Twitter CFO Mistakenly Tweets About Deal: ‘I Have a Plan’
Correctly using Twitter has tripped up one of the company’s top executives. Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto yesterday publicly tweeted about a plan he has...
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No names please: Hilton’s discrete approach to data-driven marketing
All hotel guests expect a certain level of discretion, but they’ve also grown accustomed to a certain level of personalized service. And that service is...
In the Williamsburg That Vice Helped Build, Sudden Barbs From Bands and Fans
The globe-trotting hipster empire Vice Media helped make Williamsburg, Brooklyn, what it is now, taking offices there long before the neighorhood gentrified into a mecca...
How VideoBlocks plans to undercut the stock footage market
VideoBlocks aims to shake up the stock footage industry the way Netflix did for video consumption. For $99, the price of one or two HD...
Yahoo Ousts Google as Firefox’s Default Search Engine, Previews Redesign
Yahoo has found a way to further boost its search advertising business. Making it sweeter? It’s at Google’s expense. The portal has replaced Google as...
‘Instagirl’ Jenner Brings 30 Million Fans as New Face of Lauder
Estee Lauder Cos., seeking to ride on Kendall Jenner’s ever-growing coattails and 30 million social-media followers, has hired the model to represent its flagship cosmetics...
This woman is Hearst Magazines’ secret digital weapon
Kate Lewis is very excited. She has just come back from the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards luncheon on the 44th floor of Hearst Tower, where...
Facebook Cuts Brands’ Reach Once Again
Facebook is becoming even more pay-to-play for brands. Facebook announced Friday afternoon that it would begin curtailing the reach of brands’ unpaid, or organic, posts...
Platishers, beware: Say Media gives up on publishing
Three years ago, Jane Pratt celebrated the launch of her new site XoJane with Say Media by throwing a party at the Jane Hotel, a boutique...
Explain It Like I’m Eight: Cookies
Ad Age’s video series using kids to break down marketing jargon is back again, with a new installment taking on cookies. See all the Explain...
Weeks before Thanksgiving, here come the Christmas ads
‘Tis the season to be jolly. No, really. Thanksgiving, Black Friday and cyber Monday are still more than two weeks away. Yet brands have started trotting...
Facebook Gives People a New Way to ‘Turn Down’ Annoying Brands
Facebook is giving people more control over whose content occupies their news feed on the social network, arguably the web’s most prized real estate. People...
E-Commerce Is So Huge Now in China, Some Brands Skip Opening an Actual Store
When British fashion retailer Topshop debuted in China, guests at the Beijing launch event tried on outfits and posed for selfies with red London buses...
Is this man the most talented creative in America?
Whit Hiler got into advertising in a particularly roundabout way. In 2011, while looking to make some money, he decided to submit an idea to...
Mobile Is Great, but Paper and People Can Still Carry Election Day
Sometimes get-out-the-vote efforts on election day come in virtual form: encouragement from a Facebook friend to vote, or a campaign volunteer using a mobile app...
It’s a good time to run a big YouTube network
To brace for the digital future of video, media giants are fervently snapping up YouTube networks. In March, Disney bought Maker Studios for $500 million,...
