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In a promotion for charity announced yesterday and noted on the Cancer Blog, Ritz Camera will partner with Carmen Electra to promote two new printing services, standard square print sizes of 5" and 6", and the ability to also get large prints in 1 hour (previously unavailable). Aside from the interesting partnership with Head for … Read more
Several weeks ago, I had the chance to speak with Jeff Taylor (founder of Monster.com) about Eons.com, his latest venture launching today. The site is targeted to the increasingly influential group of boomers aged 50+ who are now either contemplating retirement or engaged in "active retirement." Aside from the new advertising opportunities the site offers, … Read more
Working in advertising today, at least partially, is about nostalgia. Dreams of making a career in creative ads that the world would be talking about are still around on Madison Avenue, though becoming more of a fantasy in a world that has found and embraced Tivo. Yet the most powerful image of the golden age … Read more
One of the most popular portal sites today started with a list of Jerry Yang’s favourite sites. As Jerry grew his directory of sites into the megaportal of Yahoo – he also gave birth to an idea that was copied across the Internet. Then Google came along and Yahoo’s directory suddenly became a tool for … Read more
As a soccer lover, and marketer – I have to admit I paid almost as much attention to the advertising and marketing during the Cup as I did to the actual matches. Yesterday Jonah Bloom of Ad Age published a wonderful roundup of all the World Cup advertising battles and pointed to the big winners, … Read more
Visiting the PopTech blog I came across a link to this hilarious video spoof of the Mac ads that brilliantly counter the same messages Apple is sending with an equally powerful message that plays to PC users. Mac users love the simplicity, speed, style, and integrated software products that come with their machines. But PC … Read more
Every report in the industry today points to a rise in online advertising spending from large advertisers, and a decline in TV ad spending. This year, for the first time ever, the upfront Ad buy closed more than a month later than usual – a sign of indecision and tension in the TV ad market. … Read more
Ten years ago, a good domain name was the most important thing in the world. Companies bid millions of dollars to get the right domain name, legal battles ensued over who should rightfully own a domain, and registering the right domain name was usually the first step in launching a company, campaign or new tagline. … Read more
Thanks to all for their patience while I pulled together this week’s Carnival of Marketing over the holiday weekend (in the US). The posts from this week range from new great content online, such as TEDTalks, to new ideas like the Earthboards or marketing in SecondLife, to highlighting several posts from newer blogs out there … Read more
Digg.com is a great resource for client research. For all of our tech clients, it’s a useful site to keep track of the most popular news stories in the tech industry. The site’s model of allowing users to vote for their favourite articles or blog posts and allowing the votes to dictate which appear more … Read more
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Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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In addition to Non-Obvious Thinking, Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
