Big Orange Slide Zune MP3 Player: A photo tour inside the Zune Headquarters Its always fun to see inside the office spaces of the products that we love, and from the looks of these images the Zune Headquarters they have a pretty nice setup. Some cool murals, music styled paintings, fancy DJ equipment, and even what appears to be a break room with a big sofa and flat panel television. One thing it seems you cannot get away from though, are those awful cubicles, but with a break room that looks like that at least you can get away from the cube and relax every so often. [people.md via Office Snapshots]
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Anomaly | New York City | London Bartle Bogle Hegarty | When the world zigs, zag | Global HEY WHIPPLE » Blog Archive » Report From SXSW Interactive: "I See Dead Ad Jobs." I was born in the year 1954 when stamps were three cents. If you thought, “Wow, three cents??” you’re a digital immigrant like me. You’re a digital native if you thought, “What are stamps?” Unfortunately, there is a third group: digital rejectors — you’ve met them. Worse, they don’t realize they’re dead. Full disclosure: I am a digital d-bag. Case in point: From my collection of laminated ads, I offer this one. A print ad I did in 1994 for a new website. I still like the ad but the point here is that it was written in 1994, a brief fifteen years ago; when Netscape Navigator was the big browser and Mortal Kombat II was the hot game. Jesus. (Oops. Here’s the point. Okay, so now we’re doing a slow dissolve from 1994 to April 2010. On my iPhone, the “mysxsw” app reveals the details about our session’s focus: “With the advertising landscape changing at the speed of light, how do the traditional advertising pros adapt? I think it brave of Damon to host such a session. That’s Damon.
Creative Principles & Practice | a.k.a. Breakthrough Thinking for the Real World I know that in every kingdom there are two royals: Content the strong and governing King and Conversation, his tactful but enchanting Queen. So when a recent article published in eMarketer claimed that the future of branding would lie in a shift from “solely relying on the interruption model of advertising to the creation of magnetic content that would naturally attract consumers.” I sneered “nice observation” — audiences want to seek out companies for what they offer? After all it was Twitter that changed the game and accomplished what others had never conceived – “no more advertising, no more commercials, let’s just talk.” A. B. C. D. But why is this important now? So now why is Wistia important? Now here you may be tempted to “rest secured” in your Google Analytics or Youtube accounts, but if you were to ask the search engine would embarrassingly reply “no such findings.” But what is the big deal if I track my video messages? Still skeptical?