PROMOTED TWEETS & THE NEW ADVERTISING AGE

July 1, 2010

Mark down April 2010 as the month when consumers took control of advertising. That’s when Twitter rolled out Promoted Tweets—its real-time, open conversational ad platform advertising model, where the content itself is the ad and where user engagement and resonance determine an ad’s life cycle and exposure.

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ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA I LEARNED IN PUNK ROCK

April 14, 2010

The familiar echo of punk rock in the ethos of social media.

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CRISIS CONFUSION

April 1, 2010

If hundreds of hours of offline and online negative coverage and conversation can’t derail Toyota’s sales, how can we realistically talk about digital bruising anything but a few corporate egos.

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SKITTLES’ RAINBOW REDEMPTION

March 15, 2010

It’s great to see Skittles making a 180-degree pivot to a new site that is a vibrant, Dali-esque online experience unlike almost any other brand-centric site.

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THOUGHTS ON OBSTRUCTIONIST AGENCIES

February 5, 2010

It’s time for social media agencies to stop avoiding the client need for measurement and value and begin working on answers to increasing demands for meaningful social media ROI.

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