Brave Commerce Live took place in New York City in May, bringing together hundreds of brand leaders to discuss the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the commerce industry and how they could work together to drive growth. On stage at the event, Brave Commerce host Sarah Hofstetter was joined by Campbell’s Snacks executives Janda Lukin,…Read More
Tools of the Trade is an AgencySpy feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair…Read More
Brazilian creative Washington Olivetto passed away on Oct. 13 at the age of 73. He died due to pulmonary complications while hospitalized at Copa Star Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Olivetto was a Brazilian advertising icon, credited for putting the market on the map as a creative powerhouse. He began his career as a copywriter…Read More
Soon, you’ll hear more audio ads on Amazon’s properties that were created with generative AI. Brands can now use generative AI to make audio ads–in addition to images and video–through Amazon Ads’ self-service tools. That was one of many advertising- and adtech-related developments that the commerce giant announced today at Amazon unBoxed, its annual advertising…Read More
The memory of former WLWT anchor and nationally syndicated talk show host Jerry Springer will be honored in Cincinnati with a mural set to be unveiled this weekend. The mural will be located at Harkavy Hall in Cincinnati, which is owned by the charity Tender Mercies, which Springer was a benefactor for over 25 years….Read More
WCVB anchor Doug Meehan was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after hosting an event at Gillette Stadium. Meehan posted a video to TikTok telling viewers, he was at a “beautiful event” in Gillette Stadium on Thursday when a blockage in his bowel caused him to call an ambulance later that evening. The event was…Read More
Fox News announced Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris would sit down for an interview with its chief political anchor, Bret Baier, Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. ET. (TVNewser) It will be her first sit-down with the network and her first interview with a news outlet outside of her ideological comfort zone since becoming…Read More
Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately, and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in the media–such as newspapers, television, and radio–first fell to 32% in 2016 and did so…Read More
Dan Lovinger, who supervised an increasingly complex Olympic Games ad-sales effort for NBCUniversal and delivered what is believed to be a record level of Madison Avenue sponsorship for the recent 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, is leaving the company as it seeks to revamp its efforts to lure advertisers to sports. (Variety) Lovinger will depart…Read More
X (formerly Twitter) dismissed Unilever from its ongoing lawsuit against advertisers, which accuses several brands of conducting an “illegal boycott” of its business. (ADWEEK) London-based Unilever said in a statement that it had “reached an agreement with X, which has committed to meeting our responsibility standards to ensure the safety and performance of our brands…Read More
