Simpson, who was chief creative officer, was hired about a year ago to make high-minded ad campaigns to help PayPal stand out from competitors like Square, Stripe, and Apple Pay.

PayPal has teamed with actor Will Ferrell for the digital payment system’s largest-ever U.S. advertising campaign in terms of spend and scale, per details shared with Marketing Dive.

Will Ferrell announces PayPal's $10M Checkout Sweeps in a new ad campaign, urging travelers to use PayPal Checkout online for potential rewards.

PayPal took out an assertive full-page ad in the New York Times Tuesday questioning the security of Apple’s new payment system, Apple Pay. The ad reads: "We the people want our money safer than ...

PayPal announced plans to create a new advertising platform rooted in transaction data generated by its nearly 400 million active accounts, per details shared with Marketing Dive. To lead the ad ...

The offbeat ad campaign should help Venmo become more memorable with its target consumer. The campaign comes amid increased competition in the mobile payments space. Payments competitor PayPal ran its ...

PayPal’s new advertising business will be spearheaded by veteran ad exec Mark Grether, who joins the company this week from Uber. John Anderson, who previously headed up the product and payments ...