Month: September 2022

The best professional soccer–pardon us, football–from Spain is coming to Snapchat following a global partnership between Snap Inc. and LaLiga. Snapchatters will have access to behind-the-scenes content, historic archives, saves of the year, top goals and weekly game highlights from the league, as well as Bitmojis, lenses and stickers from the application. Alejandro Arenas, who…

Political advertising is in full swing as we head into the 2022 midterm elections this November. And it’s no longer at a crossroads. Advertiser budget allocations are already proving the days of antiquated campaign strategies are over. Even without a presidential race at the top of the ticket, 2022 ad spend is expected to exceed…

While celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, global creative organization D&AD has named Jo Jackson, former chief creative officer for furniture retailer Made.com, as its chief executive. Jackson will be charged with furthering the organization’s digital strategy and education programs to support and grow the global creative community for the future. She spent over three-and-a-half…

Global brand experience agency Jack Morton is making changes at the top. Longtime CEO Josh McCall will transition to chairman while Bill Davies and Craig Millon will share chief executive duties as the agency’s first global co-presidents in its 83-year history. Davies, currently chief operating officer, and Millon, chief client officer, will immediately assume their…

Tim Hortons is the latest fast food company to enter the metaverse with an obstacle course game in the world of Roblox to celebrate National Coffee Day. In the Canadian cafe chain’s game, called Tims Speed Run, players must race through hurdles ranging from spinning doughnuts and bagels to doughnut-hole boulders while carrying a tray…

Some daycare and early education apps “allow public access to children’s photos via insecure cloud storage,” and at least one transmits information to Facebook, the Electronic Frontier Foundation
tells the FTC.

Open programmatic ad spending on connected television this year has risen 31% worldwide.

Although summer is over, Grammy-nominated artist Marshmello is reminding us it’s never too late to roast some s’mores–or chicken, or vegetables–if you have the right technology. Taking a detour from the studio, Marshmello heads to the kitchen to collaborate with Crux, the kitchenware brand founded by Shae Hong, to launch a new line of air…