The media side of the agency world has both received more attention and grabbed the spotlight on its own by virtue of its growing importance in any campaign--digital, social, mobile, traditional or otherwise. The 15 All-Stars in this section represent the best and most original thinking across all the facets of media. Our Executive of...
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May 08, 2017
What marketers need to know today
Adweek salutes the 2017 class of Media All-Stars
By Adweek Staff
The media side of the agency world has both received more attention and grabbed the spotlight on its own by virtue of its growing importance in any campaign--digital, social, mobile, traditional or otherwise. The 15 All-Stars in this section represent the best and most original thinking across all the facets of media. Our Executive of...
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Longtime vets tapped to help get cable net back on track
By Chris Ariens
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Voice activation, chatbots and real bots
Crunch time for NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC and CW execs ahead of upfronts
By Jason Lynch
Are these common problems tripping up your strategy?
By Sailesh Patel
Marketers need to build trust, according to a new study
By Emma Bazilian
During the 2016 election, the term "fake news" became an important part of the national discourse--and, in the process, helped increase the public's awareness of a larger fake economy. "Consumers have been confronted by fake news, fake online reviews, fake phishing emails, fake applications that install malware, fake accounts on social media platforms--and the list...
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Bud Light hits Britain with a croak
By Patrick Coffee
This week, one of the most iconic alcohol campaigns in advertising history is rising from the swamp after more than 20 years, as AB InBev has brought back its Budweiser frogs ... for sister brand Bud Light's U.K. debut. Among the original trio of "Bud," "Weis" and "Er" from the 1995 Super Bowl ad, it...
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Vehicle, and brand, trek to unfamiliar places
By David Gianatasio
Doctor, I keep having this dream about a 27-foot-long hot dog rolling through a tunnel. Wait, that's no dream. It's an awesomely Freudian scene from Oscar Mayer's new video chronicling the Wienermobile's voyage to Whittier, Alaska, population 220. The trek required 1,200 miles of driving plus 3,000 miles via barge, and touts "radical" product changes...
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Finding strength in numbers
By Brad Adgate
Cable and broadcast networks are rivals, that much we know. For years they have competed with each other for advertiser dollars, content and, more recently, for views online. But in the past month several networks announced they were collaborating to create a consortium. So what happened? The answer is simple: the aim is to keep...
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Trusted Media Brands will present a lifestyle video series at Monday's NewFront
By A.J. Katz
Advertisers will flock to New York's Crosby Hotel on Monday for Trusted Media Brand Inc.'s second-annual NewFronts presentation. If last year's was any indication, attendees should bring their appetites. During its first NewFronts, TMBI spoke about its transformation from a venerable print publisher of lifestyle content, anchored by Reader's Digest, into a digital-focused content company....
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Touts its new ad-friendly online tools
By A.J. Katz
"Thank you for defying our 'Weather on the 1s' report to make it here this afternoon," quipped Spectrum NY1 News morning anchor Pat Kiernan during today's Spectrum Reach NewFronts presentation at New York's Edison Hall. The buckets of rain didn't dampen the spirit of those in the room as Spectrum Networks' on-air broadcast talent introduced...
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