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The first Esports Activate showcase featured some of America’s leading esports organizations who presented their digital, media, experiential and sponsorship inventory to marketers and buyers this morning in New York. There were also a number of panels featuring high-level media executives who spoke about their work with esports and why they feel it’s so important…

Cadillac has named Deborah Wahl as its new chief marketing officer. Wahl succeeds Uwe Ellinghaus, who resigned from the carmaker in late December 2017, citing health problems. She will take the reins on March 26 at the company’s New York headquarters and report the company’s president, Johan de Nysschen. “Deborah’s diverse experience, as well as…

Nickelodeon is getting in on TV’s revival craze, and will be bringing back one of its most popular shows, Blue’s Clues. The network made the announcement just ahead of its upfront event, which will be held this afternoon. The Blue’s Clues news is part of an ambitious slate that expands beyond linear and across platforms,…

Over the last two years, there has been a real awakening of Amazon’s platform, with major brands like Nike and Sears Kenmore signing on to sell direct and a well documented influx of media dollars. But as we all know, just being present is never enough. What you say and how you say it remains…

Influencer marketing is getting a metric that promises to help brands and companies measure out the value of an influencer. A report from Celebrity Intelligence found that of the 270 marketing specialists it surveyed, 84 percent believe finding influencers that are a good fit for a brand is incredibly time consuming. When it comes to…

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Penske Media, the publisher of WWD, Variety and new majority owner in Wenner Media, acquired multiplatform women’s lifestyle publisher and events company SheKnows Media, the company revealed Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. SheKnows, which claims to reach 79 million uniques per month across its flagship property, StyleCaster, HelloFlo and BlogHer sites, also… Continue reading »

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NBCUniversal has barely caught its breath from broadcasting the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics, but it’s already time to focus on the company’s third major sports event of the year: the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which Telemundo has Spanish-language rights to. And NBCU’s ad sales team, which just brought home more than $1.4 billion in…

The art world superstars of decades past were much like today’s top ad agency creative directors: insecure, megalomaniacal personalities driven by an incessant desire for the approval they never received as children. Or so we hear. However true that stereotype may or may not be, three top creatives put it to great use in the…

I’ve been dismissive of virtual reality and its potential for brands. You may have dismissed it, too. It’s hard to imagine popular adoption anytime soon. VR has looked like the emperor’s newest clothes, the latest marketing fad. But I’ve had a change of heart, and I hope you will join me. The visionary chairperson of…

Techmeme, the online aggregator of record for technology industry news, is adding some audio in the form of a podcast: the Techmeme Ride Home. Beginning today, the site’s new podcast will appear at 5 p.m. every weekday. Over 20 minutes, host Brian McCullough (from The Internet History podcast) will summarize the day’s top tech news…