Because it's the latest and greatest shiny new object for which everyone is drooling, 180LA lost no time crafting a program using Snapchat whereby it recruited for a social media manager position with the agency.   Using Snapchat's geofilters, the agency targeted five agencies -- 72andSunny, Goodby, Pereira & O'Dell, Deutsch and R/GA -- in addition to the LA offices of Facebook, Google and BuzzFeed. The agency used Snapchat's Story feature to share information about the available position and how to apply.  Within the first 190 hours of the campaign's launch, over 40 candidates applied for the gig.

Expanding its focus on live streaming, Facebook has partnered with DigitasLBi to produce a live-streamed morning show called Rise and Shine. The show will appear three to five times each week within subscribers' newsfeeds and on the Facebook page of sponsoring brands. A Facebook chat bot will alert subscribers when a new show streams.  The show, unveiled during the Digital Content Newfronts, is said to focus on a variety of topics including recipes, local weather, workouts and other talk show-worthy subjects. Each episode will be sponsored by one of DigitalsLBi's clients.  With a mouthful of marketing babble, the show …

Working with engineers and ecological brick factory Ecobrick, Grey Brazil launched a program to manufacture ecological bricks which are said to be 7 times stronger than regular bricks.

A recent Harris Poll commissioned by Lithium Technologies found 74% of Millennials and GenZs really dislike being advertised to in social media feeds.

At this year's Experiential Summit which convened this week in Denver, Boston area-based brand experience agency Cramer was named to Event Marketer's It List.

One such toy, the R/C Car, is controlled by blowing into a straw to make the car go forward and sucking back through the same straw to make the car go backwards.

In a humorous but all-telling piece about the ad industry's obsession with data, Jeff Goodby ponders the recent spate of data-analysis firms by agency holding companies and suggests that maybe Goodby Silverstein & Partners should go out and acquire the Waffle House. His point being that perhaps the focus of ad agencies has shifted a bit too far from its central tenet: creativity.   Of the data-centric acquisitions, Goodby wrote: "There was something about these announcements, though, that suggested that data would not just complement but actually take the place of the contributions of creativity in advertising. Instead of …

Confirming the importance of the NewFronts, 8 out of 10 respondents said their attendance at the 2015 NewFronts resulted in increased spending on original digital video content in the 12 months that followed.

The latest innovation to emerge from an agency "lab" comes from London-based adam&eveDDB and is called the Temptations Catterbox.