Glam.com, with lead articles like "How to Get Bouncy Curls," "Who Should Prince William Date Now?" and "Chatting with Nanette Lepore" is the second most visited community website by women, after iVillage. According to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.) Glam Media is a favorite of online media buyers. Glam Media is one of several emerging Web networks that offers advertisers the chance to run narrowly targeted …
Web Two Point Poo Poo
Top 10 lists make geat memes. And it seems Charlie O'Donnell has given birth to a new one--Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks. I'd like to share my favorite three of his 10 points here: 4. Web 2.0 is a conversational vacuum. I'll prove it. Unless you live in the Valley, walk outside your door and try to find a Twitter user... You've got six hours. Go. Trust me, we're talking to ourselves. (Don't get me wrong... I …
Cybernetic Organisms To Become Commonplace
Bud.tv lowered their expectations earlier this week, but in other corners of the interweb people are busy raising the bar on their video projects. photo of iJustine courtesy of Laughing Squid's Scott Beale Justin.tv is the live videostream of Justin Kan, a 23-year-old web entrepreneur in San Francisco. He coined the term “lifecasting” to describe his video acts of hyper realism. Justin wears a video cam strapped to …
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Latin Leader Wants To Make Leo Burnett Sexy
Chicago Sun Times advertising writer Lewis Lazare had lunch last week with Juan Carlos Ortiz, co-president of Leo Burnett and Arc North America. Ortiz, 39, has been with Burnett for 17 years, running the conglomerate's Bogota, Columbia shop before taking over Burnett's Latin American operations. According to Lazare, Ortiz now shares an office on West Wacker Drive with Rich Stoddart, Burnett's other co-president. …
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Incubator 2.0
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled engineers yearning to code.” -Naval Ravikant Om Malik looks at HitForge, a new San Francisco-based outfit with a unique twist on the incubator model. HitForge is an entrepreneur cooperative composed of independent small teams, where people can apply with their ideas, join the team, and see their idea go from idea to product in a few weeks, largely with help of an offshore …
India More Cluttered Than Before
Out-of-home advertising is exploding in India, according to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.). Billboard after billboard, sometimes overlapping, pitch everything from Unilever face cream to Fidelity mutual funds to Samsung televisions and the latest Bollywood blockbuster, "Shakalaka Boom Boom." As the economy booms, the billboard business is taking off, climbing more than 40% to 9.78 billion rupees ($239.9 …
Producer 776: Don Pedro Farm, La Guajira, Colombia
Treehugger points to a neat idea from Dole Organic. Organic banana consumers can learn more about the farms, and the people who work the farms where their produce was grown, by entering a three-digit code at Dole's website. One of the best things any marketer can do today is find the stories inside the brand that are waiting to be told, and then tell them in a compelling way. Dole's site lacks the kind of WOW factor …
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Mucho Dinero
Do you ever wonder why ad people show up for work everyday? Is it for the money? Or are we driven to make a contribution to the culture, however small? This L.A. Times story looks at another industry, one we need not ask such philosophical questions of. A report released Tuesday shows that Wall Street's elite are making more money than ever, with the 25 highest-paid hedge-fund managers averaging $570 million in …