If you are on the East Coast right now, you are probably at home with your flashlights and soup cans (unless you are this guy) anxiously awaiting what is being hailed as a The Storm of the Century. Besides incessantly checking the news updates on Sandy’s progress, you can see hurricane through the lens of Instagram thanks to a new site from Facebook’s Chris Akermann and Peter Ng, lead digital architect at The New York Times’ R&D Ventures. The site is called Instacane. Check it out to see “the story of hurricane sandy told through Instagram.”
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Why rent-to-own brand Aaron’s tapped Mr. T to enhance brand awareness
Rent-to-own retailer Aaron's is looking to boost brand awareness through bilingual TV spots as well as out-of-home and print ads -- all with a little help from Mr. T.
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Member ExclusiveMedia Briefing: Publishers confront crypto’s bear market
In this week’s Media Briefing, media editor Kayleigh Barber reports on how publishers are adapting their blockchain-related efforts amid crypto's bear market.
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Cannes Podcast: Jellyfish CEO Rob Pierre believes in prioritizing platform partners as much as clients
Jellyfish keys on two philosophies – no regions or divisions – and the network treats the major platforms as importantly as it does its clients.
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SponsoredFor brands, first-party data is unlocking the cookieless ecosystem
Bill Masterson, President, Publishers Clearing House A dominant factor guiding the industry has been that cookies and mobile app IDs are vanishing and will be replaced by some mixture of new and emergent identity solutions. As a result, the market is alive with new and exciting alternatives to replace the third-party browser cookie and mobile […]
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Omnicom wraps its Cannes e-commerce blitz with Kroger Precision Marketing deal
Kroger will feed its stock-on-shelf data sets on a daily basis to the Omni marketing orchestration platform that underpins all Omnicom agencies.
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Publishers grapple with younger audiences avoiding the news
People under 35 are avoiding the news. At a Reuters event, publishers discussed ways to address the challenge of reaching young people.
