Volkswagen’s Barkside is a fun teaser promoting the brands’ involvement in the Super Bowl — as an advertiser. It continues to tap into the Star Wars phenomena and mashes it up with a costumed pet meme to come up with this fun, minute-long teaser ad.

An Ad Promoting…Another Ad?
Super Bowl ads [...]

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Geeking Out

I had written a couple of weeks ago about how freaking awesome it would be to have the ability to map out a social graph of the content that you share as a brand. At the time, I was thinking about tugging on the ears [...]

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A lot has been made of the ICAAN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) new top level domains, commonly referred to as .brand domains. Below is a super quick guide for some key things to think about when wondering if this new offering [...]

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10 Ways Agencies & Media Are Changing View more presentations from Empower MediaMarketing

Empower CEO Jim Price joined a variety of entrepreneurs, academics, venture capitalists and area leaders to discuss innovation.

“All About Innovation” was sponsored by Enquirer Media and [...]

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Where Have All the Kids Gone?

On November 30, 2011

 

In Ad Age’s recent “Kids’ nets face the mystery of missing children”, Brian Steinberg poses some questions that giants like Nielsen and Nickelodeon are asking about the drop in viewership of their coveted 2 to 11 year-old audience.

Viacom’s executives called the more than 20 percent drop as an ‘inexplicable [...]

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Media channels continue to provide examples of the well-established media convergence trend. The integration of network programming, consumer electronics and mobile devices as well as social platforms is changing how consumers watch television.

Shift to Multiple Screens
While TV remains one of the most popular digital entertainment platforms, computers, tablets [...]

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