Excuse us for back-patting, and maybe it didn’t take a rocket scientist to predict within hours of Sony’s PR spinners announcing Sony was pulling the The Interview from distribution that Sony would do a walk back before Christmas and announce the film would be immediately available via the Internet. But we were the rocket scientists […]
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Social Media holds the key to bringing your hedge fund to the next level and into the 21st Century. The key to branding your hedge fund is appropriately using social media tools to promote your company. New data has been released that supports the use of social media by hedge funds. Below is some of […]
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For marcom gurus who also oversee digital ad buying to promote your corporate brand across the ethernet, there’s bad news for you courtesy of barking from the consortium of advertising firms that you likely pay lots of money to. As a side bar note, The JLC Group has long eschewed the notion of impression-based digital […]
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From: Seth Rogen, Film Actor, Writer & Director To: Amy Pascal, Sony Productions Warning: Please make sure that no hackers from North Korea or any place else can read this before opening below note: We should talk re: biggest leak yet re my film The Interview and news media nonsense promoting risk of terrorism attacks […]
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#Bold is the new better buzzword, according to NYT’s Stuart Elliott in his Dec 5 column. We get it; after all re-purposing evocative phrases for brand awareness is a contact sport for Madison Avenue ad grunts..and Stuart’s pointing to illustrative examples below demonstrates that Madison Ave is often compared to blind mice chasing after the […]
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From the “You Can’t Make This Sh*t Up” Department, Malaysia Airlines has once again found itself lost. This time its not because one of their planes disappeared, but because its brand marketing strategy has crashed head on into the Twittersphere thanks to someone at that airline tweeting a promotional message that reads: “Want to go […]
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Social Media Marketing Trends: How To Monetize in 2015 The Top Reality TV Show in 2015 “Bots For Boobs” While no great surprise, a recent report found that marketers focused on B2C (business-to-consumer) brand awareness/marketing strategies have found LinkedIn to be much less significant when compared to Facebook or Twitter for their marketing efforts. For […]
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Words to live by..If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.. Yes, every smarty pants overseeing corporate marcom budgets would like to believe that “since the cost of technology becomes cheaper, and as the cost of advertising becomes more efficient [thanks to the ad industry embracing the […]
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