Trend Segment: ‘Connect’ 
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What’s Online – The Web’s Most Gorgeously Designed Websites
Those that update often and experiment bravely with an eye to gorgeous, yet functional design are sure to grab visitors’ attention. These top sites feature striking design elements that help them stand out at the head of the pack.
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GrapevineStar Brand Alert – Google Study Claims Massive M-Shopping Impact
Those who are skeptical about the breadth and depth of mobile migration often dismiss claims about the power of smartphones and the showroom effect at retail. They claim to see only scattered and occasional instances of use…….
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GrapevineStar Intellectual Property (IP) Alert – Righthaven Loses Bid To Revive Lawsuits
Several years ago, attorney Steven Gibson and the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal cooked up a plan to raise money by suing Web users who reposted news articles on their blogs.
To accomplish this, Gibson founded the copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven, with backing from Sherman Frederick, former Review-Journal publisher. The company proceeded to file 300 lawsuits against nonprofits, news outlets and niche bloggers -
GrapevineStar Event Alert – Licensing Expo 2013 – Leveraging Brands
For over 30 years, Licensing Expo has been the meeting place for the biggest names and the hottest properties in the industry. This is where attendees will find new properties and brands, see the latest trends in the industry, a
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GrapevineStar Brands Event Alert – mCommerce Summit – June 16 – 19, 2013 The American Club – Kohler, WI
MediaPost’s mCommerce Summit showcases how the radically new, forward thinking strategies of leading Brands, Retailers and Advertisers are transforming the way they are interacting with consumers via mobile devices
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Generation X, Millennials, and Baby Boomers…The Spoiled Generation
We talk about Generation X, Millennials, and Baby Boomers, but I’m going to invent a new generation: the Spoiled. The Spoiled generation knows no age boundaries; it does not care when you were born.
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GrapevineStar Media & Brands Web Site Testing Tools
GrapevineStar your media and brand resource presents – Regardless of how talented your digital design team may be, it is always important to leverage testing tools to guarantee that your website is running at peak performance.
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How to Protect Your Brand and its Online Reputation
Grapevine Star Brands recommends OnlineBrandManager.org, providing you the tools and resources to monitor, manage and protect your brand and/or online reputation.
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World Environment EARTHboyâ„¢, World’s Favorite Eco-Super Hero Alert – New UN Report
This is very important to us as humans charged with taking care of this planet, this includes, our children, animal, plant life and ourselves, none of this is possible with out a healthy environment….Brand owners and managers, nothing could be more important to existing brands or new (yet to be developed and promoted) brands than..What will the world look like Enviromentally, now to the end of the century? Media and Entertainment professionals we must support the United Nations emvironmental programmes, understand the risk and do what we can with our brands to send the message of how important an issue this is. ………….. it’s simple do you want your kids and kids’ kids to have clean air and water…..World Environment Earthboyâ„¢
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GrapevineStar Media Trend Alert – Commoditization of marketing and media
Our industry has been subject to relentless commoditization of marketing and media. Particularly in the consumer advertising sector, advertising agency holding companies have tried to industrialize the process of developing the advertising messages and the planning of and buying of media.
