Announcing Dogpatch Labs Palo Alto & Europe
September 29, 2011 – 8:27 am | 349 Comments

In early September, we got the unfortunate news that the San Francisco Port Authority was closing Pier 38 (home to Dogpatch Labs San Francisco).

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ESPN Takes Over Homepage to Promote Taken
May 12, 2009 – 5:34 pm | One Comment
ESPN Takes Over Homepage to Promote Taken

Yet another aggressive, interactive ad campaign that has taken over ESPN’s homepage. It is perhaps the most aggressive campaign that ESPN has run… and they have run several rich media campaigns recently:
Last week, Apple took …

David Ortiz on Facebook Shows Why Some Are Afraid of Social Media
May 12, 2009 – 5:06 pm | 2 Comments
David Ortiz on Facebook Shows Why Some Are Afraid of Social Media

Despite the big traffic and abilities to engage with consumers, some brands are still afraid of social media. Most grasp the power of social media (from blogging to widgets and from Facebook to Twitter), but …

Apple Takes Over Wall Street Journal with iLife Ad
May 11, 2009 – 8:05 pm | 14 Comments
Apple Takes Over Wall Street Journal with iLife Ad

A week after Apple took over ESPN.com to attack Microsoft’s latest campaign…
And two months after they shook up ESPN.com with a terrific iPhone ad….
And over a year after promoted Leopard on NYTimes.com…
Apple released another terrific …

Marketing Case Studies: Manny Ramirez & Dodgers; Mexico & Swine Flu
May 10, 2009 – 2:06 pm | 635 Comments

Thursday’s New York Times profiled two messy and complex marketing cases that remind us how quickly things can change and how dangerous relying on any one revenue-stream or person can be:
1. The Los Angeles Dodgers …

Sirius XM Loses 400,000 Q1 Subscribers – Thanks iPhone / iPod!
May 9, 2009 – 7:59 pm | 3 Comments

For subscription services, one of the core business measurements is new / lost subscribers. Read the quarterly earnings transcripts for companies like Comcast and you will realize how much attention is paid to subscription and …

Bit.ly Goes Mainstream: URLs Included in Magazines
May 9, 2009 – 10:55 am | 29 Comments
Bit.ly Goes Mainstream: URLs Included in Magazines

Services and brands enter mainstream pop culture when they:
1. Reach critical mass, and/or
2. Provide value in a way that makes their usage critical
Use Facebook and Twitter as examples. From print to television, both are now …

McDonalds McCafe Takes Over YouTube
May 5, 2009 – 8:39 pm | 194 Comments
McDonalds McCafe Takes Over YouTube

McDonalds has launched an advertising campaign alongside their new McCafe coffee line. You’ve likely seen the new McCafe spots during prime time television and today McDonalds overtook YouTube’s homepage (see screenshots below).
The campaign is interesting …

Facebook Drives 19% of Huffington Post’s Traffic
May 4, 2009 – 7:48 pm | 235 Comments

When I last covered Perez Hilton, it was when he hit 14,000,000 pageviews in a single day – a remarkable feat considering big brands like Huffington Post had topped out at 7,700,000.
An interesting outcome of …

PlentyofFish’s Bizarre Advertising Practices
May 4, 2009 – 7:00 pm | 224 Comments

Most advertisers will preach best practices like:
- deliver a clear and concise message
- keep it simple and precise
- make it visual and grab the viewer’s attention
By breaking most common advertising rules, PlentyofFish’s ads actually caught …

Facebook Feed Widgets Using Widgetbox (New!)
April 30, 2009 – 12:32 pm | 732 Comments
Facebook Feed Widgets Using Widgetbox (New!)

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Thanks to Chai’s new Newsfeed RSS application, you can now use Widgetbox to create Blidgets and Blidget Pros from your Facebook Feed. Add you Twitter activity, blog and/or RSS …

Google iPhone App Version 0.3.1448
April 30, 2009 – 9:46 am | 600 Comments
Google iPhone App Version 0.3.1448

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Strangely, I read through all of the update announcements for my iPhone Apps. And I enjoy it.
Sometimes you learn about bugs – either common (slowness, crashing) or unique …

Apple Takes Over ESPN.com’s Frontdoor – Again
April 29, 2009 – 9:17 am | 671 Comments
Apple Takes Over ESPN.com’s Frontdoor – Again

This isn’t the first time that Apple and ESPN have aggressively experimented with unique, clearly custom ad integration on ESPN.com’s homepage. A little under two months ago, Apple ran an interactive expanding ad for the …