Category: Data-Labor-Technology Stories

It doesn’t take a lot for people to stop believing in their institutions. It doesn’t take much to dampen our sense of injustice and the motivation to force change. If too many messages conflict, too many injustices go unpunished and too much infighting is left to fester in our fresh-dug trenches, we can easily become…

At least that was the case this year, according to stats pulled together by Free The Bid. Maybe that’s why this year’s gaggle of ads has been tagged, by and large, as pretty lackluster.

Content licensing and distribution revenues were revenue generators — up 33% to $1.2 billion. National TV advertising revenues are currently improving.

Like many entrepreneurial professionals, Lynne Lambert sees a lot of swag in her business travels, and also like many professionals, she has to make a tough call about the swag bags she’s found herself toting around trade-show floors. It goes like this: “Everything is heavily logoed, and I have to decide: Do I toss this?…

Hearts & Science welcomed A.J. Storinge from GroupM as its new executive director, media on the AT&T account. Storinge will be tasked with leading AT&T media across the New York, Atlanta and Dallas offices while reporting to Ralph Pardo, Hearts & Science president on the account. Last year, AT&T began the process of moving its…

While Michael B. Jordan has been behind the camera a few times, he sees the new 60-second spot he directed for Brisk as his directorial debut. The ad shines a light on the invisible work that goes into the creative process–like the work Jordan has to do to get into his character as Erik Killmonger…

Despite the explosion in mobile advertising (eMarketer pegs mobile to generate $70 billion in the U.S. this year, up from $47 billion in 2016), mobile advertising, by and large, still sucks. Creative is often jammed into small boxes and ad formats that litter websites, and in some cases, marketers use deceptive design tricks to incentivize…

Almost three decades after its spot “Lion,” directed by Jean-Paul Goude, stormed the Cannes Lions festival, winning the Grand Prix in Film, Perrier has rolled out a remake of sorts–with everything on an intentionally smaller scale. The original spot, an absolute classic from Ogilvy Paris, featured a woman and a lion fighting over a bottle…

A coup d’etat is taking place across the television industry. It used to be that cable providers were the reigning powers of television, declaring what consumers would watch and when. Not home in time? Sorry, you missed this week’s episode of Seinfeld. But no longer. The last year has marked a distinct shift in power…

PokerStars puts on its game face and bids newbies to sign up for some online gambling action in fresh work themed, “You’re already a great poker player.” Hey, why not cash in that 401(k) and really take charge of your financial future, right? “To recruit new players and poker beginners, we had to convince non-expert…