Archive for July, 2016

The 4 big challenges to Netflix’s grand plan for world domination

The 4 big challenges to Netflix’s grand plan for world domination

| July 13, 2016 | 0 Comments |

In January, Netflix made the bombshell announcement that it had expanded to over 130 new countries in a single day, bringing it into every major international market except China. Since then, the results have been mixed. At its last quarterly earnings, Netflix reported good international growth results in the first three months of 2016. But […]

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How to get sweat stains out of your clothes

How to get sweat stains out of your clothes

| July 13, 2016 | 0 Comments |

There is a whole boatload of weird and wonderful ways to treat sweat stains that employ everything from baking soda to crushed-up aspirin. There’s also a host of sweat stain removal products with absurd names like PitStop. They are all great options, and we’ll talk through them and then finish up with some suggestions as […]

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The Trouble with the Movies

The Trouble with the Movies

| July 5, 2016 | 0 Comments |

The trouble with the movies is that they so seldom get below the surface of a story and its characters, that their whole is rarely as good as the parts, and the characters of their players—Gary Cooper or Margaret Sullavan, for instance—are usually more powerful than the characters they play. The movies don’t have any […]

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Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick

Fifty Shades of Moby-Dick

| July 5, 2016 | 0 Comments |

Think of Herman Melville and you don’t think lothario. But in 1847, after the publication of his first two novels, Typee and Omoo, Melville was considered something of a venereal adventurer by the antsy prudes who controlled literary comment. The erotic episodes he’d had with girls on the Marquesas Islands as a young sailor helped […]

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Technology Changes the Way Society Views Aging

Technology Changes the Way Society Views Aging

| July 5, 2016 | 0 Comments |

Every week, we review the mature marketing content from the previous week with which our followers were most engaged. This week, we will take a look at how technology is expected to impact the way in which society views aging in the future, as well as John Oliver’s take on the trials and tribulations of […]

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Groundbreaking Partnership Connecting the Generations Through Reading

Groundbreaking Partnership Connecting the Generations Through Reading

| July 5, 2016 | 0 Comments |

NEW YORK, June 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Grandparents.com (OTCQB: GPCM) and its benefits organization, the American Grandparents Association (AGA), announced today that it has officially joined forces with Peek-A-Boo Publishing Group (PABPG) to launch a significant partnership publishing books for children. This unique collaboration will produce a series of books transforming the way grandparents are […]

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