Marketing | The Inquisitr

Posts Tagged ‘ marketing ’

Neuromarketing – the art of reading your mind to sell you more crap you ‘thought’ you wanted

In this day and age of social media and social marketing it is all about connecting with your friends, finding that brand that cares (ya okay) and then seeing if they are selling something that you want. Well ... continue

Social media is ruining our minds and we have the proof [Infographic]

I don't hold the highest of opinions for social media, I figure it is just the newest and hottest ways for us to be conned into handing over our information under the illusion that the free stuff ... continue

MMA Announces Global Mobile Marketing Award Finalists

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) today announced the finalists for its annual awards shindig, the 2011 Mobile Marketing Awards. The finalists encompass some of the world's biggest brands, including Coca-Cola, Giorgio Armani, Pepsi Max, Pringles, and Converse. All ... continue

Minecrafters get your Minecraft love on, on your feet that is.

One of the most popular games happening right now has to be Minecraft and players are extremely passionate about their love of the game. Well for those folks who like to show off their passion for the ... continue

[Study] Dieters heavily influenced by presence of word ‘salad’

Have you long suspected that many items you see on menus billed as "salads" are really just gloppy messes of pasta and mayonnaise prettied up for the weight conscious? You may be right in your inkling, and if ... continue

Save $25 buying a new Kindle, as long as you don’t mind the ads

Amazon just announced a new way to get yourself a new Kindle and save $25.00 in the process, the only catch is that you have to be willing to live with ads as well as things like ... continue

Kraft unveils kiosk that reads your face, selects your dinner

Using a technology of indeterminate origin, Kraft has come out with an kiosk designed to scan customer's faces in-store and determine which Kraft foods are best suited to certain consumers. Annoyingly, the Fast Company piece doesn't say whether ... continue

The bottled water sham continues

I have never been a bottled water proponent. In fact I think it is the greatest marketing con game ever pulled on consumer on such a global level; this was before I watched the excellent documentary called ... continue

Samsung’s Galaxy S campaign on Twitter is sneaky, underhanded but damn it’s clever

They say all is fair in love and war but those two things pale in comparison to the the current smartphone battlefield where even the slightest victories can be worth millions. Of course the uncontested winner at this point is ... continue

Facebook looking to sponsor England FA team – talk about smack in the face brilliant

In an interesting move Facebook has added its name to the small group of companies looking to replace Nationwide as the sponsor of the England football (soccer to those of you in North America) team. Those currently ... continue

Twitter on ups its Sponsored Tweets with Promoted Trends

Peter Kafka at Media Memo is out with the exclusive news today that Twitter is looking at expanding its Sponsored Tweets ad platform with a new idea called Promoted Trends. The idea here is that advertisers can ... continue

R.I.P. Social Media, it was a nice dream while it lasted

Let's set the record straight right from the beginning. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Buzz or any of the other hundreds of wannabes out there fishing for VC dollars as their only viable business model are not social media. ... continue

The Social Media Expert Crisis Descends

Back in August last year I wrote about my fears that we are facing a trust crisis in the social media space. I've been disconnected from the United States since that time, so this post applies primarily to ... continue

Augmented reality overload

One of the hottest terms and ideas these days it augmented reality which basically means a computerized information overlay that informs you about things, items, places or people in your daily life. It sounds like a really cool ... continue

The Sun-maid Raisins girl gets some work done

The iconic packaging artwork on Sun-Maid Raisins has been static since 1915, and the Sun-Maid Girl's total makeover in some TV spots is sparking a weird amount of unease in the population. The original Sun-Maid girl, Lorraine Collett ... continue

KFC marketing goes off the reservation, crashes UN

That picture, above, is actually a KFC marketing stunt. (That worked or failed, depending on your definition of "fail.") Actor Robert Thompson, dressed as the iconic Colonel Sanders, got as far as posing for a picture with President ... continue

FTC guidelines take aim at guerilla marketing as well

While a lot of attention surrounding the new guidelines being issued by the FTC is regarding bloggers there is also another who section of advertisers that is going to get hit hard by these ... continue

[DROOL] Now this is scotch

It doesn’t happen very often but at least once a year I like to treat my self to a really nice bottle of single malt scotch – none of that blended crap for me. ... continue

Very cool Toyota, too bad the flowers are only temporary

How can you tell when technology has become totally mainstream? Well when a major marketing campaign centered around something totally different targets the growing number of people who live online regardless of where ... continue

Terminator Salvation expands Skynet to your desktop

Viral marketing is the nirvana that just about every company is looking to achieve these days. There are some good attempts and then there are some that drop with a dull thud. Usually they involve ... continue

Disney lays an egg [VIDEO]

We seriously need a WTF category here at The Inquisitr because of things like this news from the Disney marketing department. I can totally understand companies like Disney needing to make money from their brand but at ... continue

Dell joins those who ‘get’ Twitter marketing – who’s next? [VIDEO]

Over the Christmas holidays Dell ran a little experiment on Twitter and netted themselves a nice million dollar holiday present. Given the great response they have decided it seems to expand the program. At least that appears ... continue