An interesting article in Adweek discusses Imgur’s plans to offer promoted posts in 2015. Imgur is an image hosting site, where people can upload, edit and share photos for free. The company, which has been […]
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Marketing where HBO’s Game of Thrones is Filmed: Tourism Ireland gets 8.6 Million Pounds Worth of Publicity for the Price of 200,000 Pounds
For both Tourism Ireland and HBO, collaboration on a Game of Thrones themed campaign represented a clear win-win scenario for both organizations.
The Charlotte Hornets’ Recent Rebranding: Short Term and Long Term Impact and Implications
A recent article in The New York Times takes a look at the Charlotte Hornets’ most recent marketing efforts involving the team’s new (or in some ways old) mascot and a door to door approach […]
Connecting Technologies as a Means of Accessing New Markets: Uber’s Partnership Strategy Aims to Gain New Customers
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 […]
United’s New Safety Video Highlights how Marketers are Finding Creative Ways to Engage and Promote the Brand in Unexpected Places
(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 […]
The Pepsi Spire: PepsiCo’s Computerized Fountain Beverage Machine Provides a Lesson in the Factors that go into Product Development in a Competitive Environment
In the soda industry the first two names that will come to people’s minds are typically Coke and Pepsi. The two companies that represent these massive brands compete fiercely with each other within multiple segments […]
Marketing Director or Brand Director?
(Marketing Week, 2014) An interesting article in AdvertisingAge this week discusses a change in titles for some of P&G’s marketing leadership. Specifically, as of July 1st P&G has announced a shift in the titles of […]
Marketing and Security
(The Tech Journal, 2012) Here we go again. Some consumers are still smarting from the exposure of their personal data as a result of security lapses at Target and Neiman Marcus. Thought unnamed, authorities specializing […]
Getting to Know Marketing Automation
(The Sales Lion, 2014) Marketing Automation. Out of context and definition, it sounds like something that could replace all of us living, breathing marketing professionals, no? In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Marketing […]
The Friday Round Up
(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. […]
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