Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. Coke’s giant review Coca-Cola is undertaking a massive agency review that puts every media and creative account up for grabs across the globe for its roughly 400 brands, as it looks to significantly reduce its roster. Ad Age’s E.J. Schultz writes that the review is one of the most significant of the year, involving around 4,000 agencies. These include Coke creative agencies such as Wieden+Kennedy (which created Coke’s global holiday ad), Anomaly and McCann, as well as UM, which has held Coke’s North American media account since 2015. The move comes as Coke’s business is under stress from the pandemic, with venues like sports stadiums and bars and restaurants shuttered. But Coke execs say this review is about more than cost-cutting; it also signifies an increasingly global approach to creative campaigns. This, writes Schultz, “means the company is likely to favor agencies that can also scale, or operate across multiple countries.” News of the review prompted condemnation from some in the industry, like Cindy Gallop, who tweeted: “This is the advertising industry's very own '2020, WTF?!!!!' This is also very bad news for a huge number of agencies - just before the holidays.”FTC threatens Facebook breakup The Federal Trade Commission finally delivered its... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2020-12-10 10:59:27 UTC ]
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Our reviews of the books adapted into and inspiring this year's Academy Award–nominated films, from 'Oppenheimer' and 'Nyad' to 'American Fiction' and 'The Boy and the Heron.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-02-01 05:00:00 UTC ]
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We spoke with the three big ALA Award winners about their initial reactions to the news. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Just like death and taxes, you can usually rely on a Call of Duty game to top the sales charts each year. The various entries in Activision’s warfare simulation franchise have mostly done just that, going all the way back to 2009. This year’s a bit different. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III has... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-01-18 19:16:41 UTC ]
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Ottawa is working through an AI inquiry while Canada's publishing industry is 'still waiting for ministers to honor their commitment.' The post Canada Calls for AI Input With Copyright Needs Still Unmet appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-01-16 13:58:06 UTC ]
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The anthology “Burn Man” selects from decades of Mark Anthony Jarman’s work, bringing the writer’s lush and searing stories to new readers. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-01-14 10:00:16 UTC ]
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The audiobook might be less, well, useful than it is entertainingly honest, unfiltered and even bizarre. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-01-12 10:00:27 UTC ]
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Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency has acquired cookbook-focused literary agency the Ekus Group, which will operate as a boutique culinary division. Owner Sally Ekus will head up representation of cookbook and lifestyle titles as senior literary agent. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A Rush of Indian Stories: A Review of Redolent Rush, by Dustin Pickering Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 01/08/2024 - 14:12 In Redolent Rush, a recent short fiction collection published by Hawakal, based in New Delhi, India, we have nineteen... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2024-01-08 20:12:06 UTC ]
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The Peregrine spacecraft has experienced an ‘anomaly’ that could endanger its planned moon landing, as reported by the BBC. Astrobotic, the private company behind the project, says this anomaly prevents the spacecraft from pointing its solar panels at the sun. In other words, the vehicle can’t... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-01-08 19:12:21 UTC ]
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Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and the Rastafari father who would have quashed it. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-01-05 13:11:49 UTC ]
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This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-01-01 10:02:01 UTC ]
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Writing and reading poems is no longer a minority pastime as verse overlaps with self-help genre and classics are revisitedIt was only last year that the Scottish poet Donna Ashworth was given a publishing contract. Now the 48-year-old has ended 2023 with five of her books in the Top 20 poetry... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-12-24 12:00:53 UTC ]
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In “Alice Sadie Celine,” Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s first novel for adults, a lauded feminist becomes entangled with her daughter’s best friend. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-12-22 10:00:21 UTC ]
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Not many, according to a new collection of correspondence from a science fiction master. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-12-18 10:00:54 UTC ]
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A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of Black women. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-12-15 10:00:20 UTC ]
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Columnist lashes out after climate change minister makes speech during Cop28 declaring ‘profound respect’ for Indigenous people’s care for landFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcastChris Bowen has called on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2023-12-14 05:53:25 UTC ]
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In 2023, as we do each year, we published thousands of reviews of thousands of new books. But of all the reviews we published, these are the 10 you read the most. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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A debut author who used fake accounts to “review bomb” other writers on the influential online platform Goodreads has been dropped by her agent and had her book deal cancelled Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2023-12-13 02:46:01 UTC ]
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