Here's the story of an ad agency, a healthcare company and a wounded Marine pooling their efforts to help make injured people whole again in an unexpected way. It centers on Dan Lasko, who lost his left leg in 2004 while serving in Afghanistan. Now, Dan loves recreational and competitive swimming, and from the start...
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Advertising & Agency Daily
March 27, 2017
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A tale of hope and renewal from Northwell Health
By David Gianatasio
Here's the story of an ad agency, a healthcare company and a wounded Marine pooling their efforts to help make injured people whole again in an unexpected way. It centers on Dan Lasko, who lost his left leg in 2004 while serving in Afghanistan. Now, Dan loves recreational and competitive swimming, and from the start...
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These 16 CMTOs from brands like GE to L'Oréal have got game
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Homes for everyone
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Ride-sharing app needs to revamp its internal culture
By Kristina Monllos
Kevin Drew Davis to run Chicago, Canada operations
By Patrick Coffee
Kevin Drew Davis is moving back to Chicago. WPP's "global experience innovation agency" Blast Radius has hired the digital native as its first chief creative officer in more than 6 years. Moving forward, he will lead its largest offices in Vancouver, Toronto and his hometown. Davis previously spent nearly four years with the DDB network...
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MLB has licensed everything else, so why not this?
By Robert Klara
Head on over to the Major League Baseball shop and you'll find your favorite team's logo slapped on all sorts of outdoor clothing--hats, jerseys, jackets and even ugly sweaters. For the true devotee, a favorite team's logo can nestle still closer to one's heart (and other places) in the form of bras, swim trunks and...
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New study from DialogTech takes a deep dive
By Emma Bazilian
Native and social ads might get all the buzz in the world of digital marketing, but the humble display ad remains an integral part of any online campaign--and spend in the category is only continuing to grow. Still, there are some big hurdles attached to display that advertisers have yet to overcome. "As marketers allocate...
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Tales from a veteran marketer
By Dave Knox
When I started at Procter & Gamble, my first job was in a group called AP/DO, otherwise known as "deodorant" to normal people. I was on the Secret Brand Team where I found myself in the middle of the deodorant wars between P&G (Secret and Old Spice) and Unilever (Dove, Degree and Axe). It was...
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Alaska Airlines will drop the name in 2019
By David Griner
Few brands had a more complicated, arduous and industry-rattling path to launch than Virgin America. And now, after just a decade in the air, the charismatic airline's identity is fading away. Alaska Airlines, which acquired Virgin America for $4 billion last year, announced this week it will retire the Virgin brand in 2019. At that...
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Campaign shows 'problems nobody talks about at cocktail parties'
By Christine Birkner
United Way raises more than $4.7 billion every year for improving health, education and stability in communities around the globe, and until now, its marketing focused on the aftermath and uplifting side to its good work, often featuring smiling volunteers in "Live United" t-shirts. But the nonprofit is taking a drastic turn to prompt more...
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