You may sell toys to parents, but you actually market to their children. That was Hasbro's modus operandi before late 2012, when the maker of Monopoly, Nerf, Play-Doh and many other toys and games got serious about data, eventually transforming its advertising and social media strategies. Indeed, company research showed Hasbro had not adequately been...
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June 05, 2017
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By Christopher Heine
You may sell toys to parents, but you actually market to their children. That was Hasbro's modus operandi before late 2012, when the maker of Monopoly, Nerf, Play-Doh and many other toys and games got serious about data, eventually transforming its advertising and social media strategies. Indeed, company research showed Hasbro had not adequately been...
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Angela Solk and Craig Weingarten join the music platform
By Christopher Heine
Social TV, gamers and Wonder Woman chatter
By Christopher Heine
Vending machines arrived in London, Berlin, Paris, Venice and Barcelona
By David Cohen
Starting in early 2018
By Marty Swant
Publishers that don't meet Google's standards for creating good advertising experiences might want to up their game: an upcoming version of Google Chrome could block more ads on mobile and desktop. Early next year, the search engine browser will come pre-installed with ad-blocking technology to automatically filter ads that are deemed to be too annoying...
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Content that does not comply with AdSense Policies and YouTube's ad-friendly guidelines will not be eligible for advertising
By David Cohen
YouTube is taking steps to ensure that creators who post videos containing hateful content, inappropriate use of family entertainment characters or incendiary and demeaning content don't earn any money from those videos. Vice president of product management Ariel Bardin announced in a blog post that the Google-owned video site's guidelines have been updated, adding: While...
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Five games will be available to the social network's users globally
By David Cohen
Twitter will indeed offer livestreamed football games in 2017--they will just be played on shorter, indoor fields. The social network announced an agreement with the Arena Football League to livestream five regular-season games, starting this Saturday. The games will be available to logged-in and logged-out Twitter users globally via afl.twitter.com or @AFLarenaball. The schedule follows...
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The winners of the 2017 Facebook Awards will be announced at Cannes Lions
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Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg will participate in two panels on the main stage at the Lumi?re Theatre at the 64th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. On Wednesday, June 21, at 2 p.m. local time, Sandberg will join Wieden + Kennedy global chief creative officer Colleen DeCourcy (moderator) and Airbnb chief marketing officer...
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Meet 16-year-old Baby Ariel, Musical.ly's biggest star
By Emma Bazilian
If you haven't heard of Baby Ariel, one of two things is probably true: You're either legally allowed to vote, or you've never used Musical.ly, the hyperaddictive social media platform that counts more than 100 million users, or "musers," many of them Gen Zers. (In case you're unfamiliar with Musical.ly, here's a quick primer: Founded...
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It's a balancing act of humility and hunger, says Looker exec
By Christopher Heine
Lloyd Tabb is founder, chairman and CTO at Looker, a software company that gathers data from multiple marketing systems and consolidates it so that the stats can be used to search for trends and insights. He's also searching for the next big thing--when it comes to talented techies, that is. Tabb is hiring and looking...
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