1/1 Interview With Dave Leskusky, NAPCO Media President And Visionary Agent Of Change
When I saw the news that North American Publishing Company had changed its name to NAPCO Media early January, I have to admit I was skeptical. The whole PSP/MSP thing has really soured me on name changes that have proven to be no more than name changes in most cases, with little or no substance behind […]
Keen Systems Announces Future Print Conference 2014
July 7, 2014, San Mateo, Calif. — Keen Systems, Inc., known for its award-winning web-to-print solution, has officially announced the Future Print Conference 2014, to occur September 5, 2014 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco. The conference brings together innovative leaders from print, online marketing, and social media to talk about where marketing is headed […]
British Airways Billboard Interacts With Passing Planes In Picadilly [video]
This is a amazing! What other products could this technology be used for and where? From YouTube: Courtesy of a little digital magic, the young man in this poster really does know when it’s a British Airways plane. And that really is the actual flight number and where it’s flying in from. Full article here: Kids Point […]
Interpublic Launches Unit Focused on Lowering Print Costs
All the times I have been in-between Agencies and Freelance jobs, I have day-dreamed about becoming a Gun For Hire Print Production Auditor – I know, kinda print geeky and not as many travel perks as an astronaut, which was second on my day-dream job list. My plan was I to go into a company […]
Personalization Becoming A Reality Across The Hospitality Industry
The article below is from HotelMarketing.com, but I see it as a call to action for Printers & Service Providers with hospitality clients or Agencies with such clients to get in this game NOW if you arent already there. Having worked for many years in Agencies with casino’s, hotels, resorts and destinations as clients, I can […]
What Apple Didn't Announce: New App Store category for Catalogs
This is one of those good news/bad news things depending upon where you sit in the Marketing industry. For the digital crowd, especially designers – congrats and enjoy your free time while it lasts. For the Print people, well catalogs aren’t going away (at least for now), but I have to imagine the volume will […]
Geo-targeting apps may find themselves in 2012
Print take notice! WHERE your audience sees you is moving up this list in regard to value added, location based offers and content via mobile! I wonder if there is ALREADY and APP for that? Hmmm…. oh yes, now I remember DOCUMOBI! Created FOR Print by Print People. Read this article on why location matters […]
New Flexible Screen Technology For Displays
The video and concept Tablet are aimed at consumers, but this product also has amazing potential for in-store displays! The second video shows the screen applied to tangible materials and Im not sure since it’s a concept if they can be made any larger, but if they could – imagine the Trade Show Booth of the […]
Moving circulars into the digital age
This article is speaking to retailers to get on board with digital circulars, but I am going to focus on Printers. If you are not currently exploring or implementing a digital aspect to your services, you are going to lose out. You have the files, you have the assets, you have the clients. With a […]
PROTECT IP Act: A Law to Censor The Internet
It simply amazes me that censorship of ANY kind would be implemented to protect creative materials. I get that copyright infringement is illegal, but since the internet is so vast, the measures to stop it have to be equal if not greater. In this case, anyone – including YOU – who has posted a link […]
The New York Times runs a cross-platform interactive ad campaign in HTML5
Interesting in the scheme of trend-setting… by Megan Garber Today, for the first time, The New York Times is featuring a single HTML5 interactive ad campaign across its digital platforms. Coca-Cola is running the ads — an extension of its Arctic Home campaign and its long use of polar bears this time of year — […]
Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel
The thing that gets me every time is the look of wonder on the faces of the crowd. The virtual experience becomes tangible in the sense that collectively it was real and shared by the audience. I could totally see a family going home to find the NatGeo Channel (on my cable its 109 – […]