Welcome to Day Four of Ad Age’s Cannes Today newsletter. Reading online and want it delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up here. For real-time updates, follow our live blog. And see all our coverage here. Click here for a recap of Day Three. AI overload As everyone knows, unless you are living under a rock, the ad industry is obsessed with AI. And that obsession has spilled into Cannes, so much so that it has become a bit of an annoyance for some people, who are complaining it has overshadowed other topics such as creativity and sustainability, as reported today by Ad Age’s Asa Hiken and Brian Bonilla. Read more here on how AI is showing up in Cannes panels, deal-making, out-of-home ads, Grand Prix awards and more. But will the hype last? “No one is talking about the Metaverse and NFTs anymore. If you came here last year, everyone was talking about that, now everyone's talking about AI. God knows what they'll be talking next year,” said Fernando Machado, the former Burger King and Activision Blizzard marketer who is currently CMO at plant-based food maker NotCo. Climate actionIt can be tough to spot someone in Cannes throngs, but not Richard Edelman, who was trailed along the Croisette yesterday by the environmental activist group Clean Creatives. The group held signs pointing to Edelman that read, “This person works with fossil fuel clients” and “This agency is happy to greenwash fossil fuels.” The group also hijacked the agency’s Gen Z Lab presentation, with... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2023-06-22 19:48:12 UTC ]
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Cornerstone today releases an enhanced digital edition of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s book was released as an ebook for the first time in July, after Cornerstone acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to the ebook and digital audio. The special enhanced digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If "Gossip Girl" premiered today, it would be a digital-video series, according to Dawn Ostroff, former president of entertainment at The CW Television Network, which aired the teenage melodrama for six seasons starting in 2007.Speaking at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual conference... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The reason the author of the Jack Reacher novels weighs in on Amazon-Hachette dispute has nothing to do with the "protection money" that Amazon is demanding from publishers. Child signed with thriller writer Douglas Preston's Authors United, a group of writers who want to take authors out of... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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USA Today, which is being spun off from Gannett Co. along with the rest of the company's publishing business, fired as many as 70 employees today across all departments, according to a person familiar with the newspaper's plans.About half of the jobs were in the newsroom and accounted for about... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon is using “authors as collateral damage and using customers as pawns”, author... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Gannett Co., the owner of USA Today, will split into two publicly traded companies, one focused on broadcasting and digital businesses and the other on publishing, it said today, following the trend that has swept the media business.Signaling its interest in digital investment, the company also... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Media giant to create two companies, one of which will focus on broadcasting and digital content and the other on publishingGannett, the publisher of USA Today, is to take full ownership of the auto website Cars.com and spin off its publishing assets into a publicly traded company as it focuses... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The industry of business events is a veritable growth machine, with publishers, service providers and just about everybody else seeing live get-togethers as moneymakers and can't-miss marketing vehicles. But the details of event planning can be an analogue mess, and a web software startup... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Even with Facebook and Twitter and legions of newsreaders and apps, news organizations are still grappling with and working feverishly on new publishing technologies and resurfacing old content to siphon the glut of content and bring the news to new ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After To Kill a Mockingbird author denies Marja Mills's book had her approval, Mills and publisher issue counterclaimsNews: Harper Lee denies cooperating with Marja Mills on The Mockingbird Next DoorThe author and publisher of a new book about Harper Lee have stood their ground after the To Kill... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee says that 'as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,' while author Marja Mills tells the Monitor, 'Nelle Harper Lee and Alice F. Lee were aware I was writing this book.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The story of how journalist Marja Mills came to know the 'To Kill A Mockingbird' writer Lee is being called 'witty' and 'charming.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'To Kill a Mockingbird,' the 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner that often appears on 'most-loved books' lists, has been released as an ebook for a new generation of readers. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yesterday the GOP released a video on YouTube titled "Campaign Tails," which is a "new documentary video" -- as the GOP describes it -- "starring the squirrel who has been tailing Hillary Clinton and the Ready for Hillary bus on her 'book tour.' The video delves into the squirrel's past work in... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forbes Media used the 61st annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity as a platform to announce that it has expanded its magazine audience by more than 20 percent over the past year. According to GfK MRI Spring 2014 data, the magazine has reached its pinnacle in readership, growing... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The ongoing Antipodeon spat between News Corp and Mail Online over the latters alleged plagiarism appears to have spilled over onto waterfront at this weeks Cannes Lions advertising festival. The Daily Mail websites publisher, Martin Clarke, never known for half measures, is schmoozing... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man 2 taking top box-office this month, one might presume that the co-creator of all these classic superheros is sitting by a pool somewhere sipping mai tais. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A panel of veteran literary agents discussed the ways in which they now approach their jobs in the Thursday BookExpo panel “Beyond Authors: Self-Publishing & the 'New' Agents.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Harper Lee gives her permission to issue her classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird as an audio book and ebook. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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USA Today is in the midst of rethinking what it’s all about. Gone is the mindset of being a national newspaper; in is the goal of establishing itself as a national news brand on several platforms -- and yes, that includes print. USA Today president and publisher Larry Kramer explained the... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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