Have you ever doubted the power of digital media or underestimated the impact of Apple’s iPod? This number may surprise you, in the coming weeks Apple’s iTunes will sell it’s 10 billionth download (that with a “b” meaning – 10,000,000,000)!
Be the lucky downloader and you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card! As of a [...]
On the heels of Facebook turning 6 years old, LinkedIn hits another large benchmark. On February 11, LinkedIn announced their 60,000,000 member.
Not sure what that exactly means. It means more and more people are going to LinkedIn to find employment through via networking and more people are doing business through LinkedIn. This also shows rapid [...]
The Saints have won the Super Bowl, but that is not the glimpse that I am referring to in this post. As part of the celebration, WWLTV.com posted headlines from newspapers & websites from around the world. Notice, I said headlines from websites. Of the 43 headlines, about one-third of them were from websites. This [...]
It’s hard to believe that Facebook is just 6 years old. Where were we before anyone ever heard of Facebook or MySpace? (It’s okay, I hardly remember as well.)
I hope you enjoy Facebook and other possibly other social media avenues to reach out to old friends, disconnected family members and even your spouse, but if [...]
When I first saw this giant ad at the local mall, I wondered why would you advertise Gatorade in the mall. The target demographics were way off. When you think of the typical mall shopper you have soccer moms, tweens, and teenage girls. The teenage guys at the mall are usually looking at the teenage [...]
ESPN.com put it best, “Who Dat in the Super Bowl?”.
Believe it or not, the New Orleans Saints are in the Super Bowl. Oddly enough, they’re facing New Orleanians QB Peyton Manning & WR Reggie Wayne. Many believed the Saints would never make it to the big game. In fact, WWL’s sports legend, Jim Henderson, called [...]
I recently found a great article on BNET.com that epitomizes building a brand community and how to cater to that community. The article entitled Five Branding Secrets of Lady Gaga & Apple, go through how the eccentric singer and the innovate computer company create their brands.
1) Cultivate a Fanatical Fan Base: Fans of either Lady [...]
We are all wowed by great images. We buy photo books, look at pictures of the year in review, and send postcards of outstanding photographs. The old saying is that a picture says a thousand words and it is so true.
Many times clients and even designers forget the importance of good photography. Personally, I’ve seen [...]
This commercial caught be by surprise this past holiday weekend. I was watching a movie on Comedy Central and I thought it was a spoof like Saturday Night Live’s fake commercials. This time it was not a spoof. The commercial is of Vince Offer, better known as the Sham Wow Guy, rapping in the recent [...]
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