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DMD Insight Round-Up

Posted by JR Buchbinder on April 24 at 3:00 PM In the past few weeks, DMD Insight has been blogging and tweeting about everything from recent award wins to fashion and our new DMD Lab. Read our roundup to catch up...
Topics: advertising, architecture and design, arts and culture, branding, design, economic development, fashion, financial services, grassroots, green, healthcare, hospitality, interactive, media, philanthropy, public relations        0 Comments Read Full Post

Insight Roundup #1

Posted by JR Buchbinder on March 6 at 1:00 PM The past few weeks on DMD Insight have featured insight on everything from design and social media to fashion, arctic exploration, and advertising. Read on for our full recap of the best blogs, tweets and tags…
Topics: advertising, architecture and design, arts and culture, branding, design, economic development, fashion, financial services, grassroots, green, healthcare, hospitality, interactive, media, philanthropy, public relations        4 Comments Read Full Post

Grand Theft Auto IV: A Confluence of Art, Marketing, M&A, and Guinness

Posted by Duke Sherman on May 16 at 12:54 PM Now that Grand Theft Auto IV ‘s first day gross of $310m has entered the Guinness World Records, the looming question is what will happen to the hostile takeover from Liberty City?  Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of the game, is entrenched in a takeover bid by gaming titan Electronic Arts whose $2b offer ends today.... Topics: advertising, branding, design, financial services, interactive        2 Comments Read Full Post

A Microlending model that opened our eyes

Posted by Rowland Hobbs on April 2 at 10:39 AM 'm happy to announce that DMD has taken on, as a pro bono assignment,
the role of marketing agency for MicroCredit Enterprises (MCE).
I'll be posting more on this going forward, but for now, let me tell
you why we were so seduced by MicroCredit Enterprises. Topics: advertising, branding, design, financial services, interactive, philanthropy, public relations        3 Comments Read Full Post

The Race to Become the Webmail & Instant Messaging Leader

Posted by Duke Sherman on March 20 at 11:54 AM The value of social networking has been primarily been isolated to community sites such as Facebook and MySpace, but email and Instant Messaging market share trends are providing a much more efficient platform for such a system.  Some recent market share numbers... Topics: advertising, financial services, interactive        2 Comments Read Full Post

Who wins in the game of green credit cards?

Posted by Duke Sherman on February 8 at 10:42 AM Most major credit card issuers are quickly moving into offering “green” credit cards that purport to give back to the environment by allowing users to channel a percentage of their spending towards purchasing carbon offsets and other environmental initiatives. Topics: branding, financial services, grassroots, philanthropy        1 Comment Read Full Post

Microsoft may unlock new branding market with Yahoo Acqusition

Posted by Rowland Hobbs on February 3 at 5:01 PM Lots will, including Google's response well analyzed here and here, been said about this proposed  hostile bid (although I found Yahoo’s FAQ rather amusing in its ability to lay out questions and provide no answers.) I believe, however, that there is a side that is being overlooked: a new market for branding online. Topics: advertising, branding, financial services, interactive        3 Comments Read Full Post

Google & Asia: The Big Deal

Posted by Duke Sherman on January 24 at 2:57 PM It seems that Google can’t wait for America’s lack of bandwidth to catch up with their wireless aspirations... Topics: advertising, financial services, interactive        1 Comment Read Full Post

"Everywhere I go...

Posted by Rowland Hobbs on October 21 at 12:31 PM ...They ask about Subprime and climate change...." Topics: financial services, green        0 Comments Read Full Post
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