Steven Tyler Travels Back in Time to Become His Younger Self in Kia’s Super...
Get inside a Kia Stinger, drive backwards and relive your youth. At least, that's what happens to Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler in Kia's 60-second Super Bowl spot. The ad, "Feel Something Again,"...
View ArticleWhy NBC Sports Made 3-D Body Scans of Tom Brady and Nick Foles for the Super...
While Super Bowl advertisers are always trying to top the previous year's spots, each network broadcasting that year's game unveils a new technical innovation to dazzle audiences, like last year's...
View ArticleHow Mastercard’s CMO Spends Half of His Time At CES Roaming for Ideas
Nobody knew who he was, and nobody asked. He blended into the crowd, bespectacled and wearing a sweater over his gingham-style button-down shirt. He wasn't wearing his name tag, which perhaps let him...
View ArticleCats Have Insane Conspiracy Theories About What We Do With Their Poop
There's a reason why the rich and powerful throughout history have always had feline companions. And there's an explanation for all the time people spend these days watching wacky cat videos online....
View ArticleBud Light Marches Into the Super Bowl With Its Biggest ‘Dilly Dilly’ Ad Yet
Super Bowl advertising is often about going big, and Bud Light does so literally with its latest "Dilly Dilly" spot, a 60-second ad that broke online Thursday and will air in the second quarter of...
View ArticleHow French Directors Megaforce Captured the Spirit of London in Nike’s Wild...
Some Nike commercials are as memorable for their camerawork, and the way they're shot, as for their celebrity stars or message of inspiration. Guy Ritchie's stunning 2008 spot "Take It to the Next...
View ArticleiProspect Shakes Up Leadership With New U.S. CMO and First Chief Tech Officer
iProspect has named Belle Lenz its U.S. chief marketing officer and Joel Grossman its first-ever chief technology officer. Lenz was formerly communications director of the Americas for the global...
View ArticleRed Stripe Says That, Whatever the Cost, It Will Buy a New Bobsled for Jamaica
The Jamaican bobsled team has been a world-famous underdog since first appearing on the Olympic scene in 1988. The team's unlikely path to the global stage was made famous in the 1993 movie Cool...
View ArticleWhy Scannable Shelf Tags Could Improve the Retail Experience After Beacons...
Once upon a time, beacons--Bluetooth-powered devices that can push messages to smartphones--offered brands an opportunity to connect with consumers in physical retail locations and gather data about...
View ArticleNBC Olympics Ratings Took a Tumble on Wednesday Night
NBC's Pyeongchang Olympics prime time ratings took a bit of a tumble on Wednesday night. Per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data and digital data from Adobe Analytics, NBC Olympics' Wednesday prime-time...
View ArticleWe Asked People to Name the Brands Behind Ads From the Olympics
You've probably seen their commercials during the Peyongchang Winter Games, but can you name brands behind the pricey Olympics ads? Following this post-Super Bowl attempt, the Adweek video team headed...
View ArticleBrand CMOs Acknowledge the Need for Better Personalized Marketing Efforts
Long proclaimed as a harbinger of a new era of hyper-personalized, targeted and effective marketing, digital continues to struggle to realize its potential. In exchange for offering up data, consumers...
View Article‘3 Billboards’-Inspired Protest Calls for Justice Following the Fatal...
"Seventy-one dead." "And still no arrests?" "How come?" Three billboards displayed these haunting messages on Thursday outside Grenfell Towers in London--where a massive fire ripped through a 24-story...
View ArticleWhat Marketers Can Learn From the Most Effective Russian Ads of the 2016...
We've all heard reports about how Russian operatives created and distributed ads and posts on Facebook between June 2015 and August 2017. The idea was to split the millions of Americans who saw these...
View ArticlePokerStars Found a Dude With the Perfect Poker Face for Its New Ad
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...
View ArticleAdvertisers Must Keep Up With Cord-Cutters or Else Brands Risk Creating ‘Lost...
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?...
View ArticlePerrier Just Remade Its Most Famous Ad, ‘Lion,’ Three Decades Later
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...
View Article4 Deceptive Mobile Ad Tricks and What Marketers Can Learn From Them
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...
View ArticleBlack Panther Star Michael B. Jordan Explains the Creative Process in Brisk’s...
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...
View ArticleHearts & Science Hires GroupM Executive to Help Run the AT&T Business
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...
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