Month: July 2022

Advertising influences people’s buying decisions more than the opinions of social influencers or bloggers.

“Mobile phone location data can be used to track individuals who have visited abortion clinics or have left the state to seek care,” Representative Lori Trahan (D-Massachusetts) and five other House
Democrats say in letters sent Wednesday to Oracle, Amazon’s AWS Data Exchange, Mobilewalla and Near Intelligence Holdings.

This isn’t the first time the holding company has taken its top media executive and plopped him in the driver’s seat of its flagship creative agency network.

“The Gray Man,” which debuts on the streaming service July 22, features four Audi vehicles and stars Ryan Gosling.

TikTok owner ByteDance spent $2.1 million on lobbying in Q2 2022, up 130% from the previous quarter, and $4.7 million for the year in 2021, according to a public disclosure filed Wednesday.

His co-star Rick talks up the carbon filer soleplate in the adidas X Speedportal.

Vita Coco, a brand that holds stunts near and dear to its hydrated heart, is launching a “colossal coconut pop-up” stocked with icy cold beverages in the middle of a triple-digit Texas heat wave. Timing, as they say, is everything. And so is showmanship: the centerpiece of the activation is a 3-story-tall inflatable coconut, dubbed…

After seeing an explosion of adoption during the pandemic ecommerce boom, the buy now, pay later space is experiencing growing pains in the United States as consumers and investors tighten their purse strings amid a period of economic uncertainty. Swedish delayed payments giant Klarna recently saw its valuation slashed to $6.7 billion–around a seventh of…

Havas Paris has announced the outcome of its internal #MeToo investigation which has led to the departure of its creative director Christophe Coffre, although chief executive Julien Carette has returned. The internal investigation, which began on May 9, saw the pair step down while the investigation was conducted following anonymous accusations made on the Instagram…