Laura Jones has checked off a number of items from her marketing shopping list in just one year at Instacart. Now, she can cross off another item: being promoted from head of marketing to CMO of the app-based grocery courier. A former global marketing strategist at Uber, Google, Visa and elsewhere, Jones has been credited…
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for Wed, 13 Jul 2022
GLAAD Releases 2nd Annual Social Media Safety Index
GLAAD released its second annual Social Media Safety Index Wednesday, and none of the five platforms it analyzed–Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter or YouTube–received a passing grade. GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis wrote in the introduction to the report, “The evolution of social media has significantly shifted the way that people relate to LGBTQ…
Close The CTV Gap
CTV offers a renaissance for targeted advertising in the privacy-centric era. To win in it, advertisers need to expand their perspective and playbooks.
Pinterest Poaches Nadine Zylstra From YouTube
Global head of YouTube Originals Nadine Zylstra is joining Pinterest in the newly created role of head of programming and originals. Zylstra will join the company’s global content and creators team, reporting to chief content officer Malik Ducard and tasked with building strategy and driving execution for the platform’s originals content efforts, including driving innovation…
TV News Buries Astonishing Space Story Under The Usual Violence
It was too much to ask that our local TV news actually slot a story into the lead position at 11 p.m. that was uplifting and miraculous.
Hootsuite’s Rebrand Guides Marketers Through ‘Wild’ New World of Social
First question: Does the owl look different? Yes. Owly has a little more spunk, and he has a legitimate role in the company: Chief Connection Officer. (Finally.)
When AI Makes Art, Humans Supply the Creative Spark
Fears that artificial intelligence tools could displace creatives such as illustrators, designers, and photographers seem unfounded—for now.
Summertime Posters Celebrate Underexposed Black British Talent
To promote the positive representation of Black British creatives, a poster campaign is featuring a series of portraits of cultural contributors and activists to build their profiles. The campaign from Underexposed Arts, an organization that celebrates and promotes positive representation of Black British and Dual Heritage African/Caribbean people, sees the first series of portraits released…
Old Fabric Rolls Do a Delicate Dance in Playful Ad for Longchamp’s Sustainable Bags
Longchamp’s “It is not a bag. It is Le Pliage” summer 2021 campaign from creative agency Fred & Farid Los Angeles and Studio Sander Plug became the French accessory brand’s most successful campaign to date. Now they’re hoping to build on that success with two new spots using the same tagline. “Replay” employs the same…