Coke Bottles

July 3rd, 2009

Coca-Cola hands its fans new bottles to hold onto.

Posted in Packaging, Identity, Food/Beverage, Packaged Goods |

Guinness Promos

July 3rd, 2009

Guinness is sending someone into space, another to the depths of the ocean and a personal performance from The Black Eyed Peas.

Posted in Identity |

Fireworks Critic

July 3rd, 2009

The professional fireworks display is an exercise in pomposity, aggression, triumphalism, and hubris.

Posted in Insights, Politics, Popular Culture |

Facebook Exes

July 3rd, 2009

Facebook’s ‘friend suggestions’ are getting a little … um … inappropriate.

Posted in Media |

Hipster Factor

July 3rd, 2009

Hipster factor poses challenges for movie marketers.

Posted in Media, Movies, Marketing |

Truck Pantries

July 3rd, 2009

Refrigerated truck serves as traveling food pantry.

Posted in Economics, Food/Beverage |

FreeFest Price

July 3rd, 2009

FreeFest concert tickets come with a price: Volunteerism.

Posted in Innovation, Charity, Music |

Gelato Ban

July 3rd, 2009

Gelato Italiano ice-cream advert banned over seductive nun.

Posted in Identity, Food/Beverage |

Cheaper Moon

July 3rd, 2009

NASA manager pitches a cheaper return-to-moon plan.

Posted in Science, Innovation |

Zack16

July 3rd, 2009

How do you sell a feminine hygiene product nobody wants to talk about? By making a guy use it.

Posted in Strategies, Advertising, Companies |

Microsoft Puke

July 3rd, 2009

Microsoft had second thoughts about the pulling power of puke.

Posted in Identity, Advertising |

Sears Ledge

July 3rd, 2009

The Sears Tower in Chicago has installed a glass-floored observation deck — 1,353ft up in the air.

Posted in Innovation |

Gays & Cigs

July 3rd, 2009

Members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community smoke more than their heterosexual counterparts.

Posted in Insights, Multicultural |

Pigeon Critics

July 3rd, 2009

Racing pigeons can be trained to study paintings and evaluate them like a critic, according to scientists.

Posted in Insights, Science, Art |

Naked Safety

July 3rd, 2009

An airline has produced an in-flight safety video showing a pilot and cabin crew wearing nothing but body paint.

Posted in Travel/Leisure, Innovation |

Naked Friday

July 3rd, 2009

Staff at a design and marketing company in Newcastle spent a day working together naked after being told it would improve their morale.

Posted in Innovation |

Disney Toys

July 2nd, 2009

Systematic brainstorming and prototyping innovations overhauls Disney’s toy lineup every six months.

Posted in Toys, Innovation |

Mickey Gasmask

July 2nd, 2009

Back in the early 1940s, there was an actual Mickey Mouse gas mask.

Posted in Identity, Kids |

NBA & Taco Bell

July 2nd, 2009

Taco Bell is in, McDonald’s is out as NBA sponsor.

Posted in Restaurants, Advertising, Television, Sports |

Tractor Twitter

July 2nd, 2009

Twittering from the tractor: Smartphones sprout on the farm.

Posted in Media |

YoCream

July 2nd, 2009

YoCream announces the first soft-serve frozen yogurt to strengthen the digestive system.

Posted in Strategies, Health/Fitness, Companies, Food/Beverage |

Credit Profiles

July 2nd, 2009

Have you used your credit card at merchants specializing in secondhand clothing, retread tires, bail bond services, massages, casino gambling or betting?

Posted in Financial Services |

Elevated Garden

July 2nd, 2009

Lazy Susan garden for the wheelchair-bound.

Posted in Innovation |

TBD RIP

July 2nd, 2009

Social networking Web site for Baby Boomers tanks.

Posted in Media |

Active Boomers

July 2nd, 2009

Seniors, boomers move beyond the gym.

Posted in Insights, Health/Fitness |

Organic Offerings

July 2nd, 2009

Organic nursery in Silver Lake has a growing clientele.

Posted in Environment, Food/Beverage |

Coupon Fraud

July 2nd, 2009

Coupon fraud is on the rise and some major manufacturers and retailers are crying foul.

Posted in Retail |

Live Concerts

July 2nd, 2009

The live concert was supposed to be long dead by now. But don’t bet on that happening any time soon.

Posted in Media |

Broadway Steps

July 2nd, 2009

How to create a Broadway hit in six easy steps.

Posted in Strategies, Entertainment |

Prosecuting Pez-ants

July 2nd, 2009

A legal battle is heating up over a giant Pez dispenser.

Posted in Litigation, Identity |

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