How Social Data Influenced Hyatt to Pull Part of Campaign Days Before Launch
When Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s modern feminist manifesto “Lean In” ignited negativity, Hyatt was forced to pull the plug on a main element of its...
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Len Downie: ‘WashPo Is Not a Trophy for Bezos’
Under Len Downie’s 17-year run as the Washington Post’s executive editor, the paper won 25 Pulitzer Prizes, including three Gold Medals for Public Service. Downie, whose 44...
Magazines Double Digital Circulation, Lose Another 10% on Newsstands
Magazines’ downward trend at newsstands continued in the first half of this year, with single-copy sales falling roughly 10% from a year earlier, the Alliance...
What the International Business Times Wants With Newsweek
IBT Media, the pure-play digital company that has agreed to buy Newsweek, is not ruling out a print return of some sort for the iconic...
Tina Brown and Howard Kurtz Square Off Over Newsweek
Safe to say there’s no love lost between former Daily Beast and Newsweek Washington Bureau Chief Howard Kurtz and his old boss Tina Brown. Mr....
A Tour of YouTube’s Los Angeles Studio
Bunkered beneath a cliff a couple miles north of Los Angeles International Airport sits arguably YouTube’s most important real estate: YouTube Space LA. Google broke...
Digital Adtech Exec Dies in Freak Balcony-Fall Accident
The death of Jennifer Rosoff, director of sales at digital-advertising-analytics firm TripleLift, is front-page news this morning in New York City. Ms. Rosoff fell from...
Emotion: The elephant in the room for marketers?
Economists have long assumed people to have an unlimited availability of time, knowledge and cognitive resource to make flawless logical decisions, entirely disembodied from emotion....
IAC’s Romance With Online Dating Deepens As Revenue Grow
Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp seems to be in love with its suite of online dating services. The company — which owns Match.com, OKCupid, Tinder and Europe’s...
Hill Holliday’s Ilya Vedrashko on the Trouble With Social Listening
Ilya Vedrashko is fascinated by digital interactions and what they tell us about people. Though his work heading a team of consumer-intelligence analysts at Hill...
Intel and Toshiba Invite You To Save The World From Hairy Aliens
The brands are creating their third social film, a comedy that everyday consumers can audition for online. Via digiday.com
Mentos Personalizes News Bulletins For the ‘Selfie’ Generation
Mentos is capitalizing on the narcissism that fuels social media by creating personalized news bulletins that make your Facebook activity look exciting enough to be...
Former NBC Digital Exec Launches Bomoda to Sell Luxury to the Chinese
The idea for Bomoda originated, as ideas often do, at a dinner. Brian Buchwald’s dining companion one night in fall 2011 was a Chinese woman...
Small Businesses Shirk Advertising
Keith Johnson used to be a brand manager with world’s-biggest-advertiser Procter & Gamble Co., overseeing Iams’ eight-figure annual media budget. But after launching custom pet-food...
Joseph Ripp, Time Inc.’s Unexpected CEO, Wants to Be Catalyst for Talent
Joseph Ripp, the newly appointed CEO of Time Inc., is what Donald Rumsfeld might call a known unknown. Mr. Ripp is a veteran of the...
How AOL Lured Lord to Lead Networks Division
AOL — in the midst of a turnaround but still facing headwinds — likely isn’t the first place you’d expect one of the digital agency...
