Yahoo! Finance: Young adults have a loyal attachment to mobile phones and a distinct passion for video games. Recognizing that, VIRTU MOBILE has used the Campbell’s® Soup at Hand® 3D Snowboarding game as an innovative way for Campbell Soup Company to promote Campbell’s Soup At Hand sippable soup to this elusive market segment. Customized mobile games like the Soup at […]
Soup, Mobile Phones, and Video Games
Coming Soon: Space Tourism
BBC News: Space tourism is less than three years away, Sir Richard Branson has claimed. There are already 13,500 potential passengers for the £100,000 ($190,000) “Virgin Galactic spaceliner” trip, Sir Richard told the BBC. The entrepreneur is having five “spaceliners” built in the US by the team which launched the SpaceShipOne rocket plane last year. Sir Richard said he himself, […]
MMS Stamps
Adverblog: Swisscom Mobile, the Swiss Post and The Communication Museum have launched a cool initiative to engage users with MMS. In English it would be called “Swiss Mobile – A Country on the Go” in German it’s “Swiss mobil – Ein Land unterwegs”. The three partners are going to create the first series of stamps made with photographs taken with […]
Cigarette-dispensing Donkey
The Green Head: I think most of the Green Head Crew has given up the miserable smoking habit. Only Jenurple seems to be having trouble trying to stop and the cool product we’re showcasing today isn’t going to help at all! The Smoking Donkey Cigarette Dispenser is one of the the funniest things I have ever seen. You load up […]
The Power of Influence
New York Post Online: Saleh is part of a new kind of advertising phenomenon – one that goes beyond more established methods like street-teaming (campaigns orchestrated to look as though they’re “up from the street,” through graffiti or sidewalk chalk scrawls, for example) or stealth marketing (in which corporations hire young, attractive, charismatic people to go into bars and clubs […]
The Advert on My Forehead
Investors.com: Internet Casino GoldenPalace.com will leave a lasting impression on “The Human Pincushion” Brent Moffatt, who auctioned off his forehead on eBay, offering the highest bidder the opportunity to permanently tattoo their brand on his bald head. This auction is unique because it differs from other auctions offering ad space on body parts, as it will be a permanent tattoo […]
International Food
MSNBC: Browsed a Cheesecake Factory menu lately? Maybe the Vietnamese shrimp summer rolls tempted you. As Binh Nguyen tells it, diners at his Pho Hoa chain of Vietnamese restaurants have been ordering “summer rolls” — a rough translation of goi cuon, which are shrimp, pork and vermicelli noodles wrapped in rice paper — for the past 15 years. “We were […]
Small Business Owners’ TV Channel
Small Business Trends: Here’s an excellent resource for small business owners and entrepreneurs: BusinessTVchannel.com. BusinessTVchannel.com is an Internet site where you can go to watch and listen to video on business topics of interest to small business owners. It’s like a cross between broadcast TV and the Internet. They offer a morning newscast. They also offer shows on topics such […]
Tech Trends in 2005
BusinessWeek: Welcome to 2005, the year the high-tech industry does…something. Truth is, you won’t find an awful lot of agreement on how things will turn out for tech this year. The most enthusiastic of forecasters say capital spending growth on tech could hit double-digits this year, while more dour Wall Street analysts say that’s just plain bunk. Certainly, plenty of […]
A Sweet Valentine’s Day
Wireless Developer Network: The digital images of Sweethearts® candy, the famous tiny pastel-colored candy hearts with sayings such as “Be Mine,” will be brought to wireless handsets by FunMail, a leading wireless entertainment company. In a deal brokered by Brand Central, The New England Confectionery Company (NECCO®) has licensed FunMail the rights to provide wireless wallpaper images of its world-famous […]