Adrienne Scordato and her husband, advertising creative Mark Taylor, had just moved into their new home in San Diego when Covid lockdowns began in 2020. Soon her clients at Atrium PR, the agency she founded in 2014, began putting their accounts on hold. Stuck at home with a lot more time on her hands, Scordato...
Major League Baseball enters its 2025 season with the winds of change firmly at its back after two straight years of increased attendance, TV viewership, and media visibility. More than 71.3 million fans went to MLB games in 2024, an 11% increase over 2022. Viewership at home is way up as well: Fox's 2024 World...
Major League Baseball is beginning the third year of its popular rule changes with a new chief marketing officer. Uzma Rawn Dowler took the reins during the offseason after Karin Timpone stepped down in December. "It's a really exciting time for people to come to work," she tells ADWEEK. "Coming out of a dream season,...
Most of us grew up hearing fairy tales at bedtime and watching cartoons on TV. Jack Waley-Cohen's childhood looked a little different. "My mum was obsessed with quizzes, and she would often not read our stories and would just ask us quiz questions and trivia questions," recalled Whaley-Cohen, the co-founder and COO of location marketing...
Too much of a good thing? Not in Super Bowl 59, where advertisers returned to the same well several times, reusing stars and premises like they'd never heard of showing up at the party in the same dress as someone else. These are the double dippers of the 2025 Super Bowl--maybe it's worth doing a...
Are you ready to love a WeatherTech ad? No shade on the 11-time Super Bowl advertiser of American-made products to protect vehicles and homes, but their advertising has not exactly been cause for excitement. But 2025 is finally their year. In a 60-second teaser trailer titled "Whatever Comes Your Way," four "cougars" aged 70 and...
Squarespace will mark its 11th appearance in the Big Game during Super Bowl 2025 in a decidedly low-tech ad set to surprise and delight viewers. The website building and hosting platform released a teaser ad on Jan. 16 featuring a paperboy riding a donkey to deliver the news on a foggy country road. Today, the...
Don't believe in magic? RJ Lynch just might change your mind. The social media pro, most recently at Crispin, has wielded magic since childhood, doing everything from sleight-of-hand to summoning the ghost of Harry Houdini. No, really. While working as PR director at The Houdini Museum in New York, Lynch convened a seance on an...
"Unpredictable." "Anything can happen." "Be ready to twist and turn and find solutions." That sounds about right for the Super Bowl, but this is how two seasoned 72andSunny creatives describe making the ads in between the action on the field. "If I had hair, it would be gone by now," deadpanned executive creative director Zach...
When Apple TV+ dropped a glass-walled cubicle into New York's Grand Central Terminal on Jan. 14, it seemed like a standard promotional stunt, in this case for Season 2 of its hit sci-fi workplace drama Severance. Then three of the show's stars appeared--in character. Instead of posing for selfies or signing autographs, they strolled into...
"Well, 2024 sure has been a year" seems to be the prevailing sentiment. Well, we're setting the negativity aside because even if everything didn't break our way this year, the great thing about being reporters is that if we feel strongly about something, we get to put it in the spotlight. Sure, we broke news....
Being the director of intelligence for adtech watchdog group Check My Ads means a lot of heavy lifting for Arielle Garcia. She leads research and industry engagement for the nonprofit, "starting the conversations that no one else is really in a position to start." Currently, that's a deep dive into the motives and funding of...
