It all started when he was 14 years old. Using some pocket change Christian Owens launched a business. Just a few short years later, now at 16, he has made $1 mil through his business reports Mail Online. Branchr was a smash hit with internet sites, made a staggering £500,000 in its first year and […]
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Designed by Bangkok advertising agency CreativeJuice for plastic model kit giant Tamiya, the letters in this card can be popped out and snapped together to build a robot, a plane, a boat, or a car. Editor’s note: Sure hope it comes with instructions. Via: Makezine.com Photo by Makezine.com.
According to a story in The Grand Rapids Press, young women shaking their pom-poms is a solid gold advertising strategy for a local precious metals buyer. But city officials say it’s against the rules — and creating a dangerous distraction for motorists. Great Lakes Gold Rush hires women 18 and older to wear thigh-high shorts
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Traditional advertising can no longer hold a candle to promotion via social media and aiming to make the value of such social endorsements explicit, Pay with a Tweet is a platform that lets content owners sell their goods in exchange for a single tweet rather than cash, reports trendspotter Springwise. Developed by Innovative Thunder, Pay
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I tagged this post “advertising”, but it was because I couldn’t find the “creepy” tag. It’s a commercial for a British fruit juice and shows a man rearranging the pieces of his head like they’re parts of a Rubik’s Cube puzzle. It was made by the ad agency CHI & Partners and directed by Ulf
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The Boston Globe reports that for the second year, advertising and public relations firm Conover Tuttle Pace has held their Summer Sublet desk swap, a lottery that forces most of the firm’s 35 employees, from the rookies to the boss, to sit somewhere new until Labor Day. To determine who was going to move where
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We reach for them when we need a sugar fix, but how well do we know the stories behind our favorite ice creams, cookies, and snack cakes? Mental Floss takes a look at the names behind some of our guilty pleasures. 1. Häagen-Dazs What does the upscale ice cream company’s name mean? Nothing! Polish American
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From behind home plate, Jason Klein and Casey White look proudly at the Reading Phillies’ flamethrower Phillippe Aumont. It’s not his high-priced arm they’re admiring, it’s what he’s wearing. “They’re the only team with pink on their uniforms,” White says. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Klein and White, who are each 30 years old, are the
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Last Thursday, we showed you an incredible TV commercial about Old Spice deoderant. Isaiah Mustafa, the actor in the commercial, appeared on the G4 TV program and spilled some of the secrets behind the commercial.
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