Morning Update: Nov 7 – Old-school pitch for news app; Everything ad people love jammed into 90 seconds; Internet kills the video store
This is our Morning Update, rounding up international media and marketing news from while you were sleeping.
AdWeek: Modern-Day News App Gets the Most Old-School Pitch You Can Imagine
“If there’s one thing that says breaking news in the era of social media, it’s an old white guy smoking cigarettes on a boxy television. That’s the ironic and all-around odd approach BreakingNews.com takes in the promo video announcing its new site and app design.”
It is very interesting to see how social media networks evolve. It looks like it is hard to come up with new ideas that could compete with the giant players. Pinterest has shown that there is still room for “following your dreams” and make a pretty thing a big business.