Coke in giant agency review and FTC threatens Facebook: Thursday Wake-Up Call

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'

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April 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

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Facebook to Help Mobile Apps Auction Off Their Ads Using Facebook Data

For years Facebook has considered itself a mobile-first company, so it's perhaps not surprising that the company's first attempt to automate the sale of ads running outside of Facebook will be limited to mobile.Mobile app publishers can now sell their in-app display and video ad inventory... Continue reading at Advertising Age

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March 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

Our March 2015 selection of reviews from BlueInk Review, a review of self-published books, includes a memoir from Romanian tennis pro Peter Marmureanu. The post March 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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February 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

Our January 2015 selection of reviews from BlueInk Review, a service which reviews self-published books. The post February 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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January 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

Our monthly selection from BlueInk Review, a service which reviews self-published books, uncovers a superb memoir of a WWII concentration camp in Indonesia. The post January 2015: Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Facebook Gives Publishers New Tools, Hopes They’ll Use Them to Give Facebook More Stuff

Facebook has been courting content companies for years because it wants content companies to bring more of their content to Facebook. Here’s a new example: A set of tools that will make it easier for publishers to share their stuff ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

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Recent Top Reviews of Self-published Books from BlueInk Review

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February’s Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

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January’s Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

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Facebook Misery Index: Quantifying exactly how bad Facebook makes you feel

2013 hasn't been especially kind to Facebook. The Facebook Home app launcher, announced in April, was poorly received by consumers. Then, in June, the social media service fell under the scrutiny of privacy advocates as information surfaced about Silicon Valley's relationship with the NSA. But... Continue reading at PC World

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October’s Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

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September’s Top Reviews of Self-Published Books from BlueInk Review

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