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PR Pros On What General Mills Got Right, Wrong With 'Cinnamon Toast Shrimp'
Monday, March 29, 2021 - 11:15am | 490Denise Lee Yohn, the author of the book "What Great Brands Do," spoke with Ad Age's Jessica Wohl about the unusual story of an individual finding what looked like shrimp tails in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch in an incident known as "Shrimpgate" and "Cinnamon...
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What's The Future Of Snapchat Advertising?
Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 3:38pm | 636With Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) prices in the red — days after the social media platform’s splashy $24 billion IPO and subsequent cold reception from analysts — one looming question is how the app will monetize its 150 million daily users going forward. Pricing for national integrated...
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Hollywood Turns To Big Data In Search For Blockbuster Content
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 11:18am | 335Big Data is playing a major role in the newest TV shows and movies. According to Ad Age, Hollywood now uses social media data to turn the public into a massive focus group for its new content. Producers can harvest social media data to identify trending topics and ideas to incorporate into new...
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How AutoNation Can Succeed Where CarMax Failed
Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 3:02pm | 773Two of the largest players in the used-car industry, CarMax, Inc (NYSE: KMX) and AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE: AN), are on a figurative seesaw. For the last 16 months, CarMax has been marketing vehicles primarily through its own website. However, the company failed to achieve the results it was...