Black market internet sites for stolen health care records employ a system in which buyers can rate sellers, similar to many mainstream customer-centric models such as Yelp’s. The value proposition for medical records is much greater than for credit card numbers, making medical records more expensive.
Amazon has increased its spending on the development of original content and the acquisition of exclusive content for Amazon Prime. Increased advertising as well has led to significant growth in memberships to the service which boasts a user base that spends on average more than double the amount than non-Prime users spend annually within Amazon. Customers of the service are potentially stickier to the brand as well as they expand the range of services they use that are provided by the organization.
It’s not uncommon for companies to develop Christmas themed marketing content to share with their current and potential customers during the holiday season. Christmas provides a great opportunity for some brands to help further boost […]
These days there’s an app for just about anything that you can think of and with the public increasingly relying on their smartphones for different functions it’s not a bad time to be in the […]
(A couple of the images from United’s new safety video highlight the diversity of locations that were incorporated into its scenes. Photos courtesy of http://www.usatoday.com and http://www.ausbt.com.au) An interesting post in Forbes discusses a move […]
(getlevelten.com, 2013) Another crazy week in the business world has come and gone. We saw Facebook open up its checkbook again, this time to the tune of nearly $2 billion to acquire VR-headset maker Occulus Rift. […]
(GeekWire, 2013) There exists today no shortage of marketing initiatives crafted to exploit new technology. Where can consumers be reached and how can we deepen levels of engagement once we find them? The consensus is that rapidly […]
A great interview with Yahoo’s Head of the Americas, Ned Brody, appears in Ad Age this week. Over the past few years, Yahoo has been in the news a lot. From high profile acquisitions, to […]
As we sit down to write this morning, we cannot but shake our heads in awe at how rapidly and dynamically our field is changing. Since we first published Marketing Management in 2011, we have seen not […]
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