Privacy Experts Implore Lawmakers to Give Consumers Control Over Their Data
Data privacy experts and advocates encouraged federal lawmakers at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to draft strict data protection regulation that would give consumers vastly more control...
View Article4A’s Restructures Events to Focus on ‘Tangible Actions,’ Cancels 2019 Spring...
The 4A's, the organization founded in 1917 that serves more than 700 member agencies across 1,300 offices, announced today a restructuring of sorts, pivoting to events that focus on "tangible actions."...
View ArticleInstant Forms Can Be Added to Facebook Ad Campaigns for Brand Awareness,...
Facebook announced that brands can now include Instant Forms--formerly known as Lead Forms--in all ad campaigns with brand awareness, reach and traffic objectives. Instant Forms enables actions such as...
View ArticleTwitter Moments Can No Longer Be Created on iOS, Android Devices After Oct. 23
Twitter Moments can no longer be created via the social network's flagship iOS and Android applications, effective Oct. 23. The move was announced in a Twitter Support tweet, which cited low use of the...
View ArticleAT&T Will Soon Let Magic Leap Users Watch Multiple Shows at Once
If you like to watch several shows at the same time, you might want to invest in a Magic Leap headset. Next year, AT&T plans to bring DirectTV Now to Magic Leap's mixed-reality platform, allowing...
View ArticleWayfair’s New App, Made for Magic Leap Headsets, Lets You Design Your Home...
Thanks to Wayfair, people can now use Magic Leap to see how furniture they've never seen might fit in their actual homes. The ecommerce home goods store is debuting an app called Wayfair Spaces, which...
View ArticleMike Rowe Offers Live Commentary on His Own Prostate Exam in This Eye-Opening...
If you really take a moment to think about it, the amount of sound medical advice that many adults commonly ignore is a bit alarming. Men, in particular, are encouraged to partake in routine prostate...
View ArticleNBA Superstar Joel Embiid’s New Deal With Under Armour Will Focus on More...
Under Armour just scored some major points with its latest endorsement. The athletic brand announced on Wednesday evening that it has signed a five-year deal with Joel Embiid, the franchise center for...
View ArticleTo Market Its Sunday-Night Expansion, The CW Has ‘Completely Torn Up the Rule...
This Sunday, for the first time in nine years, The CW will be expanding to a sixth night of programming. And while the move has already helped the network's bottom line--this summer, the additional...
View ArticleVideo: Will This Electric Skateboard Solve the ‘Last Mile’ Commute?
Commuting in cities is hard. Delayed trains. Sick passengers. Police activities. Human beings packed together like sardines, smell included. And with "Infrastructure Week" becoming an internet joke for...
View ArticleWhy Top Executives at Conagra, Allstate and Citibank Hosted Transgender Teens...
In order to celebrate National Coming Out Day, one nonprofit advocacy group turned to three major corporations to provide a platform for one of the most vulnerable communities in our society: young...
View ArticleRenault Italy Is Selling a Limited-Edition SUV Through a Facebook Messenger...
Renault Italy is bringing 100 of its Captur Tokyo Edition, a limited-edition SUV, to the market--and it will sell them for the first time through a Facebook Messenger chatbot. To honor the Japanese...
View ArticleM.Gemi Founder Cheryl Kaplan on Choosing the Right Influencers and the Value...
Like any brand worth its salt, M.Gemi wants people to love it so much they want to tell others about it. But how do you inspire customers to start sharing? At last month's Brandweek event in Palm...
View ArticleFacebook Just Removed More Pages and Accounts in the Run-Up to the U.S...
Another 559 pages and 251 accounts were removed from Facebook in a bid to thwart a coordinated effort to use the upcoming midterm elections in the U.S. as a way to make their content appear more...
View ArticlePepsiCo to End Its Relationship With WPP’s VMLY&R After More Than 8 Years
PepsiCo has moved to end its relationship with VMLY&R after eight and a half years, a client spokesperson confirmed today. The WPP-owned agency has counted Gatorade and Tropicana digital as two of...
View ArticleMembers of Facebook Groups Will Be Able to Chat With Up to 250 Fellow Members
Facebook is adding a touch of Messenger to its groups, enabling members of groups to chat with up to 250 fellow members, as well as to start audio or video calls with up to 50 members. The social...
View ArticleHP Honored 12 Stories of Empowerment for International Day of the Girl
With almost 900 stories submitted from 110 countries, a panel of judges chose 12 stories to highlight to celebrate International Day of the Girl. Working with Girl Rising--a nonprofit that works to...
View ArticleSee How Emma Roberts Effortlessly Handles Internet Trolls in Fiat’s Latest Ads
Internet trolls, as insufferable as they may be, are fairly woven into the fabric of social media. It's hard to actively engage in online spaces without running into at least one, and then you have to...
View ArticleDDB’s Tribal Worldwide Wins AT&T U.S. Social Account, Opens 2 New Offices
Tribal Worldwide, a division of Omnicom-owned DDB Worldwide, has been named corporate social media agency of record in the U.S. for AT&T following a review that began around late February or early...
View ArticleThese Brazilian Candy Ads Are Undeniably Dark Yet Surprisingly Entertaining
Candy ads are supposed to be lighter fare, right? It's candy. It's supposed to be fun. And, one could argue that new work out of Wieden + Kennedy Brazil for Mondelez brand Lacta is fun but, wow, talk...
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