Profiles in Black Creativity: John deGraft-Johnson’s Touching Amazon Prime Ad

Throughout Black History Month, we’re partnering with agency owner Derek Walker on a series that highlights the ideas, perspectives and successes of Black advertising professionals. Today we’re featuring John deGraft-Johnson, a strategy director at Anomaly, and a commercial he worked on in 2016 while at creative agency Joint London. Created for Amazon Prime, the holiday…

Cannabis Product Tie-In With Kristen Wiig’s Trippy New Comedy Highlights a Growing Trend

A new movie called Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar, billed as escapist entertainment for Galentine’s Day, is a surreal candy-colored mashup of buddy comedy and crime thriller with random musical numbers thrown in for good measure. It even had a Stranger Things-inspired trailer. Sound like a head trip? Then the flick’s cross-promotion…