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This post originally appeared in our November issue of “Live Report from the Future of Marketing,” our monthly Post-Advertising newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Free music streaming services are here to stay. So when will brands really come out and play? …
Over the past few weeks, a bold campaign by the California Milk Processor Board, featuring men as suffering victims of PMS-crazed women and milk as the cure, has become the latest poster child for brands using shock and awe to …
Reason #348 why Zappos is awesome: honesty in advertising! Lately, I’ve seen more members of my social circle raise their eyebrows over hyper-targeted web ads — the kind that give real-estate to a product or product category you may have …
In the past year, plaid-clad British fashion house Burberry has produced a collection of music and video content that’s helped solidify its quintessentially British identity while also strengthening its global reach. These efforts recently culminated in a hugely successful event this past week …
Oh gentle, ad-obsessed readers, it seems like only yesterday Mad Men was on the air and we at Post Advertising were serving up weekly slabs of inspired ad industry analysis to go with it. Where do the days go? It’s …
This post originally appeared in our March issue of “Live Report from the Future of Marketing,” our monthly Post-Advertising newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Google has finally rewarded those steadfast providers of valuable, high-quality content over purveyors of drek. In …
This post originally appeared in our February issue of “Live Report from the Future of Marketing,” our monthly Post-Advertising newsletter. Subscribe for free here. Facebook’s Stories project has, for all intents and purposes, fulfilled its end goal. Now a fully-fledged, …
Google’s visual search application for smartphones was already able to recognize lots of objects and text, but after a significant upgrade, it can now swiftly recognize print advertisements and point users toward web results.
When we were kids, stories were our lives. We’d incessantly ask our parents to read us storybook after storybook, even though we could literally recite the stories word for word. My favorite was “Where the Wild Things Are.” Stories are …
Here’s a novel concept: instead of unsuccessfully pursuing and prosecuting bootleggers, reward those who actually cough up money for your recordings with something extra. Winnetka, California-born hip-hop experimentalist Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus, has done just that, giving …
