In the Interest of Droids

While we are use to seeing the PC belittled in ads, Verizon is now taking aim at the iPhone, in a new campaign for their branded version of Android-based smart phones. The aptly named Droid is quick to highlight the many shortcomings of the iPhone and then churns out some nice typography through a science-fiction, [...]

Change the channel

As if you needed any more persuading during these hard times to be more financially responsible; a poll from June 2009 that was just released shows that in an attempt to improve marketing effectiveness without spending more, marketers shifted from traditional to digital media. The Association of National Advertisers and Marketing Management Analytics survey shows [...]

Check some more

Game engine advertising. Oh God yes. Television viewers or movie-goers may remember the Killzone 2 ‘Bullet’ trailer that told an interesting story of a bullet crossing a battle field. I thoroughly enjoyed this ad, being an avid gamer; but what I did not know was this ad was fully interactive. You can actually [...]

Novelty, not convention

I’m not ashamed to admit that I yell at my television. Although it is an exercise in futility, it’s somehow cathartic. Luckily, now I have an audience to  share my admiration or disdain for characters, story lines and acting live on Fox during reruns of Fringe and Glee using Twitter. The commentary will be displayed [...]

Access denied

Gear down, Twitter. In a preemptive war of words against a third-party developer, Biz Stone claimed “Twitter, Inc is uncomfortable with the use of the word Tweet (our trademark) and the similarity in your UI and our own. How can we go about having you change your UI to better differentiate your offering from our [...]

The old guard is dead

Never click online ads while you’re perusing your friends list? You’re not alone says research by LinkShare released today. Apparently only 5% of users pay attention to ads, in what’s referred to as banner blindness. More evidence that engagement is crucial and bombardment is bust.

Taking a departure  from being ‘a place for friends’, MySpace will [...]

Intern week one, almost complete

Pretty sensational last few days with a pile of interesting news items, including FriendFeed being acquired by Facebook and subsequently used to make Facebook’s search real time. 300 million users real time events to search through, though I hope their input is as relevant as the much smaller Twitter user base who actually seems to [...]

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