Archive for August, 2009

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Disney Xtreme

Monday, August 31st, 2009

In the U.K., the Mouse House has replaced its old Jetix channel with Disney Xtreme Digital.

Posted in Media, Videogames, Identity, Kids |

Walmart.com

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Wal-Mart Stores Web site adds almost 1M new items.

Posted in Retail, Online |

Starbucks Via

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Starbucks rolls out instant coffee nationally.

Posted in Retail, Food/Beverage |

Sean Siller

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Hey, PC, who taught you to fight back?

Posted in Identity, Advertising |

Photojournalism

Monday, August 31st, 2009

As the importance of real-time news and images rise, photojournalism is gaining greater cultural currency.

Posted in Media |

Soap-Opera Love

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Soap-opera love story gets new life on Web.

Posted in Media, Online |

Human Pixels

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Human pixels are filling the landscape in commercials.

Posted in Technology, Advertising |

College Books

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Students seek alternative to high cost of college textbooks.

Posted in Books, Education, Retail |

Multitasker Price

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows.

Posted in Insights |

Step Aerobics

Monday, August 31st, 2009

When Reebok and step aerobic’s creator, Gin Miller, introduced it to the masses in 1989, it was a completely different fitness landscape.

Posted in Health/Fitness |

Crown Vic Cops

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Automaker faces fight as it pushes replacement Taurus.

Posted in Strategies, Automotive |

Baconmania

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Something’s happening here, and as foodie bloggers know, it’s all about bacon.

Posted in Insights, Food/Beverage |

Alcopop Update

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Time is ticking against caffeinated malt liquors.

Posted in Innovation, Food/Beverage |

Obama Girls

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Obama girls fly under the radar but how long will it last?

Posted in Identity, Kids, Celebrities |

Bunny Cafe

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Stressed-out Japanese seeking to unwind are hopping to a restaurant that serves cuddly pet rabbits alongside, and not on, the menu.

Posted in Restaurants, Innovation, Asia, Retail |

Walmart vs. Wal-Mart

Monday, August 31st, 2009

It’s a Walmart store (trade name), but Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (corporate name).

Posted in Identity, Retail |

Ikea Typeface

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Style critics hit latest Ikea design: catalog type.

Posted in Identity |

Screw Google

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Microsoft organizes secret “screw Google” campaign.

Posted in Strategies, Identity, Advertising |

Fantasy Football

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Marketers see winner in fantasy football.

Posted in Media, Entertainment, Sports |

Free Music

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Can’t stop the (free) music.

Posted in Media, Music |

Fee-for-All

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Airlines becoming a fee-for-all.

Posted in Travel/Leisure, Transportation, Strategies |

Robocall Ban

Monday, August 31st, 2009

FTC to ban most telemarketing “robocalls” Sept. 1.

Posted in Media |

Pay per Tweet

Monday, August 31st, 2009

“Pay per Tweet” attracts attention, controversy.

Posted in Media |

Text Gold

Monday, August 31st, 2009

OMG! Texts turn to gold.

Posted in Media, Online |

Strapped Shoppers

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Strapped shoppers put pens, pencils on layaway.

Posted in Consumer Behavior, Economics |

Weight Rage

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Anti-fat rhetoric is getting nastier than ever. Why our overweight nation hates overweight people.

Posted in Identity |

Wrap Rage

Monday, August 31st, 2009

How to open clamshell packaging.

Posted in Packaging, Innovation |

Karma Car

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Plug-in Fisker Karma car is stylishly environmental.

Posted in Innovation, Automotive |

Trekkie Cologne

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Humans and aliens alike swooned over Captain James T. Kirk, so it was only a matter of time before someone claimed to have bottled his charms.

Posted in Identity, Popular Culture, Fashion |

Planet Emos

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Suicidal planet seems on death spiral into star.

Posted in Science |

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