“Please tell me your new big idea has a geolocation feature in it. We need to reach prospects at the point of sale, and now we can!” The monologue above was a staged reaction to you presenting a geolocation-less campaign. Forgive my indulgences… According to a new $499 Forrester report, the percentage of U.S. online [...]
Shazam is an awesome app. It listens to songs on the radio and tells you the name of the track and artist. Technology… Apparently, Shazam will also listen to TV ads. General Mills’ Pillsbury Crescents brand is using Shazam for TV to reach busy millennial moms. When viewers see the TV spot, they can open [...]
One of the more innovative agencies out there is Red Square Agency in Mobile, Alabama. If you’ve ever worked in a small market like Mobile, you know it’s a bit harder to attract great talent and draw buzz. But Red Square is defying that convention, and seems committed to putting itself on the ad map. [...]
QR Codes. What are they good for? It’s a topic in search of an answer, which Croatia’s mail service, Hrvatska Pošta, has for us. Hrvatska Pošta developed postage stamps featuring QR codes that can be used to track the mail and confirm delivery. Created by Croatian agency Bruketa & Žinić OM — which, incidentally, was [...]
To bring clients closer to their consumers and to better understand how the culture of mobility will influence brand conversation and engagement, Digitas created The Mobile Retail Showcase. “Brands that rely on physical retail distribution are waking up to the fact that mobile is literally disappearing the difference between e-commerce and bricks-and-mortar,” said Chia Chen, [...]
Direct marketers, take a bow. According to BusinessWeek, when digital ads lead to a phone call, conversions soar. Call advertising has been available for several years but has gotten a boost as smartphone sales take off. Less than a year ago, Google reported it was connecting millions of phone calls via click-to-call each month (where [...]
Writing in The Huffington Post, Sal Candela, Director of Mobile for PHD Media, asks why the mobile ad space is so underutilized: Mobile is different. Mobile can ask a consumer to do something — touch it, tap it, say something, watch something. But most importantly it can react based upon that person’s response. For example, [...]
Comedic vixen Kristen Schaal is at it again for Sony Ericsson in this new set of spot from MWorks in Atlanta.
The folks behind Brief Buddy kindly provided me a promo copy of their iOS app (which runs on iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch). First off, this app will not help you write the creative brief. But as a tool for creative professionals gives you a handy platform for referencing the 20 most common tactics to get to the [...]
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