Allen Media owned station KADN laid off more employees in its news department on Tuesday. Five staffers were let go from the Lafayette, Louisiana Fox and NBC affiliate, including anchors Taylor Trache and Jeff Horchak and meteorologist Michael Crowley. Two producers were also let go. This latest round comes nearly three months after the station...
CBS Chicago (WBBM) anchor Jim Williams is leaving the CBS owned station after 23 years. "New year, new chapter for me," he wrote on social media. "This Thursday, January 16 is my last day as a full-time employee at CBS Chicago. I hesitate to call it retirement because I'll occasionally do pieces for the station,...
After a five-year hiatus, Stella Artois is making its return to the Big Game as part of Anheuser-Busch's (AB InBev) Super Bowl 59 ad blitz, which will also include for Bud Light, Budweiser, Busch Light, and Michelob Ultra. With five spots promoting the brands, AB InBev will occupy three minutes of national advertising time and...
Patrick Mahomes' new brand partnership has some bite. After years of fan theories and speculation online that Mahomes uses Invisalign--with internet sleuths suspecting the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback was seen chewing on an Invisalign on the sidelines--Mahomes is finally setting the record (and his chompers) straight: He is an Invisalign user. And the QB is...
Black-ish star Anthony Anderson is getting into the advertising... uh, business-ish. With his eight-season run as an ad exec on the hit ABC comedy in the rearview, the actor and entrepreneur made his inaugural trip to CES in Las Vegas to debut an all-new adventure, ADvolution. "It's life imitating art," Anderson told an enthusiastic audience...
Buzzy creative shop Mischief @ No Fixed Address has entered the media planning and buying space. The agency exclusively revealed to ADWEEK that it has been quietly building a media department for the past year, led by executive director of media Kristie Lee. The group has roughly 15 people and works with brands including Duolingo,...
With the fate of TikTok hanging on a Supreme Court ruling, news and entertainment publishers are taking steps to prepare for a social media landscape without the popular vertical video app. To do so, they are diversifying where they post, migrating their audiences to other platforms, and allocating more resources to promising channels, such as...
Take a stroll down a Target aisle and you might spot the period care brand August. You'd have TikTok's algorithm to thank for that. After launching in 2020, August gained traction on TikTok with co-founder Nadya Okamoto's viral video about traditional pads taking 800 years to decompose, compared to August's six to 12 months. The...
This post was created in partnership with Fetch During Adweek's webinar, From Clicks to Connection: Tech's Role in Creating Lifelong Consumers, industry leaders explored how brands can use technology, AI, and personalization to drive emotional connections, build community, and create lasting relationships. Robin Wheeler, chief revenue officer at Fetch, kicked off the event by highlighting...
This post was created in partnership with IRCODE Online interaction is evolving, and so is how brands connect with their audiences. At Adweek's CES House Sunset Soiree, Matty Beckerman, founder and CEO of IRCODE, demonstrated a groundbreaking technology called IRCode poised to transform industries ranging from retail to entertainment. IRCODE replaces traditional QR codes by...
This post was created in partnership with Nielsen Instead of chasing consumers and their fragmented viewing habits, marketers need to adapt how they measure, target, and capture audiences as lines blur between platforms. In a live group chat at Adweek House at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, presented in partnership with Nielsen, industry leaders shared...
State Farm has canceled plans to run an ad during Super Bowl 59 and has paused filming on a campaign with a tie-in to Apple TV+ drama Severance as the Los Angeles wildfires continue to burn. The Super Bowl ad would have been State Farm's second consecutive year in the game. Last year's ad, created...
Super Bowl 59 takes place on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 6:30 p.m. ET from the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, and around a month before the game, Fox is unveiling even more ways to watch. On Wednesday, Fox, the Super Bowl 59 broadcaster, announced that Fox Sports will roll out a Tubi takeover for the...
The most impactful CMOs are the ones who have powered themselves and their organizations, proving themselves indispensable to their CEOs, colleagues, teams, boards and, ultimately, businesses. Through their work, these chief marketers are setting the standard of effective marketing leadership and paving the way for the next generation of industry leaders. They are the Marketing...
Criteo's new CEO has his work cut out for him. When Michael Komasinski takes over for Megan Clarken on Feb. 15, the executive will be faced with a unique set of challenges. When Clarken became CEO in 2019, retail media was a considerably smaller space with fewer players involved. While Clarken successfully moved part of...
Snap is reminding creators that its app is a central place to build a community in a new ad campaign. The company's campaign comes as rival TikTok faces a potential ban in the U.S. this week. The Supreme Court is set to rule on a looming ban that would wipe the app from the U.S....
If you've logged onto TikTok within the past week (haven't we all?), you've probably seen the latest #goodbyetiktok and #savetiktok content as users stateside prepare for the very real possibility that the nationwide ban on the app will go into effect on January 19. As we anxiously await the Supreme Court's decision on TikTok's fate,...
Thirteen looks to be a lucky number for WeatherTech, as the U.S. automotive and home accessories company is returning to the Super Bowl for the 13th time, including two years of airing multiple in-game spots. The new campaign, which will air in the second quarter, comes from its longtime agency partner, Pinnacle Advertising, which has...
As summer turned to fall and temperatures began to drop, more people started noticing advertising for Mucinex. When asked throughout Q4 of last year if they recalled seeing or hearing one of the cold and flu medication's ads in the past two weeks, 22.8% of U.S. adults said they did, according to data analytics firm...
Sinclair and NBC today announced a comprehensive, multi-year agreement that renews station affiliation agreements for all 21 of Sinclair's owned and/or operated NBC affiliates. The agreement renewals affiliations for the following NBC affiliates: WOAI in San Antonio, Texas; KSNV in Las Vegas, Nevada; WJAR in Providence, R.I.; WNWO in Toledo, Ohio; WSTM in Syracuse, N.Y.;...
