Cannes advertising festival rebrands to reflect digital age
Adland’s annual shindig becomes the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – ditching its advertising tag in the process It is perhaps the only corporate conference in which Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am “producer, entertainer and technology advocate” can be found speaking at a lunchtime seminar, or where the rock star Patti Smith is content to talk about “her career so far”, in a …
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Gnonstop Gnomes Appear On iPhone And Android. Don’t Try To Stop Them.
The Gnonstop Gnomes are here and they cannot be stopped. Gnonstop Gnomes is the first mobile app to come out of Churn Labs , Omar Hamoui’s product lab that he started after he left AdMob/Google. Hamoui demoed Gnonstop Gnomes at Disrupt NYC (see video below) and today the app is available both in iTunes and the Android Market . The app is a real-world social game and photo-sharing app. You create …
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