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Spotify's Creative Lab Urges Brands to Listen Before They Look
Advertising

Spotify's Creative Lab Urges Brands to Listen Before They Look

The advertising industry has spent the better part of two decades staring at screens, which may explain why it has largely forgotten that human beings have ears.

The advertising industry has spent the better part of two decades staring at screens, which may explain why it has largely forgotten that human beings have ears.

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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.

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Jets and Outfront Try to Make Billboards Tell a Story

The New York Jets, a franchise that has spent decades giving its fans plenty of time to contemplate the meaning of patience, would now like those fans to spend some of that time looking at billboards.

Creators at the U.S. Open Learn That Tennis Has Rules, Too
Digital

Creators at the U.S. Open Learn That Tennis Has Rules, Too

The United States Tennis Association has spent the last two years trying to solve a problem that has vexed country clubs and public courts alike since the sport's invention: how to make tennis seem less like something that requires a sweater draped over one's shoulders.

Digital

Where Marketing's Favorite Phrases Were Born

The advertising industry has always been fond of its terminology, which it tends to adopt with the enthusiasm of a convert and then repeat until the original meaning has been buffed away like the nose on a bronze statue in a busy train station.