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Legal Cannabis Is A Massive Opportunity for Marketing and Media Pros

Legal cannabis—medical and recreational—is a burgeoning opportunity for cannabis entrepreneurs like retailers and growers. It's also a wide open opportunity for the larger ecosystem that supports this industry, including design shops, ad agencies, and media organizations. I recently had dinner with an account executive in Portland and asked him who was knocking on his shop's door. The answer in Denver, Seattle, …

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Grain Belt’s New Lager Gets The Colle & McVoy Treatment

Inspired by the Mississippi River and the hard working lock and dam system that powered the original Grain Belt brewery, this new brew combines old-world techniques with a hint of hops to bring the traditional American lager into the 21st century. Design and packaging from Colle + McVoy in Minneapolis. Grain Belt is now made by another Minnesota brewing icon, August Schell Brewery of New Ulm. …

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New Feature Film from Red Bull Media House (One of 600 Pieces of Content)

Content is not king. Red Bull's content is king. Werner Brell, managing director of Red Bull Media House, made a rare public appearance at the Content All Stars summit in New York recently. Journalist and MBA, Dorian Benkoil, was there to speak with him for Mediashift. I joked to Brell that a toilet paper company couldn’t do what Red Bull is doing, and he vehemently disagreed. There are, he said, rules …

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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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Real Ronald McDonalds Agree: Taco Bell’s New Breakfasts Taste Good

Taco Bell encouraged real men with a famous name to testify! "I am Ronald McDonald and I love Taco Bell's new breakfasts," several real Ronalds repeat into the camera. Post by AdPulp.   This new campaign from Deutsch LA is not exactly brilliant, but it may breakthrough. And breakthrough is what it is going take to loosen McDonald’s grip on the morning hours—McD's currently dominates with 31 percent of …

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A Little Less Conversation Might Actually Be On Brand

Does anyone really care what a canned pasta brand thinks about world events? Some brands have made real-time marketing and social media an opportunity to comment on relevant political events, social issues and world topics. But many are just filling an ever-widening content pipeline with noise. What’s fueled all this is technology: The need to fill ever-widening pipelines with “content,” and the ability to …

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