MarketingVOX: Best Buy has launched a video sharing site that allows people to store and share home videos online.
Best Buy Video Sharing is the product of a partnership between the retailer and Mydeo, a streaming video service provider.
The service allows people to upload videos, then share them …
Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Best Buy Launches Video Sharing
Spammers Use FTC Credentials to Boost Passwords
MarketingVOX: The FTC, long a major crusader against email fraud, is now the target of the devious business.
The Commission issued a press release Monday that a bogus email is circulating, allegedly from the FTC’s “fraud department.” The address in use is “frauddep.”
When a user downloads an accom…
Advice to Mags: Figure Out Mobile Plans Quickly
MarketingVOX: Executives in the monitoring field have advised magazine publishers to embrace mobile quickly – or risk being left in the dust, reports MediaPost.
The comments were made at the American Magazine Conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
Representatives from companies like Scanbuy, M:Metrics…
Hollywood Reporter Brings Celebrity News & Video to the Desktop
MarketingVOX: Gossip addicts rejoice.
The Hollywood Reporter announced a downloadable app that delivers breaking news, alerts, and video directly to users’ desktops.
The Hollywood Reporter Direct application features rolled-up newspaper icons that appear each time a news piece or video is received…
Major Report Says Piracy Kills Entertainment
MarketingVOX: According to a recent report, the “ready availability” of pirated materials has caused a slowdown in the film, TC, and music industries after years of uninterrupted growth.
The news is attributed to a new 400-page report from the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and…
Google-Powered Phones to Arrive in Mid-’08
MarketingVOX: The ever-talked-about “Google Phone” is reportedly slated to drop into the marketplace in mid-2008.
Keep in mind, Google isn’t hard at work building the next iPhone, it’s instead building a software infrastructure to power handsets.
The Google-powered phone is expected to meld severa…
Myxer Triples Membership to 3 Million in 6 Months
MarketingVOX: Myxer, which allows users to create, share and download mobile content free of charge, has racked up 3 million users; up from 1 million in April.
Some 7 million pieces of mobile content are downloaded each month.
In addition to allowing users to send files from their computers to mob…
Here Comes the Do Not Track List
MarketingVOX: A coalition of consumer privacy groups is expected to propose the online equivalent of the Do Not Call list, reports Advertising Age.
Groups including the Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation and others, have announced a press conference for today. It c…
Facebook Cracked Apps Door Open; Google to Blow it Apart
MarketingVOX: This Thursday Google is expected to announce its plans for a splashy foray back into social networking.
The search giant is looking to “out-Facebook Facebook” by unveiling an open-standard for developers to write programs and applications that work, not only on Google’s Orkut, but al…
Using Thought Leadership to Position Motorola: A Podcast with Eduardo Conrado
Eduardo Conrado and I met up at the MarketingProfs conference at the beginning of October. I really liked his approach to using thought leadership in the positioning of the Enterprise Division of Motorola.
As global marketing VP, Eduardo controls the marketing for all of Motorola’s enterprise B2B …
