There Has Been A Changing Of The Guard At Mango
Supermodel Miranda Kerr is the new face of Spanish retailer Mango, replacing the legendary Kate Moss.We're still not sure exactly why Moss is no longer with Mango, Global Grind points out, but Kerr has...
View ArticleShould Advertisers Be Angry When Facebook Sells Their Fans To The...
Larry Kim, CEO at search engine marketing company Wordstream, has a question for Facebook's ad sales people: Why do you sell advertisers' customer lists to rival brands?Kim noticed that ad buyers on...
View ArticleThe 12 Best Augmented Reality Campaigns Of 2012
Augmented Reality (AR) has grown in popularity over the last twelve months.More and more people own smartphones and startups like Blipper have launched more sophisticated campaigns as a result.There...
View ArticleYodle CEO Court Cunningham Tells Us His IPO Plans
Yodle.com, the online marketing site for small businesses, will make about $130 million in revenue in 2012, has 800 employees, and has been profitable for a year, CEO Court Cunningham tells us.So, is...
View ArticleYes, That Was Mickey Mouse's Dead Body In The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Brooklyn-based artist Brian Donnelly -- better known as "KAWS" -- sent a balloon shaped like Mickey Mouse's dead body down Broadway in New York during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.The balloon's...
View ArticleAdvertisers Will Spend $9.2 Billion On Social Media In Next 4 Years [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, Adland. Here's what you need to know today:Social media ad spend is slated to double from $4.6 billion this year to $9.2 billion in 2016, a report by BIA/Kelsey predicts. Furthermore,...
View ArticleHEY, LINKEDIN CEO JEFF WEINER: Your Anti-Phone Policy Is Ruining My Life! (LNKD)
Back in September, I wrote a small item pointing out the fact that it is impossible to reach any LinkedIn staff member by phone (unless you already know their direct line).Writing that post was a huge...
View ArticlePandora Has A Problem With Rihanna That Could Kill The Company (P)
Pandora has become so popular it feels as if it's almost ubiquitous. Yet, as Bloomberg points out, it has fewer active users than Rihanna has Facebook fans.Pandora has 54.9 million active users...
View ArticleSubscribe To A Newsletter For A Chance To Win An iPad Mini From Business Insider
Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
View ArticleSee The Obese Mannequin That 'Horrified' People On Reddit
An obese mannequin went viral on Reddit after one user posted a photo with the caption "anyone else horrified they make obese mannequins now?" More than 200 people commented on the photo of the...
View ArticleANALYST: Facebook Is Generating $1 Billion A Year From Its Ad Exchange (FB)
Bernstein Research analyst Carlos Kirjner calculates that Facebook's ad exchange — which shows ads to Facebook users triggered by cookies that have tracked them from other web sites — is on course to...
View ArticleHere's Everything You Need To Know About How Mobile Wallets Work
For years, tech companies have promised us that soon we'll be using our phones to pay for everything and that our wallets and purses will become a thing of the past.And yet we're all still carrying...
View ArticleBest Buy's Black Friday Tent Cities Reveal A Harsh Reality For The Company (BBY)
Days before Best Buy's Black Friday deals kicked off, the most hardcore of bargain hunters were already camped out in tents in front of stores, hoping to get their hands on the biggest doorbusters.They...
View ArticleThe Secrets Of Social Retail [SLIDE DECK]
Retailers can no longer ignore social, but if they're going to get involved, they have to do it right.Tara Hunt, CEO and co-founder of fashion recommendation site Buyosphere and director of digital and...
View ArticleAbercrombie Just Proved To Everyone That It Is Back
Just a few months ago, Abercrombie & Fitch was in crisis. Critics said that the teen retailer had stuck too close to its preppy roots and wasn't flexible enough to appeal to today's demanding...
View Article2012 May Be The Year Banner Ads Started To Die
Banner ads, those benighted rectangles and boxes, have been the primary way publishers make money online since a digital offshoot of Wired magazine ran the first one 18 years ago.But the industry is...
View ArticleT-Commerce Trends At IGNITION West 2013 With AmEx, One King’s Lane, @Walmart...
The fast-changing retail experience - in-store, online, mobile, and now social - will be a hot topic at Business Insider's second-annual IGNITION West conference on March 26, 2013, in San...
View ArticleBII REPORT: Here Are The Major Players In Mobile Advertising
We are in the post-PC era, and soon billions of consumers will be carrying around Internet-connected mobile devices for up to 16 hours a day. Mobile audiences have exploded as a result.Mobile...
View ArticleOprah's Brand Is Showing Its Age – Just Like Most Of Her Fans
Marie Antoinette’s advice to the poor was “let them eat cake.”Oprah Winfrey’s response to world recession has been to release her own line of organic food.According to Forbes, America’s Ancien Queen...
View ArticleSee Inside Deutsch LA: The Agency That Brought You Little Darth Vader
Last week, we visited Deutsch's massive LA office to talk about everything from Super Bowl— don't expect any dogs this year— to the company's digital endeavors.But when I saw the awesome creative work...
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