WIN, which stands for Worldwide Image Navigation, is a boutique stock photography agency based in NYC. As you can see from the agency's self-promo reel, they're intent on offering a high quality aesthetic and introducing a "new wave" of stock photography to art buyers and producers. WIN also conducts an international photo competition (10BEST10), publishes an online magazine featuring agency talent (WINk …
Cannes 2011 Is In The Can
Wieden + Kennedy and Droga5 cleaned up at Cannes. Fast Company has the low down. In other news, a highly selective cadre of ad people are waking up with hangovers, and making their way back to London, Sydney, New York and so on. George Parker, writing from Boise, has been there and done that. The entry fees have now become fucking outrageous. The number of categories has now gone beyond stupid. And the …
“Opt In” Is The Common Sense Answer, But That’s Not Good Enough For Ad Industry Lobbyists
How powerful is the drug lobby? In a 6-3 decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., No. 10-779, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Vermont law that restricted the use of prescriber histories for purposes of marketing or promoting pharmaceutical products to physicians. "We are very pleased that the Supreme Court has made clear that data mining for marketing purposes is fully protected by the First Amendment,” …
How To Make Money With Social Media Offers More Than Just “Send Me $5 Now”
For the title of their new book, Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah didn’t go to Cleversville. They went straight for the gut with How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider’s Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business. The title is a little misleading; you’re not going to get a secret code word that gets dollars flowing; instead, Turner and Shaw lay out a more basic methodology of planning, …
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Yes It’s Cold, Good For You Coors Light
Beer that's too cold loses its flavor. Of course, in this case that's mostly a good thing. What's not a good thing is an out-of-home board that points to small type that can not be read from a moving motor vehicle. I know the headline covers it, but still, there's nothing to like here from the strategy down to the execution. Note: I used to work on Coors at The Integer Group. I'm not wanting to grind any …
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Let’s Have A Chat About All These Conferences
I doubt I'll be asked to speak at one anytime soon: Every week I see floods of tweets and blog posts from people I know sharing quotable nuggets or random observations from some marketing-related conference, seminar, or training session. Collectively, it always seems like these gatherings are the place to be for gaining bits of wisdom. Who has time to attend all these conferences? Do people truly learn anything at …
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Is “American-Made” A Big Selling Point?
Over at MarketingForecast.com, they're taking a look at an increasing desire on the part of American consumers to seek out domestic goods. New research shows that the Made-In-America message is selling particularly well to affluent consumers. In the past 2 years, the number of well-to-do consumers who are buying products manufactured in America factories rose 5%. In addition, the data (from American Express …
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A BeanCast To Kick Off The Week
Once again, I was privileged to appear on The BeanCast with show host Bob Knorpp as well as John Wall, Mike Rynchek and Jason Falls. We discussed a wide range of topics including social media's role in broadcast metrics, the rise of co-viewing, online photos and usage rights, NFC payments, and the military's use of social media. You can give it a listen here. …
