Month: June 2018

Red, a digital creative agency owned by Ariel Emanuel’s entertainment-focused holding group Endeavor, announced the hiring of Dan Neumann as its first head of strategy, effective immediately. Neumann most recently spent six years as a group strategy director at Droga5, in which Endeavor also holds a minority stake. (Endeavor was formerly known as WME |…

In addition to allowing users to clear their general search history, which contains things like the pages and people they’ve searched for (among other things), Facebook also lets users clear a separate search history related only to the videos they’ve searched for. Our guide will show you how to clear your video search history within…

Microsoft is acquiring software-code repository GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock, a move that could help the tech giant convince more developers to create applications for its cloud-computing business.

Walmart wants its new service to become the personal shopping product consumers never knew they needed. Jetblack, born out of Walmart’s Store No. 8 technology incubator, lets consumers text shopping requests to the Jetblack team and receive curated recommendations. From those recommendations, consumers can choose what they want and get same-day or next-day delivery on…

Virtual reality is all the rage right now, helping everyday people more intimately and realistically experience everything from concerts to live births, and however you’re engaging with it, you want the best headset to maximize your experience. Adweek talked to two industry experts–Hana Newman, director of the Prototype Studio at RGA, and Steve Curran, CEO…

Citing “downside risks,” Wall Street analyst Brian Wieser has downgraded his recommendation for WPP’s stock to “hold” from “buy.” The move follows an earlier “opportunistic upgrade” of WPPs stock he
made earlier this year.

If you’re like most marketers, you’re probably trying to get in on a little AI action to raise your game and keep up with your competition. And if you’re like most marketers, you might not understand exactly how it all works yet. Join the club. As you discover new smart tools for your company, the…

Asserting that investor sentiment toward Nielsen is “overly negative at this point in time,” Wall Street analyst Brian Wieser has upgraded the media and market researcher’s stock to “buy” from “hold.”
Characterizing the change as “opportunistic,” Wieser implied that Nielsen’s shares currently are undervalued relative to their strong fundamentals. Wieser also said he is maintaining the target price
of Nielsen shares at $35.

Brands are always looking for ways to make their advertisements more engaging. Well, what’s more engaging than having the customer play a central role in the advertisement? People like to be the star of the show; lucky for them, the new facial-recognition capabilities of the latest smartphones make it possible. According to one estimate, the…

Forty-six years after comedian George Carlin indelibly etched “seven dirty words” as a line in the sand for what is not permissible to say on TV, a majority of American adults feel most of them still
are inappropriate to utter, even on a cable TV comedy show. The survey, conducted this weekend in the aftermath of Samantha Bee calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless” C-word on her TBS show, “Full
Frontal,” suggests that word still represents a line in the dirt for most Americans.