Ancestry Modernizes the Family Tree With True Stories About Cowboys,...
Companies like Ancestry have enabled a wave of genealogy enthusiasts to go online and uncover their family histories. While family-tree building usually entails solo research behind a screen, Ancestry...
View ArticleFCB Hires Martina Suess Cromer From WPP Corporate to Invest in Global Comms
Martina Suess Cromer has moved on from her role as U.S. communications chief at WPP and has been named global chief communications officer at FCB, a newly created role at the IPG agency. FCB is...
View ArticleWhy Brand Assets Are So Important in B2B Marketing
Oracle is instantly recognizable by its bold red logo. Salesforce has Astro Nomical, its "warm and welcoming" mascot. Intel has that catchy chime. These are all examples of "brand assets," and they're...
View ArticleBrave Commerce Podcast: Building Brands in the Omnichannel Age
On this episode of Brave Commerce, Simon Miles, vp of global omnichannel commercial strategy at The Coca-Cola Company, joins hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter to talk about strategies for...
View Article‘It’s a Moral Issue’: Creatives Are Quitting Agencies Over Fossil Fuel Clients
When wildfire smoke turned New York skies orange this summer, Lane Cooper* holed up in their Brooklyn apartment with multiple air filters on high blast, working remotely for PR firm Edelman. Their...
View ArticleReaching the Latinx Market Involves Buy-In at Senior Levels
The Latinx market is already booming, but marketers are still playing catch-up trying to reach this potentially lucrative segment. The reasons why are many, from not taking the demographic seriously...
View ArticleAdweek’s 2023 US Midsize Agency of the Year Finalists
This year, Adweek is not only celebrating the best ad agencies in the business but also striving to help other shops understand what makes the best of the best truly stand out. That's why, for the...
View ArticleTo Engage Gen Z Latinos, Brands Should Lean Into Music, Spanglish and Tiktok
Editor's note: In this article, Adweek deviated from its style of using Latinx due to the writer's preference. The Latino community comprises 19% of the U.S. population and exceeds 25% of Gen Z. This...
View ArticleThe Messenger Pens AI Partnership to Verify Its Reporting Quality
The general interest news publisher The Messenger, which launched in May with an ambitious vision for its reach and revenue, has penned a multiyear, multimillion-dollar partnership with the artificial...
View ArticleFruit of the Loom Revives Classic Mascots for the TikTok Generation
The fruit guys, as they were once known, sang shoe-gazing ballads a la Coldplay, dropped music videos worthy of early MTV and humanized a healthy food group, all in service of hawking modestly priced...
View ArticleBeReal Is Searching for ‘The Realest Person on Earth’
BeReal, the nascent platform that set out to antithesize curated social content, is looking for the face of its first global campaign. The only qualification is that you convince both brand employees...
View ArticleKraft’s Ore-Ida Sprinkles Disney-Style Magic in Ad Celebrating Predictability
Ad campaigns typically focus on novelty as they seek to build excitement for new products, but that is harder to do for a category leader that has been around for more than 70 years. So Kraft Heinz's...
View ArticleThe Always Sunny Gang Gets Into the Whiskey Business With Spots Reminiscent...
Three-fifths of the gang on Always Sunny in Philadelphia is getting into the liquor business. But lest you think this is yet another celebrity spirits brand, Four Walls Irish American Whiskey is less...
View ArticleThe Great Fail Podcast: How Kittyhawk Went From Moonshot to a Long Shot
A surprising announcement rippled through Silicon Valley in the Spring of 2017. A mysterious "flying car" venture called Kittyhawk took the spotlight, fueled by rumors of Google co-founder Larry Page's...
View ArticleThe Speed of Culture Podcast: Reviving Abercrombie & Fitch for Modern Retail
The retail and fashion industries have undergone significant transformation in recent years, driven by changing consumer preferences and the rise of ecommerce. Even industry leaders like Abercrombie...
View Article19 Crimes and Universal Monsters Celebrate Halloween With AR-Enabled Wines
To celebrate the Halloween season, winemaker 19 Crimes partnered with Universal Monsters to release two limited-edition wines themed after Universal's classic horror monsters Dracula and Frankenstein's...
View ArticleAdweek’s 2023 U.S. Agency of the Year Finalists
This year, Adweek is not only celebrating the best ad agencies in the business but also striving to help other shops understand what makes the best of the best truly stand out. That's why, for the...
View ArticleMarc Pritchard on Why Strategy Needs Creativity
For those paying attention at this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Marc Pritchard was telegraphing the future of creativity in advertising and marketing. "Growing markets is...
View ArticleCan a New Definition Solve the Internet’s Quality Problem?
Since the dawn of programmatic advertising, unscrupulous publishers have been devising ways to manipulate digital ad auctions, getting brands to spend money to run ads without putting in the work to...
View ArticleWhy Marvel Gave McDonald’s a Glorious Purpose in Loki Season 2 Marketing
Marvel fans are ready for Season 2 of Loki, and brands like McDonald's are lovin' it. Loki Season 1 debuted on Disney+ to great critical acclaim in 2021, quickly gaining the title of most popular...
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