Frieze is the contemporary art world’s equivalent of a trade show like COMPUTEX, CeBIT or CES. For the consumer its a great opportunity to see artwork from new and established artists. I personally found the David Shrigley and Damien Hirst well merchandised but the ideas behind the pieces a bit tired, like as if they [...]
Ex warner music head wants £1 album prices – The Inquirer – interesting that it echoes Apple’s argument that price and accessiblity are key to combating piracy UK shrugs at broadband speeds – The Inquirer – interesting survey that raises as many questions as it does answers. Is it ignorance or apathy that the consumers [...]
French mathe Benoît Mandelbrot had is obituary published in the New York Times today. Why do I care about a French mathematician? To be honest with you mostly because of the pretty patterns of his Mandelbroit sets which introduced the concept of fractals to popular culture. I remember lighting technicians in clubs in the early [...]
Great presentation by Griffen Farley at BBH. How To Do Propagation Planning View more presentations from Griffin Farley.
General Looking at Yahoo! itself first of all you have a board that can’t or mostly likely won’t stand up to a strong but non-performing CEO in Carol Bartz. If you look at the likes of Hewlett-Packard and the trials that they went through getting rid of Fiorina and Hurd, combined with shareholders that won’t [...]
For Millennials, Brands May Be as Important as Religion, Ethnicity | Fast Company – wasn’t this the case for generation X and even boomers as well? Brett Easton Ellis built a writing career on documenting the brands of disaffected youth. Yuppies were status brand obsessives. William Gibson and Douglas Coupland fetishise brands or deliberately create [...]
Attitudes to choice vary enormously by culture. It has an impact on brand perception, perceived product differentiation and consumer behaviour:
Techometr.com is a free service that reminded me of a chimera of Apollo Research and Techmeme focused on US reporting of gadgets updated on a daily basis. It’s a handy way of getting a feel for the gadget mojo happening online. The site was created by Retrevo who provide product reviews, shopping for US audiences [...]
I managed to attend Econsultancy’s first Jump conference which put 1,600 agency and in-house marketers in Old Billingsgate for a day of presentations and open forum discussions on marketing from a holistic point of view rather than the usual silo-ed approach of digital, PR, TV advertising etc. The high density of iPhone-holding executives seemed to [...]
SCVNGR – interesting location based service solves some of the social engineering issues with Foursquare Focus on: Italy – PR Week – impressive how strong TV is in Italy in terms of advertising spend iPhone apps now more popular than major TV shows and sports broadcasts | VentureBeat – well some soap operas and sporting [...]
Cool Hunting sat down with Mark Adams of shelving company Vitsœ to talk about how Dieter Rams design philosophy has helped them build a successful business. Dieter Rams’ Principles of Good Design from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.
I got to start thinking about this post when I read about Microsoft closing down its in-game adverting business Massive. What makes a company turn its back on a sector that it spent 200 million USD getting into in the first place? Especially when a player like Electronic Arts has doubled down on in-game advertising [...]
Many people think that The Simpsons is the zeitgeist, but they’re wrong, its all about the ‘Street. Brought to you by Grover and the word ‘on’.
NSFW: Generation Whine – Why I’m Relieved not to be a Millennial – Paul Carr’s usual opinion as therapy Being Eric Schmidt (On Facebook) – yet more issues on the security of Facebook Social Search Commands for Everyday Use – Search Engine Watch (SEW) – nice keyword tips for Twitter Search, Youtube and SocialMention TNS [...]
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