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Taking the halftime stage in the 2021 Super Bowl will be three-time Grammy award-winner The Weeknd. After the Canadian superstar teased the announcement with some cryptic social media posts Wednesday night, Pepsi, NFL and Roc Nation dropped the news yesterday. The Weeknd will perform after 2020 mostly lacked live music due to the pandemic.

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Penn Station has a trim new look thanks to a massive takeover via Manscaped, a brand that aims to “take care of a man’s most important bits” while reducing the stigma of such bits with 225 head-turning and humorous OOH ads. The campaign, created with agency Intersection, was a reimagining of a pre-pandemic idea intended to make a splash and catch the eyes of commuters, who continue to flow through the station, albeit at somewhat diminished rates.

See more images from the takeover: And explore how the brand is capitalizing on a huge TikTok audience.

The new Chipotle Digital Kitchen in West Point, New York, doesn’t have any tables or chairs and will deal only in to-go and delivery orders. The location, which is prime territory for targeting hungry cadets, is a prototype for a model that could easily and effectively be replicated in the age of the pandemic, perhaps representing the future of the restaurant experience.

Adapting to Covid: Chipotle is far from the first brand to roll out “ghost kitchens” and virtual concepts.

More kitchen creativity: To provide home cooks with inspiration and a bit of fun, PepsiCo is rolling out a new recipe hub called More Smiles With Every Bite, along with two cookbooks—one with recipes that incorporate Cheetos, and another that features Mountain Dew.

Brand purpose is a hot and recurring theme in a year when a company’s identity is deeply tied to its ability to authentically connect with consumers. Marketing chiefs play the critical role of helping brands get to the heart of their purpose. We talked to nine CMOs about what it means to them. "The modern marketer is not a mythmaker; they're a truth-teller,” says Pinterest CMO Andréa Mallard “They want to get to the core truth and tell it in a beautiful way, while also leveraging this truth to truly do good.”

Discover insights from the CMOs of Ulta Beauty, Bank of America, Uber and more.

Home security company Ring is making connections with a new holiday campaign that utilizes a Carrie Underwood song that just dropped exclusively on Amazon Music. It’s part of a partnership with the ecommerce giant and UMG Nashville that simultaneously aims to market Ring’s products and the album.

Join us today at 12pm ET to hear Van's April Vitkus, Facebook's Christine Warner, Away's Selena Kalvaria, Sephora's Carolyn Bojanowski and more. These brands have mastered issues of creative variety and nimble messaging on social and retail media channels to engage with digital shoppers.

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