July 11, 2025 Delta’s creative tariff dodge: Leave the fancy new jet, bring home the guts BY Taylor Hatmaker While tariffs threaten to whittle away profits for many businesses, those costs aren’t subtle when they’re tacked onto the price tag of an airplane. In an effort to preserve its bottom line, Delta Air Lines is getting … Continue reading Delta’s creative tariff dodge: Leave the fancy new jet, bring home the guts
Affleck’s AI Insights: A Blueprint For Moviemaking’s Creative Future by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, July 9, 2025 Creative and artificial intelligence (AI) and whether or not the technology will disrupt artistry have been ongoing topics of debate. Actor and moviemaker Ben Affleck has his own ideas and perspectives on the role of AI in … Continue reading Affleck’s AI Insights: A Blueprint For Moviemaking’s Creative Future
AI promises a shortcut, but creative teams are taking the scenic route AI is entering creative workflows, but the shift is cautious. Most teams are still exploring its role, not transforming their processes yet. May 20, 2025 Creative professionals are intrigued by AI, but most are still figuring out where it fits. While the … Continue reading AI promises a shortcut, but creative teams are taking the scenic route
The revamped platform includes the ability to use Google and OpenAI genAI models, as well as Firefly’s Video model. Constantine von Hoffman on April 25, 2025 Adobe unveiled significant updates to its Firefly service, positioning it as a comprehensive, all-in-one home for digital marketers looking to streamline content creation. The revamped Firefly platform integrates … Continue reading Firefly brings AI-powered content creation into Creative Cloud and marketing workflows
Creative ops is at a crossroads. Learn how reporting structure influences innovation, alignment and the strategic value of in-house teams. Nickole Brown on April 23, 2025 Should creative operations report to the creative organization, thereby safeguarding team autonomy, or align with marketing operations (MOps) to gain access to critical tools, data and decision-makers? The … Continue reading Should creative operations report to creative or MOps?
Research found marketers and agencies lack pride in their work and don’t feel the quality is improving. What’s going on here? Mike Pastore on March 27, 2025 Only one-third of marketers and one-quarter of agencies feel proud of their creative work, according to a recent study, and many of them feel its quality is … Continue reading Does your team struggle to evaluate creative ideas? You’re not alone
How SkinnyPop Jennifer Aniston Ad Led To Discussion On AI Agents, Ad Creative by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 27, 2025 Jennifer Aniston starred in one of the cutest SkinnyPop commercials in a major rebrand campaign for Hershey’s popcorn brand. The spot focused on authentic creative design built by humans. AI did not have … Continue reading How SkinnyPop Jennifer Aniston Ad Led To Discussion On AI Agents, Ad Creative
Here’s a new interactive channel for the holidays: traditional soccer field ad boards go shoppable. Kim Davis on December 27, 2024 For the holiday shopping season, Itaú Bank partnered with the Brazil-based agency Africa Creative to make soccer field advertising boards shoppable. The traditional boards around the field’s perimeter were transformed for a Brazilian … Continue reading Africa Creative makes soccer ad boards shoppable
Marketers are stuck using slow and imprecise tools to assess what’s working with their creatives. Constantine von Hoffman on December 9, 2024 When measuring the impact of creatives, marketers typically rely on circumstantial evidence. Brand awareness and sales trends are important and provide useful KPI numbers, but they reflect the entire campaign. They don’t … Continue reading How AI can revolutionize creative impact measurement
On the day I talk to Shea McGee, we cover a lot of ground: her love of Moleskine notebooks, the new Martha documentary on Netflix, and her approach to collaboration. She’s at home, where she says she’s most focused and creative, and she’s quick to admit that her design business came as a total surprise … Continue reading ‘I had to become a morning person’: Shea McGee on how she carves out space for creative thinking
