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Choi Hyun woo & things that made last week
Choi Hyun woo TV shopping channels are huge in Korea. Asian Boss did this great interview with Choi Hyun woo, one of the most successful shopping TV pitchmen (pitchwoman) in Korea. Looking at data from home shopping company CJ ENM Commerce division, sales are starting to focus more on premium and luxury products from international…
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Bullet time + more things
Bullet Time – Logic Magazine – Bullet comments, or 弹幕 (“danmu”), are text-based user reactions superimposed onto online videos: a visual commentary track to which anyone can contribute. Started in Japan, but popularised massively in China. When a beloved character dies in a web series, a river of grieving kaomoji (╥﹏╥)—a kind of emoticon first…
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Peepy and Mother Lee + more things
Peepy and Mother Lee take influence to the next level. These Thai influencers are on point with style that crosses gender boundaries and is atemporal in nature. I am surprised the Peepy and Mother Lee don’t get more publicity outside Thailand. I am also surprised that they haven’t become the muse of a prominent fashion…
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Hasan Minhaj and other things that caught my attention this week
Supreme by Hasan Minhaj. I hadn’t watched much of Patriot Act mainly because there is more content that grabs my attention on Netflix. This clip is a great dive into hype culture by Hasan Minhaj – often the best humour is that with uncomfortable truths in it. Amazon playbook on Amazon Vine. Gartner L2 made…
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K pop bandwagon & things that made last week
Puma have got on the K pop bandwagon to sell sneakers to Indonesians. Historically Korean brands have been most adept at getting on the K pop bandwagon. It is as common as chips in Korea. They have started to extend these K pop bandwagon campaigns abroad. Foreign brands have started to get in on the…
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Darude & other things
Darude – Sandstorm Vice are running a series on classic EDM (heart sinks) but the first is Darude – Sandstorm. Lets not even get into the music taxonomy Vice are using… Darude – Sandstorm is interesting because the catchy hook is straight out of the Stock Aitken and Waterman playbook, complete with a key change.…
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Plaxo closing down +other things
Plaxo closing down I don’t know if I hadn’t been paying attention or if it hadn’t been put out there in the media about Plaxo closing down. Prior to Plaxo closing down, it provided a valuable service by syncing your address book to people’s profile cards which they changed if they moved jobs, changed their…
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Marketers: you are not a goldfish and neither is anyone else
I have grown tired of a ridiculous statistic being used so frequently that it becomes marketing truth. It’s regurgitated in articles, blog posts, social media and presentations. The problem with it is that affects the way marketers view the world and conduct both planning and strategy. The picture below is a goldfish, his name is…
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Instant pot + more news
Instant pot Not Just A Crock: The Viral Word-Of-Mouth Success Of Instant Pot : The Salt : NPR – The instant pot of the title is what was called a slow cooker back when my parents bought one in the mid-1980s. It was a ceramic dish with a lid in a metal holder with a heating…