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Dr. Leeds will be talking about this next Tuesday (Oct. 28th) and I thought it applies to Media and Culture. The question is "Does the free market corrode moral character?" and this site has links to several people's points of view.

Few consumers have ever heard of Acxiom. But analysts say it has amassed the world's largest commercial database on consumers - and that it wants to know much, much more.

Before you purchase a local TV advertisement, learn about the value and understand viewing habits in your media market.

Somebody created ten fake Facebook profiles of varying descriptions, built them up to 200 friends each, and is now selling them on eBay to anyone who cares to take them over for undercover marketing purposes.

"In some ways, this marketing push has been happening for years: Companies hawking a variety of goods, from diamonds to digital cameras, have been eager to get parent bloggers to write posts that tout their products. But recently, these bloggers say, food companies have upped the ante, bombarding them with free trips to corporate kitchens and mountains of edible swag."

a thriving market for cheap offers to write positive reviews of your self-published Kindle books

But this new twist on advertising has already proved to be tricky. Users do not always realize that the links and "likes" they post on Facebook can be deployed for marketing purposes.

A logo adopted by food company giants is showing up in major supermarkets

A logo adopted by food company giants is showing up in major supermarkets

In the USA, intellectual piracy laws outlaw piracy of goods from all forms of the market, from medical to the watch industry. This helps prevent the origenal producers of drugs and products from losesing billions on the market. China does not have such laws, allowing for piracy of everything from Viagra to Rolex, causing companies to lose billions

China does not have these laws primarily because under communism, there is no privet property, including ideas. This allows for easy bootlegging of products, and when this involves drugs such as Viagra, it endangers the lives of the people using the bootlegged drug, because there has not necessarily been the same testing of the bootlegged drug as there is on the drug made by the company. Intellectual property laws ensure quality within a product.

Specialists discuss foods myths and clarify the facts. I highlighted two sections in which marketing is the source of the rumor--according to some authors, the media has convinced us that sugar is better than high fructose corn syrup and that antioxidant drinks are healthy...

I get people who want to talk about something on behalf of a client, and they go and recommend it to their friends using their trust factor, then that is the very definition of social marketing.

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The Army plans to unveil a pilot concept recruitment center in late August that was inspired by the interactivity of Apple Stores. The center, opening in a city that's yet to be determined, will be built around virtual simulations and other experiential marketing techniques to engage visitors.

Barbie is set to open a massive 3400 square meter flagship store along Shanghai's trendy Huai Hai Road. Hoping to cash in on the China consumer market, Mattel has invested over $30 million to set up the first Barbie worldwide flagship store. A new set of Asian and Caucasian Barbie dolls have been developed for the grand opening.

Each day, CheckFacebook.com tracks data reported from Facebook's advertising tool to help marketers and researchers understand how Facebook is spreading across the globe.

"Create, snd and track your campaigns in style."

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

Taking advantage of all the abandoned retail spaces in urban areas, marketers are leasing them at cut-rate prices and filling them with their ads.

This articles gives viewers tips on how to analyze television commercials, because they can affect us in many ways even if we do not realize it. This article mentions six main questions that are important to keep in mind while viewing commercials. First one must consider what the product or service that is being promoted is, next one must consider what advertising techniques the companies are using to market their products. Thirdly one must determine how the music in the commercial is helpful in marketing the product. One must also consider how the actors affect their view of the product, and specify what the advertisement is doing to capture the viewers attention. Lastly one must determine who the commercials target audience is, and after a person has answered all these questions then and only then will they understand media literacy.

The upcoming CMA Tower in Riyadh is said to be tallest hi-tech tower in the world and will host the CMA headquarters, the government organization responsible for regulating Saudi Arabia's capital markets. Check it out…