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Sailing the 14 Social C’s
All marketers know about the classic 5 P’s of marketing – product, price, place, promotion and people. In the modern marketing era, I like to think there are 14 ways that brands can engage with consumers via social media – call them the 14 Social C’s for short. Conversation – Skittles once posted on Facebook: [...]
// read moreDoritos 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 more10 Best Super Bowl Spots of the Modern Era – Fast Co.
Here’s a new way of looking at the greatest Super Bowl commercials. Fast Company Co-Create editor Teressa Iezzi put together a list of the 10 Best Super Bowl Spots of the Modern Era. It’s basically focused on the dot-com period and beyond with one major exception – the way ahead-of-its time Apple 1984 spot. The [...]
// read moreA Stand-Out Year
Many thanks to the editorial team at Advertising Age for recognizing Mullen as one of 10 Stand-Out Agencies in 2011. The big, much discussed and debated Ad Age A-List issue came out yesterday, and in the write-up on Mullen they said: My, has Mullen come a long way. What was once merely a reliable regional [...]
// read moreBrandbowl is back with new features
This post originally appeared on Creativity_Unbound. It’s that time of year again. The online Superbowl party that Mullen started three years ago to celebrate the age of Twitter is well into development. If you remember, we began our annual project when there weren’t very many ad types on Twitter. In 2009, most of the industry was [...]
// 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 moreFormer Forrester analyst Sean Corcoran joins Mullen as lead digital and social media strategist
Sean Corcoran has joined Mullen as SVP, Director of Digital Media and Social Influence, following three years of service as the Senior Analyst for Interactive Marketing at Forrester Research. Corcoran is a leading authority on digital marketing, social media and agency structure, who has worked with marketing clients in a range of different industries and [...]
// read moreLet it snowify.me
On this Friday before Christmas, it gives us great joy to announce that the Mullen Digital Holiday Card got picked as the #3 Best Agency Card of the Season by Adweek/Adfreak. We finished behind only the brilliant Droga5 “Press Release” stunt and a Louisville, Colorado (?) digital shop called Voltage which did this whacky beatbox [...]
// read moreCalling all pretty faces
We have two new spots out for Google to support the Galaxy Nexus smartphone. These broke just as the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”-powered device from Samsung arrived in Verizon stores in the U.S. The two spots put a human touch on some really cool features – “Face Unlock” face recognition unlocking technology and the [...]
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