Kanye West’s Pan Am Games gig shows Toronto dreaming big – Canada – CBC … – CBC.ca

Kanye West has been awarded more than a dozen Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums and married into America’s reality TV royalty. But, for some Canadians, the rapper’s resumé is missing one key word to qualify him as a headliner for the Pan Am Games’ closing ceremony — Canadian. The organizers’…

34 Compelling Content Marketing Stats and Facts – Business 2 Community

Content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing (it’s not clear what the other 7% are doing). But with so much content being produced, distributed and shared, how do you make your efforts stand out and grab the…

How One Company Scored 7 Cents A View With Twitter Promoted Video – Marketing Land

Sometimes you find the perfect fit. In denim and marketing campaigns. For Paige Denim, it happened with a successful Twitter Promoted Video effort that produced 94,000 video views, 1.77 million impressions and a good bit of traffic back to the Paige.com e-commerce site. The elements…

Verizon Buys AOL For $4.4 Billion To Become ‘World’s Biggest Media Platform’ – ThinkProgress

by Lauren C. Williams Posted on May 12, 2015 at 11:11 am “Verizon Buys AOL For $4.4 Billion To Become ‘World’s Biggest Media Platform’“ CREDIT: Dylan Petrohilos/ThinkProgress Verizon Communications announced Tuesday official plans to buy AOL, Inc. in $4.4 billion cash deal that will merge…

Romancing the drone: Demand takes off in South Florida – Miami Herald

Step inside Animusoft’s Kendall offices, and you’ll see drones everywhere — large ones, little ones, drones that inspect, drones that pick fruit, and a few just for fun. Some are half-built; 3D printers are working 24/7 to create new parts. You might think this is…

A Look At PepsiCo’s Recent Open Innovation Efforts: #CSReport2015 – Innovation Excellence (blog)

PepsiCo products, including 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual sales, are enjoyed by consumers one billion times a day in more than 200 countries around the world. In this post, let me present some “PepsiCo” branded open innovation initiatives. I…