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MNTN Is Selling Ryan Reynolds’ Agency Maximum Effort, SEC Filing Shows

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BlackRock-backed CTV advertising platform MNTN is divesting production shop Maximum Effort "to an affiliate of its original owner," according to an IPO securities filing made Friday. Maximum Effort was founded by actor Ryan Reynolds and producer George Dewey in 2018. In the filing, MNTN said that on Feb.

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Amazon Snags Disney Exec Jeremy Helfand to Lead Prime Video Advertising

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Disney's Jeremy Helfand is headed to Amazon to lead Prime Video Advertising, the company has confirmed to Adweek. Helfand initially joined Hulu in 2018 as its vp and head of advertising platforms before rising to Disney, Prime Video's upcoming ad-supported tier is beginning to take shape.

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Nick Fox Replaces Prabhakar Raghavan Leading Google’s Search and Advertising Unit

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Raghavan has led the K&I unit since 2018, and he will become chief technologist at Google. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a change in leadership for its Knowledge & Information unit, which encompasses ads, commerce, Google Earth, and search: Nick Fox will take over for Prabhakar Raghavan.

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B2B Influencer Marketing: It’s Not Rocket Science

Adweek

B2B advertising is boring. That's what nearly half of business buyers told PR Web in a 2018 survey. And it seems to have gotten worse since then.

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We Are Rosie Launches New ‘Run by Rosie’ Service

Adweek

We Are Rosie, an advertising and creative services agency that offers brands flexible staffing, is launching a new service offering coined "Run by Rosie." Since the agency launched in 2018, We Are.

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Nextdoor Names New CRO as Part of Broader Turnaround

Adweek

The social platform Nextdoor named executive Michael Kiernan as its new chief revenue officer on Wednesday, part of a broader bid from the company to reinvent itself and its advertising business under refreshed leadership. Kiernan, who first joined Nextdoor in 2018, has served as CRO on an interim basis since April.

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3 of the Worst-Ever Tech Ads That Should Have Never Seen the Light of Day

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The research firm adds that TV advertising has long been a cornerstone of the ad sector. 2018) Another super-weird commercial in the tech space was the "What's a Computer?" ad in 2018. One of them was the 2018 commercial where a youngster asks the question: "What's a computer?" billion and is on pace to expand to $298.12

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