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Zoom Deploys a Familiar Weapon in Its Campaign to Be More Than a Verb
Agencies

Zoom Deploys a Familiar Weapon in Its Campaign to Be More Than a Verb

There is something poignant about a company that became so ubiquitous during the pandemic that its name replaced the generic act it described, now finding itself in need of an advertising campaign to explain that it does other things, too.

Simon Seeks to Make Mall Visits a Thing Again
Advertising

Simon Seeks to Make Mall Visits a Thing Again

The shopping mall, that most American of institutions — part bazaar, part boulevard, part climate-controlled escape from both weather and family — is trying to remind people why they used to go there in the first place.