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Creativing :: iPhone’s mobile ad platform, Facebook is #1, and Farmville has peanuts for profits
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9 Apr 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week I’m kind of sad that @BarackObama isn’t having more fun with Twitter. I’d like to see him retweet a Kardashian. iPhone 4.0 OS’s iAd Ad Platform Jump straight down to the iAd section. While it makes business sense [...]
Creativing :: How the iPad will change computing, The future of gaming, and a 70s music vid way ahead of it’s time
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4 Apr 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week Past tense of ‘bing’: If bing is like ping then it’s ‘binged’. If it’s like sing, it’s ‘bung’. If it’s like bring, it’s ‘bought’. Starbucks Listens to Customer Request for More Sizes | Starbucks Coffee Company This was [...]
Creativing :: YouTube tips for goin’ viral, Big Brother on Facebook, and new media units when you fly
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19 Mar 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week “Orkut for Android?” Nice. If they just added pro sports, scrapbooking, and Ron Paul, I’d finally have my perfect “Who Cares?” engine. Five Keys For Creating Viral YouTube Titles Interest in creating viral videos will probably be around [...]
Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, The next Twitter?, and Foursquare gets around to revenue
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12 Mar 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week “Your respect’s the size of your attention span.” Given it’s been called the “attention economy” we work in, this quote nails it. Social Media: Is Voice-Based Bubbly the New Twitter? – Advertising Age One question I hear a [...]
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- Tags: analytics, data, facebookconnect, foursquare, google, metrics, mobile, twitter, video, youtube
Creativing :: Free ebooks correlate to printed sales, Social media crisis lessons, and the first ChatRoulette campaign
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5 Mar 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week There are pretty much just two writer moods: “I am a GOD!” and “I suck!” Today, Minions, I am a GOD! Free ebooks correlated with increased print-book sales – Boing Boing A similar correlation has been shown in [...]
Creativing :: The creepy addiction of Chatroulette, Foursquare’s real impact, and trouble ahead for online advertising
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26 Feb 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week I’ve been sitting in LA traffic so much today I wrote a pilot. I need a Final Draft app. The Surreal World of Chatroulette – NYTimes.com If you haven’t seen this site, check it out. Like the NY [...]
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- Tags: data, mobile, research, social, technology, websites
Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, the iPhone sandwich, and Facebook vs. Google
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19 Feb 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week PEW SURVEY: By 2012, every object in America will have its own Facebook page and an unnecessary laser pointer. YouTube – iSandwich 4G Found this pretty funny. Not sure I’d want to taste it, but it’s a visual [...]
Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, Pissed off at Google, and Foursquare goes for the gold
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12 Feb 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week if ($caffeinated) { echo ‘good morning!’; } P&G Launches eStore to Test Marketing Concepts – MarketingVOX I’m curious to see what this ‘lab’ looks like from a features and development angle. It’s clearly designed for nimbleness, which will [...]
Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, Museum’s engage in trash talk, and the 10 greatest YouTube mashups
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5 Feb 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more Ahead Of Super Bowl, Museum Heads Trash-Talk : NPR If you want to breath some [...]
Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, Fake Steve Jobs on the iPad, and Seth Godin taking his own medicine
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29 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week I like to imagine Jonathan Ive and James Dyson — tank-topped, schnapps-drunk, and enthusiastically slap-fighting over who’s fancier. Official Google Blog: Search is getting more social Sometimes a video is worth 1,000 blog posts. This one does a [...]
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- Tags: apple, charity, fundraising, google, humor, social, socialmedia, strategy, twitter, video
Creativing :: Remarkable iPhone story from Haiti, Put yourself in a music video, and the future of mobile and social networks
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22 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive | Wired.com Remarkable story about a documentary filmmaker caught in the Haiti earthquake and survived, in part due to a first aid app on his iPhone. Of course, this is as [...]
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- Tags: iphone, mobile, newspapers, outsourcing, social, tool, ugc, video
Creativing :: Twitter for event marketing, Foursquare is serious gaming, and Minority Report here we come
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15 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week As CNN demonstrated it’s impact during the Gulf War, it’s tragic events like the Hattian earthquake that perhaps most demonstrate the power of Twitter. And it’s not Twitter per se, but rather the direct form of simple, unfiltered, [...]
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- Tags: controversy, google, mobile, paidmedia, street view, twitter, video, youtube
Creativing :: iPhone AR helicopter, smartphones and ecommerce, and a look under the hood of any website
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8 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week This is a new feature I’m going to add to this column each week. 140 Characters How Twitter Was Born Ran across this story from Dom Sagolla, one of the original team that created and launched Twitter. Note how, [...]
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- Tags: ar, augmentedreality, data, facebook, iphone, technology, twitter
Creativing :: Google Google and more Google, a restaurant does brand experience, and Guitar Hero for the holidays
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19 Dec 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Google Chrome promotional videos Fantastic videos from the Chrome campaign in the UK. It’s great to see Google doing something different from their homespun Wave video approach. This is real artistry. Ultimate Guitar Hero Experience It’s amazing what happens when you take [...]
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Creativing :: Holiday shopping madness video, social media gains advocates, and iPhone news
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11 Dec 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Chaos inside Walmart during Black Friday 2009 [VIDEO] Absurd chaos going on here. You’d think a gun was fired. People in some parts of the world must see this and think this entire country is insane. Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman Mashup Creates [...]
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There's so much digital marketing info flying around the web that sometimes it makes my brain hurt. This is where I process it, and you're welcome to join in.
- Doug Schumacher: Exciting for sure. One area that I think has a lot of potential is not only showing me places around [...]
- David Gillespie: Hey Doug, The thing I like about ForuSquare is it is also a front runner on the emerging wave of [...]
- ken manning: I like how Yelp introduced the Monocle feature a few months back. It was an easter egg in their exis [...]
- Doug Schumacher: Tom, You're dead on. The 'Anvil' case you mention is a perfect example of how entertainment prope [...]
- Tom Richards: Hi Doug, Well written. I totally agree. Thanks for sharing this. A bit off topic but this got me [...]
- Creativing :: Facebook is heroin, Farmville engagement is sliding, and the Twitter Times personalized newspaper
- Creativing :: What Steve Jobs should say, kings of YouTube, and dissecting the Old Spice campaign
- Creativing :: Social Media’s World Cup, Ridley Scott directs YouTube, and social media meets the offline world.
- Creativing :: Massive Glastonbury photo tag, Google’s uphill run at Facebook, and mobile heads in-store
- Creativing :: Conan O’Brien’s tweet, Social media pushes the ‘cuddle’ button, and Web 3.0?
- Creativing :: Android gains on iPhone, Tablets to outsell netbooks by 2012, and Twitter goes local
- Creativing :: Mary Meeker’s online advertising predictions, Flash ads on iPhone, and 600 shopping mashups
- Creativing :: Great Steve Jobs video on Apple and Flash, Second Life’s second life, and 3-D printing comes home
- Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, Craigslist TV?, and Foursquare links to print ads
- Creativing :: Tweet of the Week, Facebook’s privacy blowup, and Google’s version of TVs future
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