
Donald Glover’s Airdrop stunt at Coachella proves experiential marketing gets bolder with infl
Artist Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) used iOS Airdrop at Coachella to surprise random festival-goers with a photo of shoes he...

Top retailers spent majority of 2017 holiday ad budgets on TV, investing only 6% on Facebook ads
Source: Kantar Based on 2017 holiday ad spend, the top ten retailers in the U.S. spent a combined $1.2 billion on advertising during...

Twitter will host its first-ever #BrandBowl to honor top Super Bowl campaigns
Unlike Boston sports fans, Twitter needs a win. The company has suffered four consecutive quarters of ad revenue declines and the recent...

How most startups do events wrong…and 6 ways to do them right
When you’re in startup mode, awareness is everything. And event marketing combines awareness with message testing, audience...

Coca-Cola, Nike top lists of Olympics advertisers earning social buzz
lazyllama / Shutterstock.com When it comes to Olympics advertisers earning social and digital buzz, Coca-Cola and Nike took top honors at...

4 tips to break into the C-suite and become a chief marketing technology officer
As tens of thousands of innovators — technologists, creatives, marketers and business strategists — descend on Austin, Texas, for the...

Limelight Scores $3 Million To Launch Its Live Marketing Platform In US
Even as digital media has exploded, live marketing events continue to thrive. This week, Toronto-based Limelight Platform announced it...

Are Ad Blockers Killing The Digital Economy? Views From Web Summit
the Institute of Practioners in Advertising (IPA) Social project, and nowhere has this statement rung truer than in the debate...

Creating The Ideal Creative Atmosphere: Lessons From Web Summit
rise of big data in recent times has brought about a revolution in how marketers must work. While data’s empirical evidence has allowed...

Twitter Unleashes Special Hashtag Emoji For The 2015 Rugby World Cup
The 2015 Rugby World Cup is underway, with 20 nations from around the world competing over the next six weeks to become the world...

In Search Of The New “Mad Men”: Will They Be At Cannes This Year?
If Don Draper popped up at the Cannes Lions conference this year, he’d find himself dreadfully out of place. Draper, the prototypical ad...

Cashing In On Kanye: How Award Show Triggers Can Benefit Your Brand
Marketers drool over events that attract crowds of viewers, and few events rival the appeal of major award shows. In February, The...

What Advanced Social Analytics Teach Us About The Long-Term Impact Of Super Bowl Advertising
On Super Bowl Mondays — after games go in the history books and uneaten cheese dip goes in the trash — media wonks and marketing pundits...

Maintaining Brand Momentum Post-Super Bowl
Whether you are thrilled or crushed with the outcome of Sunday’s game, the real winners are the marketers who executed clever campaigns...

Will Super Bowl Advertisers Score On NBC’s Free Live Stream?
This week, NBC rolled out its big plan to make the Super Bowl available via a free live stream to tablets and desktops — including the...

Brands Cozy Up To College Football Audience, But Bob Newhart Has The Winning Tweet
It wasn’t quite a Super Bowl, or even a super night of witty real-time marketing but college football’s national championship game Monday...

Does Real-Time Marketing & Newsjacking Really Work? New Book Says Yes & Has Data To Prove
We all know it when we see it: the real-time marketing slam dunk. Oreo’s “You Can Still Dunk in the Dark” is the uber example, an...

Newsjacking The #WorldCup: Pizza, Burgers … And ‘Your Lucky Panties’?
The 2014 FIFA World Cup, which some predict will be the biggest social media sporting event of all time, had its U.S. kickoff today and...

Top Quotes And Stats From The Buzzfeed, Microsoft And Yahoo NewFronts
Yesterday, Buzzfeed, Microsoft and Yahoo showed off their online video offerings to hundreds of advertising industry players at The...
























