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Games I still want to try 20140
Might be the reason some of these aren't on my GOTY list. You know how it goes. This year like half of what I played were released in 2013 or earlier. I've got a ps4 now, so next year it'll be the hot 2014 releases.
A strange, transitional year for videogames, both personally and the industry as a whole. Games still being developed, companies still deciding what exactly they are trying to sell people. Major releases turned out to be decent, but disappointing. Fo...
Runners Up 20130
Like last year a lot of these could have easily made the top 10.
A lot of great games this year. Looking back, it seems like the bulk of my gaming time was spent on the 3ds, then the PC, then the PS3. One game I'd like to put on here but can't was FEZ, which I was finally able to play because it got a PC release t...
Runners Up 20120
Far more games than 10 are worth mentioning this year.edit, whoops To the Moon was released last year.
A few points about lists and this year's games in general:1) A kind of "top etc" lists are useless without some kind of context, that is, just listing stuff out without any kind of explanation. This seems like an obvious point, but it took me a while...
Top Ten 2012 Games I Still Want to Try2
Here's hoping Fez and Dust get pc releases like other Xbox Live Arcade games have. Asura's Wrath added after listening to the GOTY podcasts. Not super stoked after hearing about the DLC in the game, but if I can find it cheap, I'll try it.
Best of 20090
happymeowmeow: Best of 2009
coonce: Favorites
10 Hottest Chicks in Video Games6
My list of hot video game girls!
coonce: Collection
Games That Make Me Happy16
C'mon, look at that face!
Awesome games that need a sequel!32
Just my list of games that I wish had a sequel
What I'm Playing10
Playing these now!
Under Rated Games31
Just a list of some of my favorite games that weren't appreciated at the time of release.
TheBeast: Collection
This Site is Awesome, And These Pages Prove It20
A list of pages that are either filled out really well or are so weird that it's amazing that they actually exist.
coonce: Wishlist
Top 10 Genesis Games4
My list of top 10 Sega Genesis Games.
Top 10 Snowboarding Games6
My List of Top 10 Snowboarding Games.
Video Game Locations I'd like to visit8
If only I could jump into the screen.
Jeff's All-Time Favorites92
They're not always the best games. They're just my favorite for one reason or another. This list isn't in any particular order and I'm going to go for the more obscure stuff first, since no one needs to see a list that says "OH MAN SUPER MARIO WORLD...
Obscure Fighting Games That Are Worth Some Attention20
The mid-1990s were a pretty special time in gaming. The PlayStation was everywhere, and mod chips were becoming common. This opened me up to a world of crazy-ass import games. Since I happened to have something of a budget that I could put toward acq...
How to make a proper comic book game15
Playing through Arkham Asylum really made me think about how rare it is to play a great comic book inspired game. Here's a list of some of my favorites.
Games I Will Accept As Your Answer to the Question "What Is The Greatest Game Ever Made?"211
Different people with different upbringings in different eras mean that everyone's going to have a different answer to the question. For the record, when people ask me, I usually say Tetris. It's certainly not my favorite game of all-time, but if yo...
From Russia with Love (Great Games from the Eastern Bloc)33
1C publishes most Eastern Block games these days. I love games that come out of Eastern Europe and Russia. If "Eastern Bloc" was a proper genre I would probably declare it as my favorite. So why the fasicination? I guess I just really like the cerebr...
Characters I Would Recruit For My World-Class Fighting Force34
If I needed to start a world-class force of fighters--you know, men and women who needed to be on-call at all times, ready to fight terror wherever it may rear its nefarious head--these would be the guys at the top of my list.
Good Licensed Games42
I should note that I mean licensed in the traditional sense of taking characters or stories from other mediums and bringing them to games. I don't mean sports games like Madden or Tony Hawk, even though both are technically licensed products.
Pile of Shame32
One of the (relative) downsides of covering games for a living is only having a finite amount of time to play games, and often having to play a bunch of games you'd rather not mess with. A consequence of this responsibility is lacking the time to pla...
The Best In Classic Sports8
A list in progress
Bad Games That I Can't Help But Like... Or At Least Remember Somewhat Fondly20
Or, if you want to be all technical about it, "guilty pleasures." And yeah, "bad" is probably a strong term. Some of these games are merely middling. But at some point I don't want a huge title for the list.
Great Pinball Machines10
This is mostly here to motivate me to add more pinball machines to the database.
These are the sorts of games that, if they were to come up while arguing with someone who didn't like games, you'd just have to shrug your shoulders and say "yeah, well... yeah."
Games I've Completed More Than Three Times17
I'm fairly skittish with video games when it comes to finishing them. With games coming out every week I tend to move on to the newest greatest thing before completing the task at hand. With that said it's extremely rare for me to actually enjoy a ga...
Hot Box Art0
My list of super hot box art.
Franchises That Deserve A Reboot / Refresh19
If someone can tell me why we can't have a decent Looney Tunes, Pixar or Jeopardy game I'd love to hear it. Enjoy this mix of forgotten and ill-treated franchises.
Games I Loved, Forgot, And Then Remembered Again Thanks to Jeff12
Thanks Jeff! As a recently turned thirty-year old that started gaming at the age of five I feel pretty good about having a large catalog of game memories versus most of my peers. Due to a kid-filled neighborhood in the suburbs of DC I got a healthy...
Best of 20092
lordofultima: Best of 2009
Best of 20090
TheBeast: Best of 2009
Best of 20091
My top ten games of 2009!
Best of 20095
While reviewing games certainly has its challenges, comparing two games that have next to nothing in common is actually much harder. These apples-to-oranges moments forced me to really consider things like "is a weird portable rhythm game better or w...
Games I Have Used For Cell Phone SMS/Ringtones9
Pretty simple, really. This is a list of all of the music or game noises I've used as ringtones or as incoming SMS noises.
Games That Should Be In Game Room10
Here are the games I think would work terrifically with Game Room's leaderboard and challenge features.
E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games0
coonce: E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games
E3 2010 Most Anticipated Games0
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They paid and stayed. We double-checked.
4.2 Room cleanliness
4.2 Service & staff
3.9 Room comfort
3.7 Hotel condition
They paid and stayed.
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for Everyoneby A verified traveler from San Francisco,CA
Nice hotel, great location. Needs a major overhaulPosted Jun 28, 2015
Lovely staff, great location, but needs a few investors to make this place fabulous. it's time. It's 2015 for goodness sake not 1977.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from SFV
locationPosted Jun 26, 2015
Pros: The location, and there is a pretty nice lobby.
Cons: The air conditioning in our room wasn't very effective.
Location: I already did, above.
This hotel is very close to Marina del Rey activities AND Venice activities. It's on a little beach and the marina (--of course). There are wonderful restaurants nearby. We especially liked Whiskey Red's, and The Warehouse was pretty good too. We rented a boat and went all around the marina.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Livingston Scotland
Right Hotel, wrong room. Be careful what you book.Posted Jun 19, 2015
Pros: Location, comfort if you have the right room
Cons: Air conditioning a bit past it.
Location: The location has a safe feel for walking the Marina or to Venice. Plenty choice for dining locally.
We have stayed at the Foghorn Harbor twice previously and found it an excellent alternative to the hotels closer to LAX. For this reason we booked it again for the last night of our vacation, planning to spend the evening relaxing on our balcony with a glass or two of wine enjoying the Marina view. We checked in at 2.00 and did no more than leave our suitcases in our room then take a walk to Venice Beach. On our return we went out to our balcony only to find it backed on to the kitchens of the Cheesecake Factory next door and the smells and noise from there made it impossible to enjoy sitting out. Furthermore the dividing wall between the properties cut our view by half. We complained to the front desk and asked for a change of room but were told it wasn't possible because housekeeping had finished for the day. We still rate this hotel, but the moral of the story is - be very sure what room you are getting when you book. Our night was totally spoiled.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
AWESOME EXPERIENCEPosted Jun 11, 2015
The Foghorn Harbor Inn was so welcoming - from the staff, to the location, to the comfortable fuzzy white towels and bedding. The staff was very, very friendly and helpful with recommendations regarding the area restaurants and things to do. The owner or manager - Graham - easily changed our reservations by one day when our plane was stranded and we didn't arrive when we were supposed to. They had a water cooler to fill your water bottles for the beach or whenever, fresh coffee always brewed and the breakfast was generous for a continental breakfast. This was a great place to stay with an excellent view of the marina right on the beach. We will definetly be staying here again.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from West Hollywood
Quaint hotel with great location.Posted May 26, 2015
Pros: Service and location
Cons: Hotel needs a make-over
Location: A number of restaurants and marina attractions
Older hotel and rooms but wonderful service. Great fully stocked continental breakfast. Wonderful location right by the water and next to the Cheescake factory restaurant.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Good, needs some updating in roomsPosted May 20, 2015
Great staff, manager was very helpful in allowing for a very late check-out because of graduation...rooms need a little updating...breakfast was way better than I thought it was going to be...overall, great place to stay so close to airport and USC...great restaurants in area, especially Whiskey Red's...
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Friendly, convenient and clean.Posted May 5, 2015
We took an easy walk to the beach, pier and local gallery. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory right next door and enjoyed our weekend!
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Avignon
Hotel très confortable. Personnel serviablePosted Apr 20, 2015
Pros: Emplacement et petit déjeuner inclus
Cons: Pas de coffe -machine dans la chambre mais compensé par le petit déjeuner très varié (oeufs, fruits frais, viennoiseries, etc)
Location: A 10 min de Venice Beach, plage mythique
Nous ne sommes restés (à regret) qu'une seule nuit dans cet hôtel qui s'est avéré une pépite. Emplacement de rêve sur la plage de la Marina à 10 minutes à pied de Venice beach, Los Angeles.Personnel très gentil et serviable. Chambre avec vue sur la plage très confortable, rien n'y manque. Petit déjeuner excellent sur une petite terrasse donnant sur la plage. Il y a même, pour ceux qui le souhaite, un lecteur DVD dans chaque chambre et des videos gratuites à emprunter.
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Posted Apr 11, 2015
Pros: Above
Cons: Above
Location: Beautiful harbor
Overall nice experience. Could use some updating (room color was white & royal blue). Like the breakfast included. Could have done without the Cheesecake Factory fgift cards.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Great location, good servicePosted Apr 11, 2015
Pros: Location, friendly staff
Location: I like a scenic run, and Venice Beach bike trail was close by. Lots of good restaurants and the Marina within a mile.
This is a simple hotel--mediocre breakfast, small room--but clean and comfortable and GREAT location. Also, the staff seemed to go out of their way to be helpful.


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Welcome to Dateline Disney World! This week, we saw more movement on the New Fantasyland project, Big Thunder Mountain reopening, and lots of little things going on at the Magic Kingdom. We also saw the closing of a classic dark ride. Over at Epcot, there are lots of little things to report on as well. We've got around 100 photos to get to this week, so let's get started! Inside Dateline Disney World
Hello, and welcome to Dateline DisneyWorld! This week, we will take a look at the ever changing landscape of the New Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom, introduce to you a brand new Photo eBook of this year's Flower and Garden Festival, and take a look at the first Star Wars Weekend that happened a week ago at Disney's Hollywood Studios! That said, let's get started at the Magic Kingdom!
Hello, and welcome to Dateline Disney World! This week, there was more progress on the New Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom, along with a bunch of small improvements happening all around the park, and also the newest addition to the Disney character family arriving at the park. A World Showcase pavilion received some TLC over at Epcot, and preparations are in full force (no pun intended) for the madness that is Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Lots to cover today, so let's start
Hello and welcome to Dateline Disney World! This week, we'll be bringing you construction updates from the Magic Kingdom, taking a look at the preparations at Disney's Hollywood Studios for Star Wars Weekends, and also taking a look at something interesting that has happened near the Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom. So, let's get started by heading over to the Magic Kingdom!
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Big data beyond the hype
Lutz Finger, Director Data Science and Data Engineering (LinkedIn) spoke at Digital Innovators Summit in Berlin about what big data really means and how it can be used.
Finger sees that big data is big pain as the number of connected devices is growing.
The key to big data is to ask the right questions. It is important to measure the right data even if it's not big data, but take actions and learn from them. It always helps to start with a questions, or something that helps create a value.
LinkedIn is not an address book – it is a platform, where people can create identity – says Finger. This data is used to create products.
Lots of things today end up to be graphical appealing but useless. People measure everything because they can do it. But to make it useful, you have to ask the right question. Why Google won with Altavista? It asked the right questions. Google didn't want to show the entire world to consumer, but to show the most relevant answer – Finger proves his point.
Forming the right question is extremely difficult. The ask should have the value function at the end. World is full of wrong metrics.
Engagement is flawed. Metrics prove that catchy line can get you lots of clicks but irrelevant information for the
audience at the same time. We always need to back up our assumption.
Steps for the future managing big data (tips for the publishers):
- make your data accessible
- build a content profile for each reader
- build a knowledge profile from your journalists
- hire a data team (aka data scientists)
- envision data products: distribution network, ad placement, content recommendation
F+W transformation from print publishing to e-commerce company
David Nussbaum, Chairman and CEO, F+W (USA) spoke at Digital Innovators' Summit in Berlin about digital transformationof his company, and their new business models.
F+W has gone through an amazing transformation from a print-focused niche publisher to a digital-first content and e-commerce company, with exclusive digital and physical product offerings.
In 2008 the company was just a print on paper book and magazine publisher ePaper with 1 e-commerce store summing up
for 2% of the revenue. In 2010 it transformed to delivery agnostic community focused content provider with fewer print
products, and 21 e-commerce stores adding up for 5% of total revenue. This year the company is changing its brand to
F+W e-content and e-commerce company (not a media company anymore). Focusing on instruction, inspiration, exclusive
goods and services for enthusiasts. 33 e-commerce stores, 27% of total revenue.
There are 4 core tenets of F+W business:
- community
- commerce – direct-to-consumer one-stop shop exclusive products and services for enthusiasts.
- content – has become more important in digital age than ever before. This is what brings people to e-stores. So F+W
- puts efforts in diversified product portfolio: digital media, books, ebooks, magazines, events, online education,
- competitions, and more
- curation – guided journey to help consumers select the right product and services
Why did they they transform? The print sales were in decline, as traditional retail channeles were disappearing. The
company needed to supplant or surpass the lost sales. It also didn't like the idea of 4 big companies like Amazon,
Google control the environment.
Today F+W is focused on core communities. It sold or shuttered some outliers. At the same time it strenthened core
communities, and acquired new ones.
F+W also needed more digital focused employees. In 2008 only 3% of them were digital. In 2015 19% of its workforce is
digital. Although the company grew of 100 people, the percentage of employment in some of the departments has
As consumer preferences change, the company had to change to become its own retail channel. So it set its future by
owning the entire supply chain.
At this moment F+W has 22 million pageviews to ecommerce stores with 5,3 million sessions. They have more than 20.000
customer contacts.
Their focus is also building community. Email is still the no.1 driver of ecommerce. In 2010 their email list size was
hardly 1,3 million records, in 2015 it reached 7,9 million active customers, and those are specific targeted lists by
F+W has 21 million unique shoppers annually, and 5 million monthly ecommerce shoppers. In 2010 the print was 87% of
revenues, now it is 53%. Within the same perion digital grew from 5% to 27%.
EMAP: Unlocking audience value
At the Digital Innovators' Summit in Berlin, Natasha Christie-Miller (CEO of EMAP) shedded some light on the transformation, as well as thoughts on how content-centric businesses can continue to unlock value in an uncertain world.
EMAP is the UK-based B2B media business. It has a tenacious, inventive streak, which has served it well since it was
founded in 1947 as a newspaper group. Facing the same challenges as its industry counterparts in recent years, the
group has innovated from a declining ad-reliant print business to become a growing multi-channel subscriptions
According to Natasha Christie-Miller there are a couple of trends to be witnessed in the nearest future:
- Cybercrime will go mainstream, as it becomes new warfare (i.e. last Sony hacking scandal).
- Rise of the coding.
- Emails will become obsolete as new forms of communication becoming more popular.
- Rise of emotional connectedness – choices we make and what we prioritize will be made how we feel about something and
- how emotianally are we connectd to product or service.
Christie-Miller mentioned the "Guthenberg parenthesis": the written word is a 500-years blick in human communication.
Long time ago the written word became the communication of choice. Thanks to technology nowadays we can go back to
speaking and sharing stories. Some people call it the end of the written word.
EMAP is a leading B2B content subscription business in Europe and Middle East. It predicts that in 2 years from now,
each household will have 72 connected devices. Some of the EMAP brands are 150 yrs old but the value to customers has
not changed. Their mission is to deliver helpful and informative content that helps their customers do their job
better. They do it on 3 main platforms: digital, face to face and print.
Before Christie-Miller became the CEO, EMAP's subscriptions had been declining for 25 years. The situation has
changed, as for the past 2 years they have been growing.
This could be done thanks to three EMAP's main purposes: subscriptions, sales excellence and customer joy.
They do it with help of two tactics: great sales operation, and awareness that each of the selling content platforms
must be as good as another. EMAP offers different subscription packages so customers can choose only the platform but
the product remains everywhere the same.
EMAP's sales excellence has 3 ingredients:
- right reward and recognition programme,
- layer of sales leadership in the organisation,
- ever evolving customer-led range of products.
Customer joy means for EMAP having them happy, and engaged. Aware of the value of what they buy. What they get in return is customers that are loyal, cross-buying, become advocates of the product, and sometimes co-creators.
VICE: Changing of the guard in media for generation Y
Carsten Kritscher, Commercial Director, VICE Media (Germany) shared during Digital Innovators Summit how his company has collaborated with forward thinking brands to form unique partnerships and develop cutting-edge, disruptive solutions for their needs.
The algorithmically confounding exponential growth of the internet has challenged all of our previous marketing "givens." Not only has it rewritten most of the rules in media, it has also changed the playing field. Because of this revolution and the rise of its revolutionaries— Gen Y—new methods of strategy, production, content, and activation are needed. New solutions for this rapidly shifting environment have become essential. VICE Media is a leading youth media company that provides these solutions for some of the biggest brands in the world.
Generation Y is the rising power, it is the largest generation ever. 75% of the global workforce will by Gen-Y by 2025. It will be a 2,45 trillion USD purchase power in the next year.
The entire generation was raised in the age of constant connectivity. They're moving away from traditional media, and their media consumption habits move towards mobile, apps, and consuming news on the way. 65% of Gen-Y is disconnected for only an hour a day or less – they are always on. They also like visual content.
Most brands don't understand how to be interesting but loud. They have no experience in building reach but know only how to buy reach. VICE, on the other hand, is able to communicate with Gen-Y the way they understand and like, thanks to their immersive experience, authentic content and social currency.
Key principles to successful Gen-Y communication:
1. Drive relevance by creating immersive experience for the audience
2. be content first – this is digital currency of young people today
3. realize the value of your audience and provide them with the mechanisms to turn them into brand advocates
Brands must behave like media companies nowadays. As an example, VICE gave its latest content marketing deal with Intel that gave birth to The Creators Project. thecreatorsproject.vice.com. According to latest figures, it has 50 million unique visitors, 375 million video views, and gives more than 1 billion USD added media value. Average visitor spent up to ten minutes on the site.
Condé Nast – Programmatic ad transactions for publishers
At Digital Innovators Summit, Rick Welch, Head of Programmatic Sales, Condé Nast (USA) provided an overview of the programmatic ad landscape, and ways magazine media companies can approach building programmatic capability.
Condé Nast is home to some of the most iconic magazine brands: Wired, Vogue, Vanity Fair among many. Traditionally it was a print magazine publisher, but for the past 3-5 years they have been making strong move to digital: preparing tablet editions, developing new version of the websites, etc.
Condé Nast has 95 million influential consumers only in the US (print and digital), 44 million are in digital. 49% come from mobile, the rest is desktop. Over two times of these numbers are seen globally.
4 major areas they are investing in: video, digital advertising, integrated marketing, data (ad-tech: programmatic and data).
The area of programmatic is not only complicated and fascinating, but also a crowded area of business. Question is how to most effectively navigate that "mess"?
Publishers, according to Rich Welch, have three main goals:
- create compelling content,
- great users experience,
- create compelling packages to advertisers.
By navigating AdTech correctly and not ignoring it, Conde Nast can better achieve their three goals as publishers.
What they cover:
- all programmatic media trading: buying and selling media
- audience extension
- data application
- management of partner relationships
- advisory on strategic investments
Programmatic is a problem, because it is used very often and incorrectly. For Condé Nast programmatic means automatization. It's more than auction-based inventory, it also includes campaigns with data, and can also be used as a workflow efficiency. It's in every place that involves data.
Thanks to programmatic, clients are given options, and it becomes another way of accessing the inventory – it's giving clients a better access.
Recommendation how to build own programmatic strategy:
1. build your programmatic team
2. educate your sales force
3. co-sell: existing products plus programmatic options
The Onion's evolution towards digital only publication
Steve Hannah shared at the Digital Innovators Summit how they have transformed their weekly newspaper into a 24/7 digital media brand with new business models while staying true to their core brand.
The U.S. satirical news brand The Onion has become more successful by moving almost entirely to digital, increasing video production, creating native advertising that fits their brand and becoming a creative services agency that extends its comedy talents to advertisers.
For Steve Hannah content is king, and this is where Onion's brand is built around. Onion finds inspiration everywhere, mostly from what actually happens around us. Here's a piece that was inspired by a long time Steve Hannah had to spend on Prague airport:
The Onion is a news organization that is not afraid of tackling the truth. At the same time it follows all transitions that are happening on the market. In 1995 they went into digital, in 1999 Onion started first video operations. Or, as Steve Hannah said, Onion invented both.
In 2005 The Onion started its own programme, inspired again "by the bullshit seen on different TV stations" (yes, the logo of the programme is not coincidental):
Content is what sustains The Onion with 50 percent of the traffic coming from mobile. They moved their website from weekly to daily publication. There is much more content published today, and more news coming from the real news found elsewhere, in other media outlets.
The online performance of The Onion looks great – they have 9 million social followers. Putting pressure on the content paid of, they had 123% growth in page views, and 134% growth in uniques.
Like every publisher, The Onion needs cold, hard cash. In order to make more money they created Onion Labs. It's purpose is to help other brands build audience. "We will build your brand with the same passion and creativity with witch we build our own" – says Onion Lab's motto. They started to do white label works, many sponsored actions came along.
One of the examples could be the video prepared for YouTube, which by many for about 24 hours was believed to be true. It had 15 million plays, 120 mentions in media, 80.000 likes, 85.000 comments:
Another one is a piece done for Designer Shoe Warehouse. The client, DSW, had 793.000 video plays on site, and 6,450 million pageviews:
Thanks to the latest moves, The Onion managed to maintain integrity, and maintain brand.
Staying on the interactive marketing rocket – discussion
Online adverting and marketing continues to increase its share of global advertising budgets. This session of Digital Innovators Summit featured the perspectives of global brands and a publisher on the state of online marketing – trends, what is working, where it is going and what publishers need to do to stay in the game.
Tina Beuchler, Chairwoman, OWM (German Advertisers Organization) and Head of Media Communications, Nestlé Deutschland AG (Germany) underlined the importance of ROBBI – the return of brand-bbuilding investment.
Advertising market in Germany is around 27 million Euro. TV is still dominant, growing last year 6%. Second biggest segment is print. Digital has grown to be the third. 11% of advertising spends is digital (in the last year it grew by 3,5% only, for the first time not being a double digit growth).
OWM supports brands to perform better. It calls for better ROBBI understanding. Tina Buechler reminded about the importance of cross channel advertising – it effects platforms and guarantees further investments in the market.
Steven Althaus, Director of Brand Management and Marketing Services, BMW Group (Germany), gave three strategic comperatives for their enveironment in the business area:
1. shift from hardware to software
2. shift from owning a car to using a car
3. shift from whole sale perspective to retail
Steven Althaus sees a strong paradigm shift from marketing. "Putting a lipstick on a gorilla" might just not be enough nowadays.
BMW has got reasons to speak about the importance of digital in their strategy. 85% of people they are targetting with i3 had never been BMW customers before. There is
a strong conversion of industries with cars becoming hotspots. "BMW also wants to know who drives their cars, and digital provides this knowledge. If we don't do it – farewell" – says Althaus.
Key pillars of BMW strategy:
1. Evolve marketing
2. Learning from failures
3. Role of research
4. Experiential
5. Journey partners: consultants, marketeers and other very strong individuals
Marcus Rich, CEO, IPC Media (UK) underlined the role of content in digital strategy. IPC Media has 150 years of experience in creating the content. For IPC Media people are not just numbers.
IPC Media's response towards todays digital market trends are:
- Amplify – merging traditional content with brands, using the data and buying 3rd party audiences.
- Inspired conversations – new revenue streams in new content areas.
For publishers content should remain king. And IPC Media employers can understand their clients perfectly.
Making the most out of Facebook
How can media companies best make use of this social network with its more than one billion monthly users? Andy Mitchell talked during Digital Innovators Summit about the latest developments at Facebook that benefit media companies as well as effective ways publishers can work with Facebook.
Andy Mitchell is impressed with the mobile boom we are all experiencing. Facebook now has more than 1,23 billion users. People spend 16:50 minutes a day on Facebook on average.
Overall more news are being discovered on Facebook. 62% of social referrals come from Facebook. It drives 2 times more traffic than the closest alternative. In Germany 87% of news sharing happens on Facebook.
Bild. de reaches more than 1.3 million people on Facebook. How do they do it?
They don't only publish headlines. They are sharing fun content too. Publishers need to think of their audiences. Share as much content as you find relevant. Facebook will pick up the right content for right people.
Facebook has done several improvements on the way, such as:
1. Improvements to NewsFeed:
- made ranking changes to features high quality content
- optimise News Feed for link shares
- News Feed redesigns focusing on large images
2. Improvements to Pages:
- making pages easier to read
- focus on the main content column
- simple chronological layout order
3. Launched verified pages. Trying to catch impostors as they sign up, but it's very hard. Verifying the page by a publisher will bring up the page in News Feed.
4. Recommended articles now highlight related media content
5. New widget for page admins: stories to share. Shows page admins most popular stories on their page that haven't been shared yet
6. Trending (only in the US) – based on your age, demographics and so on. Each of the trending topic includes headlines from Facebook media partners.
7. Paper – app launched 3 months ago. New way to navigate Facebook with new news sections.
8. Facebook Q&A's:
- Questions in comments in page posts
- answered questions rank higher
- achedule in advance and promote
- use authentic voice
Andy Mitchell finished his presentation by saying how to get most from the News Feed. Here are his tips:
- Don't set artificial limits on posting. If you are creating high quality content on your properties, you should use your Facebook page as a distribution channel for that content
- Nail your headline and test relentlessly. Don't set limits on your publishing.
- Make your content easy to share – as many share buttons on the page as possible. Make sure users don't have to search for the button or go back to the top of the
- page
- Make sure your content looks great when shared (use Open Graph). Also, use a Debugger. Optimise Open Graph tahs so
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Cool is not an accident – how to make videos go viral
You don't have to wait for some happy coincidence to get a video that spreads across social media like a wildfire – you can make one yourself! Award winning and provocative director Joseph Wade (Don't Panic, UK) talked during the Digital Innovators Summit conference about how to create multimedia content that people really want to share – even if it's branded.
Joseph Wade brought YouTube's Playbook at start – it tells all the basics about how to create a successful channel – even if most of the
information there is basic, it is always a good place to start.
Wade recognizes 4 main factors that make videos go viral:
1. Building a video on the back of another success. Some time ago this video (that in the end appeared to be a commercial after all) reached 63 million views in a couple of days.
The video appeared to be a fake but VICE decided to make a video that would be more true. It also was a great viral success. Most importantly, it was done very quickly:
2. Work on the content strategy. Don't Panic created a scheme about how video works. According to Joseph Wade, Reddit is most important place to start the video. Once picked up there, the next step is Facebook and Twitter. Then portals like Buzzfeed or Mashable share the content. After them it's big medias' turn. The process is closed down again by Facebook. The whole thing takes about 3 days.
This process works everytime when Don't Panic creates a viral video. And so did in that case:
3. Work on videos with strong emotional pulls:
4. Engage with vloggers
Fædrelandsvennen – All access success
In May of 2012, Fædrelandsvennen launched a new business model. Speaking at the Digital Innovators Summit in Berlin, News Editor Christian Stavik reported his newspaper now has 75% coverage in its core market, which is the entire country of Finland.
The biggest risk was doing nothing within the changing environment, Stavik says, when the downturn in readership was generating substantial revenue loss.
The company had an idea to go from being a newspaper to selling a brand, wanting readers to engage with its content on all platforms.
The main goal of the new strategy was to provide an added value for existing subscribers, Stavik said. As such, a new editorial strategy and payment model was needed.
Fædrelandsvennen needed to change its entire organisation.
The strategy became one packet, one price. Readers subscribe to the brand, not to the platform. The company did not allow a subscriber to pick just one platform, such as the printed newspaper, for instance. The only option was to buy the full bundle.
Before the launch of paywall, thanks to its digital-first strategy, the company was seeing +34% growth in pageviews. The introduction of paywall did generate a loss, but not a huge one: 17% of reach. Currently, however, traffic is starting to grow again (+12% since May 2012), according to Stavik.
The subscription trend has also turned after the introduction of the paywall. The news media company started with a loss of five subscribers a day and a gain of four new subscribers every day. It is now the other way around, Stavik said.
Fædrelandsvennen created a big campaign to explain the readers why digital journalism costs money, proving that quality journalism on digital platforms is as expensive as in print. In addition, internal communication was key in the transformation.
On the other hand, the company's mobile experience was a failure, and it didn't manage to launch even one successful app. An attempt at a family subscription package was also a failure due to lack of communication.
"The biggest failure was that we should have launched and learned, but we launched and left instead," Stavik said.
Further complicating the transition was that tech support was quite limited at the time, which meant several bugs were left unfixed and the company didn't grab opportunity to track the data.
The next step for Fædrelandsvennen is to evolve the digital strategy and learn from failures. Stavik believes it was a strong start, but the company needs to keep moving and keep developing.


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First Majestic Announces New Record Earnings & Cash Flows for 2011
Monday, March 05, 2012
First Majestic Announces New Record Earnings & Cash Flows for 201107:30 EST Monday, March 05, 2012VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2012) - FIRST MAJESTIC SILVER CORP. (TSX:FR)(NYSE:AG)(FRANKFURT:FMV) (the "Company" or "First Majestic") is pleased to announce the audited consolidated financial results for the Company's fourth quarter and year ending December 31, 2011. The full version of the financial statements and the management discussion and analysis can be viewed on the Company's web site at www.firstmajestic.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.2011 HIGHLIGHTSCash Flow of $1.55 per share (non-GAAP) representing a 147% increase from 2010 Earnings per Share (basic) amounted to $1.00 representing a 167% increase over 2010 Adjusted Earnings per Share (non-GAAP) of $0.24 for the quarter and $1.04 for the year Total Cash Cost increased by 9% to $8.24 per ounce (equivalent to $368 per ounce of gold based on average annual gold to silver ratio) Net Revenue after smelting and refining of $245.5 million, resulting in a 108% increase from 2010 Mine Operating Earnings of $163.3 million showing an increase of 174% from 2010 Net Earnings After Taxes amounted to $103.6 million, a 195% increase from 2010 Silver only production increased by 11% to 7.22 million ounces compared to 6.53 million ounces in 2010 2012 guidance ranging from 8.8 to 9.3 million ounces of silver equivalent production Fully un-hedged to silver prices and no debt Invested US$10 million into Sprott Physical Silver Trust, "US:PSLV", after year end 2011 ANNUAL AND FOURTH QUARTER HIGHLIGHTSFourth QuarterFourth QuarterAnnualAnnual20112010Change20112010ChangeOperatingSilver Equivalent Ounces Produced2,101,5281,827,98715%7,562,4947,024,0568%Silver Ounces Produced (excluding equivalent ounces from by-products)1,957,6571,757,33211%7,216,1096,529,32511%Payable Silver Ounces Produced1,926,0551,738,54811%7,094,3596,172,90015%Total Cash Costs per Ounce$8.01$7.783%$8.24$7.539%Average Revenue per Payable Equivalent Ounces Sold ($/eq. oz.)$31.70$24.8827%$35.38$20.1975%FinancialRevenues ($ millions)$60.8$40.152%$245.5$117.9108%Mine Operating Earnings ($ millions)$38.4$24.060%$163.3$59.7174%Net Earnings After Taxes ($ millions)$21.3$13.756%$103.6$35.1195%Operating Cash Flows Generated Before Movements in Working Capital ($ millions)$36.9$23.259%$160.2$58.7173%Cash and Cash Equivalents at December 31 ($ millions)$91.2$41.2122%$91.2$41.2122%Working Capital at December 31 ($ millions)$109.7$46.1138%$109.7$46.1138%ShareholdersEarnings Per Share - Basic$0.20$0.1442%$1.00$0.38167%Cash Flow Per Share$0.35$0.2445%$1.55$0.63147%Weighted Average Shares Outstanding for the Periods Ended December 31105,203,71295,674,68710%103,276,93593,587,58110%Generated Revenues of $245.5 million for 2011, an increase of 108% compared to $117.9 million for 2010. Smelting and refining charges decreased to 3% of gross revenue in 2011 compared to 6% of gross revenue in 2010. Total revenues in 2011 arising from the sale of silver amounted to 96% of total revenues maintaining First Majestic as the purest silver producer in the world. Generated Revenues of $60.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to $40.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of $20.7 million or 52%. Recognized Mine Operating Earnings of $163.3 million for 2011 compared to $59.7 million for 2010, an increase of 174%. The increase was attributed to an increase in production from 7,024,056 ounces of silver equivalent in 2010 to 7,562,494 ounces of silver equivalent in 2011, combined with an increase in average revenue per payable equivalent ounces sold from $20.19 in 2010 to $35.38 in 2011. Recognized Mine Operating Earnings of $38.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to $24.0 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of $14.4 million or 60%. Increased production from 1,827,987 silver equivalent ounces in the fourth quarter of 2010 to 2,101,528 silver equivalent ounces in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 15%. Average revenue per payable equivalent ounces sold was $31.70 in the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to $24.88 in the fourth quarter of 2010. Operating Cash Flows generated before movements in Working Capital of $160.2 million or $1.55 per share (a non- GAAP measure) for 2011 compared to $58.7 million or $0.63 per share for 2010, an increase of 173%. The Company generated Net Earnings after taxes of $103.6 million for 2011 compared to $35.1 million for 2010. Net Earnings after taxes was $21.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2011 compared to $13.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of $7.6 million or 55%. The Company generated Basic Earnings Per Share ("EPS") of $1.00 for 2011. Adjusted EPS (a non-GAAP measure) after removing the unrealized loss on silver futures was $1.04 for the year. Basic Earnings per Share for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $0.20, compared to $0.14 for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of 43%. Adjusted EPS (a non-GAAP measure) after removing the unrealized loss on silver futures was $0.24. Subsequent to year end, the Company liquidated its entire silver futures position and converted the unrealized loss of $4.1 million to a realized gain of $1.5 million. Total Cash Costs per Ounce of silver (a non-GAAP measure) for 2011 increased to $8.24 per ounce of silver, compared to $7.53 per ounce of silver for 2010, an increase of 9% due primarily to marginal increases in the cost of consumables including cyanide, energy and petroleum products. Total Cash Costs per ounce of silver (a non-GAAP measure) for the fourth quarter of 2011 increased to $8.01 per ounce of silver, compared to $7.78 per ounce of silver for the fourth quarter of 2010, an increase of only 3%. During the year, Cash and cash equivalents increased by $50.0 million to $91.2 million and improved working capital by $63.6 million to $109.7 million. The new 1,000 tpd flotation circuit at the La Parrilla mill expansion achieved commercial production effective October 1, 2011. The new 1,000 tpd cyanidation circuit is approximately 90% complete and the plant is currently operating at 1,850 tpd. 2012 PRODUCTION OUTLOOKProduction in 2012 is expected to increase from 2011 levels with the following upcoming developments:Commercial production at the newly expanded 1,000 tpd cyanidation circuit was achieved on March 1, 2012. The new 2,000 tpd plant at La Parrilla is expected to reach full production by the end of March 2012. Final improvements include the new induction furnaces which are currently in testing stage and the new tailings filters which will recirculate over 80% of the water back through the milling process. Once the new expansion at La Parrilla is fully operational, commercial production by the end of the first quarter is expected to reach approximately 3.2 million equivalent ounces of silver per year. Construction and development of the Del Toro Silver Mine is well underway and is expected to commence production at 1,000 tpd in the fourth quarter of 2012 and reaching 4,000 tpd by mid-2014. At La Encantada, intensive metallurgical tests are being conducted with the objective of improving recoveries by eliminating or reducing the manganese in the ore feed prior to the cyanidation process. Also, a new ball mill has been installed and is expected to be fully operational by the end of the first quarter. This new mill will allow for a higher percentage of fresh ore being processed which is anticipated to improve the head-grade at the mill and also have a positive impact on overall recoveries. The estimated production range on a mine-by-mine basis for 2012, anticipated operating costs and price assumptions are included in the following table. These figures are based on existing installed capacity at the Company's operations in the La Encantada and San Martin mines, increasing capacities at the La Parrilla mine for the last three quarters of 2012, and the production of 1,000 tpd at the Del Toro mine in the fourth quarter of 2012. Actual results may vary based on production throughputs, grades, recoveries, changes in economic conditions and operating circumstances.Anticipated Operating ParametersLa EncantadaLa ParrillaSan MartinDel ToroTotalTotal tonnes processed ('000s)1,231 - 1,300579 - 611279 - 29474 - 782,163 - 2,283Operating days34233033082Silver ounces from production ('000s)4,193 - 4,4262,671 - 2,8191,003 - 1,059383 - 4048,251- 8,709Gold ounces from production-122 - 1291,141 - 1,205-1,263 - 1,334Pounds of lead from production ('000s)-11,233 - 11,860-2,118 - 2,23613,350 - 14,096Pounds of zinc from production ('000s)-2,511 - 2,651-1,770 - 1,8684,281 - 4,519Silver equivalent ounces from production ('000s)4,193 - 4,4263,063 - 3,2341,064 - 1,123489 - 5168,810 - 9,299Average silver grade (g/t)207183140197191Average recoveries (%)51%77%80%80%63%Cash cost per ounce$8.26$8.40$11.76$5.55$8.61Production cost per ounce$7.68$8.70$12.79$7.47$8.62Production cost per tonne$26.02$38.79$45.82$37.47$32.38Anticipated cash flow from operations, before changes in non-cash working capital: ($ millions)$134.8 - $142.7Metal average price assumptions for cash flow from operations and silver equivalents: Silver $30.00/oz, Gold $1,600/oz, Lead $0.90/lb, Zinc $0.90/lbIN SUMMARYFirst Majestic has experienced another year of strong growth. The commercialization of the 1,000 tpd flotation circuit at La Parrilla was a major milestone for 2011. The recent commercialization of the 1,000 tpd cyanidation circuit at La Parrilla also mark the culmination of First Majestic's second largest mill expansion in the Company's history, second only after the La Encantada expansion completed in 2010. However, 2012 will see the Company's largest investment in Mexico ever with the construction of what will become the largest mine in the Company's portfolio, the Del Toro Silver Mine which is progressing well.In order to continually grow silver production, First Majestic is investing ambitiously in its plants, underground development and exploration, and additional mining equipment, having invested over $104 million in 2011, and with further plant investments in 2012 in excess of $136 million. The Company is working diligently to meet its stated goal of becoming one of the world's largest silver producers.Keith Neumeyer, President & CEO, stated, "Our dedicated team of management and staff have done an outstanding job and should be congratulated for their efforts in 2011. The year marked the eighth year in a row that First Majestic has achieved record production of silver. Not only is this a great achievement, but our growth is not slowing down. As the fastest growing and purest silver producer in the world, management's focus and top priority remains to continually deliver shareholder value".First Majestic is a producing silver company focused on silver production in México and is aggressively pursuing its business plan of becoming a senior silver producer through the development of its existing mineral property assets and the pursuit through acquisition of additional mineral assets which contribute to the Company achieving its aggressive corporate growth objectives.FIRST MAJESTIC SILVER CORP.Keith Neumeyer, President & CEOSPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATIONThis news release includes certain "Forward-Looking Statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. When used in this news release, the words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "target", "plan", "forecast", "may", "schedule" and similar words or expressions, identify forward-looking statements or information. These forward-looking statements or information relate to, among other things: the price of silver and other metals; the accuracy of mineral reserve and resource estimates and estimates of future production and costs of production at our properties; estimated production rates for silver and other payable metals produced by us, the estimated cost of development of our development projects; the effects of laws, regulations and government policies on our operations, including, without limitation, the laws in Mexico which currently have significant restrictions related to mining; obtaining or maintaining necessary permits, licences and approvals from government authorities; and continued access to necessary infrastructure, including, without limitation, access to power, land, water and roads to carry on activities as planned.These statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors, both known and unknown, could cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements that are or may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information and the Company has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: fluctuations in the spot and forward price of silver, gold, base metals or certain other commodities (such as natural gas, fuel oil and electricity); fluctuations in the currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar and Mexican peso versus the U.S. dollar); changes in national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada, Mexico; operating or technical difficulties in connection with mining or development activities; risks and hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected formations, pressures, cave-ins and flooding); risks relating to the credit worthiness or financial condition of suppliers, refiners and other parties with whom the Company does business; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; and the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining, including those currently enacted in Mexico; employee relations; relationships with and claims by local communities and indigenous populations; availability and increasing costs associated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and development, including the risks of obtaining necessary licenses, permits and approvals from government authorities; diminishing quantities or grades of mineral reserves as properties are mined; the Company's title to properties; and the factors identified under the caption "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Information Form, under the caption "Risks Relating to First Majestic's Business".Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements or information. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be anticipated, estimated or intended. The Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements or information to reflect changes in assumptions or changes in circumstances or any other events affecting such statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Keith NeumeyerFirst Majestic Silver Corp.President & CEO(604) 688-3033 or Toll Free: 1-866-529-2807(604) 639-8873 (FAX)email@example.com