Skittles has recently redesigned its webpage and btw amazed the whole online marketing industry with the new Skittles homepage, which is based entirely on content published on Social Media. Yes, if you want to know more about the products, within the Skittles website you are sent to a Wikipedia article, if you want to see photos, then you are directed to a Flickr profile. What about friends? Facebook. Videos? YouTube. And chatting? Twitter. You’ve got to check it out to understand the concept. It is also good to read the interesting analysis from ViralBlog.
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Advertising Blogs around the World
The Inspiration Room has published a great collection of blogs focused on advertising and marketing around the world and sorted by country/region. Check it out.
Newseum: Today’s Front Pages
Ever wanted to know what are the main stories on newspapers around the World? The Newseum, at Washington DC, makes it possible through its website. Try the “Today’s Front Pages” section, select a country from the map and see the available newspaper’s front pages, you can even download them in PDF. Great!
Detective Stripes: El gran show-off de Grupo W
Ya está en todos lados la nueva campaña de Rexona “Detective Stripes”, sin embargo vale la pena preguntarse: ¿Quién sale ganando más de todo esto Grupo W o Rexona? Y sí, ya vemos en todos lados la nueva campaña de Rexona “Detective Stripes”, desarrollada por Grupo W, una agencia mexicana que comenzó haciendo sitios web y que se ha caracterizado por la realización de muy buenas campañas para uno de sus clientes más importantes –si no es que el más importante- : Unilever. Desde hace varios años esta agencia no ha parado de presentar sus campañas de Rexona como casos de éxito en cuanto foro, seminario o congreso de internet estén presentes. Con esta última entrega el sitio www.detectivestripes.com destacó en los World Summit Awards como uno de los portales que impulsa a tener mejor interactividad y difusión de contenidos en la web, por medio de la creatividad. Felicidades a Seguir leyendo
Cómo cuidar tu privacidad en Facebook
No se trata de dejar de utilizar las redes sociales, sino de estar conscientes de las implicaciones que tiene el compartir nuestra información en estos espacios y ejercer un control responsable, no sólo sobre nuestra información, sino también sobre la que nos han confiado nuestros amigos y contactos. Cada día escuchamos más noticias acerca de la seguridad o privacidad de la información que publicamos en las redes sociales y siempre se nos recomienda tener cuidado con nuestra presencia en línea pues podría haber personas mal intencionadas que quisieran saber más de nosotros o de nuestra vida diaria sin nuestro consentimiento. El tema de la privacidad en Facebook cada vez está más en boca de todos y es prudente hacer un alto y escuchar todos los puntos de vista; sin embargo, también es prudente hacer caso a los reportes que televisoras como la BBC han hecho acerca del robo de información Seguir leyendo
Finding your competitor’s Digital Footprint
It is not always so easy for a company to figure out its own online presence or the one from their competitors. When building an Online Marketing/PR strategy it is always necessary to know who is talking about you and what they are saying. It is also important to know who is talking about your competitors and what it is been said. I recently collaborated in a Digital Footprint study for a well known software company, the study was focused on Mexico and Latin America and it was intended to identify the blogs, sites, and at the end, people, who were talking about the company and its brands. The results are confidential, but they will enable the company to generate a strategy to start a relationship, or even a direct conversation with them. The tools we used were almost all from Google, but there are also other online tools out Seguir leyendo
Sony Bravia Zoetrope
To promote Sony’s new Motionflow Bravia TV, Fallon built the world’s largest zoetrope, a rotating series of static images viewed through small slits, which was officially verified by the Guinness Book of Records. The filming of the zoetrope took place last November in the town of Venaria, near Turin, Italy. Via
The Evolution of Advertising & Public Relations
I just saw an interesting diagram posted by Todd Defren at PR-squared that shows the evolution of advertising vs. public relations in this Social Media era. “As you can see, PR is becoming increasingly interpersonal: there is a daily flow of interaction, responsiveness and adaptation going on amongst PR people and their ever-expanding publics. […] Meanwhile, the advertising folks are coming to embrace more and more user-generated content, but as PAID media (versus EARNED media). Advertising’s intrinsic, long-term value to the corporate brand is declining in the Social Media era. And the PR industry is the happy beneficiary.” The diagram is really insightful and yes, I agree with Todd, but the counterpart of this is that nowadays in Latin America (for example), there are no agencies that can advice corporations on a complete Digital PR strategy. Of course, you will find the traditional PR agencies that will offer some kind of “exercises” Seguir leyendo
Notes from the Road – Great Blog Design
Talking about blog design, take a look at Notes from the Road, a travel blog by Erik Gauger that has been recognized because of its great design. Featuring great photos and stories, Notes from the Road invites you to travel around the world and discover great places at cities and country. Forget about the classic WordPress or MovableType design themes, even if they are free or not… Notes from the Road takes the blog design one step forward. Notes from the Road
Impress – Flexible Display
Impress is a tactile touchscreen created by Silke Silsing from FH Würzburg, and is a matter of a flexible display consisting of foam and force sensors which is deformable and feels pleasantly soft. Impress works with the parameters position and time like other touch screens as well, but in addition to that, it reacts, above all, on the intensity of pressure. impress – flexible display from Sillenet on Vimeo. For more information visit the website. Via