BrainStorm

It only took one day.
Heath Ledger’s tragic passing on January 22nd was accompanied by a San Diego Best Buy store clerk bumble (Best Buy Cashes In on Heath Ledgers’ Death) within hours of his passing. Well that only took about 4 hours…what took one day was for the news to become the hottest topic […]

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Gawker Media is one of the many sites we monitor for news and trends (did you catch Tom Cruise’s recent rant about Scientology?…that’s a PR lesson of its own.) He’s bringing crazy back for real.
Anyway, I came across this gem of “how not to handle PR” from Target.
Gawker reports, “It seems some bloggers are a […]

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According to Adams Media Research sales of internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion by 2011 up from $111 million last year. This trend obviously will continue to impact advertising models as less broadcast media will be consumed in coming years. This article on CNN.com states:
…that advertiser spending on Internet video […]

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The world of marketing is changing and it’s changing fast! And no it’s not because the big bloated advertising agencies are so swift : ),.. it’s because YOU (TIMES Person of the Year,.. in case you didn’t know),.. are.
Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba have a great new book out called> Citizen Marketers: When People Are […]

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Here’s a great look at the exciting developments in the City of Detroit through a vlog from our friends at Model D Media.
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The Tribune company is putting itself up for Auction. The “be-all” media company owns quite an impressive list of media outlets inculding: The Chicago Tribune, L.A.Times, Chicago Cubs, a bunch of T.V. Stations, WGN radio and Tribune entertainment,.. just to name a few. That doesn’t sound bad does it?,.. So why put yourself up for […]

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Getting caught up in the Tiger’s run to glory? I remember 1984, the last time the Tiges were in the Series. I was 10 and life was pretty good. I followed the team religiously from spring training up to Larry Herndon’s final put out to clinch it.
One noticeable difference this year from ‘84 (among many, […]

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The People’s Republic of YouTube
By Patrick Goldstein, Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2006
Appearing on “The Daily Show” the other night to plug his new Comedy Central program, “Freak Show,” David Cross joked that he assumed all the viewers had already seen the show. You’re right, Stewart said with a laugh, “None of them get Comedy Central, […]

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The social media world is both reeling and rejoicing over the recent $1.65 billion Google acquisition of YouTube. With their $900 million deal with MySpace for video advertising back in August, and their recent foray into entertainment Google has nearly monopolized the social video space. Microsoft and Yahoo both have plans in the works including […]

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The Detroit Free Press reports what we’ve already known…ad dollars are moving from traditional mediums like television and radio to new media and new marketing. More auto ad dollars heading to Internet (Detroit Free Press 10/9/06)
This article reports that the autos alone will spend $1.23 billion on online advertisting, a 37% increase over last year’s […]

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