The Sparkbeat
I’ve just spent the past hour reviewing the 58th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity schedule. Aside from lamenting my lost invitation to Yahoo’s networking yacht party (attended by Martha Stewart and Robert Redford), I am genuinely in awe… more
Web to Print
We talk a lot about magazines making the jump from print to digital here at Sparksheet, but a growing number of media brands are doing it the other way around. Marketing consultant and tech writer Paul Spicer reports on print’s new media… more
Corporate blogs were all the rage a few years ago but they seem to have been overshadowed by sexier social media platforms like Twitter. In this month’s Engagement Checkup, we examine how brands are still using blogs to tell stories and mobilize… more
Best of the Web
Top fashion editors are poached by online retailers, Cebu Pacific Air’s dancing flight attendants put a spin on inflight safety, and the big guys sit out the first round of Google TV’s programming line-up in this week’s round-up of content,… more
Best of the Web
Inflight WiFi, Toy Story 3 and digital self-publishing are all covered in this week’s roundup of content, media and travel marketing links. Here’s what you need to read… more
Q&A
Blogger, professor and What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis is America’s shrewdest media iconoclast. In an interview for Sparksheet, media scholar Valérie Bélair-Gagnon asked him what Google would do with its own airline or magazine… more
Best of the Web
Lost pets, electric bikes and the end of Law & Order are all covered in this week's roundup of content, media and travel marketing links. Here's what you need to read... more
Q&A
As CEO of WPP Group, Sir Martin Sorrell is one of the world’s most powerful ad men. He pretty much invented the holding company model and is known for his predictions about the future of media. We spoke to him about… more