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Anil Dash responds to Malcolm Gladwell's criticism of Free by introducing the pot to the kettle.
Calculate the running cost of keeping all that talent tied up in the conference room for hour.
The instructions in Air New Zealand’s new in-flight safety video are given by employees who are nude except for body paint and strategically placed seat belt
"Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them," said a visibly confused Dorsey.
Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, is set to be released on July 7, 2009, but it's already generating criticism.
For all the ink spilled on the importance of Twitter and Facebook as feedback and customer-service channels, there's another social-media tool marketers are increasingly finding useful, not just as an online-shopping tool but as an internal, culturally changing consumer-criticism channel: the...
Some great tips for how to choose the right SEO objectives for your business.
Agreeing a date that works for everyone is not easy. WhenShouldWe.com simplifies this by allowing people to vote for the dates that suit them. The results are collated in to a single easy to view list.
Source: vimeo.com
Brought to you by the American Rocketball Federation (ARF), the premier Rocketball league in the world. ARF is responsible for the development of national competition, corporate sponsorship, marketing, ...
Since last Friday, when the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads from mobile phones to YouTube increased by 400% a day.
It’s an age-old question. It’s easy to say that companies need to do both, but there are times when one - strategy or execution - is more critical than the other is. Knowing which one to focus on is the key. Here are a few examples of how it works … and doesn
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The Creative Department commented on their own note 21 Ads You Won’t Hate: Ads that Grab Attention – BusinessWeek.
NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal finds out he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Twitter.
The Kayak.com of Freelance jobs? Check it out.
Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest political scandal of the decade...
Microsoft has long built enterprise software solutions for myriad industries: retail, health care, sales. But now it has its eye on advertising. The software company and Mediabrands, the media division of Interpublic Group of Cos...
Last night, after seeing Second City improv, we ate at a pleasantly sketchy dive bar in uptown Chicago, where the food was mediocre and the characters were questionable. I definitely had my iPhone while at our table, and I definitely did NOT have it (whoops!) when we were 100 feet down the street...
Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more. Want proof...
Envision the events that might happen to a brand (shelf space at Walmart, an appearance on Oprah, a bestseller, worldwide recognition, a new edition, worldwide rights, chosen by the Queen, whatever) as a series of dominos. It turns out that if you start with all of them at once, you'll fail...
My other car is substantially similar to this one. Thank you for your interest in my other car.
I wish we had access to this during MaBeGroMo.
If you don’t deal with bad feedback it can disrupt, slowly corrode, and in the end, kill your creativity. If you’ve ever said "Yes, I can change that" and know deep down inside of you a little bit of your creative soul died, then this article is for you...
In the TV spot titled "True Stories," a Best Buy associate relays a story about a customer who calls with some very specific questions about a TV. Turns out he's calling from a Walmart. Her response: "You're obviously calling us because we're knowledgeable...
Scalejacking inevitably tarnishes most communities, because individuals (people) hate being treated like numbers just standing by to be filtered.
P&G's viral campaign featuring videos of a fictional 16-year-old boy who wakes up one morning to find his "guy parts" gone and replaced with "girl parts." Check it out
A soured economy has prompted a boom in crowdsourcing, but this is a creative, efficient trend that will outlast the recession. Does crowdsourcing represent the beginning of the end of creative organizations...
Mr. Taxali, an illustrator based in Toronto whose work has appeared in publications like Time, Newsweek and Fortune, received a call in April from a member of Google’s marketing department. According to Mr...
Someecards, creator of hilarious online greeting cards, is now featuring cards branded by the hit Showtime show Weeds, the show Bridezillas, the shoemaker Puma, and Jose Cuervo...
In its July issue, Popular Science is taking a unique approach to running advertising on its cover. It has created a cover sponsored by General Electric. But the G.E. affiliation becomes obvious only when the cover is held up to a Web camera...
Mozilla competes against Microsoft, Apple and Google -- arguably the biggest and most valuable brands in the world -- and it succeeds with no traditional advertising (or big budgets) to speak of...
This FedEx sponsored website accuses competitor UPS of “quietly seeking a Congressional bailout designed to limit competition for overnight deliveries.” The issue is not a financial bailout, similar to what the banks and auto manufacturers are getting, but the labor laws under which U.P.S...
Built into the browser is a video player based on the open-source video formats Ogg Vorbis and Theora. The video player supports HTML5, which means that links and other interactive elements can easily be placed inside videos...
GREAT use of Flash to create an interactive music video.
We’ve been talking a lot internally about the great job the creative team at BBDO does of incorporating the bars from the “More bars in more places” theme into every visual ad, whether it be print, OOH, or TV...
Procter & Gamble Co. is replacing longtime Chief Executive A.G. Lafley with a former Army Ranger and 29-year company veteran, just as the tough economy and new rivals are forcing it to revamp the way it has done business for decades...
Twitter is mobile and it’s real time, two huge advantages over normal fan sites. And it’s constantly refreshed with new content. Britney Spears has 1.7 million Twitter followers. How many of her followers would be willing to pay $1, or $10, per month to see a premium stream of her content...
Every time I mention Twitter now, much less think about it, I throw up in my mouth a little.
The short answer is, "Are your target customers on Twitter, and do you have the resources to reach them?" The long answer is a little more complicated. Good advice from David Berkowitz.
Watch all 10 of them starting at 4:20.
The suit, filed in San Francisco about a month ago, concerns the Twitter name tag Tony La Russa (or www.twitter.com/tonylarussa) and the manager’s claim that it was an unofficial and unauthorized use of his name...
Most people getting started with JavaScript these days are faced with the challenging task of picking a library to use, or at least which one to learn first. If you're working for a company chances are they have already chosen a framework for you, in which case the point is somewhat moot...
Ad agency uses interactive YouTube videos as their website.
FreeCoffee4Students offers a giftcard to Dutch students for putting an ad in their PowerPoint presentations.
On the heels of the Creative Department's successful Macho Beard Growing Month, these folks in Idaho have just wrapped up an equally successful Mustache May.
On Sunday, FMCG giant Unilever will kick off a trial powered by mobile marketing startup Samplesaint.com that will let consumers redeem coupons by having a supermarket cashier scan their phones...
Funny look at how costs figure into the vendor-client relationship. Click here to view the embedded video.
Enjoy the movie and be able to get up to go. Every movie has a few scenes that are missable and not crucial to the plot. RunPee,com tells you when you can "run and pee."
Pulling data directly from the FAA, find out when your flight is delayed before the pilot does.
Kiplinger's latest list. 1. Huntsville, Alabama 2. Albuquerque, New Mexico 3. Washington D.C....
Watch a 1964 Livermore Data Systems "Model A" Acoustic Coupler Modem connect to Wikipedia at 300 baud (you can see it connect around 7:10).
Intel's new ad campaign focuses on its brand and features its "rockstar" employees. Or, at least in the case of this ad, actors playing their employees. [http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2009/05/intels_new_ads_feature_oregon.html]
It's going to be a cruel summer in advertising. Attack ads have been on the rise for the past year, but comparisons are getting sharper, responses are growing testier, and an increasing number of ad battles are ending up in court. Just don't expect a letup, because they're also working.
"The social-networking service said Monday it has teamed with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop an unscripted series based on the site, which invites 140-character postings from members around the world." I think I officially HATE Twitter now.
How do you answer the Internet Explorer 6 question? 1. Design for better browsers, then design alternative solutions to handle IE6 bugs? 2. Write a remedial IE6 stylesheet to address layout issues? 3. Use JavaScript to bootstrap CSS support in IE6? 4...
Redneck Bank claims that "bankin's funner" when consumers open a "flat out free checkin.'" That Southern-fried marketing schtick has garnered the online arm of Bank of the Wichitas quite a bit of attention...
Use Web technologies you already know -- HTML, CSS and JavaScript -- to mess with the "browser chrome" and create extensions for Firefox.
This week we are proud to announce the redesign of the i-wireless website. i-wireless is a national wireless service provider exclusively sold in over 2,200 retail locations within the Kroger family of stores across 31 states...
Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.
Visualization of Twitter topics in real-time.
"In the past, our interns have created work for companies like Burger King, Volkswagen, Guitar Hero and Microsoft. And now they can do the same for you. Bidding starts at $1 for three months of service with all proceeds going to the hardest working people we know - the CP+B interns themselves...
By age 20, kids will have spent 20,000 hours online –the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing --Dr. Urs Gasser
Great examples of logos with multiple meanings.
RiverSpan is an exhibition and sale of sculpture from across the country, and the world. The show takes place on the deck of a 137 yr. old purple bridge spanning the Ohio River. It is truly a unique event upon a wonderful venue...
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