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Foursquare Teams Up with NBA for Lakers / Celtics Finals
June 3, 2010 – 1:28 pm | 344 Comments
Foursquare Teams Up with NBA for Lakers / Celtics Finals

It’s part Foursquare, part Fanpulse and part ESPN / vintage InGameNow:
Foursquare has teamed up with the NBA to award Celtics and Lakers badges to fans who ‘check in’ tonight and shout either “Go Lakers” or …

Levis + Facebook’s Open Graph = Awesome Social Shopping
April 24, 2010 – 12:11 pm | 350 Comments
Levis + Facebook’s Open Graph = Awesome Social Shopping

Facebook’s F8 announcements featured prominent partner integrations with Pandora, IMDB, ESPN and Yelp… but Levi’s quickly demonstrated that the Open Graph and web-wide Like functionality are highly applicable to e-commerce and social shopping. Just as …

Apple’s iPod Nano Takes Over ESPN Homepage
January 1, 2010 – 12:49 pm | 193 Comments
Apple’s iPod Nano Takes Over ESPN Homepage

There are a handful of websites that push the edge on rich ad units: the New York Times, Gizmodo, Yahoo and ESPN (to name a few). There are also a handful of brands that create …

ESPN’s Mobile Application Strategy (and Ad Campaign to Match)
December 29, 2009 – 8:37 am | 754 Comments
ESPN’s Mobile Application Strategy (and Ad Campaign to Match)

ESPN’s Scorecenter iPhone App is the top sports application in iTunes, alongside several other successful ESPN apps: ESPN Radio ($2.99), ESPN Fantasy Football ($2.99), ESPN Zoom ($2.99), ESPN Streak for the Cash, ESPN 2010 World …

Apple’s Latest iPhone Advertisement: All About Big Brands
November 22, 2009 – 1:08 pm | 377 Comments
Apple’s Latest iPhone Advertisement: All About Big Brands

In March, I wrote about Apple’s full page advertisement in the New York Times touting the iPhone as a weekend tool: “Getting the most out of your weekend, one app at a time.”
In yesterday’s New …

Top 20 Grossing iPhone Apps: Dominated by Brands and Games
October 12, 2009 – 11:23 am | 244 Comments
Top 20 Grossing iPhone Apps: Dominated by Brands and Games

Apple recenly added a new sort / finding path for iPhone apps: Top Grossing Apps. It is far from perfect and not at all based on your habits or your friends’ (it should be Facebook …

Madden 10 Launch Brings Interactive Ads to ESPN & YouTube
August 14, 2009 – 8:03 am | 217 Comments
Madden 10 Launch Brings Interactive Ads to ESPN & YouTube

For video game and sports enthuiasts, Madden Football’s release day is the equivalent of a major Hollywood blockbuster. In Madden 2009′s first month, it did $133.5 million in retail sales. Today, Madden 10 arrives and …

Sports Illustrated & Smart Water follow the ESPN & Apple Route
July 24, 2009 – 1:07 pm | 227 Comments
Sports Illustrated & Smart Water follow the ESPN & Apple Route

I regularly write about trends in online advertising and the aggressive roles that Apple and ESPN in particular have taken with innovative, rich-media units.
It seems as though rich take overs are occurring in two …

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 …

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 …

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 …

13 iPhone Apps I Want Developed (Google, ESPN, FriendFeed)
April 19, 2009 – 9:32 am | 395 Comments
13 iPhone Apps I Want Developed (Google, ESPN, FriendFeed)

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1. GMail
The improved Gmail iPhone site is just that: improved. But a true GMail iPhone App would allow fuller cusotmizations, run faster, better integrate calendars and contacts… and soon …