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PokerStars Found a Dude With the Perfect Poker Face for Its New Ad

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PokerStars puts on its game face and bids newbies to sign up for some online gambling action in fresh work themed, "You're already a great poker player." Hey, why not cash in that 401(k) and really take charge of your financial future, right? "To recruit new players and poker beginners, we had to convince non-expert...

Advertisers Must Keep Up With Cord-Cutters or Else Brands Risk Creating ‘Lost Generation’

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A coup d'etat is taking place across the television industry. It used to be that cable providers were the reigning powers of television, declaring what consumers would watch and when. Not home in time? Sorry, you missed this week's episode of Seinfeld. But no longer. The last year has marked a distinct shift in power...

Perrier Just Remade Its Most Famous Ad, ‘Lion,’ Three Decades Later

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Almost three decades after its spot "Lion," directed by Jean-Paul Goude, stormed the Cannes Lions festival, winning the Grand Prix in Film, Perrier has rolled out a remake of sorts--with everything on an intentionally smaller scale. The original spot, an absolute classic from Ogilvy Paris, featured a woman and a lion fighting over a bottle...

4 Deceptive Mobile Ad Tricks and What Marketers Can Learn From Them

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Despite the explosion in mobile advertising (eMarketer pegs mobile to generate $70 billion in the U.S. this year, up from $47 billion in 2016), mobile advertising, by and large, still sucks. Creative is often jammed into small boxes and ad formats that litter websites, and in some cases, marketers use deceptive design tricks to incentivize...

Black Panther Star Michael B. Jordan Explains the Creative Process in Brisk’s New Meta Campaign

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While Michael B. Jordan has been behind the camera a few times, he sees the new 60-second spot he directed for Brisk as his directorial debut. The ad shines a light on the invisible work that goes into the creative process--like the work Jordan has to do to get into his character as Erik Killmonger...

Hearts & Science Hires GroupM Executive to Help Run the AT&T Business

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Hearts & Science welcomed A.J. Storinge from GroupM as its new executive director, media on the AT&T account. Storinge will be tasked with leading AT&T media across the New York, Atlanta and Dallas offices while reporting to Ralph Pardo, Hearts & Science president on the account. Last year, AT&T began the process of moving its...

Look Out, Trade Shows, Here Comes the Anti-Swag Swag Bag

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Like many entrepreneurial professionals, Lynne Lambert sees a lot of swag in her business travels, and also like many professionals, she has to make a tough call about the swag bags she's found herself toting around trade-show floors. It goes like this: "Everything is heavily logoed, and I have to decide: Do I toss this?...

Gucci’s ’60s-Inspired Student Protest Ad Misses the Point About Why We’re All Mad

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It doesn't take a lot for people to stop believing in their institutions. It doesn't take much to dampen our sense of injustice and the motivation to force change. If too many messages conflict, too many injustices go unpunished and too much infighting is left to fester in our fresh-dug trenches, we can easily become...

If You Thought Voice Was Easy, Wait Until Devices Make Predictions

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Voice technology was everywhere at CES this year (toilets included), in large part because it's an easy, natural interface. But it still requires input from consumers--which, at least in marketing terms, means friction remains. "There are few things more natural than simply asking for something and having that thing brought to you," said Jason Snyder,...

Twitter: Pokemon Was the Most-Mentioned Game Globally in 2017

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Twitter took a look back at the video game-related content on its platform in 2017. In a blog post, Rishi Chadha, head of gaming content partnerships at Twitter, said more than 218 million tweets about gaming were shared by users around the world last year. In terms of mentions, the most-mentioned video game globally in...

The NBA Is Letting Its Stars Shine on and off the Court, Making the League’s Games Must-See TV

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From LeBron James to Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook to Stephen Curry, the level of play and talent that exists in today's National Basketball Association makes the product as captivating as it's ever been. The games are intense, exciting, fast-paced, and the on-court rivalries--between teams and even individual players--are fierce. The NBA is separating itself...

How MediaCom Rebounded From Losing a $2 Billion Account to Score Its Best Year Ever

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On a Friday in June 2016, MediaCom CEO Stephen Allan got the call no agency leader ever wants: The shop had unexpectedly lost the global business of Volkswagen, a client since 1996 that was one of its top three revenue generators with an annual marketing budget between $2 billion and $3 billion. "You feel completely...

MullenLowe Mediahub Went From Underdog to Industry Heavyweight in 2017

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Whether by choice or by fate, IPG's MullenLowe Mediahub has long played second fiddle to larger, more recognizable networks. But the little agency that could has spent years building its capabilities in the hope of becoming a formidable industry player, and in 2017 those efforts finally paid off. The shop won an impressive 14 out...

360i’s Fresh, Tech-Driven Thinking Pushed Its Clients to New Heights in 2017

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"Let me start out by saying that here, creative is an adjective," says 360i chief marketing officer Abbey Klaassen when describing her agency's approach to media in 2017. "It's not a noun, like, 'that's the creative.' We are all creative." Before war rooms, viral tweets and voice specialties, when the phrase "social media" was still...

How Brands Can Take Advantage of Instagram Stories

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Once Instagram launched Stories in August 2016, the feature spread like wildfire. As of November 2017, Instagram Stories topped 300 million daily users. Instagram Stories offer social marketers a great opportunity to reach a higher number of people by taking advantage of one of the fastest-growing social networks. Instagram has reported that Stories have encouraged...

NBC Olympics Weekend Ratings Declined From 2014

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Saturday and Sunday were the two lowest-rated days for NBC's Pyeongchang Olympics coverage to date. Sunday's prime-time coverage of the 2018 Winter Games posted a Total Audience Delivery of 18.2 million total viewers, per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data and digital data from Adobe Analytics. That's down 15 percent compared to the NBC Olympics' total prime time...

How These 4 Brands Are Using Their Apps to Personalize Customer Experience

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In mobile Darwinism, every app fights for a consumer's undivided attention and home screen, but the reality is they tend to stick with their go-to apps. And in fact, social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are the dominant species, comprising five of the top 10 free apps in the iTunes App Store. But it's...

Marketers Need Structured Innovation to Achieve Real Progress

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Innovation is a powerful force for business success, but big companies can sometimes be too slow to adapt. Corporate red tape, endless rounds of approvals and a general fear of failure foster cultures reluctant to give up on established ideas and solutions, even when they no longer serve the enterprise and its needs. Illustration: Alex...

Comedian J.B. Smoove Explains What Goes Into Being the Face of Bic Men’s Razors

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When indie creative shop Jomo won the Bic Flex 5 men's razors assignment in August, its leaders knew they had to find a unique voice that would showcase the product's quality and value while setting the brand apart from its many competitors. Jomo found that voice in J.B. Smoove, a.k.a. Jerry Angelo Brooks, the actor,...

Hypergiant Aims to Be Artificial Intelligence Concierge to Fortune 500

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Move over, Sam Malone: Flanagan, the AI mixologist is here to serve up cocktails. Artificial intelligence-solutions company Hypergiant helped develop a new AI bartender/mixologist program for TGI Friday's called Flanagan (named for Tom Cruise's character in the 1988 film Cocktail). Flanagan, which interacts with both TGI Friday's smartphone app and its loyalty accounts, makes drink...
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