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AT&T Is Using Facebook Live to Let Kids Interact With Santa Claus Before Christmas

Old-school tradition with new-wave tech

According to Possible's back-of-the-napkin math, around 6.6 million American children in the next year will decide that Santa Claus isn't real. The ad agency, working for client AT&T, wants to…

7 Intriguing Digital Marketing Stats From This Week

From ad spending and email subject lines to Casey Neistat and Casey Affleck

Here are seven digital marketing data points this week that got our attention, including news about how brands may spend online next year, numbers around freshly successful video efforts, what…

The 50 Most Read Technology Stories on Adweek.com in 2016

Our top posts about digital ads, products and platforms

As we wind down for the holidays, we're looking back at the stories that were most popular among Adweek.com readers over the course of the year. Today, we look at…

More Customer Service Brands Are Getting Creative With Twitter's New Curated Profiles

Starbucks, Airbnb try 'featured tweets'

Earlier this summer, Twitter started beta testing a new feature that gives brands more creativity and control over how their accounts appear. Now, it seems to be rolling out the…

Here's a Timeline Showing Instagram and Snapchat's 2016 War Over the Best Features

10 product rollouts this year

In the race to stay fresh and gain millennial users, the battle between Snapchat and Instagram heated up this year as the two apps constantly tried to one-up each other…

ABC Will Create Original Series for Snapchat, Starting With a Bachelor-Themed Show

Disney is selling all advertising for its content

Yet another big media company is teaming up with Snapchat in a bid to reach millennials. This time, it's Disney-ABC Television Group, which is partnering with Snap Inc. to produce original…

SNL's Dunkin' Donuts Spoof Underscores Facebook's Lingering Problem With Piracy

Ripped-off clip racked up 2.4 million views in 2 days

Saturday Night Live has become notorious in recent years for its spoofs of brands that are often almost too realistic. In its latest parody, SNL host and Massachusetts native Casey Affleck…

You Can Now Listen to Live Audio Content on Facebook

Could be big for radio, podcast broadcasters

Facebook Live isn't just for video. Today the social network launched a new feature dubbed Live Audio that lets users listen to broadcast voice recordings, pushing more audio-only content into…

Disney Is Folding Maker Studios Into Its Media Arm

Another major shift for the video network aimed at millennials

Two years after it acquired the millennial-focused digital video network Maker Studios, Disney is folding the company into its media arm and moving the head of the studio to a…

Casey Neistat's New Drone-Powered Holiday Video Looks Like a Branded Masterpiece

He's Santa for Samsung

Casey Neistat has done it again, releasing a holiday video for Samsung today with an enormous drone that lifts and flies the stunt-minded, master influencer around on a snowboard. Neistat,…

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