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| 2 hours ago The on-demand delivery company Postmates is ready to move beyond bicycles, motorcycle and cars and into the realm of self-driving robots. On Thursday, the company debuted its own robot that it hopes will be able to navigate sidewalks and streets to deliver food, packages and other smaller items in urban areas....

| 11 mins ago We’re nearing the end of 2018, and thousands if not millions of ads have crossed your eyes over the past 12 months. Most were forgettable, but some had big impacts on our conversations and even our culture. Everything could have been a Tide ad after February. Nat Geo showed us a...

| 3 hours ago Publishers using mobile ad network Facebook Audience Network now have another bidding option: the Open Bidding program from Google. The social network wrote in a blog post announcing the move, “Publishers are increasingly using unified auctions to maximize their advertising revenue. Bidding, as it’s more commonly known, has already made significant inroads in...

| 3 hours ago Livestreaming platform Twitch will end 2018 with more than 456,000 partner and affiliate streamers able to generate revenue, up over 86 percent from some 245,000 at the end of 2017. Twitch said over 248,000 streamers earned affiliate status in 2018 and more than 7,800 became partners. The video-game-centric platform added that nearly...

| 5 hours ago Deutsch named a chief creative officer for its Los Angeles office today. The agency promoted Brett Craig to partner, CCO for that office, following nearly seven years with the agency. Craig joins a Los Angeles senior leadership team that includes president Kim Getty and chief digital officer Pam Scheideler. He will be tasked with...

| 4 hours ago For the first time, NBCUniversal is going all-in with a single sponsor for one of its Snapchat original scripted series. NBCU has partnered with Visible, the Verizon-owned budget wireless service provider, on Kappa Delta Crypto, which premieres Saturday on Snapchat’s Discover page. It will be NBCU’s first fully sponsored, scripted series...

| 23 hours ago Marketers have long imagined their buyer journeys in the shape of a funnel, one that starts at the top with awareness, narrows through the phases of engagement and influence and ultimately culminates in a purchase. As familiar as this imagery has become in our industry, there’s one big problem with it:...

The irony of modern advertising is that many of its best creations can barely even be considered ads. Whether they’re experiences, inventions, pranks, or simply ideas that defy terminology, these marketing concepts have consistently generated some of the biggest buzz a brand could hope for. So now that you’ve hopefully seen our picks for the...