Author Archives: Steffanie Liang

VR in Social Media

On the day before the release conference of Samsung, Facebook announced the news that it would apply 360- degree video streaming media technology on Samsung VR Gear head display. Facebook’s reliable business partner, intelligent mobile phone giant HTC also unveiled … Continue reading

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The Most Watched Commercials on YouTube 2015

In 2015, people spent about 30 million hours— equivalent to 3500 years in watching the top 120 most popular YouTube commercials. The rankings are based on the statistics of YouTube. Since 2011, YouTube started to release the rankings of the … Continue reading

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How did Kony 2012 go viral?

When I was reading Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook, I was trying to think of one online marketing campaign that is most memorable to me in recent years, and that’s when Kony 2012 came to my mind. Launched in March 2012, this campaign and online … Continue reading

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Where there’s an Apple, there is a Samsung.

While everybody is still talking about Apple’s new big screen smartphone iPhone 6 Plus, Samsung has released a new ad for its upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 4, which mocks subtly: Apple is copying Samsung, three year later! Galaxy Note 4 … Continue reading

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Can’t Just Present, Got to Represent

Learning this class, I always find it very interesting and useful when we learn about the dynamics of marketing strategy. Through the modules, I have found it useful to read about the history and theories behind marketing communication, but I … Continue reading

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The boomerang effect

Yeirang Lee This week I found a new interesting marketing communication method called “boomerang effect.” The boomerang effect is the social phenomenon that pushes a person towards anti-conformity (Bird, 2011). In other words, if a social marketing clause tries to … Continue reading

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