Facebook Marketing Boss Shares Three Lessons for Brands
Even a 29-year marketing vet like Gary Briggs has a few things left to learn. Facebook’s CMO, whose previous stints span Pepsi, IBM, eBay and...
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Native ads are getting a direct-response makeover
Native advertising is often used by publishers as a way out of being held to the direct-response metrics that have long been associated with banner...
See the Spot: Samsung Reminds Us They Built Bigger Phones First
Samsung gained prominence in the U.S. by being the Pepsi to Apple’s Coke. It doesn’t appear it will give up that strategy anytime soon. On...
Achtung, Apple: Users fume at surprise free U2 album
Apple’s iCloud moves in mysterious ways. The iPhone maker is surprising iTunes users this week with free copies of “Songs of Innocence,” the latest album...
ITunes Users Miffed at Apple’s U2 Giveaway
U2, one of the most popular rock bands in the world, gave a new album for free to half a billion users of Apple Inc.’s...
Kim Kelleher Named Publisher of Conde Nast’s Wired
Kim Kelleher, the former president of digital publisher Say Media, was named VP-publisher of Wired magazine, parent company Conde Nast said Tuesday. The appointment marks...
The good, the bad and the ugly #AppleLive brand tweets
What? There’s a major event happening and everyone will be on Twitter watching for updates? Better get your social media marketing team ready. Brands, with...
China’s Popular Online Video Sites Face New Regulations
China has ordered video-streaming sites to get state approval to run foreign TV shows and films as authorities in the world’s largestiInternet market tighten online...
6 semi-bold predictions for the iWatch
Ben Kunz is vp of strategic planning at Mediassociates, a media planning agency. It’s September once again, and so we eagerly wait for Apple CEO...
FTC Snags Google in $19 Million Mobile-App Settlement
Another tech giant — this time it’s Google — is caught up in a prolonged Federal Trade Commission crackdown. Google settled with the FTC for...
Pitch deck: BitTorrent is wooing advertisers, publishers
BitTorrent, the company behind the peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol, has a bit of a branding challenge. Allegedly responsible for as much as a third of all...
New Marketers Added to Ad Age Digital Conference San Francisco Lineup
Top marketers from Old Navy, Nickelodeon, Target and Tequila Avion have been added to the Ad Age Digital Conference San Francisco lineup. They join executives...
Wall Street Journal Exec Says He’s Starting a Company with Ashton Kutcher
Two Wall Street Journal executives are leaving the company this month, including Chief Digital Sales Officer Brad Westbrook. In an email to Ad Age confirming...
Belize Tourism scores real-time marketing win with ‘Don’t Stop Belizein’
Come take a journey. Or rather Journey. Belize, the small English-speaking Central American nation, may not have the cache of some of its Caribbean neighbors,...
Google’s Ad Boss on Overseeing YouTube Sales and Glass Ads
Google has gone through a lot of executive changes this year. Last month, the company’s chief business officer Nikesh Arora announced he was leaving. And...
10 agency tours on Hyperlapse
Yesterday, Instagram launched “Hyperlapse,” a new iOS app that lets you make high-quality time lapse videos in just a few minutes, using your phone’s camera....
