Don't Sleep on These Ikea Ads

Why purchase energy drinks, expensive beauty creams and supplements, when you could have glorious bedding that lasts for years? That's the thought behind Ikea's latest eye-catching out-of-home campaign that's running in the U.K. and Ireland. Ikea caps off the posters with a clever tagline: Tomorrow starts tonight.

See them: Check out the full campaign, including two more posters that pop.

The TV Upfronts system is “antiquated” and must change, Procter & Gamble’s Marc Pritchard said at the virtual ANA Media & Measurement Conference yesterday, adding that the company will instead negotiate directly with networks wherever possible. He said that the system puts marketers at disadvantage compared to networks, which are equipped with spending estimates and can therefore price inventory regardless of their ratings and viewership.

Shifting the status quo: “It’s not about winners and losers,” Pritchard said. “It’s about a level playing field to constructively create value together.”

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John Maeda, chief experience officer at Publicis Sapient, is setting forth to save the world. He’ll remain as chair of the experience advisory council, but he’s leaving his role at the agency to join a Massachusetts-based SaaS company focused on disaster management and Covid-19 via contact tracing. CEO Nigel Vaz spoke highly of Maeda’s work and expressed “great pride” in his decision to lend his expertise to the public health crisis.

Who’s up next? Maeda didn’t specify a successor for his role, but said diversity is a priority in filling it and said he aims to “#makeroom for the next generation of leadership in experience to become more diverse.”

Also in job moves: Match Group has hired Ayni Raimondi, formerly of Airbnb, as its new vp of brand.

Uncle Ben has gone the way of Aunt Jemima, both dropping its Jim Crow-era mascot and announcing a name change to Ben’s Original. Starting in early 2021, the image of the character will no longer appear on the Mars-owned brand packaging in a move it says is aimed at creating “more equitable iconography.” The narrative is a reversal from the company’s position five months ago, when a Mars spokesperson called Uncle Ben’s “a beloved brand with a rich history.”

Another evolution: The company has made several attempts to update or obfuscate the racist implications of the brand in recent years.

The DOJ has had Google’s industry-dominant ad-tech stack, DoubleClick, in its sights amid its antitrust investigations, but a shift in the scope of the lawsuit will spare the offering for the moment. The case will now be focused on how Google’s search engine and agreements with other companies “harm rivals and consumers,” which would mean that its ad tools will no longer be the center of scrutiny and could remain intact longer than previously thought.

It’s not over yet: DoubleClick may have nine lives, but the trouble has just begun for Google and it will surely continue to be probed.

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Pabst will make the 178-year-old lager in the upstate town of Utica.

The brand had opposed the administration's tariffs in 2018, so some see a presidential grudge.

Lo Nuestro es Arte campaign spotlights art reflecting different music genres and podcasts.

The $1 million commitment aims to diversify the brewing industry.

Never mind fashion—Americans staying home want comfort for their feet.

The video creation platform also released its Global Transparency Report for the first half of 2020.