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Are you still waiting for your iPhone 5 to come in the mail? Then this might make you feel better. Apparently people in the Netherlands, especially employees in AMEX’s marketing department, are still waiting to get the… iPhone 1G. In a newsletter that was sent out this morning, American Express UK (@AmexUK) included some new …
It can’t be easy following in Steve Jobs‘ footsteps. Next month marks both the one year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing and Tim Cook‘s time as CEO of Apple… without being under Steve’s wing. Although Tim Cook has certainly done an amazing job as CEO (the stock has basically doubled this year), the few times that …
If you saw “The Social Network”, the movie that tells the story of how Facebook began, then you’ll get a thrill out of seeing these slides. As depicted in the film, Eduardo Saverin flew to New York City to sell ads right after the launch of TheFacebook.com in the spring of 2004. A copy of his …
So, you haul your old DV cam to shoot your kid’s school production of The Princess and the Pea. You’re so busy fussing with the buttons, checking the charge of the battery and rewinding the tape, you miss her stage entrance! Then you get the tape home, hook it up to the computer, need to …
Planning a Kickstarter project? Here are 5 things you should consider when you put your project together.
One of the only places that QR codes really make sense is in magazines and newspapers. People can just scan away at their leisure when the QR code is right in their hands. So you'd think a big company like Absolut Vodka would know how to properly use a QR code in a magazine ad. Apparently not. In the May 2012 issue of SPIN Magazine, Absolut included a QR code that was smaller than a penny. We tried scanning it using several phones and QR code scanner apps... no luck. it's too small to scan. Smartphone cameras just can't scan it.
If you’re an active social media user, then you’ve probably at least heard of Klout by now. If not, Klout is an influence metric service that uses a variety of secret algorithms to determine your influence and reach in the socialsphere around specific topics. This information is combined into a single number between 1-100. This …
We look at some Black Friday mobile apps that you can download for your iPad, iPhone or Android to find the best Black Friday deals.
Happy Green Week! That's right, all this week you're probably going to see a lot of green related TV programming, advertising, tweets, news and... even check-ins? Wait, green check-ins? Yep, apparently so. The folks at NBC's Green Is Universal just released a Foursquare powered mobile app called GreenSquare for iPhone and Android.
Zappos is stripping down for their latest marketing campaign. The nude models in their "More Than Shoes" ad campaign are getting a lot of attention.
Did you get a green Google AdWords card with $100 in free advertising in the mail lately? Even though the cards are aimed at new AdWords customers, you can still apply a coupon code to your existing account if you haven't already before. We have a MethodShop.com tutorial that will walk you through the process if you want to check it out.
He's everywhere and nowhere at the same time. He peeks at at every email subject at unreal time probing every sentence and all your punctuation. Got his nose in every colon and every situation... He's the Gmail Man!
Until the last few decades, "truth in advertising" was a joke and for the most part companies just said whatever they wanted to in their advertisements. Although the 1930s (and earlier) were especially ridiculous, we've found some pretty outrageous ads all the way up to the 1970s.
Are you a True Blood fan (aka Trubie)? Today HBO launched an exclusive True Blood Season 4 interactive video app on Facebook. The app pulls data from your Facebook profile in mere seconds and generates a custom video starring you, your friends and True Blood characters.
Have you seen the T-Mobile "Losing Your Shirt" commercial yet? In the ad, the cute T-Mobile girl, Carly Foulkes, asks a shirtless guy representing the iPhone why he's shirtless.
Great Foursquare campaign from Granata Pet Snack. Checking in on Foursquare gives your dog a snack.
Google really wants you to use their online advertising service called Google AdWords. So badly that they'll give you a $75 promotional Google AdWords code. Here's how to redeem it even if you already have a Google AdWords account.
