2 New Highs the Cannabis Industry Hit This Week
One company acquiring another and a retailer opening up a new shop sounds like business as usual. Except this time, both pieces of news are related to the cannabis industry. MassRoots said today that...
View ArticleMcCann Goes Through a Round of Layoffs in Detroit Following News of General...
IPG's McCann Worldgroup parted with a group of employees in the Detroit area today approximately one week after longtime client General Motors cut several thousand "white collar" jobs. Late last year,...
View ArticleNintendo Sends U.S. Media Account to Initiative Following Review
Nintendo has selected Interpublic's Initiative as its new U.S. media agency partner, sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed. AdAge first reported the news earlier today. The appointment...
View ArticleA Facebook Bug Is Affecting the Reach of Video Posts From Pages
Facebook page administrators have spent Tuesday dealing with a bug that is automatically adding audience targeting to their video posts, greatly diminishing their reach. Several page admins alerted...
View ArticleThis Is How Bethenny Frankel Learned to Trust Her Instincts
From The Apprentice: Martha Stewart to Real Housewives to her Skinnygirl empire, Bethenny Frankel's road to riches has been paved with an intense entrepreneurial drive. But while she's always had the...
View ArticleHow to Navigate Between YouTube and Facebook Watch as a Video Content Creator
YouTube and Facebook Watch compete head-on. They compete for eyeballs and market share. But they also compete for talent--in the content creators producing videos for each platform. The problem is that...
View ArticleDisney’s Intense Frozen 2 Trailer Hints at How It Will Follow Up the No. 1...
Disney sequels have, as a rule, been just plain awful. They are the direct-to-video, questionably canonical cash grabs made by a studio that has traditionally seen its core films as one-off endeavors....
View ArticleInstagram and Twitter Are Dealing With Bugs Affecting Follower Counts, Like...
It's getting buggy out there in the world of social media, as Facebook was joined by Instagram and Twitter on the list of platforms experiencing difficulties. A bug on Facebook Tuesday automatically...
View ArticleHow to Prepare a Media Strategy That Can Survive in an AI-Focused World
Once an empty buzzword in the marketing world, extensive advancements in machine learning have made artificial intelligence a necessary and pivotal instrument in a marketer's toolbox. Movies will show...
View ArticleWhat Successful Organizations Do to Create Diverse Workforces and Inclusive...
Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams co-founded Jopwell--a diversity hiring platform focused on matching Black, Latinx and Native American students with major companies--after spending a few years buying...
View ArticleTwitter Is Checking In at the Scorer’s Table for the 2019 NBA All-Star Game
LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry or James Harden? National Basketball Association fans can choose which one of those four players will be featured in a complementary Twitter...
View ArticleHow Criteo Is Trying to Navigate GDPR
As a programmatic player that was founded in Europe and one whose business model is so heavily reliant on ad retargeting, Criteo's performance is often deemed as emblematic of the fortunes of the wider...
View ArticleErrol Morris Takes Viewers ‘Behind the Foil’ at Chipotle
Chipotle's new campaign taking viewers "Behind The Foil" is all about transparency. Chris Brandt, who took over as CMO for the brand last March, explains that "Behind The Foil" grew out of the...
View ArticleMeet Masse, a Product Recommendation App That’s Free of Paid Promotion
Influencer marketing is big business. And while brands and influencers strive to make these partnerships as authentic as possible, there's a certain genuine quality that any paid promotion just can't...
View ArticleThis Powerful Ad Shatters the Notion That Down Syndrome Means a ‘Lifetime of...
For the past few years, the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, along with their agency FCB, has been aggressive in fostering a sense of empathy and understanding about the condition. Some of the...
View ArticleOmnicom Promotes Hearts & Science CEO Scott Hagedorn to Lead OMG North America
Scott Hagedorn, founder and CEO of the Hearts & Science team that made headlines by scooping up AT&T and Procter & Gamble's media accounts in 2015 and 2016, has been promoted to chief...
View ArticleDiversity on Tech Company Boards Continues to Move at a Snail’s Pace
Earlier this month, ecommerce giant Amazon appointed its first African-American female board member since 2009, tapping Starbucks chief operating officer Rosalind Brewer. However, expectations of a...
View ArticleAmazon’s New Program Lets Developers Reward Users With Gifts From the Site
Digital marketers are always on the lookout for technology that can deliver the right message to the right person on the right device at the right time. Over the years, there have been many who have...
View ArticleFacebook Removed 168 Accounts, 28 Pages, 8 Instagram Accounts in Moldova
Parliamentary elections will be held in Moldova Feb. 24, and Facebook took steps to safeguard the vote in that country from manipulation via its platform. Facebook head of cybersecurity policy...
View ArticleHow The Wonderful Company Created a Wine Brand for Millennial Rosé Lovers in...
Little about The Wonderful Company's new wine brand is practical. Brought from conception to market in less than a year, the JNSQ brand recently came on the market with a line of ros? and sauvignon...
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