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Creatives React: Amazon Uses Humor to Relax AI Fears but Lacks Surprise
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (667+ words) Amazon leans into AI anxiety in its Super Bowl 60 ad. The e-commerce giant hired actor Chris Hemsworth and his wife, model and actor Elsa Pataky, to show that everyone'even action movie stars'is fearful of AI's real-life implications. Similar to Amazon's…...
Super Bowl Hot Take: Existential Fears About AI Are an Elaborate Joke for Amazon
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (347+ words) MY TAKE: As a top Super Bowl advertiser for years, Amazon has a well-crafted playbook: enlist celebrities and a funny storyline to explain (and sell) its products. Recently, these efforts have squarely focused on Alexa, its line of smart technology…...
Chris Hemsworth Thinks AI Is Trying To Kill Him in Amazon’s Super Bowl Ad
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (615+ words) Chris Hemsworth can think of many ways AI can go off the rails within his home. In Amazon's 60-second Super Bowl ad, "Alexaaaa+," the actor hypothesizes all of the ways that AI'more specifically Amazon's AIexa+ AI'is destined to destroy him....
The Lego Group Is Revolutionizing the Iconic Toy With Screen-Free Interactive Play
2+ week, 4+ day ago (243+ words) The Lego Group arrived at CES 2026 with more than an announcement: Lego SmartPlay represents a major evolution, blending physical and digital interaction while keeping imagination in control." In this episode of The Speed of Culture, Matt Britton sits down with…...
Roku and iSpot Bring Outcome-Based Optimization to Streaming
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (244+ words) Roku and iSpot Bring Outcome-Based Optimization to Streaming'ADWEEK iSpot Attribution Powers Roku's Optimization for Better Campaign Performance Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) is now the first major streaming publisher to use iSpot's Outcomes at Scale product for the explicit intention of…...
TelevisaUnivision and Roku Launch CTV Ad Offering to Reach Hispanic Audiences
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (354+ words) In an effort to better target U.S. Hispanic viewers, TelevisaUnivision and Roku are launching a new unified advertising solution. This new ad offering, now available from TelevisaUnivision'and powered by Roku Data Cloud and the TelevisaUnivision Household Graph'combines reach with culturally relevant…...
Xbox Invites Players to See the World as One Big Console
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (357+ words) Xbox's new campaign playfully shows how almost any device, whether in the household or office, can transform into a game-ready console. The new campaign, "This Is an Xbox " Yup!, launches today and builds on the "This Is an Xbox brand…...
Jane Goodall’s Voice Powers Apple’s Ode to Creativity
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (334+ words) The late Jane Goodall narrates Apple's new brand platform for Mac, released Monday, delivering an ode to creativity and the possibilities of a blank page. The ad, "Great Ideas Start on Mac," begins with an image familiar to many: a…...
Punctuation Ideas That Actually Give Apple TV a 'Vibrant New Identity"
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (431+ words) Apple TV is subtracting its plus sign. This week, Apple TV+ announced it's now simply Apple TV. The company reportedly made the change subtly in an Oct. 13 press release for F1: The Movie, noting that, without the plus, Apple TV has…...
Pinterest Shoppable CTV Series Turns Pins Into Purchases on Roku
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (160+ words) Pinterest is using the CES technology conference to showcase its "newest board," original programming. Bring My Pinterest to Life is a premium original lifestyle/DIY transformation connected TV (CTV) series that lets viewers seamlessly move from watching to saving to…...