RPA and Honda have conjured up some terrific animated videos to help promote three worthy causes this holiday season. The videos feature favorite nostalgic toys such as Gumby and Pokey and Skeletor and He-Man singing their renditions of familiar or newly created holiday tunes. Each video has a charity associated with it. The video that garners the most views through December 21 will win a grand prize of …
Does Your Facebook Group Encourage And Support Real Life Interactions?
The platform that creates the stickiest bonds between users wins. Facebook wants to win. In this piece for Facebook Groups, the human bonds formed at Donda’s House – the non profit inspired by Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, are featured. Facebook tapped Persuade director Michael Marantz to help tell a story about an incredible group of students, who, despite their challenging youth in Southside Chicago, …
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Laphroaig Scotch Welcomes Your Opinion In Socially Powered Sampling Campaign
With Halloween just around the corner, Laphroaig Scotch is getting in the spirit. Let's hear these unscripted, somewhat spooktacular, focus group responses to the unique taste of Laphroaig. http://youtu.be/dp4isxDD5dE To pair with the video, Laphroaig has also created a new cocktail to enjoy this Halloween. Laphroaig Trick or Treat Ingredients: 1 1/2 parts Laphroaig 10-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch …
Wherever Your Journey To Extraordinary Takes You, Holiday Inn Is There
Holiday Inn's new all-digital campaign, "Journey to Extraordinary," seeks to tell captivating stories that bring the customer journey into focus. Before you say, "Oh great, another customer testimonial," consider that customers prefer to hear from one another, and that the brand's job in "building community" today is all about enabling these interactions. Okay, let's meet social entrepreneur Majora Carter, a …
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Columbia Sportswear Films Brand Advocates On Field Trip In Jordan
Columbia Sportswear has been "trying stuff since 1938." Now, with the help of CMD in Portland the recreational clothing maker is trying on the content producer's role with the release of a new brand-sponsored documentary, I Am #OMNITEN. Each year Columbia selects ten more people to join its #omniten program. The #omniten are not full time editors or paid professional athletes. They are college students, they are …
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See All This Content? I Also Provide It To Clients
"Keep your day job, until your night job pays." -Hunter/Garcia If there is one lesson I might share with you from nearly a decade as an ad blogger, it is this: Do not start with a blog and then go looking for a business to support it. Business first, then blog. The reality is I made this correction several years ago, and now I put more time and energy into Bonehook.com. Bonehook is my marketing services …
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What You Can Bring To the Content Party: Digital Endurance
Change is the only constant. In digital media terms though, change is more than a constant, it's a constant storm. Grace Bonney, founder of Design Sponge, waxes nostalgic about blogging days gone by. Let's listen and learn. Six to eight years ago, most bloggers were living in our own version of the ‘Conde Nast heydays’ without knowing it. We were getting great rates for advertising, having to do (relatively) …
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College World Series Is Ideal Venue For NCAA’s Real Time Marketing
The NCAA College World Series wrapped up last night at TD America Park in Omaha. New national champion, Vanderbilt beat Virginia 3-2 on the strength of a dramatic 8th inning home run from John Norwood. Sporting events of this magnitude offer marketers fantastic opportunities to communicate value to a highly engaged TV audience. But how does a fan capture a moment in the game and share it with others who love …
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