According to the Los Angeles Times, some out of work creatives in Hollywood are managing to have some fun despite their situation. When the Hollywood studios say they don't know enough about the Internet to pay writers what they seek for the streaming and downloading of their shows, they might not be kidding. That was made embarrassingly clear Monday when a group of opportunistic writers unveiled a website lampooning …
LinkedIn Gets With The Program
According to The New York Times, business-minded soc net, LinkedIn, is unveiling several new improvements to its site. LinkedIn will encourage developers to use its APIs (application programming interfaces) to build widgets, or small applications. The widgets can, for example, be integrated with a job-hosting Web site to let users see how many connections they have within that company. LinkedIn will support the APIs …
London Calling
According to The Wall Street Journal, Fallon London is exempt from the recent pains felt in Minneapolis. Fallon's London office, with 175 people, has won accounts in the past year including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s United Kingdom business, Cadbury Schweppes PLC and Eurostar Group. As a result, the office's billings have doubled to £120 million, or about $245 million. By contrast, the Minneapolis-based creative …
Wal-Mart Lives To Blahg Again
Wal-Mart has a new blahg. This one's called Checkout, which seems fitting. This is a blog, simply, about a team of experts at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club who have really cool jobs working with gadgets, games, sustainability and more. Even better, these jobs are centered around helping people save money and live better. You might recall that the Arkansas-based retailer had some problems last time they went down this road. …
Considering Content
Faris Yakob is thinking deep thoughts about content's place in our industry. Content and media are weird words. They are the antonymic binary stars that all our industries circle around, feeding of the energy they pump out into culture. They don't really exist without each other. Even in the very specific sense in which we use the words, they are both defined by what they are not. A medium is a vector for …
Interacting With Consumer Packaged Goods
According to Ad Age, unique visitors to package-goods brand websites soared 10% compared with a year ago in the third quarter to 66.4 million. The tally is double the 5% rise in the U.S. internet users to 181.9 million. The traffic increase appears to come primarily from a surge in online display advertising from package-goods players. Mars' Uncle Ben's site, for example, which cracked the industry's top 10 last …
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Work Hard At School, Get Free Happy Meal
Ad Age reports that McDonald's has found another way to reach their best customers. The Golden Arches picked up the $1,600 cost of printing report-card jackets for the 2007-2008 school year in Seminole County, Fla., in exchange for a Happy Meal coupon on the card's cover. With 27,000 elementary school kids taking their report-card jackets home to be signed three or four times a year, that's less than 2 cents per …
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TV Audience Isn’t There
According to Adweek, network TV isn't delivering the eyeballs marketers are paying for. NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers for fourth-quarter prime-time ratings shortfalls, averaging about $500,000 per advertiser, according to media buyers, marking the first time in years a network has taken such a step to compensate marketers for ratings deficiencies. Among the Big Four networks, NBC has the most serious …
