Month: September 2019

We at Adweek recently announced our new Podcast of the Year Awards, celebrating audio excellence across 20 categories. Since we’ve assembled an incredible lineup of judges, all with direct podcasting experience, we wanted to take this time while submissions are open (aka before we flood them with shows to judge) to hit them up for…

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a decision Wednesday stating that it found reasonable cause to believe seven U.S. companies violated federal law by using Facebook’s ad targeting capabilities to exclude women and older users from seeing job ads on the social network. In September 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) teamed up…

When it comes to the current political landscape, today’s youth are not passive. In 2018, 1.2 million school-aged kids led the charge for gun control in the form of March For Our Lives, one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam war. Little Miss Flint has become the ambassador behind bringing awareness to the…

In what may be the most material applications of blockchain technology by a major ad agency holding company to date, Havas’s sports and entertainment unit this morning announced a deal with H2O
FinTech to license a “direct-to-fan” blockchain application to create a secure system for managing sports consumer relationships. Dubbed a “fan relationship management” solution, the system leverages
blockchain infrastructure to create a direct connection between sports rights holders and their fans.

Nextdoor is a social network for neighborhoods, and it asks people to use their real names and addresses on their profiles. While the application will show your neighbors your full address by default, did you know that you can change this to only show your street name instead? Our guide will show you how this…

Recently, major TV network groups including CBS, Viacom and WarnerMedia began rejecting Juul advertising. Juul has spent $31.2 million on national/ regional TV advertising since the beginning of this
year, according to iSpot.tv.

If you look back into the not-so-ancient history of online content, you’ll trace the birth of the social influencer to the invention of the almighty blog, which made us all very aware of how powerful it can be to put, well, fingers to keyboard. Think about the sensational stories you’ve heard over the years about…

Agency network BBH has a new global creative chief. The agency announced today that longtime BBH creative Pelle Sjoenell, founder of its Los Angeles office and worldwide CCO since early 2016, is headed to Activision Blizzard, where he will be chief creative officer for the gaming brand behind Overwatch and Call of Duty. Moving into…

To find its next batch of new talent, McDonald’s is turning to Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant. One of the world’s most recognizable brands has a new global recruitment campaign, “Made at McDonald’s,” and with it the first voice recruitment skill called McDonald’s Apply Thru to help people apply to jobs at the QSR chain….

“The Simpsons” comes out swinging this season with a brutal takedown of social media influencers, tastemakers and monetizers.