Hooray, brands get choosier about their social content
Real-time marketing, the advertising buzzword that has plagued our Twitter streams since Oreo decided to dunk in the dark during the 2012 Super Bowl, is...
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YouTube Effort Boosts Awareness, But What About Ad Sales?
Four months ago YouTube launched a marketing blitz to make audiences and advertisers more aware of its homegrown talent. So how has the campaign worked...
Confessions of a magazine editor: ‘An impossible job’
Being a magazine editor isn’t the glamorous gig it once was. Long martini lunches with fellow wags and expensive photo shoots have given way to frantic...
Sorting the Serious From the Silly, BuzzFeed Develops a Mobile App for Real News
BuzzFeed is known for publishing highly shareable lists and quizzes, but the viral publisher is now developing an app to highlight its more serious reported...
Jane Newman on How Planning Kept Apple Creatives on Right Track
“I like risk. I like doing things that haven’t been done before. It’s a fault. It’s a character fault, I think.” Jane Newman made that...
How JCPenney changed its view of Facebook
Like most retailers, JCPenney spent years building up Facebook likes by the hundreds of thousands, imploring customers to “like our page” and paying Facebook for...
Instagram In-App Pop-Ups Ask How You Feel About Its Advertisers
“Did you see a post for Showtime’s Masters of Sex?” Instagram recently asked people who use the photo-sharing service. Others have been quizzed about ads...
Why Buick is encouraging drivers to get out of the car and run
Buick is great at building cars. But fitness apps? One would think an automaker has an incentive to keep drivers in their cars, but with its...
Startup Turns Kevin Bacon And Other Celebs Into Content Marketers for Brands
“We worked with Canon on a media plan and a target for impressions for the campaign,” Mr. Gregory said. Celebrities were paid a “small fee”...
Inside The Atlantic’s events juggernaut
At The Atlantic’s New York Ideas festival in May, attendees looked on as Dominique Ansel, the inventor of the Cronut, whipped up his signature pastry...
Steve Forbes: ‘Just pining for the good old days is not the way to move ahead’
Forbes Media agreed on Friday to sell a majority stake in itself to a consortium of Hong Kong investors, concluding a 9-month sales process. The sale...
TubeMogul Raises Less Than Expected With IPO
Wall Street’s disenchantment with ad-tech spilled over to the IPO market today, with video-ad-buying software company TubeMogul taking the hit. The company’s stock may have...
A-B InBev Shuffles Executive Ranks, Affecting Media, Digital
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s recently-installed marketing VP in the U.S. Jorn Socquet has begun putting his stamp on the brewer, overseeing key executive changes that affect media...
Apple, IBM Strike Deal to Go After Mobile Enterprise Market
Apple and IBM, once foes in the personal-computer market, announced on Tuesday that they are working together on the next wave of technology for mobile...
How top UK publishers label content recommendation ads
As the debate rages over the ethics of native advertising on both sides of the Atlantic, regulators in the U.K. have added more fuel to...
With Brazil Out, Marketers Shift Message to Praise Host
Brazilian marketers who were planning celebratory ads for a sixth World Cup victory had to switch quickly to plan B after Brazil’s humiliating 7-1 defeat...
