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Gotham, Jason Bateman's production studio DumbDumb and Ben Silverman's studio Electus for Denny's brings us Always Open, an online celebrity talk show of sorts.

Legitimate research "roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users---where the media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed"

"Something odd is happening with celebrities and style. The stars are becoming more daring, more avant garde than the designers. Nowadays, the biggest female names in music don't particularly set themselves apart from their predecessors through musical style… but the way they look is a whole new world."

"In Brazil, people don't drink enough water so bottled water company Bonafont created the Tweeting Fridge, a miniature refrigerator sent to one of the country's top celebrities that would post a tweet to the celebrity's timeline every time the celebrity opened the fridge and took a drink of water."

Fabio, Hasselhoff, Dokken, now Lohan - seems like celebrity spokespeople are increasingly ironic/C-list/terrible/jokes Air New Zealand continues its train-wreck celebrity series by inviting Lindsay Lohan to sit on the "skycouch" and be peppered with sexual innuendo by the carrier's lascivious, foul-mouthed spokes-squirrel, Rico.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Noid, the irksome and hyper Domino's character who was best avoided in TV commercials that began airing in 1986. To celebrate, Domino's has brought the character back-on Facebook. He's the star of a new Facebook game from Crispin Porter + Bogusky called Noid's Super Pizza Shootout.

google+ now verifying accounts

Radiohead mysteriously described eighth album "The King of Limbs" as the world's first "newspaper album" before its digital release last month, and fans have finally been given that cryptic newspaper today (Mar. 28). The alt-rock kings have published "The Universal Sigh," their own newspaper available for free today and tomorrow at various locations worldwide, to celebrate tomorrow's physical release of "Limbs" in the U.S.

First five to arrive at the at&t store where the red wings rep would get a pair of tickets to the next playoff game.

American Idol using "Cameo Stars" to promote this season. Users can send video postcards that feature messages from celebrities.

Little late to the punch with the whole bacon thing....

Full court press to topple Twitter?

Live-streaming platform Twitch is playing a big part, hosting a day-long event on Twitch's Pokemon stream honoring the game this weekend, along with a 24-hour mega-marathon of highlights from the game's anime companion.

By: Brad Reed | Sep 26th, 2012 at 09:15PM Yes, people still like mobile apps. Google ( GOOG) on Wednesday announced that its Google Play store had now served up more than 25 billion total app downloads, an impressive figure for a store that launched just four years ago.

Narrative touts itself as a company that provides marketing solutions for publishers, agencies and brands. Its purpose is to create digital campaigns that are rooted in social media, branded entertainment and celebrity-driven content, using techniques such as crowd-sourcing, gamification and rewards. Campaigns are distributed through pop-culture, entertainment, music and lifestyle websites, bolstered by behavioral-data analytics and a custom ad-serving platform, among other technologies.