Some of Under Armour's biggest celebrity endorsers--ballet dancer Misty Copeland, NBA star Stephen Curry and Hollywood icon Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson--are speaking out against the apparel brand's CEO for referring to Donald Trump as "a real asset" to American businesses. In an interview earlier this week with CNBC, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank shared several...
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Morning Digest
February 10, 2017
What marketers need to know today
Misty Copeland, Stephen Curry and The Rock raise objections
By Katie Richards
Some of Under Armour's biggest celebrity endorsers--ballet dancer Misty Copeland, NBA star Stephen Curry and Hollywood icon Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson--are speaking out against the apparel brand's CEO for referring to Donald Trump as "a real asset" to American businesses. In an interview earlier this week with CNBC, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank shared several...
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Hit the bricks, subway tile!
By David Gianatasio
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Saatchi & Saatchi NY hits the road for an extensive study
By Katie Richards
Congressional Oversight Committee calls for aide to be disciplined
By David Griner
Audi's gender equality commercial is No.1
By Chris Ariens
As you'd expect, Super Bowl ads dominate this week's chart of the most digitally engaging commercials, powered by real-time TV ad measurement company iSpot.tv. Audi takes first place with its Super Bowl ad that speaks to an issue we hear a lot about lately: equal pay and gender equality. While watching his daughter compete against...
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KBS's Patrick Scissons picks his three favorite ads
By Tim Nudd
Few sports advertising campaigns have been as influential as Nike's "Play" by Wieden + Kennedy. Launched in the summer of 2001, it took what had been primarily a performance sports brand and gave it a fun, inclusive attitude, inspiring ordinary athletes and encouraging them to define what their game is. The campaign's inventive storytelling was...
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Unruly's ranking measures everything from brand perception to purchase intent
By Tim Nudd
Video ad tech company Unruly introduced a new combined metric this year, EQ Score, to rank ads based on their "likely emotional, social and business impact." Applying the EQ Score to the Super Bowl LI commercials, Hyundai came out on top--creating what Unruly called the "most effective ad" of Sunday night. Unruly used a survey...
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>From out of the cupboard and into the frying pan
By Robert Klara
Did you know that right now, as you read this, the pantries of one-third of American homes contain Spam? (We mean the precooked pork product, not the junk mail.) Using 2016's tally of 125.82 million households in America, that comes to nearly 43 million homes with a can of Spam on the shelf. That's a...
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CAA, Ogilvy vet Fred Levron takes the helm
By Patrick Coffee
Today FCB announced the creation of a new worldwide creative partner job based in Paris. Fred Levron, a French native who spent 11 years at Ogilvy & Mather Paris, joins the Interpublic agency to fill the position after serving as executive creative director at sports and entertainment powerhouse Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. He...
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Mediavest | Spark and DigitasLBi will handle U.S. media
By Patrick Coffee
Toy giant Mattel has picked a Publicis umbrella group to run its U.S. media business after a review. Mediavest | Spark will now handle planning and offline buying, while DigitasLBi runs digital media, programmatic buying and content production. The two will collectively go by the name Team Mattel in yet another iteration of Publicis' "Power...
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