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Is Chris Carder Changing the Future of Transcontinental?

Is Chris Carder Changing the Future of Transcontinental?

hris Carder’s a smart guy, he and the team have built a great company over the years. Now he has the opportunity to be part of an even larger infrastructure, keep his autonomy with ThinData and help influence Transcontinental, not a bad gig if you can get it!

AOL.CA Relaunches, Will It Be Enough To Win The Portal Wars?

AOL Canada who recently launched their online music destination Spinner Canada last week has now taken another leap forward as launch a new AOL.ca home page for AOL Canada as you can see from the image to the right

Now You Can Purchase Facebook Ads And Credit In Canadian Dollars, And 13 Other Currencies

Now You Can Purchase Facebook Ads And Credit In Canadian Dollars, And 13 Other Currencies

Last week Facebook announced they are now accepting Facebook Ads and Facebook Credits currency in a total of 14 countries including:

Week That Was - 2008-06-26

Week That Was – 2008-06-26

The Blackberry had an 80% increase in consumer subscribers. Total revenue is up 3.4 billion, up 53% from last year. Do you think Jim Balsillie is afraid of the Apple iPhone or Palm Pre?

AOL Launches Spinner Canada, Blogs To A New Beat

Joshua Ostroff, Managing Editor of Spinner Canada. ” Spinner.ca is applying an eclectic approach to the Canadian music scene; giving the music enthusiast a mix of quality audio, video, live performances, interviews, news and commentary.”

Breaking News: MySpace Shuts Down ENTIRE Canadian Operations

We’ve heard it from multiple sources now, MySpace Canada has shut down their entire Canadian operations, TechCrunch reported earlier today that 2 of MySpace’s 3 Interneational offices will be shut down but we can now confirm Canada is one of

Best Buy Canada Announces Partnership With Digital Signage Company

On June 15, Best Buy Canada announced that it is now partnering with .advancedMethod, a digital signage system company that will use its expertise to make professional looking digital signage more accessible to the public than ever before.

Fadoo.ca Leaves Beta And Hits Prime Time, Signs Content Deal With Sympatico / MSN

The 252 Media crew has been busy since launching Fadoo.ca in beta back in November 2008. Fadoo.ca is site built around sports radio persionality Bob McCown. Since then 252 Media Co-Founded by Nigel Da Costa

Heavy.com Gets Into the Octagon With Ultimate Fighting Championship

Heavy.com Gets Into the Octagon With Ultimate Fighting Championship

Heavy.com announced a new content content distribution partnership with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the professional mixed martial arts organization. As part of the new partnership Heavy will host a dedicated UFC channel of fight

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Latest Pepsi Campaign Spreads A Little Joy

Latest Pepsi Campaign Spreads A Little Joy

With a new look behind Pepsi has kicked off its newest marketing campaign across Canada in efforts to have Canadians share some joy.  The campaign utilizes billboards, transit shelter ads (TSAs), in-store, on television, and on-line, and a series of new ads (see sample below).  The campaign was launched in English yesterday and a specialized [...]

Will Zoompass Be the Paypal Mobile Killer?

What happens when you get executives from 3 of Canadians largest telcos and the all ask “how can consumers send and receive money on their mobile phone?” Up until now the most obvious answer was Paypay Mobile, but now Bell, Rogers and Telus have joined together with EnStream LP,

Shops At Don Mills Gets A New Look And New Advertising Campaign

Shops At Don Mills Gets A New Look And New Advertising Campaign

The neighborhood surrounding Don Mills mall has received an extreme make over in the last few years with the addition of new residential units and now the near completion of Shops at Don Mills. Grey Canada

Week That Was – 2008-06-12

From the war of the browsers, war of the search engines to the war of social networks, things are HOT on the Internet world and continues to heat up week after week!  Friday night at midnight EST, social networking site Facebook gave its 200,000+ user base the opportunity to customize their profile url.  I was [...]

The Score Launches ScoreMobile, Get Your Sports Fix On Blackberry Smartphones

Five Mobile Inc. has worked with The Score to help launch a new application for Blackberry smartphones that give fans up-to-the minute scores and stats as well as live blogs, previews, recaps, fantasy player stats and more. The free app is also in partnership with Budweiser who has come on as the launch sponsor.

www.www // David Alston, VP Marketing, Radian6

www.www // David Alston, VP Marketing, Radian6

www.www / / David Alston, Vice President Marketing, Radian6
What impact is the recession having on marketing?
I think it’s causing most marketers to take a long hard look at what they have habitually done year after year. Did that dinner sponsorship buy us anything? How many customers did I get from giving away a ton of [...]