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Howard Buford, Prime Access, CEO, LGBT

Prime Access' LGBT Media Strategy

Howard Buford, 50, has created LGBT-targeted advertising for companies such as JPMorgan Chase, Hyatt, and Showtime. Each year, Prime Access reports on which brands are perceived to be the most and least gay-friendly.READ»

Rashad Robinson, GLAAD, Senior Director of Media Programs, LGBT
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GLAAD's Helping Hand

Rashad Robinson, 30, organized GLAAD's inaugural Media Awards in Advertising in October to applaud gay-positive creative in both the LGBT and mainstream press.READ»

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Specultion, Writes Cisco into Last Night's Episode

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Speculation, Writes Cisco Into Last Night's Episode

Cisco got one hell of a pitch man in Jack Donaghy. Last night's 30 Rock wasn't just notable for the its usual cavalcade of shenanigans, or even the NBC in-house fun-poking (Brian Williams as a stand-up comic? Jack saying something ...READ»

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What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?

It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how? Hyper-personalization might be the way, according to the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard, which pressed ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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An Ad That Won’t Make You Throw Up At 35,000 Feet

I hate flying! There, I said it. I dunno, maybe it’s the thought that I’m in a 95,000 pound metal tube that’s flying 35,000 feet above the ground. It just doesn’t seem right to me that something that large (and heavy) should ...READ»

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Halloween happenings at Fluid Studio!

Halloween happenings at Fluid Studio! Fluid Studio pumpkins Want to know how we spend some of our staff meeting time in October? Carving pumpkins! At Fluid, we are nothing if we are not creative. So when we are ...READ»

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35 Politis PR Tips and Counting

35 free public relations tips are now available on the Politis Communications WebsiteREAD»

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Banner Ads Attached to Houseflies Will Bug You

At a recent trade show, one German company affixed tiny banner ads to flies--which preceded to buzz all around the convention center.READ»

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Facebook Plans to Geotag Your Life

Even as we busily plug our personal information into Facebook, the powerhouse social network is about to get a whole lot more personal. It's getting ready to link geo-location information to your actions on the social site. The ...READ»

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Crowdsourcing: A One-Way Ticket to Blah

Agency types are betting that crowdsourcing will usher in a new type of advertising. They must be crazy.READ»

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10 Things Corporations Can Learn from Pro Wrestling

Recently, writing about the death of the incomparable Capt. Lou Albano, journalist Phil Reisman with The Journal News wrote: "Somebody once said that to understand America, you have to understand pro wrestling." If you're looking ...READ»

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'Family Guy's MacFarlane Not PC Enough for Microsoft, Windows 7 Deal Pulled

Showing just how unhip being a PC can be, Microsoft has pulled out of a prime time Windows 7 sponsorship of a special by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. According to Microsoft, MacFarlane's style didn't "fit with the Windows ...READ»

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How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch

New web ventures need income. But if you’re going to be 2.0, then you can’t be the advertisers’ bitch. Everyone’s so very tired of that uninvited guest, the corporation. READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Free Billboard Ad To Build a Brand

I must confess, I really have a soft spot for anyone with a larger-than-average size forehead — myself included. So, when I received an email from a fellow bold forehead compadre, I was all ears. (Bold forehead. All ears. Get it?). ...READ»

Soap Opera Sunday

Why Online Branded Entertainment Should Study Soap Operas

With so many companies in the past few years talking about producing online video and other forms of "branded entertainment," I'm amazed by how people often talk about these trends as if they are new. Radio and early television was ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

The Evolution of Marketing Agencies

How firms need to think more like business managersREAD»

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Volkswagen Launches New GTI Media Campaign With Nothing But An iPhone App

In the midst of a review of its advertising creative, Volkswagen is launching the media push for its next-gen GTI automobile with a single, cost-efficient marketing tool: a single iPhone app. Rather than one of the big-budget ...READ»

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The Cell-Phone Symphony

Vodaphone NZ reproduces Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, using 1,000 cell phones. Seriously, just watch this video.READ»

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Should businesses and human resources departments create social media policies for employees? If so, how?

Should businesses and human resources departments create social media policies for employees? If so, how? Comments (0) April 15, 2009 is a day that will go down in the annals of Domino’s Pizza history. The day started out ...READ»

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Blogging Is Dead, Long Live Journalism

Technorati's regular "State of the Blogosphere" analysis of the business is just out, and among the stats is the incredible fact that bloggers are being paid more than ever. Is it time to rethink the definition of blogging? ...READ»

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Spreadable Media: A Cure for Viral Marketing

If a viral marketing campaign drops in a press release, is it really viral?READ»

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Can Twitter really save brands that don’t provide good experiences?

My head was with reeling with all the recent white papers and prescriptive blog posts on how every brand should start twiterring or else they will cease to exist, when I landed at San diego airport yesterday. How should you advertise ...READ»

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Who Benefits When Media Industries and Academics Dialogue?

In Monday's post, I wrote about the promise for dialogue between media studies/communication academics and media/corporate communication professionals. In my experience, when media industry practitioners and academics come together to ...READ»

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Experience Design will drive branding strategy

The Consumer-Brand Interaction cycle consists of many multi-layered and iterative phases. This article is a conversation starter on how experience design can help define the overall branding strategy and its impact on each ...READ»

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Breaking Down Advertising's Walls

In his blog here at Fast Company, Faris Yakob said that the advertising industry is no more, and now there's only the communication industry. Faris is quite right that the traditional walls and boundaries are shifting. As "Director of ...READ»

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