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How to Tap into Instagram’s Massive Audience to Increase E-commerce Sales

You already know that brands can leverage user-generated photos from Instagram to engage consumers. Today we will measure that engagement and connect it to ecommerce sales. With Instagram, marketers have access to a huge audience of 100 million active users snapping over 40 million photos per day and posting 1000 comments per second. Instagram is [...]

Give Visitors Deals and Price Comparisons

People WANT to buy products online! Your job as an affiliate is to help them make an informed buying decision, and help them find the best product - and the best deal on that product. See live examples...

Starbucks Concept Store Looks Like Traditional Japanese Teahouse

The coffee chain's newly opened store represents the spirit of hospitality unique to Japan.

Italian Agency Launches Telepathy Service

With a fresh site and video spot, an Italian agency is now offering mind-to-mind advertising. As io9 reports, via the agency’s release: “Telepathy Advertising is a full service agency which works on telepathic scripts and its emission...Show More Summary

Energy Noodles Make You So Hard Hotties Can Stand on Your Stiffy

It would be so awesome to work in the Japanese ad world. All their work is so whacked. Can you imagine writing a creative brief for this stuff? Can you imagine concepting this stuff? Shooting it? Showing it to the client? With Japan's...Show More Summary

Powley Assumes Global Prez Role at iCrossing

Well, after some cuts here and a shuttering there, we finally have some positive news to report in 2013 about iCrossing, mainly that the Hearst-owned digital agency has promoted six-year vet Brian Powley to global president. Powley,Show More Summary

Blog Hilariously Trashes Stock Photography

Apparently constricted by budgets that don't allow for original photography, two Vancouver art directors faced with using stock photography, Andrew and Bart, have launched Getty Critics, a blog on which they gleefully poke fun at the idiocy of staged stock photos. Show More Summary

Techno Talk and the Battle for Planet Parent

by Tony Towndrow The Oxford English Dictionary today announced that the word “tweet" will be added to their next edition, signalling the fact that the internet is causing fluid changes in our language and that a bird in the internet land is worth two in their book. Show More Summary

How This Explainer Video Increased Conversion 20%

In this case study from SwitchVideo, a company that develops explainer videos for barnds, the company shares how the creation and use of an explainer video increased online conversions 20% for social metrics company Rypple. In the whitepaper,...Show More Summary

Tech Tales from New York

Andrew Rasiej on Stage at the 10th Annual Personal Democracy Forum Sandwiched in between the 10th anniversary gathering of the Personal Democracy Forum, the annual who's who of those intersecting technology, politics and social activism,...Show More Summary

John McAfee Goes Ballistic in Super Strange, Brand-Trashing Video

We'd venture it's a sure bet the brand McAfee is none too pleased with a recent video released by founder John McAfee in which he trashes the software he created because the people who have run the company without him for the last 15...Show More Summary

Carrot Creative Makes Moving Dramatic with the “Unpakt Network”

This parody reality show trend is tiresome, especially because reality shows are already a parody of life. Earlier this month, PBS invented fake reality shows like “Knitting Wars” and advertised them coupled with their own message: “The fact that you thought this was real says a lot about the state of TV. Show More Summary

How to Lose Weight While Blogging

If you’ve ever said you didn’t have time to write or exercise more, this blog post is for you. We all wish we could create more content and shed more pounds, but inevitably, both goals get placed behind “doing my job” on the to-do list of life. But that ends today.Today, I’m going to show [...]

Wednesday Morning Stir

-If you have about nine minutes to spare, here are your Cannes, Day 2 highlights, which include OMD Australia (Sydney) and O&M Amsterdam picking up Media Agency of the Year and Media Grand Prix awards, respectively. link -In cased you...Show More Summary

This is REAL content marketing

Everyone is talking about content marketing these days. It’s the practice of creating useful content (articles, posts, graphics, and videos) instead of advertising. The idea is good: If you give people something interesting to read, they’ll come back to your website to learn more. Unfortunately, it’s usually done awfully. Companies hire spammy services to write [...]

Is Your Brand Over-Sharing?

Sharing, sharing, sharing. It's all the rage right now among brands that have discovered the power of social media and what it can do for them. But is there such a thing as oversharing? Can a brand become too active in social media channels...Show More Summary

Virtual Pop Star Gets Her Own Cafe [Pics]

Eat curries and throw back cocktails inspired by a singing, digital avatar who tops Japanese pop charts more often than living stars.

I Wish I Had Known

I’m the kind of person who lives for the “I wish I had known” articles. I can’t help it- I like learning from others’ mistakes. So, I’d like to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to failures everywhere. Inspired by this Businesstips.com...Show More Summary

Publisher Offers Book Recommendations Based On Your Facebook Timeline

Random House's app seeks to strengthen the publishing industry by tapping into social media communities.

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