The mobile marketing landscape has grown more heavily populated with important players, many of whom quietly operate behind the scenes while some of their more brand-centric industry peers enjoy a greater share of the limelight. Adweek beat the bushes in search of the best and brightest minds behind great mobile campaigns that are transforming the...
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Morning Digest
February 21, 2017
What marketers need to know today
15 cutting-edge leaders in brand marketing, agencies and tech
By Christopher Heine
The mobile marketing landscape has grown more heavily populated with important players, many of whom quietly operate behind the scenes while some of their more brand-centric industry peers enjoy a greater share of the limelight. Adweek beat the bushes in search of the best and brightest minds behind great mobile campaigns that are transforming the...
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Niantic's CEO says he's been careful about integrating advertisers
By Christopher Heine
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Garbage in, garbage out
For YouTube, less will be more
By Janet Stilson
And in another new ad, a couple rewind to before an accident
By Tim Nudd
Plus, new commercials from Target and Nike
By Chris Ariens
Kia's slapstick spot for the Niro starring Melissa McCarthy leads our chart of the most digitally engaging commercials, powered by iSpot.tv. The chart-topping Kia spot, which has McCarthy starring as a hapless eco-warrior, was a Super Bowl commercial that's now had more than 900 post-game airings. Budweiser and Honda have also kept their Big Game...
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Purging the proxies and adopting more relevant common currencies
By Konrad Feldman
Every business leader sets goals and structures incentives against these goals. Incentives are powerful motivators. They can also have unintended consequences. Marketers care about incremental outcomes--sales and brand metrics. At the campaign level, A/B tests can assess incrementality, but cost and complexity preclude them as a general solution for every campaign. So, advertisers use proxies...
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How to balance value and values in the activist economy
By David Armano
These days it's virtually impossible to log on to Facebook or Twitter without a discussion unfolding around politics. In fact, it's become common for people to take "breaks" from social media to limit their exposure to constant political controversies and social issues. As a consumer, it's difficult to remain neutral when it feels like everyone...
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Cross-platform data tracks viewer loyalty and what else they watch
By Emma Bazilian
On Sunday, Feb. 12, people across the U.S. tuned into AMC to watch the midseason premiere of the network's highest-rated show, The Walking Dead. Meanwhile, millions of connected TVs and set-top boxes were sending data about those viewers to Samba TV. The software and analytics company, which develops smart TV apps for media companies and...
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Position should be filled within the next few weeks
By Jason Lynch
Of the six major TV ad sales chief jobs that opened up last year, one of the most surprising vacancies was at Fox Networks Group, where Toby Byrne abruptly departed last September, a week before the 2016-17 season began. Five months later, the role remains open, as the company searches for someone to oversee almost...
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Academy Award Sunday will be its top ad revenue day of the year
By Jason Lynch
A week before ABC airs the 89th Annual Academy Awards, the show has sold out of its ad inventory for the ceremony. Clients for this year's Oscars telecast, which airs Sunday, Feb. 26, include several of last year's sponsors, like AARP, Adidas, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, McDonald's, Samsung and Walt Disney Studio. Other advertisers include Diamond Producers...
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