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…
Dove. United Talent Agency. TelevisaUnivision.These are just some of the companies that were represented at Marketing Brew’s What’s Next? Navigating the Future Business of Creator Marketing event in New York last week. Executives discussed the evolving creator marketing landscape, which is being shaped by new platforms, trends, and technologies. Below…
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Mayte Alquicira is marketing and operations manager, loyalty, at Cinépolis Cinemas USA, a luxury theater brand. She’s also worked as the brand’s guest experience manager and supported the brand’s expansion into…
Creator Madi Marotta’s first official day on the job as Waterboy’s new social media manager was a tropical and eventful one.The electrolyte additive company was off on its second-ever brand trip, this year to Tulum, Mexico, with some big-name influencers, their plus-ones, and regular-schmegular customers all in tow. With 38…
Is the new American dream a farce?We’re talking, of course, about the “dream” of content creation, posting content, gaining a massive following on social media, getting a ton of brand deals, and quitting your 9-to-5. Someone might see it as a fool’s game when watching the backlash that one creator,…
Peacock is stuck in a rut, at least when it comes to subscribers: The streamer stayed flat with 41 million subscribers in Q2, the same number it reported in Q1, according to parent company Comcast’s Q2 earnings call on Thursday.However, Peacock narrowed its losses to $101 million for the quarter,…
Ad gamification continues, this time with a new ad for Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 on Spotify.Users of the audio app who encounter the ad can play rounds of golf to reveal Easter eggs from the Happy Gilmore universe, hear clips from the film, and access a personalized “happy” playlist.The ad…
Could American Eagle’s most expensive campaign to date end up being its most costly mistake?The campaign, which launched last week with actor Sydney Sweeney at the helm, reportedly cost millions of dollars as a big-bet play to reverse declining sales after the company reported a $68 million operating loss in…
Burrito-proof beauty so nice, they had to do it twice.Last year, Chipotle and Wonderskin Beauty came together in an unexpected collab to create a “Lipotle” lip stain, which sold out in a week and drew more than 10,000 emails, posts, and comments on both brand’s channels asking for more.A year…
WhatsApp once promised to have No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!” on its platform. Last month, the news that ads were in fact coming to WhatsApp, which parent company Meta announced at Cannes Lions, prompted plenty of questions about user privacy and concerns about how user data could be used…
The venture-capital world seems to be betting big on generative AI creative tools, and it wants adland to buy in, too.A number of buzzy, AI-related startups have gotten financial backing from major VC firms. However, with an influx of tools that claim to make ad creation easier, some agencies are…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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