Month: June 2018

Unafraid and unintimidated by change, today’s emerging creative superstars reflect everything the ad industry aspires to be: diverse, principled, restlessly innovative and personally interwoven with the complex cultures marketers have consistently struggled to understand. These are the faces of a new creative class, and they’re ready to bulldoze every obstacle and outdated institution that gets…

True creatives do more than create great work. They define eras, advance new trends, dynamite the logjams holding back their industries and inspire a new generation along the way. Each year, Adweek identifies today’s advance guard of innovative professionals and honors them in the Creative 100, celebrating those who are energizing fields like advertising, digital…

With increasing frequency, my conversations with industry colleagues and peers seem to evolve into a discussion around the impact of digital transformation on creativity. A year into my career experiment as an agency creative infiltrating one of the world’s largest consultancies, I have discovered just enough to be dangerous and not enough to lose sight…

It has been a disheartening few months for anyone paying attention to, and concerned about, consumer privacy. Stories continue to roll out of Facebook about the dubious handling of user data, and GDPR now serves as a constant reminder that all is not well in the digital and data economy that shapes so much of…

Often admired (and occasionally envied) in their own countries, these creative leaders have also grown beyond their borders, helping influence work and young talent around the world. Some are regional powerhouses helping to advance creative communities across multiple nations, while others seem unfettered by any geographic limitation and are changing the rules on the worldwide…

Ava DuVernay might be the most generous director of her generation. She’s impossibly busy. Currently, she’s shooting, writing and editing her television series, Queen Sugar, which just had its Season 3 premiere late last month on OWN. Plus, she’s in preproduction for her Netflix mini-series, Central Park Five. And, oh yeah, she’s got another documentary…

According to a story by The Wall Street Journal this weekend, former WPP CEO Martin Sorrell’s recent resignation happened while the board of directors investigated allegations that he spent company money on the services of one or more prostitutes. Through a personal spokesperson, Sorrell denied the claims but declined to elaborate, citing a nondisclosure agreement…

A popular videogame-download store lowered its bar last year to make it easier for developers to hawk their creations. It ended up letting in a game that involved shooting up a school.

Facebook struck customized data-sharing deals that gave select companies special access to user records well after the point in 2015 that the social network has said it walled off that information.