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Zillow Gone Wild is the gift that keeps on giving for the brand
Zillow Gone Wild is, indeed, going wild.The cross-platform social media account, which highlights some of the weirdest and most extravagant home listings on the real-estate platform Zillow (like this castle in Southlake, Texas, or this AI-looking house in Victoria, British Columbia), has accumulated an audience of nearly 5 million across social media and its newsletter. Now, it’s also a TV…
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Oura goes for the impossible for its first film franchise partnership
The girlies are all in on Oura rings. Now, the wellness-tracking wearables brand is hoping Tom Cruise can help get the boys on board, too.Ahead of Mission Impossible —The Final Reckoning’s Memorial Day weekend premiere, the fitness tech brand ran an adrenaline-filled campaign featuring exclusive stunt footage from the film…
Netflix patent could automate content-clipping as streamer aims to boost discoverability
Automated clips and trailers powering content recommendation on a streaming service? Stranger things have happened.Netflix has received a patent for technology that automatically extracts “compelling portions” of shows and movies and collates clips designed to encourage viewers to check out more programming, according to a patent published by the United…
There’s no place that Spam would rather be than in a campaign with ‘Lilo & Stitch’
Ohana means family, and family means Spam.The canned-meat product has long had a place on Hawaiian families’ dinner tables, and when the brand got the opportunity to partner with Disney on the recent live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch, a beloved tale of a Hawaiian girl and her adopted pet…
How do you promote a more affordable EV? With guerrilla-style marketing
The growth in the US electric vehicle market may be slowing, but that isn’t stopping Slate Auto, a startup backed by investors including LA Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter and Jeff Bezos, from coming out strong.Marketing Brew chatted with Slate’s head of brand and marketing, Ben Whitla, about the company’s…
The secret to brand-safe virality? Trendy, licensed music
Remember that one song that goes “doo ba doo ba doo ba doo, ba doo ba doo ba doo ba doo”?Okay, probably not from that description. But if it played out of a phone speaker right now, chances are that anyone who has been on TikTok in the last year…
How the New York Mets are working to engage baseball’s younger, casual fans
This story is part of a series about how marketers for sports teams and leagues around the world approach social media strategy.There’s no hard feelings between the New York Mets and anyone who’s waited on line for a beer or a hot dog instead of watching Pete Alonso hit a home run.In…
Inside Spotify’s evolving ads strategy
Did you know that Spotify has a head of dance and electronic development? Her name is Ronny Ho, and her team decides what electronic music makes it to Spotify’s in-house curated playlists.At Spotify’s second annual Sparks event in New York last week, Ho and other execs talked about how they…
How American Express is capitalizing on Netflix’s new F1 Academy docuseries
Ever since the Netflix docuseries Drive to Survive helped skyrocket the popularity of Formula 1 in the US, other sports organizations have been trying to replicate the effect.That now includes F1 Academy, the women’s F1 racing championship, which is getting the Netflix treatment with a docuseries that premiered Wednesday.As part…
What makes a good movie trailer, anyway?
There’s no question that the single most influential piece of movie marketing is the trailer.At least, that’s according to sisters Monica and Evelyn Brady, co-founders of the Golden Trailer Awards, which recognize excellence in film and TV trailers. Now in its 25th year, the awards have honored ads for projects…
David Droga to step down as CEO of Accenture Song
A Madison Avenue heavyweight is about to hang up his hat.Accenture Song CEO David Droga is leaving the role on Sept. 1, when he will become vice chair at Accenture, the company announced today.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Droga attributed his exit to wanting to focus on…
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