R/GA Promotes Veteran Executive to New Global Chief Design Officer Role

R/GA announced today the promotion of Richard Ting, an 11-year employee of the agency, to executive vice president and the new role of global chief design officer. The shop said in a statement it is placing all design disciplines under one hood, “fostering even greater integration.” Ting will be responsible for the growth and evolution…

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Q&A: The growing use of ‘voter files’ in studying the U.S. electorate

Read a Q&A with Pew Research Center’s Ruth Igielnik and Scott Keeter about a recent study about voter files.

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Facebook Is Opening Up Its Community Help Feature to Businesses, Organizations

Facebook is opening up its Community Help feature to businesses and organizations in times of crisis. Product lead for social good Asha Sharma said in a Newsroom post that this update will give businesses and organizations an easier way to reach out in times of crisis, adding, “They might post about helping people find everything…

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Snickers Opened a Valentine’s Day Restaurant, Oublié, for Couples Who Forgot to Make Reservations

Sometimes, albeit rarely, it pays to forget it’s Valentine’s Day. This was true for some lucky couples in London yesterday who had slacked off and failed to make restaurant reservations for the romantic holiday. Thankfully, Snickers had their back–as the Mars candy brand tends to do every Valentine’s Day–by opening its own restaurant catering exclusively…

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Methodology

Survey conducted Nov. 29 to Dec. 12, 2016 The commercial voter file data were matched to panelists who took part in the post-election survey of the American Trends Panel (ATP). The ATP, created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults recruited from landline and cellphone RDD surveys. Panelists […]

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Podcast: Talking TV With BrightLine CEO Jacqueline Corbelli

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Welcome to AdExchanger Talks, a podcast focused on data-driven marketing. Subscribe here. BrightLine was founded in 2003 as an advisory firm, primarily serving brands that were keen to engage TV viewers with internet-like ad experiences. As part of that mission, it built relationships with cable platforms and broadcasters that reached some 90 million households. In 2012, BrightLine’sContinue reading »

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Reebok Has the Perfect Shoes for the Man With the World’s Fastest Feet

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys jogging through dizzy dystopian structures amid explosions and cascading Ping-Pong balls, while some random dude keeps the beat on his drum kit, Reebok’s got the sneaker technology for you. Called Flexweave, it’s designed for comfort, durability and speed, and it’s on surreal, quick-cut display in the minute-long…

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Tech Luminary Peter Thiel Parts Ways With Silicon Valley

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is relocating his home and personal investment firms to Los Angeles from San Francisco and scaling back his involvement in the tech industry, people familiar with his thinking said, marking a rupture between Silicon Valley and its most prominent conservative.

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In Safe Hands: Mobile Connections in the City

A mass shooting in Little Rock, Ark., last July led Facebook to activate its Safety Check feature–a crisis-response system that is gaining new recognition in the aftermath of terror. The social media tool invites users to mark themselves as safe and send requests to others in the region–those listed as “not marked as safe yet.”…

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Global Malware Report Confirms Prevalence, Role Of Advertising

A day after the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats released the U.S. intelligence agencies’ 2018 Worldwide Threat Assessment, highlighting how digital media has become a vector for a variety
of national security threats, a new report revealed the prevalence of malicious code worldwide, as well as in the U.S.

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