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Billionaire Richard Branson has had the golden touch with many businesses in the Virgin Group. Now his company hopes to work its magic again with an all-new Virgin Games online gaming tournament business. The company is announcing today it has made an investment in the online game tournament site Worldgaming.com and is rebranding it as Virgin Games. Branson's move, which will be highlighted by his appearance at a press conference during the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles today, shows that video games are gaining importance in the larger entertainment and media market.

Virgin America is using Foursquare and Facebook Places to create a leaderboard at the terminal to track who has checked in at the VA terminal the most. However, they want to see results before they integrate the program completely into their loyalty rewards system.

Brand as Partners Longreads has become a great resource for readers whose attention span lasts longer than this blog post. Now, it's getting into travel writing via a new partnership with Virgin Atlantic. Longreads today announced the launch of Travelreads, a new channel that will help people find and share the best stories about the best places in the world.

Virgin Group app that displays all of the firsts with a friend using the new functions of FB's Timeline API. Part of a "social marathon" this Wednesday giving away prizes to fans. 

Could look into Virgin Gaming as a partner for future sponsorships within gaming. 

"Virgin Mobile promises to make a new celebrity couple from two previously unknown, unfamous people. This is everything that's wrong with society bundled up in awesomeness for advertising glory. We deserve this. Thanks, Jamie!"

kinda interesting -- uses brad pitt's brother as a non-celeb endorser. 

really cool ad

counter trend for the environmental scan on complaints via twitter

This is actually really cool. The vendor involved, Klout, is someone we could keep in mind for social campaign recos.

anyone who checks in to LAX, SFO, or "a handful of taco trucks" will recieve a voucher for two tickets for the price of one to Los Cabos, or Cancun. big deal!

weekly 9.2

These ads where people stand in for brands, in telecom and computing, are getting out of control

customize the weather characteristics you want during a vacation.  it will tell you the place to travel to with that weather.

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUIqfjpInxY"

Space tourism - yours for $100k - $200k per ticket