Luxury Retailer Pirch Taps Design Celebs to Market Its New York Debut

Home Appliance Brand Will Run Campaign Featuring Nate Berkus, Padma Lakshmi Pirch, the high-end home appliance store known for letting its customers take a shower or heat up some eggs on premises, is opening a flagship in New York and it’s debuting a new campaign to spread the word. The retailer, which will open a 32,000 square-foot showroom in SoHo May 21, has tapped celebrities such as Nate Berkus, Padma

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Customer Engagement Survey: Brands Failing to Meet Mobile Communication Expectations

Ahead of the weekend, tyntec — a telecom-web convergence company — issued the results of its survey conducted in partnership with Ovum, which uncovers new trends in how consumers utilize various communication channels to interact with customer service agents and opportunities for enterprises to enhance mobile customer engagement. The report, “Customer engagement shifts to mobile messaging,” reveals customers prefer to interact with customer service agents using different communication channels depending

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Welcome to the Wild West of Influencer Marketing

Influencer marketing is a topic that is brought up at most meetings these days, and while it has been the core principle of a public-relations approach (third-party endorsement) it is fast becoming a channel of choice for many agencies, regardless of the sector in which they operate.   Why is it becoming fashionable to talk about it? Because at first glance, it looks an easier way to build brand recommendation far

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How Cosmopolitan’s decision to prioritise events over ads has put the brand back on track

At a time when it’s becoming increasingly hard for publishers to make money, Cosmopolitan believes media executives should rely less on advertising and circulation models and focus more on events. Pulling away from advertising might seem contrarian for a legacy publisher but it’s a shift that has turned the brand into a success story. “Sex is not just what this brand is anymore – we are now looking more at

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Kevin Durant: ‘I thought it was our year’

Kevin Durant has learned, painfully and repeatedly, that championships wait for no one. The game moves on, it evolves. What once seems promised quickly can vanish. As his latest best chance to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to that elusive title evaporated late Monday under a confetti shower at Oracle Arena, Durant hugged the triumphant Stephen Curry while seething and mourning inside. “I hate to [expletive] lose. It sucks. I

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4 Step Social Media Marketing Strategy That PAYS

Some trends are so hot that they take off right from the starting gate, dragging us along with them. Social media is just such a trend. In fact, social media is more than a trend as it is here to stay. But because social media has grown so fast, most marketers have been forced to learn how to use it “on the job.” Is it worth it – the learning

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Social Media Channels Increasingly Becoming Event-centric

Social media and events, at their core, bring people together. When used properly, they should go hand-in-hand. Social media providers have recognized this and are increasingly becoming more event-centric in their product offerings. Here are a few new ways that this is happening: Facebook: Facebook, is the largest social media channel with 1.67 billion users (1 in 5 on this planet). It has long had an Events Page option for

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Cody Garbrandt flattens Thomas Almeida to remain undefeated

LAS VEGAS – The battle of the UFC’s young and unbeaten knockout artists was no contest. Cody Garbrandt is still undefeated after stopping Thomas Almeida.  From the moment the bell rang, Cody Garbrandt was dominant over Thomas Almeida in the main event of their bantamweight fight Sunday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. They entered the bout a combined 29-0 and were seen as the future of the 135-pound division.

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Millennials Tell Stories Through Social Media, Not Search Marketing

Marketers of small and medium-size businesses struggle with how to spend their advertising budgets. Only 13% responding to a survey from Magisto use search engine optimization and 27% use paid search. More are turning toward social media as a form of word of mouth. The results — from Unlocking The Most Powerful Shift In SMB Marketing, released Wednesday — found that for SMBs it’s about selling stories and experiences, not products,

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Event 360: Langley’s Gin – why event marketing is key for premium brands

Langley’s Gin and Garnish Communications hosted a huddle at Event 360, exploring how to use brand activations to create a memorable consumer experience.  Event 360 is Event and sister title C&IT‘s annual summit of inspiration and insight, held yesterday (25 May) at Building Six at The O2.Mark Dawkins, co-founer and co-owner of Charter Brands, which launched Langley’s No. 8 Gin three years ago, told attendees that with consumers increasingly hard to

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