A marijuana shop would have to be pretty darn opulent and over the top to earn the nickname, "the Taj Mahal of THC." But then again, until recently, the bar was set pretty low in this relatively new but fast-growing segment of the retail world. Diego Pellicer, a cannabis store in Seattle named for a...
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Morning Digest
March 28, 2017
What marketers need to know today
Targeting the 'Chardonnay mom,’ not just the stoner dude
By T.L. Stanley
A marijuana shop would have to be pretty darn opulent and over the top to earn the nickname, "the Taj Mahal of THC." But then again, until recently, the bar was set pretty low in this relatively new but fast-growing segment of the retail world. Diego Pellicer, a cannabis store in Seattle named for a...
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A tale of hope and renewal from Northwell Health
By David Gianatasio
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Don’t just buy audiences—build assets
MLB has licensed everything else, so why not this?
By Robert Klara
The restaurant has stayed mum on the meme
By Christine Birkner
New flavor took over every aspect of music's biggest night
By Katie Richards
In February 2017, Absolut launched its first new flavor in over four years: Absolut Lime. A lot was banking on this rollout, considering the sharp decline in vodka sales beginning in 2014, a rise in competition from the whiskey market and a growing fatigue of sickly sweet flavors like cookie-dough vodka. In a major activation...
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Its winning formula? Innovation and MLB stars attract customers
By Robert Klara
One day in 1920, a man named Bill Doak stopped in to the Rawlings sporting goods store in St. Louis and changed baseball forever. Doak was a pitcher for the Cardinals, a team that the Rawlings brothers, George and Alfred, had been fitting out with uniforms and baseballs since 1907. Like all players, Doak's non-throwing...
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Ride-sharing app needs to revamp its internal culture
By Kristina Monllos
If you look at the recent media coverage of Uber one thing is clear: The brand is in crisis. Just this past weekend a new report emerged that while in Seoul in 2014 the leadership team at Uber, including CEO Travis Kalanick, took a trip to an "escort/karaoke bar." The previous weekend the ride-sharing app's...
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State Street artwork is added to DOT Art program
By Tim Nudd
She was never going to give up without a fight. Following a campaign of support from politicians including public advocate Letitia James and Rep. Carolyn Mahoney, New York City has officially invited McCann's "Fearless Girl" statue, created for client State Street Global Advisors, to remain in her spot opposite the Wall Street bull through February...
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Ashley Baccus-Clark highlights social issues with new technologies
By Sami Main
"Art used to be science, and science used to be art," explained Ashley Baccus-Clark. For the past seven months, Baccus-Clark has worked at the intersection of those subjects as a speculative neuroscientist for Hyphen-Labs, a 3-year-old collective of women of color that uses both science and art to create experiences with an eye on social...
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Kevin Drew Davis to run Chicago, Canada operations
By Patrick Coffee
Kevin Drew Davis is moving back to Chicago. WPP's "global experience innovation agency" Blast Radius has hired the digital native as its first chief creative officer in more than 6 years. Moving forward, he will lead its largest offices in Vancouver, Toronto and his hometown. Davis previously spent nearly four years with the DDB network...
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