CES 2012 – Creative Talks Live

01/14 2012 by Avi Savar | 0 comments

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Kim Gould from Facebook’s marketing and communications team at this year’s CES. We had a great discussion around trends in technology, social media and more. This was a terrific way to cap off a very productive week...
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Mary Meeker Presents 2011 Internet Trends

10/19 2011 by Avi Savar | 0 comments

Kleiner Perkins partner and former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit to present her annual trends report.  The deck is filled with tons of stats and insights that I found fascinating and felt compared to share.  That Mary Meeker...
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Avi Savar on Fox News

06/20 2011 by Avi Savar | 3 comments

I had the opportunity to appear on Fox News recently to talk about social media in the workplace and key tenants to success in social media. ...
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Social Sculpture: How Social Media Has Turned Us All Into Artists

06/16 2011 by Kim Reyes | 0 comments

What’s the Deal? An Update on your Favorite Daily Deal Sites

05/3 2011 by Leo Mikinberg | 0 comments

We all love a good deal, and nothing shows that more than the explosive success of daily deal sites. Lets see who they are, where they stand, and where they are going, if anywhere.

Groupon, the first major deal-of-the-day program, launched in November 2008. It took...
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Why you should care about 4Square.

04/21 2011 by Avi Savar | 0 comments

Mark my words, Geo-location will be at the heart of Social Media.

Social Media Is About Me.

I had the good fortune to hear Peter Theil speak a few weeks ago.  He shared a lot of wisdom from behind his podium — one memorable moment for me...
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10 Reasons Brands Need a Social Media AOR

04/20 2011 by Avi Savar | 1 comment

Is 2011 the Year of the Social Media AOR?

There is no doubt social media is here to stay. Anyone who still says that social is a flash in the pan (and yes, there are people are still saying it) must be living on a...
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Music Industry Finds a New Success Metric

03/7 2011 by Rahul Mahtani | 1 comment

Eminem is the most ‘Liked’ artist on Facebook… period.

There was once a time when success in the music industry was represented by record sales and who had the most chart topping hits. Today, we live in a very different age. How different of an age? Well,...
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Facebook vs. Mixi?

02/3 2011 by Jonathan Hoffman | 6 comments

If you have never heard of Mixi (pronounced Mikushī)…don’t feel bad. Created in 2004, Mixi is one of the most popular social networking service sites in Japan with over 30 million users when measured back in July 2010. Mixi works much like Facebook except it’s...
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Converse Domaination

10/10 2010 by Avi Savar | 2 comments

I can’t think of a recent campaign that impressed me more than this one. It’s simply brilliant and a wonderful example of powerful engagement planning. The video says it all.

Light reading: UI and web design

08/27 2010 by Tiana Rutledge | 3 comments

Staying on top of UI design is an important and time consuming task for web designers (extra super time consuming for geeky designers, like myself, whom are obsessed with grids and patterns). I recently picked up a copy of The Smashing Book which covers best practices...
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