PR/Social Influence
Doritos Wins Brand Bowl 2012
According to the 400,000 tweets monitored by BrandBowl2012, Doritos was the most effective brand to advertise on the Super Bowl telecast on the NBC Television Network this year. Brand Bowl ranks brands based on volume of chatter and positive/negative commentary on Twitter in reaction to their Super Bowl commercials. Doritos won with its “Crash the [...]
// read moreIt’s Game Day at Brand Bowl 2012
OK football and TV advertising fans, the game day edition of Brand Bowl 2012 is live. Mullen and Boston.com together have launched Brand Bowl 2012, a social media event using Salesforce Radian6 to analyze the Twitter commentary and rate the most popular and disastrous Super Bowl TV commercials. Realizing how social media has changed the [...]
// read moreForget New Hampshire…Who will win at CES?
With the Iowa caucus behind them, the Republican candidates are vying for a win in New Hampshire. CNN will once again have John King and the wonderfully bearded Wolf Blitzer analyze Twitter chatter to understand how the public feels about the candidates, using tweets from the masses as a crystal ball to predict the outcome. [...]
// read moreMobile gaming: more playing, less talking
Most of us have been doing a lot of talking. We know that mobile gaming is exploding. We theorize about the future of mobility and how we can put a game layer on top of the earth. I’m just as guilty as the next mobile catalyst, social ninja, innovation officer, what have you. All of [...]
// read moreDriving is believing: launching the Chevrolet Volt
While sitting in a rear passenger seat of the new Chevy Volt, as the car careened through the streets and avenues of New York at top speeds on Marathon Sunday, I could tell from the whites of my knuckles that the Volt is an amazing piece of machinery, and that this was like no other [...]
// read moreStarting the movement to stop diabetes
Today, as the nation kicks off another American Diabetes Month, Mullen and the American Diabetes Association open a new front on the war against diabetes. For nearly 70 years, the Association has been the stalwart of diabetes education, advocacy and research, helping countless adults and children manage this insidious and often deadly disease, while supporting [...]
// read more10 steps to launching a new product using social media
Recently Mullen had a wonderful experience working with Olympus to launch its new E-P1, the world’s smallest interchangeable lens camera. This beautifully designed camera shoots great stills and HD video. As a content creating machine, it seemed the perfect product to bring to life in the social media space. After all, aren’t YouTube, Flickr and [...]
// read moreStanley iPhone App
Challenge The launch of the Stanley iPhone application provided an opportunity to illustrate The Stanley Work’s commitment to business diversification and modern technology and to strengthen Stanley’s position as a progressive leader beyond its 166-year old hand tool heritage. Solution By combining social media channels and traditional press outreach, we raised awareness for the new [...]
// read moreGrain Foods Foundation: Making bread into art
Challenge: Teach Moms about bread’s nutrition while supporting people in need Solution: Turn consumer-generated art into meals for hungry families How do you get Moms to engage with a message about the nutritional value of sliced bread? The fact is, we all love to eat it, but we may not necessarily want to read about [...]
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