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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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Did Disney’s ‘Snow White’ marketing campaign leave it to the wolves?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, is Snow White not the fairest after all?When Disney’s latest live-action princess film hit theaters last week, it wasn’t the smash hit that fans might have hoped for. The movie opened to $42 million at the domestic box office and $87 million globally—only making a…
As concern about online teen safety mounts, Meta re-ups its advertising offensive
As Congress once again considers legislation that would regulate how kids can use tech platforms, Meta is making a renewed push to advertise its safety features for teens.Last week, the platform started running ads promoting Instagram Teen Accounts, a product the company introduced last fall. The update makes accounts belonging…
Mikayla Nogueira shares her Point of View
Armed with colorful makeup palettes and a Boston accent, Mikayla Nogueira has built her personal brand on being memorable.The beauty influencer has amassed more than 16 million followers on TikTok and 3 million on Instagram since she began posting in 2020—a following she attributes not only to the makeup and…
With federal privacy laws stuck, states push forward—what does this mean for advertisers?
For advertisers, privacy is stuck in purgatory—at least on the federal side.Lina Khan, an advocate for consumer privacy, is no longer leading the Federal Trade Commission. And even though some federal privacy legislation has made its way through Congress, legislators on the Hill have yet to pass any such bill.What’s…
Best Buy partners with Meta on ads business
First Best Buy sold plasma TVs. Now it’s selling Facebook ads.Last week, the electronics retailer announced a tool called Social+ that will let advertisers target Best Buy customers on Facebook and Instagram.So what? In recent years, retailers have turned their troves of first-party data into billion-dollar advertising businesses. Retail media…
How ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ rewrote the indie movie marketing playbook
The year 2004 was memorable for many reasons: Ken Jennings’s 74-game Jeopardy! winning streak, the introduction of Gmail, the founding of Facebook, Nipplegate. It was also the year you could see Napoleon Dynamite free of charge in theaters, over and over again, before the movie was released.The screenings, held nationwide,…
How Facebook lost its groove
The social media juggernaut famously founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 can finally buy beer.Over the last quarter-century, Facebook, which turned 21 on February 4, has evolved from a social networking tool for college students and a place to poke your middle school crush into a social media…
Consumers paying for streaming aren’t expecting ad breaks: report
Ad breaks might come as a jump scare to consumers who are shelling out for streaming subscriptions.Nearly 80% of consumers “expect to see no ads at all” if they’re paying for a streaming service, according to new research from free streaming service Tubi and The Harris Poll. Around the same…
Ben & Jerry’s isn’t backing down from its online or offline activism
Come for the ice cream, stay for the activism.That’s been Ben & Jerry’s ethos since the company was founded in 1978, but in 2025, the messaging strategy is on full display.Even before the Trump administration began to target diversity and equity initiatives in the public and private sectors, many brands…
UConn women, Duke men are most marketable March Madness teams: report
The March Madness rankings have been released, and not just the No. 1 seeds.The University of Connecticut Huskies, a No. 2 seed in this year’s tournament, were the most marketable women’s team, according to the NIL platform Out2Win.The team scored 96 out of 100, according to Out2Win’s 2025 March Madness…
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