How Brands Are Approaching Advertising-Averse Crypto Users

While brands have been ramping up their efforts to harness the new technologies under the Web3 umbrella, big corporations aren’t necessarily a natural fit for a cryptocurrency user base that still retains some anti-establishment ethos. At Coindesk’s Consensus conference in Austin this weekend, marketing leaders from companies like Mastercard and Pepsi grappled with how to…

Instagram: How to Edit Your Avatar

Instagram users can create a 3D avatar to represent themselves throughout the photo- and video-sharing application. Once a user creates an avatar on Instagram, they can edit their avatar’s appearance in the future in order to change its hairstyle, outfit and so on. Our guide will show you how to edit your Instagram avatar from…

The Medium Is The Line Item

“One of the things we thought was really important to call out was the blurriness of media and how everything is evolving in a way that makes the individual line items increasingly less relevant,”
GroupM’s Wieser explains.

My Wickets Are Better Than Yours: Rights For India’s Pro Cricket League Weigh On Disney+

How can the game of cricket — which is popular in the U.K., India, Australia, Pakistan, and West Indies nations — be a tipping point for Disney+’s financial prospects?

Instagram: How to Create an Avatar

Instagram now allows users to customize a 3D avatar that they can use throughout the photo- and video-sharing application. If a user has already created an avatar on Facebook, they have the option to use the same avatar on Instagram or create a new avatar from scratch. Our guide will show you how to create…

Publicis Media’s APX Content Ventures Announces Inclusion Fund Recipients

APX announced that it has awarded a portion of its $25 million Inclusion Investment Fund to 10 diverse-owned, operated and/or targeted companies, including Alpha Precision Media, AspireTV and Canela
Media,

App Developers, Watch Out For These CTV Advertising Blunders

When Pinger, a startup that develops messaging and communications apps, started experimenting with CTV advertising last year, it learned a lot – about what not to do. Pinger’s apps include Sideline, which gives users a secondary phone number on their smartphone, and a free texting and calling app called TextFree. Together they have more than 140Continue reading »

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Did A Google Engineer Create A Conscious Machine Built On AI?

Search marketers may be the least surprised at the news that Google software engineer Blake Lemoine could have helped to create a machine or software program that is sentient –defined as the ability
to perceive or feel things.

What Execs Want to See and Hear From Cannes Lions’ Return

Over the years, Ascential-owned creative festival Cannes Lions has developed a reputation–perhaps undeservedly–as a party week for mostly senior advertising personnel to catch up, seek out new jobs and neck copious amounts of booze. I did say “perhaps undeservedly” but, with three years since the event last took place in person, this could be a…

GroupM Unveils CTV ‘Viewability’ Initiative, Finds As Much As 10% Of Ads Delivered With TV ‘Off’

The announcement says GroupM and a coalition of big media suppliers are working with “standards-setting bodies” to create a framework, including the IAB Tech Lab, which will release a SDK in Q3.