American Idol and ATT
According to today’s Advertising Age, AT&T is embroiled in some potential controversy around American Idol and how many text votes it might have encouraged Kris Allen fans to send. According to a New York Times story citing the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, employees for AT&T distributed phones to folks at two finale parties organized by fans of ...
Google is bigger than they say they are
A short while ago I mentioned that I found on Google’s site that they’re adding 10 hours of video per minute. While impressive numbers, it’s actually mich higher, about twice as high… According to Mashable, YouTube is getting 20 hours of video uploaded per minute! There are 1440 minutes in a day, and that means ...
Is Nielsen data on “Twitter Quitters” wrong?
A week ago, I twittered about the “Twitter Quitters,” people who signed up for Twitter and left within a month. It’s an interesting study, but here’s a follow up from VentureBeat that says that their study is probably wrong for a variety of reasons: Their report states that 40 percent of users fail to return ...
Jimmy Buffett rebrands Dolphins Stadium!
I was listening to Jimmy Buffett Live in Hawaii in my car when I heard the news. The only word that came to mind was “AWESOME!” Jimmy is a brand unto himself. So are Parrotheads. And now, he’s taken the stadium naming rights away from Corporate America and into the social, entertainment, fun world. Too ...
Facebook Suicide?
Recently I’ve had several friends tell me that they’re not using facebook as much as they used to or anymore. My brother keeps talking about “facebook suicide,” a term I first heard from him. Basically it means he would unfriend everyone or just turn his account off and walk away. He hasn’t done that yet, ...
