YouTube: Here’s How to Remove a Friend
Did you know that YouTube allows you to remove users from your friends list if you no longer want them as connections? Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in...
View ArticleHow Extending Compassion Goes a Long Way in Retaining Talent in Agencies
Competition for top talent is fierce, and the investments you make in training these employees to advocate for your brand are significant. That's why retaining high-value talent is crucial, now more so...
View ArticleCM Group Acquires Sailthru and Liveclicker to Boost Personalized Email Services
The parent company of email marketing services including Campaign Monitor and Emma is acquiring a pair of companies to boost its data-driven messaging capabilities. CM Group is acquiring Sailthru, a...
View ArticleTwitter Has Several Balls on the Court for the 2019 Australian Open
The first Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2019, the Australian Open, began play last week and runs through Jan. 27, and Twitter is giving fans a seat at center court. The social network released...
View ArticleChief, an Exclusive Network for Powerful Women in Marketing and Media, Debuts...
There's a new women's network in New York, launching today exclusively for powerful women across industries. It's called Chief and roughly 1,000 women are already on the wait list. Founders Carolyn...
View ArticleNetflix Will Soon Cost You $1-$2 More Each Month
It will soon cost you more money to stream Netflix shows and movies like Stranger Things, The Crown and Bird Box. The streaming service is rolling out double-digit increases to all of its monthly...
View ArticleGary Cole, the Actor You Know From Everything, Is Now the Time-Traveling...
Gary Cole plays a time-tripping spokesman who visits from 10 minutes in the future to illustrate how quickly and efficiently Kabbage can provide funding to small businesses. In the amusing 30-second...
View ArticleMost Facebook Users Are Clueless About the Interest Lists in Their Ad...
Facebook provides some robust tools for its users to learn about why they are seeing the ads that are served to them via its platform. The trouble, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center,...
View ArticleSocial and Communications Apps Accounted for 50 Percent of Time Spent in Apps...
Mobile data and analytics company App Annie published its 2019 State of Mobile report, which analyzed the use of mobile applications worldwide in 2018. The report found that globally, social and...
View ArticleP&G Debuts New Media Model, Taking More Work In-House to Give Brands...
The world's largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble, recently proceeded with its plan to take more North American marketing work in-house, this time on the media side, as billionaire activist investor...
View ArticleHow Gillette’s New Ad Flipped a Narrative and Challenged Men to Live Up to...
Internet, you need to chill out about the Gillette "We Believe" ad. Take a deep breath. Another one, perhaps, and let's take a moment to reflect on the irony here. Women have been defined by men...
View ArticleYouTube Is Cracking Down on Dangerous Challenges and Pranks
Go ahead and swallow all the Tide Pods you can handle: Just don't expect to share video of your exploits on YouTube. And don't actually swallow any Tide Pods. The Google-owned video site updated its...
View ArticleRoku Pulled Its InfoWars Channel, But Only After Users Revolted
Roku is in hot water after initially defending its decision to offer users InfoWars, a channel hosted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But the service soon learned what other players in the...
View ArticleThese 4 Brands Refashioned the Way They Talk to Men Before Gillette Did
Gillette has hit a nerve. On Monday, the P&G brand released an update to its 30-year-old "The Best a Man Can Get" campaign, and the work held a mirror to our politically polarized culture. The old...
View ArticleIf Your Team Wins the Super Bowl, Hotels.com Will Give You a Room to Make a Baby
In recent years, the NFL has celebrated a poignant Super Bowl stat--that the birth rate in winning cities goes up nine months after the game--in its spots for the game. Hotels.com is taking a more...
View ArticleThis Tech Knows If Your House Will Flood Long Before You Do
At CES last week, Adweek got an inside look at the tech that's making our homes smarter than ever. Belkin's products, including everything from Phyn leak detectors to remote sensors and smart speakers...
View ArticleSears Will Remain on Life Support
Chairman Edward Lampert's quest to keep 126-year-old department store Sears alive proved successful at the 11th hour as his firm, ESL Investments, was named the highest bidder at a recent auction. A...
View ArticleFacebook Just Removed 2 Networks of Pages and Accounts for Inauthentic...
Facebook removed two separate groups of pages and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic activity in Russia: 289 Facebook pages and 75 Facebook accounts from a network that originated in...
View ArticleHear the Backstreet Boys Collaborate With Chance the Rapper in Doritos’ Super...
If you've ever dreamed of hearing Chance the Rapper collaborate with a boy band, well your wish will soon be granted thanks to your friends at Doritos. On Wednesday, Doritos shared that it would be...
View ArticleAnchor Claims to Have Doubled the Number of Podcasts With Ads on the Market
Podcasting platform Anchor claims to have found a way to do something that still seems to elude many others in the field: make money off of advertising. The company reported this week that the number...
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