
The viral marketing for Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis’ The Campaign has finally hit. New ads show the two men introducing themselves in character for the film. The film's website also features separate pages for the characters. Read..
WB has released the first official trailer for Gangster Squad from the director of Zombieland. The film follows a group of 1940's rogue cops who will stop at nothing to catch LA's most wanted gagsters. It has an all-star cast including Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone and Nick Nolte. It hits theaters later this year. Read..
The first official trailer for Ben Affleck's Argo was released today. The film is based on the true story of the rescue of the hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran after the revolution. Argo involves government agents, Hollywood studios and a fake science fiction movie that assisted in the rescue of hostages. It reaches theaters in October. Read..
Google+ announced on Monday that it will gradually roll out its "Hangouts on Air" feature in the coming weeks. The new feature lets users broadcast live sessions foranyone to watch. It was previously available only for a small group of broadcasters starting in 2011. Read..
Travel customers have found that sharing their experiences and airing their hotel problems on Twitter is effective. The tweets coax hotels to solve problems quicker because they are made public. Some guests have even found that Twitter is frequently faster than calling the front desk or corporate to get results. Read..
President Obama announced today that he supports same-sex marriage. The announcement sent the social media world in a tizzy, especially following North Carolina’s passing of Amendment 1 to ban same-sex marriage this morning. Read..
TIME Magazine’s cover has become a trending topic. The cover features a young mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son. The provocative cover and issue focuses on "attachment parenting" an approached outlined by Dr. Bill Sears in his book "The Baby Book. It includes recommendations on extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and "baby wearing". Read..
Facebook has announced it will create a new app store called App Center. Their app store will help Facebook users download apps on any platform – Facebook, the web, iOS, Android and more. It also shared that it will recommend apps based on users’ tastes, rather than by popularity. Read..
Retailer C&A has begun a marketing push called FashionLike. When shoppers “like” a clothing item online at C&A Brasil's site, the thumbs-up is tallied on a screen embedded in clothes hanger on the store's physical racks. Shoppers can then consider the amount of likes an item has when deciding what to buy. Read..
Disney's The Avengers opened with a staggering $207.4 million box office over the weekend. The film now holds the top spot for the biggest three-day opening of all time in North America. The Avengers also took in another $151.5 million overseas, bringing it’s overseas total to $441.5m. Read..
Sunday's night’s episode of "Mad Men" featured The Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows” from the Revolver album. To snag the rights to this song it cost about $250,000, according to "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner. It goes down as one of the most expensive songs for TV ever. Read..
YouTube has created a new channel called Wigs, which will feature short scripted dramas about strong female characters. The channel’s videos will star a surplus of well-known actresses, including Jennifer Garner, Julia Stiles and Dakota Fanning. Black Swan director Jon Avnet and “In Treatment” creator Rodrigo Garcia will helm the channel. Read..
Maurice Sendak died Tuesday in Connecticut from complications to a recent stroke. The celebrated author and illustrator of "Where The Wild Things Are" was 83 years old. Read..
In the latest edition of The Rolling Stone, thesinger for the rock band Against Me!, Tom Gabel, has revealed that he plans to begin living as a woman. He will eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace and will remain married to wife Heather. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition. Read..
Along with their new website design, Orbitz has designed a new campaign. The spot encourages allAmericans to "take vacation back" by using all those days off they've earned grinding away at work. They urge viewers to take a stand and plan a vacation – with the help of them of course. Read..
Hotel guests may one day walk into a hotel and have a robot escort them to their rooms. Ava the iRobot will begin to appear in pilot programs in health care, retail and building security. Ava is able to navigate the offices based on a map that it had generated in its "head." Read..
Telkonet, Inc. developer of the revolutionary EcoSmart energy management platform, has announced that the Deniham Hospitality Group has chosen the cloud-based EcoSmart energy management platform for five of its hallmark boutique hotels in NYC. Over 1,100 rooms will have the system installed. Read..