Tag Archives: Integrated Marketing

MONOPOLY COLLECTS PARTNERS LIKE PROPERTIES

Hold your horse! One of the best-loved games Hasbro’s Monopoly axed a playing piece and I’m just finding out about this now?  Even worse, I found out about it on Facebook – through a Zappos ad?!  This game and I … Continue reading

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WILL YOU MAKE A BABY WITH ME?

(AKBaby, 2011) It all started in the fall of 2011, when the Japanese pop music sensation AKB48, Guinness World Record holder (Guinness World Records, 2010) for the world’s largest 64 member pop band, started a new marketing communication blitz launching the … Continue reading

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Tablets Take a Shopping Trip

As I discussed in my last article on the blog, Making Marketing Mobile, companies have to ensure that their integrated marketing plans include concentration on the digital space.  More specifically, this focus will need to be targeted to mobile device … Continue reading

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Why blow up your TV set? Hybridcast is coming in 2013!

On May 23, 2012, Nippon Hosou Kyoukai (NHK) made an announcement in Japan about a new integrated television watching experience dubbed “Hybridcast” (Beach, 2012; Diginfonews, 2012; Buckley, 2012). Continue reading

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Driving Brand Awareness By Letting Others Do Your Talking

When I took my first job as a public relations account executive in an integrated marketing agency back in the late 90s, the vast majority of our technology clients spent a large percentage of their marketing budgets on the creation … Continue reading

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Making Marketing Mobile

Another significant shift is beginning to occur in how consumers utilize the interactive space.  The growth of ownership and usage of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is beginning to affect user behavioral patterns and interactions with online content.  … Continue reading

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Got a Problem? There’s a Crowd for That

Written by Megan Samuels Need a centuries old mathematical theorem solved or a consumer-generated commercial for a product? No problem, there’s a crowd for that. What’s Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is like outsourcing, but different. Instead of hiring an outside firm to, … Continue reading

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Framing Footsteps & Fairytales

My friend and I were walking on campus last week and came across a table with people in hot pink shirts promoting the Nike + “She Runs LA” 10K run and its associated after party to occur last Thursday night in … Continue reading

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Packers vs. Steelers? or Best Buy vs. Volskswagen? The Then and Now of Super Bowl Advertising

As per annum, this week the whole of America (and a large proportion of the rest of the world) will congregate and consume in front of the sporting calendar’s most anticipated contest; The Super Bowl. In recent years, the NFL’s … Continue reading

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