Data-Labor-Technology

Harry Bernstein’s phone will soon be buzzing like crazy. That’s because the Havas New York chief creative officer is brazenly pasting the number on ads in New York City and on 14 college campuses around the country, urging aspiring ad pros to text him directly for a shot at an agency internship this summer. The…

Kris Bryant’s such a screwball! In his latest pitch for Red Bull, the Chicago Cubs star and 2016 National League MVP pranks a fantasy baseball draft by showing up disguised as a pizza delivery guy. With his goofy hairpiece, mustache/beard combo and wire-frame specs, Bryant looks like a ’90s porn star (portraying a pizza delivery…

Wipster, a company that builds video collaboration and publishing tools for media companies and marketers, is rolling out two new tools, with advertisers and agencies in mind.

Millions of U.S. households are cutting the cord and switching to over-the-top (OTT) devices, but the number is still less than one-sixth of all households with cable and satellite subscriptions, according to a new report from the Video Advertising Bureau. The VAB report, which looks at OTT usage, found that the number of households using…

Amid rising approval ratings in a number of polls, the tabloid-like aspects of President Donald Trump’s alleged extramarital affair with Stormy Daniels appears to be a non-issue for a majority of
American voters who say they feel it is common for Presidents of the United States to have had such affairs. The findings, which come from a Morning Consult poll of 1,997 registered voters conducted
Monday and Tuesday, shows 52% consider Presidential affairs “common.”

To combat male suicide, a nonprofit has put 84 humanoid sculptures on top of a skyscraper and other building in London–the same number of men who take their own lives every week in the U.K. The effort, titled Project 84, was created by the Campaign Against Living Miserably, or CALM, which teamed up with London…

Retailers are continually questioning whether their websites are working effectively throughout the sales cycle. Now, Adobe Analytics believes it can answer those questions. Experience Analytics, which the company unveiled for the first time at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, lets retailers link how many customers searched for a product on a site and then…

Today, Spark Foundry elevated Chris Boothe to the role of global president. Boothe will continue to serve as Spark Foundry USA CEO in addition to his new responsibilities as global president. In the new role, he will be tasked with driving growth across the Spark Foundry network and supporting work across its global client roster….

Sherif Mityas, the chief experience officer of TGI Fridays, says technology is doing a lot for the casual dining chain. But one thing it won’t do: replace the restaurant’s world-renowned bartenders. We caught up with Mityas at the Adweek Elevate event earlier this month. Recently promoted from CIO, to overseeing the customer experience at more…

New streaming apps may ultimately have a major effect because TV consumers could get exactly what they want: an a la carte selection of networks.