Creative: Page 16


  • A person in a busy restaurant waits for Heinz
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    Heinz celebrates diners who wait for its ketchup in global campaign

    Created with Chilean agency 1984, the marketer’s largest effort since unifying its global creative strategy shows that “true love waits” — for ketchup.

    By Jan. 25, 2024
  • Three M&M diamond-encrusted rings against a white backdrop. One shows the full rings, one shows the inside and the last shows the ring containing a Peanut Butter M&M's.
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    M&Ms celebrates (almost) Super Bowl champions with diamond-encrusted ring

    As part of its big game push, the candy brand is giving three NFL Hall of Famers rings fit with factory-made diamonds forged from peanut butter.

    By Jan. 24, 2024
  • A person pulls items out of one paper shopping bag with handles that is on a table next to four similar bags. Explore the Trendline
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    Trendline

    Retail Marketing

    Top stories that underscore the leading influences on retail marketing, including the creator economy, '90s nostalgia and Gen Z. 

    By Marketing Dive staff
  • Paris Hilton recreated in Roblox for a Hilton campaign
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    Courtesy of 11:11 Media
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    Hilton checks in to Paris Hilton’s Roblox world for loyalty push

    The activation demonstrates brands are still exploring ways to draw value from the metaverse even as the technology has lost some of its buzz.

    By Jan. 23, 2024
  • Coors Light's silver bullet train, pictured here, will return in the light beer brand's Super Bowl LVIII campaign
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    Coors Light’s silver bullet train returns for Super Bowl with seats for fans

    Back after a 12-year advertising hiatus, the locomotive delivering cold beer and good vibes seeks to extend sales momentum and court favor with Gen Z.

    By Jan. 23, 2024
  • Detroit Lions players Calvin Johnson and Jahmyr Gibbs for Team Whistle and Finish detergent.
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    Finish brings football rivalries to the kitchen with Team Whistle

    An online sweepstakes pitting football cities’ popular dishes against each other is teamed with co-branded episodes of Team Whistle’s “Home Team.”

    By Jan. 22, 2024
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    Data-driven marketing investments to top $36B in 2024, report finds

    A new forecast from Winterberry Group expects momentum to recover from a fallow 2023, although strong top-line growth doesn’t tell the full story.

    By Jan. 22, 2024
  • Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer hold a bottle of MiraLax
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    ‘Broad City’ duo reunite to help MiraLAX lighten load of ‘The Gut Gap’

    Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer wrote and star in content inspired by the high frequency of stress and constipation faced by millennial women.

    By Jan. 22, 2024
  • Two people wearing white embrace in a pool in the night.
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    Courtesy of Hyatt
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    Hyatt global brand platform invites travelers to ‘Be More Here’

    Guests are encouraged to live in the present through wellness-focused activations and loyalty perks.

    By Jan. 22, 2024
  • A still from one ad shows a father and daughter sitting side-by-side on armchairs.
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    Courtesy of Hotels.com
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    Hotels.com is a ‘matchmaker’ in new global ad campaign

    Produced in partnership with creative agency Anomaly, ads will air on social and digital in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Denmark and Sweden.

    By Noelle Mateer • Jan. 19, 2024
  • Snoop Dogg for Solo Stove
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    Solo Stove’s viral Snoop Dogg partnership fails to spark up sales

    Owner Solo Brands kicked off the year by shaking up leadership and cutting its 2023 revenue expectations due to hefty marketing expenditures.

    By Updated Jan. 30, 2024
  • A man with a bar of Dr. Squatch soap in his swim suit
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    Campaign Trail: Dr. Squatch uses hypnosis to inspire ‘​​Big Bricc Energy’

    The digitally native men’s grooming brand goes beyond raunchy puns to address men's mental health through hypnotic videos.

    By Jan. 19, 2024
  • NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins stands in a kitchen in a promotional shoot for brand partner Tostitos
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    Tostitos’ pop-up heads to Super Bowl with meals served by Kirk Cousins

    Consumers can enter an Instagram sweepstakes for the chance to win game tickets and a visit to the Tost by Tostitos casual dining concept. 

    By Jan. 18, 2024
  • Snapchat x FAMSF
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    Snap brings AR try-on experience to San Francisco art exhibit

    Using Snap’s AR Mirrors technology, visitors to the “Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style” exhibit can try on three iconic evening ensembles.  

    By Aaron Baar • Jan. 18, 2024
  • Comedian Desus Nice holds Tums and a smartphone with food on the table and football on the TV
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    DraftKings, Tums team for food-focused Super Bowl picks game

    Tums Prop Bites allows consumers to place free picks on the details of the big game’s most popular foods for the chance to win part of a $10,000 prize. 

    By Aaron Baar • Jan. 17, 2024
  • Two people in a pool next to the Tito's "spokescart"
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    Courtesy of Tito's Handmade Vodka
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    Tito’s vodka rolls out autonomous Spokescart in first major brand platform

    The understated but “slightly cheeky” bar cart concept intends to strengthen Tito’s position against a growing number of celebrity-backed rivals.

    By Jan. 12, 2024
  • Bubly's "press for bubly" button.
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    Bubly hydrates Dry January participants with ‘press for bubly’ button

    Leveraging LTE and GPS technology, winners of the novelty button can press it to have Bubly sparkling water delivered to their doorstep.

    By Jan. 11, 2024
  • Five Pepsi cans
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    Pepsi Wild Cherry courts aging millennials as flavored soda sales pop

    The campaign recognizes the group’s tamer perceptions of what’s “wild” and focuses on women who are driving growth in a key segment. 

    By Jan. 11, 2024
  • An influencer on a mobile phone having a live stream while receiving positive interactions from followers.
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    Deep Dive

    Inside the creator marketing trends expected to go viral in 2024

    Some marketers are betting creator-led advertising is the way forward, while social commerce and artificial intelligence could yield fresh potential.

    By Jan. 11, 2024
  • Taco Bell's Las Vegas Live Mas Live event will preview new products and partnerships for 2024
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    Taco Bell stages Las Vegas fan experience ahead of Super Bowl LVIII

    A gathering in the style of tech conferences will preview new products and partnerships coming in 2024, all against a big game backdrop.

    By Jan. 10, 2024
  • Three Honda cars with headlights on traveling on a dark road.
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    Honda taps AI, indie artist for ‘Chasing Greatness’ campaign

    Set to musician Bishop Briggs’ new song “Triumph,” the campaign showcases the new Ridgeline TrailSport truck and includes AI-fueled social video.

    By Jan. 10, 2024
  • Andy Cohen holds a hand weight in a Walmart ad
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    Walmart+ taps Andy Cohen to help consumers survive Quitter’s Day

    The retailer’s vice president of creative explained how the campaign highlights the ways the membership can help consumers stick to New Year’s resolutions.

    By Jan. 10, 2024
  • Businessperson with balancing balls newtons cradle and business target
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    CreativaImages via Getty Images
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    Deep Dive

    8 predictions for 2024 as marketing seeks a new normal

    Following a period of extremes, key trends like retail media and ad-supported TV could settle down while experiments in areas like AI ramp up.

    By , , , Jan. 9, 2024
  • FanDuel Super Bowl campaign that shows NFL icon Rob Gronkowski in the sidecar of a motorcycle being driven by actor Carl Weathers.
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    FanDuel gives Gronk another shot in Super Bowl marketing blitz

    Part of a larger campaign, consumers can again bet on if NFL icon Rob Gronkowski will score a live field goal for FanDuel’s second big game ad. 

    By Jan. 9, 2024
  • An image from Choice Hotels largest-ever marketing campaign
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    Choice Hotels CMO talks the brand’s largest marketing campaign to date

    Starring Keegan-Michael Key, the chain’s latest campaign highlights its growing presence in the upscale space, Chief Marketing Officer Noha Abdalla shared.

    By Jenna Walters • Jan. 8, 2024
  • Hill Holliday CEO Chris Wallrapp and Attivo Group CEO Cam Murchison stand side-by-side
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    IPG sells Hill Holliday, Deutsch New York to marketing services upstart

    The pair of iconic creative shops will preserve an affiliate relationship with their former parent, which has struggled with the tech downturn. 

    By Jan. 8, 2024