Search results for: “demographic”
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Beats + Apple post
Before Beats there was Mega Bass Before you can talk about Beats, you need to go back into the history of consumer electronics. If you had a Japanese made personal stereo in the 80s through to the early noughties the words ‘Mega Bass’ meant something. It was printed on everything from clock radios and boom…
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Morality + other news
Morality One in 10 Brits admits to lying pretty much all the time | Quartz – great PR story. How else do you build an empire over a third of the world by guile and a selective approach to morality? The UK tried to establish a common morality with the Empire as mother and the…
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Big life moments & digital
I spent much of January in Shenzhen and went to a concert played by a local band. I can’t remember much about their music save that the lead singer work a bowler hat and seemed to influenced by 1990s Brit Pop and A Clockwork Orange. What was remarkable about the gig was that for the…
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Brands as online tribes
Before brands as online tribes, there were tribes When we think about brands as online tribes, we need to go back to before mainstream web usage. Brands are as much totems of who we are online as in real-life. The idea of brands as tribes came up when you saw consumption patterns as lifestyle which…
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Nokia X & more news
Nokia X Modelling Nokia X Scenarios and the Level of Desperation it Reveals | Tomi Ahonen – the Nokia X is a strange device. The Nokia X is a low cost smartphone that runs Android rather than Windows. Is the Nokia X a power play by the Finnish company against Microsoft, or an engineering project…
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Jego + other news
Jego China Mobile Launches Jego Mobile App to Grow International Business – China Real Time Report – WSJ – Jego is like Skype Out. You get a certain amount of call minutes each month and a Hong Kong number. The Jego software feels clunky, and it is limited in terms of western payment platforms that…
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Irish cookery teacher + more
Irish cookery teacher Irish cookery teacher terrified into handing over website name to Lady Gaga | Irish Business | IrishCentral – the smart thing would have come to an agreement with the Irish cookery teacher and agree to licence the name to her for cookery blogging purposes only. Instead they’ve risked a social media shit-storm…
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Dominic Mohan + more news
Dominic Mohan Dominic Mohan severs staff ties with Rupert Murdoch | guardian.co.uk – it’s weird I forever think of Dominic Mohan and the the Bizarre column. The Bizarre show business column gave Dominic Mohan is public profile in the UK. Dominic Mohan had moved to The Sun from the News of The World. When Dominic…
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Nielsen + more news
Nielsen Why Google will crush Nielsen | guardian.co.uk – Nielsen is a global, independent measurement and data company for fast-moving consumer goods, consumer behavior, and media. The independence of Nielsen is something that Google can’t replicate. Nielsen covers 100 countries that have over 90 percent of the world’s GDP. Nielsen also covers about 80 percent…