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Do you enjoy shopping in a gallery?

Last week, Carla Sozzani cut the ribbon on her concept shop launched in Shanghai, China. The four-level store was designed by American artist Kris Ruhs and Carla Sozzani. On the first floor are the shops for household items, a bookstore, … Continue reading

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Facebook and the New Newsfeed: A Philosophical Take

When Facebook made the announcement about their new Newsfeed layout late last week Heraclitus came to mind. Yes, we’re getting philosophical.  Stay with me here.  I’ll be quick. Heraclitus was a 6th century Greek philosopher best known for moving the … Continue reading

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Pardon me, do you remember Grey Poupon?

When the curtain opened on the 85th Academy Awards, I had already begun drafting a blog post about a new marketing initiative by the Girl Scouts of USA, who this season introduced a “nutritional” cookie featuring NutriFusion vitamin spread. I … Continue reading

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D23: How Disney integrated theme park fan sites into marketing campaigns

by Chuck Lionberger, APR WANTED:  Millions of passionate fans.  How passionate, you may ask?  So passionate that they go out and write their own fan blogs, create fan podcasts, publish fan magazines and create entire fan communities — all around … Continue reading

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Magazine covers turned into Windows 8 start screens!

If you have been watching any form of media in the U.S. lately, you would have most likely seen an ad displaying the Windows 8 live tile start screens. Whether it is a Surface tablet ad (which we watched in … Continue reading

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It’s still a $50bn business in the US-marketing strategies in cosmetics industry

As a makeup addict myself, I spend over $150 every month on all types of cosmetics such as makeups, perfumes, skin cares, nail polishes and so on. The global cosmetics industry is still considered to be a multibillion dollar business. … 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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Click, Click…Done!

Online grocery shopping is the way of the world these days. The ability to shop online has become more than a convenience, but a necessity for me. Who has time to go grocery shopping anymore, anyway? I am an avid … 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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April Fools Day: An Innocent Joke or an Opportunistic Marketing Communication Strategy?

Once a year the public have become accustomed to an inundation of bogus stories circulating through popular press outlets. April Fool’s Day offers an opportunity for journalists to distribute wacky and farfetched content in the hope that they can hoodwink … Continue reading

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