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At the North American International Auto Show on Monday, BlackBerry CEO John Chen unveiled “Jarvis,” a new security platform for connected and autonomous cars. The software scans the cars’ inputs and outputs for both standard and manufacturer-defined protocols, and automatically identifies any bugs, potential exploits and nonconforming code. “Future cars will have half a billion…

Louis Armstrong had two great loves in life–music, of course, and eating. The legendary trumpet player “ate just like a dog,” he once said. Armstrong adored soul food and Chinese food, scarfing down so much of both that he’d also swallow antacids and laxatives in an attempt to keep his weight in check. In 1968,…

When Day One opened its doors in March 2014, its main mission was to “stop the world in its tracks with stories that connect,” according to agency CEO Josh Rosenberg. That’s happening more and more on mobile for a lot of brands, including some of Day One’s clients: American Express, Chipotle, Nike and Victoria’s Secret….

For Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and John Cena, becoming a cultural icon began on WWE Monday Night Raw. It’s the longest-running weekly episodic program in TV history, and will celebrate its 25th anniversary live from New York on Jan. 22. Raw consistently ranks as the top cable entertainment show on Monday nights, and is one…

While art and writing go hand in hand, they’re typically thought of separately in the advertising industry. Agencies have copywriters, and they have designers; those roles rarely cross. But that’s not the case in Nadine Chahine’s world. The U.K. type director at Monotype beautifully combines words and designs to deliver some of the most identifiable…

Diets: They’re not just for gals anymore! And by the way, it’s not a diet. It’s a lifestyle. There are major changes afoot in the weight-loss industry, with many marketers focusing on health and wellness, rather than calories, scales, inches and tape measures. And two powerful brands, Atkins and Weight Watchers, have recently taken the…

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In-app header bidding is coming to MoPub. On Tuesday, the Twitter-owned mobile ad exchange started testing an advanced bidding solution to replace the app ads waterfall with a unified auction. Roughly a dozen publishers are testing the solution. The closed beta test does not have a set end date. Until now, advertisers could buy MoPub… Continue reading »

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Product and marketing go hand in hand at OkCupid. There’s a dotted line between user engagement, platform tweaks and the deployment of marketing dollars to reach specific types of users, mainly on social channels like Facebook, Instagram and Snap, said OkCupid CMO Melissa Hobley. “Our product truth is that we create experiences based on depth,… Continue reading »

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We like it when people get sick of waiting for change to happen, because then, they often make the change themselves. This is the case for Torny Hesle and Ingrid Lea, a pair of Norwegian mothers who work as creatives at The Oslo Company. Fed up with the subtle stereotypes constantly being imposed upon their…

It takes a lot of work to create a live event that will attract the largest attendance possible. Having put the work in, you’ll want to pay just as much attention to getting those attendees to share that they are at your event with their social network of potential future attendees. It’s at these live…