Author: rssmasher

“I heard a woman becomes herself the first time she speaks without permission,” says poet Denice Frohman in the first line of Twitter’s new #HereWeAre campaign, which made its TV debut tonight during ABC’s Oscars telecast. The 90-second spot includes an original poem from Frohman and features a multi-generational group of women from 20 to…

In the past few years, mobile has risen to become the most dominant form of media consumption. With this change in consumer behavior, platforms like Google, Facebook and Instagram have grown into virtual monopolies. This shift has not only affected consumers, it has also changed retail and the way smart marketers approach commerce. Nowhere is…

Ad fraud is often described as a cat-and-mouse game, with networks’ best efforts at detection a few short steps behind bad actors’ best efforts at defrauding customers and advertisers without getting caught. (And those mice are eating a lot of cheese. Last year, the ad verification company Adloox predicted ad fraud could cost advertisers $16.4…

After more than a decade struggling on the stand-up circuit, Scott Rogowsky is a bona fide star. Thanks to his gig hosting the addictive, mobile game-show app HQ Trivia, this native suburban New Yorker is recognizable to millions of Americans who log on and play the game twice a day, every day. If you’ve ever…

Since December, twice a day, like clockwork, Terry Berger, a 17-year-old high school junior from Atlanta, has been playing HQ Trivia, the mobile app game-show sensation. At 3 p.m. Berger, her fellow students and teachers huddle together over their smartphones, answering often silly, mostly vanilla questions about pop culture, science and history for the chance…

Over the past six months, Scott Rogowsky has risen to fame as the host of mobile game show HQ Trivia, which draws millions of people twice a day for the chance to win cash. Rogowsky has been trying to make it in New York’s comedy scene for a decade and has an improv-inspired talk show…

Twentieth Century Fox staged an elaborate live song-and-dance number on the Fox network to promote its movie musical, The Greatest Showman, and Kraft used real-time elements to create its recent family-centric Super Bowl spot. During Hollywood’s glitziest night–the Academy Awards on Sunday–Samsung rubbed shoulders during the live telecast with A-list stars like Meryl, Denzel and…

Reba McEntire had to get used to the feel of a mustache on her face to play Colonel Sanders. The first woman and first musician to embody Colonel Sanders, as part of Wieden + Kennedy’s ongoing celebrity colonel campaign, McEntire put on the spokescharacter’s famous white suit, mustache and goatee this past December to film…

Call it a movement. Marketers have never faced such challenging times. Technology is moving fast, killing laggard companies laden with legacy thinking and ending careers of those not nimble nor entrepreneurial enough to embrace the pace of change. On the other hand, marketers have never experienced such opportunity to tap technology to create the meaningful,…

Readers can grip door handles using sensors and pull them apart to reveal an electronic dashboard that lights up — complete with a pulse rate and a new car smell.