely became quite familiar with WhatsApp and its parent company, Facebook, during his six-and-a-half years of working...
View ArticleTwitter and the University of California-Berkeley Are Joining Forces to Study...
Twitter is teaming up with researchers at the University of California-Berkeley to establish a new research initiative focused on studying and improving the performance of machine learning in social...
View ArticleA&W Takes Up a Worthy Cause: Adding the Ampersand (Back) Into the Alphabet
When a brand changes its logo, customers notice. Look no further than when IHOP briefly became IHOb, and the world exploded. Now, to celebrate its 100th birthday, A&W Restaurants has unveiled a new...
View ArticleCBS All Access Expands With The Twilight Zone Revival and a New Version of...
The next year will see the debut of several new streaming services from big media companies like Disney, AT&T and NBCUniversal. And while they all have Netflix in their sights, those OTT services...
View ArticleQ&A: MeUndies Founder and CEO on Battling in the Jam-Packed...
Shopping for underwear at a department store is so old-school. Plus, it's inconvenient and uncomfortable. And for entrepreneur Jonathan Shokrian, it was an eye-opening moment that spurred him to launch...
View ArticleVice Media Doubles Down on Digital With Global Teads Partnership
Teads has inked an exclusive global partnership with Vice Media that will see the youth media brand use the Altice-owned outfit's display and video ad tools to help bolster ad yield. The announcement...
View ArticleFox Home Entertainment Is Putting Snapchatters on Stage With Queen During...
Fox Home Entertainment teamed up with Snapchat on a unique way to tie in the home video release of Bohemian Rhapsody with Super Bowl LIII. "A lot will happen around the Super Bowl from a marketing...
View ArticleShutterstock Recreated the Notorious Fyre Festival Promo, This Time Using...
In many ways, the Fyre Festival disaster still feels like a collective fever dream. Were scores of Instagram influencers really stranded on an island with little more than cheese sandwiches and their...
View ArticleSimpliSafe’s Super Bowl Teaser Turns Nextdoor-Style Posts Into Thriller Material
Home security provider SimpliSafe is turning the garden-variety suburban paranoia familiar to anyone who's ever browsed a neighborhood internet forum into the stuff of nightmares in a thriller-style...
View ArticleDesus and Mero Aren’t Nervous About Moving Their Late-Night Show From...
Moving from a tiny network to a much bigger one would be daunting for a lot of people, but not TV and podcast hosts Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) and The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez), who departed Viceland...
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