Product “Leaks”
Are people not talking about your company’s new innovative unannounced product enough? Well, there is an easy marketing fix for that! Have an “anonymous employee” tell someone from the press something extremely top secret and newsworthy about your product. Although no company will ever admit…
What Instagram’s New Change Means
Instagram just made a fairly big announcement and looks like just soon after they opened up advertising to all businesses they’re about to start forcing you to spend money. Instagram is introducing a new algorithm into play similar to the one Facebook currently uses. This…
Christmas Decorations
Every year I see Christmas decorations going on sale sooner and sooner, it has now even gotten to a point where Remembrance Day hasn’t even come yet and stores have begun decorating/preparing for Christmas. Is that not going a little far? This means this year…
What is OnePlus Trying To Pull Here?
OnePlus is making a lot of noise again and this time not in a good way. OnePlus, a chinese smartphone manufacturer that has been around for just over a year now and has released a total of two phones (and is rumoured to be releasing…
BC Hydro’s Response to the Storm
Yesterday a big storm hit the Coast of BC and shook the province like never before. It showed us how unprepared we are if the “Big One” (earthquake) ever hits us. How used to we have become to our life of luxury here in Canada,…
One Of The Worst Ads Ever
If you haven’t already seen the Conservative party campaign “commercial” criticizing Justin Trudeau yet, you should watch the video below before continuing on. Now that you’ve seen the commercial you’re probably not at all convinced to not vote for Justin Trudeau, which is the main…
Why The Result of the BC Translink Plebiscite was NO
Today the results from the Metro Vancouver Transit Plebiscite were revealed and the residents of Metro Vancouver spoke loud and clear saying NO with a vote of 62% against the tax. Now the real question is what were the residents of Metro Vancouver voting against? Are…
Google Is Finally Doing Video Ads Right
Google may be the experts when it comes to online advertising but they have never been very good with video advertising. Yesterday (November 17, 2014), Google launched 4 new ads for it’s NEST division. Not only are these ads very funny and creative, they have…
The Results Are In (Sort of)
In early September I wrote about Facebook launching a new advertising platform. Although at the time details were scarce and my post was mainly based off of rumours, the platform has been unveiled and although still a young platform the industry has shown how they…
One Ad Too Many?
Customers hate Advertisements (usually) and will do almost anything to avoid them. Marketers on the other hand will continue to think of creative ways to make sure they cannot be avoided. PVRs have decreased the ability to deliver effective TV ads as many users will…