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Most of Chandelier women and girls skateboarding thecombinedfeatureswillgolive Creative throughacityinOldNavyfashions, inthesecondhalfof2017,including will launch later in March. forecast data from IBM-owned –Tim Nudd and Katie Richards The Weather Company, that allows insurance companies and hardware retailerstopounceonweather changes with targeted advertising and marketing. –Chris Heine GoT Chills Out ACCOUNTINREVIEW Most shows would just send out a pressreleaseortweetannouncingtheir Taboola Taps Mobile seasonpremieredate.ButnotGameof Thrones, which spent 69 minutes last App Downloads Thursday afternoon melting a giant Content discovery platform block of ice on Facebook Live to reveal Taboola is expanding its thatSeason7oftheshowwilldebut personalized recommendation on July 16. —Jason Lynch BIG NUMBER All Detergent offerings to include the mobile app AlllaundrydetergenthaschosenDDBNew download space—a move that its Yorkasitscreativeandstrategicagencyof founder says could potentially help record after a competitive review that launched win money away from the growing 23% market dominated by Google in December 2016. 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To learn about appropriate screenings and clinical trials or to help someone with cancer, go to su2c.org/breakthrough. #cancerbreakthrough TRENDING | THIS WEEK’S INSIGHTS fits-all marketing approach toward one-to- TECHNOLOGY one tailored experiences,” said Resh Sidhu, creative director at Framestore, recently named by IBM Watson as one of the AI Influencers of 2017. “This stuf is not as over-imaginative or as distant as it may seem—in fact, it is much closer to science fact than science fiction,” Sidhu said by email. AI does more than bring eiciency to data and analytics, she said, because it can “anticipate user needs” and give brands “deeper insights about their Eclipse customers.” And if ad agencies don’t have in- Team One and Zoic Labs debuted a short house expertise in AI, she believes, “they’re film created by AI. already behind.” Word is apparently out. MDC Media Partners just opened an agency called Born, focused on AI, while GroupM, Crispin Porter Why These Robots + Bogusky and other ad mavens are working with IBM Watson and Facebook Messenger on AI-powered programs. The Watson supercomputer, mainstream MightTakeYourJob famous since its million-dollar victory on TV’s Jeopardy, now counts about 6,000 TEAM ONE IS JUST THE LATEST MARKETER TO PUSH OUT CREATIVE clients, among them Hilton Hotels (for voice- BUILT AND POWERED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. BY T.L. 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Facebook, Microsoft and Google launched AI Lab, who are vowing to stay are heavily invested in the technology, and aheadofthemachine-learningcurveby Coke’s global senior digital director Mariano surroundingthemselveswithallthings