Want to take over a 10' x 10' meeting space from MediaLink at the splashy Cannes Lions advertising festival this June? Be prepared to pay about $850,000, according to a pitch deck obtained by ADWEEK. The deck revealed sponsorship opportunities for potential partners for its numerous spaces across the Palais--the central hub of the Cannes...
Newly public Reddit has to level up its performance-driving products, and--after 20 years--figure out how to more fully monetize its signal-rich chat-based content. Reddit's long-awaited IPO values the platform at $6.5 billion on 2023 revenues of $804 million (98% driven by ads), with a loss of almost $91 million. While it's growing, it missed its...
Ahead of the release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire in theaters on March 22, Sony Pictures launched an AR campaign on Snapchat featuring two augmented reality Lenses and a video ad. The AR Slimer Lens allows users to answer a fake video call from Trevor, a character in the film played by Finn Wolfhard. Once the...
A queue of people spills out onto the pavement outside a quaint, blue-fronted cafe in North London. Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" finds its way back onto the charts after 37 years. Bridgerton-inspired corsets, gloves and empire waisted ball gowns feature heavily on the 2024 Oscars red carpet. This isn't a string of unconnected...
To give advertisers another way to reach users, Snapchat launched Sponsored AR Filters, a new ad format that will allow brands to create augmented reality overlays that can be added to Snaps after a photo or video is captured, but before it's shared. Sponsored AR Filters differ from the platform's existing Sponsored AR Lenses, as...
Social publisher NowThis Media, which was acquired by nonprofit media organization Accelerate Change last April, is combining with the eight other publishers in the Accelerate Change portfolio to become NowMedia, according to NowThis CEO Sharon Mussalli. The network will reach over 190 million people monthly--including web traffic, social audience and newsletter subscribers--with the majority of...
Retailer Gap continues to lean into nostalgia to revive its marketing, with a collaboration with London-based skateboarding and clothing label Palace that celebrates 1990s style and skate culture. The two brands, both synonymous with certain facets of 90s style, will launch the Palace Gap collection Friday (March 22). The 55-piece collection of adult and children's...
Despite being over 100 years since the first documented example of product placement ran--a soap endorsement within the Lumiere brothers' 1896 film Washing Day in Switzerland--the advertising technique remains popular. If the reaction to a 20-year-old Cerveza Cristal integration appearing within the original Star Wars trilogy when aired in Chile is anything to go by--it...
There's nothing new about people showing great enthusiasm for their favorite books, movies and musical acts. Songs and stories shape society. Life imitates art. At the same time, culture is not static. Things change. Smartphones, social media, streaming platforms and investors looking to make more money from the intellectual property through various adaptations have helped...
Taco Bell is often a go-to spot for late-night cravings, but a new campaign starring Jason Sudeikis aims to lure consumers in daylight, too. A 30-second ad launching March 21 shows Sudeikis, who repeatedly expressed his love for the brand in interviews, responding to a real social media post about how "Taco Bell only really...
In case last year's "Breaking Good" Super Bowl ad wasn't an indication, Frito-Lay brand PopCorners' latest commercial, featuring Don Cheadle as a speakeasy proprietor, drives home the point that the air-popped snack is so good it should be forbidden. In "Get Caught With Something Good," patrons of a 1920s-themed establishment meet in secret to enjoy...
Eating breakfast before hitting the floor at Natural Products Expo West is a rookie mistake, since the annual food conference could easily qualify as the biggest multi-day sampling event in America. Held last week at the Anaheim Convention Center just south of Los Angeles and in the shadow of Disneyland, the trade show pulled in...