Omnicom Remains Optimistic Amid Third Quarter Revenue Decline
CEO John Wren took an optimistic tone in Omnciom's third quarter earnings report call, despite the holding company reporting a slight decline in revenue compared to the third quarter of 2017. "I remain...
View ArticleDDB to Part With New York President, CEO and 20-Year Veteran Chris Brown
DDB New York president and CEO Chris Brown will soon be leaving the agency after more than two decades, a spokesperson confirmed this week. Brown will remain in the position during a transitional...
View ArticleThis Sprawling International Thriller for HP Business Printers Is an Epic,...
When shopping for a printer, how highly does online safety and protection rank? For the average consumer, it's likely not very high on the list of must-have components, even for businesses. HP and...
View ArticlePinterest Is Converting Its Older Buyable Pins to Product Pins
Pinterest is welcoming the run-up to the holiday shopping season with Tuesday's introduction of three new shopping features. The older Buyable Pin format is being replaced with Product Pins, as...
View ArticleUnmetric: The Run-Up to the 2018-19 NBA Regular Season Was the Lake Show
The Los Angeles Lakers dominated social marketing firm Unmetric's analysis of National Basketball Association teams across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from Oct. 1 through 15. The NBA 2018-19...
View ArticleHow Adobe Is Embedding Its Artificial Intelligence Platform Deeper Into the...
Adobe wants creatives to embrace using artificial intelligence rather than worry about it taking their jobs. At its MAX conference this week in Los Angeles, Adobe unveiled a number of new ways that...
View ArticleHow The Conners Wrote Off Roseanne Barr, and Why You Should Keep Watching
Usually, the biggest question going into a new TV season is, "Which of these new shows are worth watching?" (You can find that answer here.) But this fall, the biggest TV-related question seemed to be,...
View ArticleFacebook Hid Inflated Video Ad Metrics Error for Over a Year, Advertisers Allege
Facebook intentionally obfuscated the problem of overstated average watch times on paid video ads for more than a year, a group of digital marketers charged in court documents unsealed on Tuesday. In...
View ArticleVW Elegantly Celebrates the Joy Saudi Women Feel While Driving
Last June, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lifted the prohibition against female drivers--which had been in place since the 1950s. While it's not known how many Saudi women have received their driver's...
View ArticleHow Adobe Is Trying to Bring Augmented Reality Experiences Mainstream
Adobe wants to make augmented reality available to the masses. At its annual MAX event this week in Los Angeles, the company previewed a new tool that it hopes will help democratize the creation of AR...
View ArticleFacebook Will Reduce Distribution Of or Disapprove Low-Quality Ads
Facebook revealed Wednesday that it is expanding its efforts to reduce the visibility of low-quality ads on its platform. The social network said it is going after ads that violate its restrictions on...
View ArticleFacebook Instant Games Are Coming to Groups, Facebook Lite
Facebook is bringing its Instant Games platform to groups and its Facebook Lite slimmed-down Android application for older devices and areas with poor connectivity, and the social network also detailed...
View Article5 Major Themes from This Year’s Programmatic I/O Conference
What's on the minds of professionals in the programmatic space? If the conversations at Tuesday's Programmatic I/O conference in New York are any indication: in-housing, AI applications and the future...
View ArticleVerizon-Owned Budget Service Provider Debuts New Anti-Store Campaign
Visible, Verizon's more economically priced offshoot service, is about to live up to its name after months of flying under the radar. The company, a Verizon-owned no-contract provider that offers...
View ArticleTwitter Just Released Two Huge Datasets Related to Election Interference...
Twitter has released examples in the past of accounts and content used by the Internet Research Agency, the Russian government-linked organization that used social media posts to influence the 2016...
View ArticleBroadcast Station Group Execs Don’t Believe Sinclair-Tribune Decision Will...
Chief executives from some of the television industry's top broadcast TV station groups participated in an NAB Show New York panel today about the state of the local broadcast industry. The...
View ArticleFacebook Is Trying to Keep News Feed Free of Content Copied From Other Sites
The most recent tweak to Facebook's News Feed algorithm is taking aim at low-quality sites that predominantly copy and republish content from other sites without adding any value. The social network...
View ArticleRichard Branson Explains Why He’s Founding a New Festival and What It Will Do...
Earlier this week, Virgin founder Richard Branson announced a new festival to debut in 2019. Pitched as a "multi-experiential music festival series," Virgin Fest will feature a "mixture of diverse...
View ArticleYouTube Added Eventbrite to the Ticketing Options on Its Official Artist...
Music fans browsing their favorite Official Artist Channels on YouTube will now be able to purchase tickets to those artists' performances following a new partnership between the Google-owned video...
View ArticleEven as Sinclair Aims to Be a Bigger Broadcaster, It’s Building a New...
Sinclair Broadcasting Group president and CEO Christopher Ripley revealed the broadcaster's new OTT service called Stirr, which comes amid an ever-shifting landscape of how we watch TV. "There will be...
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