One afternoon in 2010, Andy Cruz got home, checked his voicemail and heard the sort of thing that most designers only dream of. It went like this: "Hi. This is Jimmy Kimmel. Sorry for bothering you at home. I just wanted to talk to you about designing a logo for my show." For a moment,...
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Morning Digest
May 30, 2017
What marketers need to know today
The Henry Ford Museum looks back on more than 20 years of unusual inspiration
By Robert Klara
One afternoon in 2010, Andy Cruz got home, checked his voicemail and heard the sort of thing that most designers only dream of. It went like this: "Hi. This is Jimmy Kimmel. Sorry for bothering you at home. I just wanted to talk to you about designing a logo for my show." For a moment,...
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The many future lives of the Frakta
By Tim Nudd
Yet another cool packaging innovation
By Tim Nudd
180LA won the account in 2010
By Patrick Coffee
ANA and White Ops say fraudulent activity will fall in 2017
By Marty Swant
Some advertisers, including Airbnb and Pepsi, say ad fraud is on the decline this year, though it's still an ongoing battle they're paying close attention to. According to Atin Kulkarni, global head of media and content innovation at Pepsi Co., improved data and partnerships with the Media Rating Council and Facebook have helped drive bot...
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Donuts, ad fraud and YouTube are making headlines
By Christopher Heine
Like other recent weeks, the last several days have been chock-full with online branding numbers. Here are nine that we found particularly interesting. 1. AR booms Digi-Capital's report said that the mobile augmented reality space will have more than 1 billion users and total $60 billion by 2021. 2. Fraud falls There's actually good news...
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NYC debut underscores showrooming potential
By Christopher Heine
A few hours after vacationer Sariah Lutkin landed in New York City on Wednesday from Cologne, Germany, she saw a sign about the new Amazon store in Gotham's Columbus Circle area. There's no such storefront for the ecommerce giant in Europe, so Lutkin, an Amazon.com customer, decided to check out the mall-based location that opened...
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Deep Roots Analytics finds some points of consensus
By Erik Oster
Conventional wisdom states that the political landscape has Americans more divided than ever, but new research suggests there is plenty Americans do agree on. Following the contentious 2016 presidential election, Deep Roots Analytics, a firm co-founded by former Mitt Romney campaign director of data science Alex Lundry, conducted a survey of 5,981 American voters from...
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Brands face one of their greatest challenges to date
By Peter Mühlmann
This is the age of distrust. Fake news infiltrates the media daily. It inundates social media feeds and tempts with the most appealing of clickbait headlines. For marketing's underbelly, it has been a gold mine, but it has come at the cost of trust and consumer confidence. Peter Muhlmann Never before has the general public...
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Leo Burnett cooked up the campaign
By David Gianatasio
McDonald's U.K. and Leo Burnett London really get Americans! Kind of. Well, maybe not at all. To promote a selection of USA-themed burgers, Burnett cooked up a kooky campaign stacked with bizarrely broad stereotypes and saucy deadpan humor. Four TV ads have similar setups, with Brits morphing into absurd American caricatures as they discuss hitting...
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