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Dunkin' Reunites Two Spice Girls (Plus Rachel Dratch) for Pumpkin Spice Season
Dunkin' has kicked off its fall campaign by reuniting Baby Spice and Ginger Spice with comedian Rachel Dratch, cast as 'Pumpkin Spice, the long-lost sixth member', paired with a free-drink offer.
Sep 93 min read


Duolingo Launches a 'Phonetic' Fashion Line for the Luxury Brands You Can't Pronounce
Duolingo has debuted a fashion capsule and a New York Fashion Week pop-up built around teaching people to correctly pronounce hard-to-say luxury names like Hermès.
Sep 93 min read


Accenture Names Workday's Emma Chalwin as Global Chief Marketing Officer
Accenture has appointed Emma Chalwin, currently CMO of Workday, as its new global chief marketing officer, reporting directly to Chair and CEO Julie Sweet.
Sep 93 min read


Boston Beer Poaches Samsung's US Marketing Chief Allison Stransky as CMO
The Boston Beer Company has appointed Allison Stransky, most recently head of US marketing at Samsung Electronics America, as its new chief marketing officer, effective 12 October 2026.
Sep 93 min read


AstraZeneca Uses an AI-Generated Llama to Break Pharma's Ad Clichés
AstraZeneca has built a 'wonderfully weird' campaign for its COPD inhaler Breztri around an AI-generated llama — proof that AI creative has crossed into even the most cautious categories.
Sep 82 min read


Popeyes Launches Its 'THAT Chicken' Brand Platform via GUT
Popeyes has rolled out 'THAT Chicken from Popeyes', its first major platform from agency GUT — a lesson in winning a crowded category through ownable specifics.
Sep 82 min read


Axe Revives Its Y2K Body Sprays With a Nostalgia Play for Gen Z
Unilever's Axe has relaunched three early-2000s fragrances with a social-first campaign that turns grown men back into their teenage selves — and the tagline is the masterstroke.
Sep 83 min read


Neiman Marcus Debuts a 'Signature Style' Fall Campaign Under New Owner
Neiman Marcus has launched 'Signature Style', its first major seasonal campaign under new parent Exemplar Luxury Group — a bet on human styling as the moat a marketplace can't copy.
Sep 82 min read


Thomas' Recruits Cecily Strong to Make America 'Morning People'
Thomas' has enlisted Cecily Strong for a 21-day 'Join the Morning People' breakfast challenge — proof that participation compounds where impressions evaporate.
Sep 82 min read


Campbell's Cuts 13% of Salaried Staff and Reworks Its Marketing
The Campbell's Company is cutting 13% of salaried staff and reprioritising marketing behind core brands — and that's exactly the opening challengers wait for.
Sep 82 min read


Modelo Bets Bigger on College Football With a 'Tradition' Campaign
Modelo has raised its college football media investment 18% for a 'Tradition' campaign — but the school-specific packaging, not the ad spend, is the real move.
Sep 82 min read


Calvin Klein Taps Sadie Sink for Its Next 'Feel the Fit' Denim Chapter
Calvin Klein has made Sadie Sink the face of the second chapter of its Fall 2026 'Feel the Fit' denim campaign — and the serialised format is the real strategy.
Sep 83 min read


Comscore Starts Measuring Sponsored Ads Inside ChatGPT
Comscore has extended its AI Intelligence suite to measure sponsored ads inside ChatGPT — the clearest sign yet that the AI answer box is becoming a media channel.
Sep 83 min read


Reddit Opens Its AI-Powered 'Max' Campaigns to All Advertisers
Reddit has opened its automated, AI-driven Max campaigns to all advertisers — here's what changed, the beta results, and how brands should test it.
Sep 83 min read


Google Overhauls How It Counts Display Ad Impressions, Moving to 'Begin-to-Render'
Impression counting is the foundational currency of digital advertising. Google's shift to begin-to-render could quietly reset baselines across the open web.
Sep 73 min read


Hoka Turns New York Into a Live Leaderboard With a Strava-Powered DOOH Campaign
A clean case study in fusing wearable/fitness data with digital out-of-home — turning static screens into live competition dashboards.
Sep 73 min read


Cheez-It Debuts a College Football 'Couch Committee'
A snack brand buys into the college-football conversation with social-first, meme-ready creative — leaning on debate and fandom rather than product claims.
Sep 73 min read


Toyota Launches a Season-Long NFL Campaign Anchored by Eli Manning
A top auto spender leans into the NFL's grassroots flag-football growth story rather than just game-day spots — a sponsorship-plus-purpose play.
Sep 73 min read


Nissan Retires the Physical 'Heisman House' for a YouTube-First Series
A rare public admission that a beloved TV franchise needs rebuilding for a YouTube-native audience — Nissan inverts the TV-first model.
Sep 73 min read


KFC Names Amy Ellis Durini as Its First-Ever Global Chief Brand Officer
KFC formalises global brand control mid-turnaround, pairing a fresh visual identity with senior leadership muscle — a template other legacy QSRs are watching.
Sep 73 min read
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