Archive for the 'Ideas' Category

This one has been roaming the net in the last few days:

It has more than 2 Million views already. Who would have thought that this is actually a viral clip for Levi’s? Amazingly well done - both in terms of content as well as spreading it on the net. Who was the agency - does [...]

I should have known. The chances of having an idea first are really slim. So someone, Alister, to be precise, came up with the idea to block the URL for Marketing Meme first. A URL that could be the meme-tracker of the marketing world, just as techmeme is the meme-tracker of the technology world.
Not sure [...]

Nevermind the fact that there are sooo many marketing buzzwords out there already, enough for a prolonged bullshit olympics, behind this link are 10 more you most likely haven’t heard yet - but might well hear often in the future
Here are some examples:
2. Viruseful.
Viral marketing initiatives that are actually useful.
“Not only did [...]

This is a strange but rather interesting idea: Modernista, an ad agency, doesn’t actually have a real website. Instead, the just provide a navigation layer that sits on top of various websites that have the relevant content, i.e. a flickr gallery of their work, a google news page with news of the agency, a wikipedia [...]

Just the other day I posted this graphic at my german blog:

The graphic is from this place here. Just today I found the ‘corresponding article’ about ‘how google and apple dominate‘ whatever field they are moving into. Written by Umair Haque, this article goes into the “no compromise for bucks” philosophy that is at the [...]

Ben Hourahine, Futures Editor at Leo Burnett explains his vision of future advertising, media usage, etc.

Sounds like that could happen. But then again, nothing of this really struck me as a new thought…?
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Amazing, isn’t it? Now imagine people are looking for something specific online on your webiste. Will they notice the ads? I guess, they will. BUT: only if they are relevant or related to what they are [...]

Just yesterday (or this morning), I received a comment by somebody who added some thoughts on viral marketing by pitching his own book including a lot of links in his comment. I let that comment through, because it sounded interesting. The other day however, not long ago, I received an email by somebody pitching his [...]