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It’s A Dark Morning For Fast Food These Days

On my morning commute, if I listen to the radio (and I still do most of the time), I'll invariably hear a spot for McDonald's pushing some sort of Egg McMuffin. These days, as the Washington Post reports, even McBreakfast is taking a hit in this economy: "Typically, if you're unemployed, you're not getting up at six and not going through the drive-thru," said Jeffrey Bernstein, an analyst at Barclays Capital. "There …

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Google Goggles And The Rise of Geo-Based Real Time Advertising

Google Goggles sounds like a joke but it's no joke. In fact, quite the opposite is true. Typing on a cell phone is tough to do and voice recognition software is inexact. Google's new visual search for Android phones is an interesting answer to these problems. From a mobile marketing perspective, the idea that highly targeted, totally relevant ads can be delivered to the handset of a person actively looking for …

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“When Turtles Fly” Gives Tales of Inspiration and Perspiration

OK, I'll admit I'm really not into the Winter Olympics, but it's true that many of the athletes have compelling stories. Nikki Stone, a gold medalist skier, leans heavily on Olympic athletes in her book When Turtles Fly: Secrets of Successful People Who Know How To Stick Their Necks Out. To be fair, there are several other notable figures, such as Tommy Hilfiger, Branford Marsalis, and news anchor Lester Holt who …

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Producers Say, Hey We Can Do That And We Can Do It Faster And Cheaper

New York-based production company 24DP has become a hybrid advertising agency, providing all the services of a large agency without the overhead. "Careless overspending, creative laziness, and money-throwing-problem-solvers will soon become a thing of the past as we have seen in other industries," says 24DP CEO Brian Cristiano. "We are confident our agency model is truly revolutionary and will become the future of …

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Hide And Go Tweet

JetBlue's senior VP-marketing and commercial, Marty St. George, decided to test agencies currently vying for the airline's marketing account by asking on their Twittership. I don't know which agencies JetBlue is testing, nor how they faired. What I do know is that agency people who "get" Twitter jumped on this loose ball. In response to Bastholm's line of questioning, St. George made it clear, JetBlue isn't looking …

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