LONDON – Nestle is preparing to launch the ‘biggest innovation [in baby food] since the move from tins to glasses 50 years ago’ when it rolls out its NaturNes range across Europe.
LONDON – LG Electronics is playing down its ‘Life’s Good’ tagline in its latest campaign, in response to the gloomy economic climate.
LONDON – British Airways’ top marketer Katherine Whitton has resigned from her role as head of marketing communications.
LONDON – Domino’s has stepped up its competition against Pizza Hut by trademarking the names of some of its rival’s newest products in the US market.
The MACBA, the museum of contemporary art in Barcelona, has recently opened Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that analyses the idea of a document in the history of photography on the basis of the study and staging of a number of debates about the genre during the 20th century.
This is a rich exhibition at the point of being almost encyclopedic but it’s also amazingly good and fascinating. Maybe later on this week i’ll find the time to put my thoughts together and blog about the show but if this doesn’t happen here’s a picture of one of the photographers whose work i discovered last week while visiting the MACBA.
Xavier Ribas’ Barcelona Pictures are miles away from your usual Gaudi facades and crazy Rambla postcards. The photographer turned his lens to the phenomenon of entertainment, of leisure, of what people do in their ‘free’ time, showing the extent to which such activities take place in the city’s residual spaces. Quite spontaneously, people preserve, manage and recycle these spaces, effectively keeping them out of the efficient, productive order of the city: places for walking, sunbathing, picknicking, sport and exercise…It seems paradoxical that these spaces -not yet codified, as yet without regulation- are where people still have a chance to take the initiative. As Ribas concludes: ‘Freedom can only flourish in a residual space that might, as a result, have a desolate appearance’.
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia runs at the MACBA until January 6, 2009 and will then travel to the Museu Berardo de Lisboa.
The long decline in newspaper circulation continued to accelerate, with sales over the spring and summer falling almost 5 percent from the previous year.
Readers wrote in some of their favorite portrayals of Madison Avenue.
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On whether this was done on purpose or a practical joke, there is a branding aspect of it all. Barrack Obama is without a doubt making waves as he leads McCain in the presidential race and for people who think they are degrading his image by offering his mask-like face on Amazon.com under the terrorist category, they are actually helping him gain more popularity as far as familiarity is concerned.
But as a classy merchandise, why not wear if for Halloween? Amazon has been making big bucks from it and while the category may look inappropriate, a sale is a sale.
Barack Obama is most probably having a kick out of it. Aside from seeing his face being worn while trick or treating, he is getting added exposure and popularity from people wearing his face anywhere.
Brian Yalung is an Editor at Talent Zoo mainly contributing to latest news and issues on advertising and marketing. He is the editor for Beyond Madison Avenue and Beneath the Brand Blogs of Talent Zoo.
As far as the holidays are concerned, it is less than 2 months away. So with that in mind, what are you plans? What are you going to give away that is not hard on the pocket?
For the wise and generous givers of the Christmas season, you are most probably going to hit two aspects, health and affordability. Needs is another aspect of giving so why not hit the need of hunger that of which is food or snacks?
Now don’t just go out and buy the first satiable packaged good you come across. See which is economical and logical as far as people would appreciate as a whole. Take for example Diamond Foods.
Diamond Foods has kicked off a holiday contest on behalf of its signature nut brand, Diamond of California, to lure consumers as they search for healthier snack options.
Brian Yalung is an Editor at Talent Zoo mainly contributing to latest news and issues on advertising and marketing. He is the editor for Beyond Madison Avenue and Beneath the Brand Blogs of Talent Zoo.
Today, Pepsi, with strategic help from Edelman, reached out to 25 “digital and social media influencers” with three separately-shipped packages.
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