Amid all the uncertainty brought on by COVID-19 over the past six months, one thing is assured: the pandemic has re-ordered real estate markets across the board on an unprecedented scale. Some of this may be irreversible. Real estate’s re-sorting this time isn’t just based on markets crashing (the Great […]
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How MaineHealth quickly changed marketing campaigns to coincide with the pandemic
Jackie Drees – Friday, October 2nd, 2020 Print | Email When the COVID-19 pandemic became widespread across the U.S. in March, MaineHealth had to quickly rethink its marketing strategy ahead of its new campaign launch then scheduled for April, according to the Portland Press Herald. Officials at the Portland, Maine-based health system […]
Google Just Forever Changed How We Find Each Other and Not Entirely in a Good Way
On Tuesday, Google published a blog post to announce it was “giving everyone, everywhere an address.” That sounds very generous of the company, though it’s worth considering what that really means. Obviously Google runs the largest map service on earth, and it isn’t even close. Clearly it has a motivation […]
Nothing has changed the 2020 campaign so far. Will the virus?
For weeks, President Trump‘s campaign did everything it could to depict the coronavirus as something the country had moved beyond: At the Republican convention, speakers referred to the pandemic in the past tense, the president returned to large public rallies and at this week’s debate, he made fun of Joe […]
PR Firm CEO Jim Bianchi to Discuss How COVID-19 Has Changed Media Relations for Automotive & Mobility Suppliers at October 7 APRC Meeting
TROY, Mich., Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Jim Bianchi, longtime automotive media relations veteran and president of automotive PR firm Bianchi Public Relations, Inc., will discuss the results of two media surveys and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected media relations for automotive and mobility suppliers during the October 7 virtual […]
Assessing the ecommerce marketing landscape, or what changed in 2020?
30-second summary: Consumer demand and interests have changed as people are increasingly shopping for products they never purchased online before. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, consumer interest in online shopping has increased by 50% YoY. Ecommerce sites are seeing traffic numbers exceeding the holiday-time shopping spikes, hitting a 25 billion […]
Viral video of confrontation in a Minneapolis gym changed lives, perspectives
The day after George Floyd died, another video also went viral. It showed a group of Black men in an office gym in Minneapolis’ Uptown confronted by a white man, who asked if they worked in the building. They said they did. When he asked at which office, they said […]
Dine Out: The restaurant industry is forever changed, for worse and for better
Wine glasses, plates and napkins seen through the window of the closed restaurant Piccolo on Middle Street in downtown Portland in April. The owners announced the permanent closure of the tiny bistro two months later. Photo by Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer After six months of social distancing, it doesn’t take much […]
Weary Gulf Coast mayors say hurricane season has changed for the worse, which many attribute to climate shifts
The storms that have reached the Gulf of Mexico have had some things in common: amazingly fast intensification, late shifts in path that have taken some communities off-guard, and massive storm surge and torrential rains that have inundated coastal towns with record flooding. That hurricane season has already jumped into […]
How the pandemic changed banking
Like the banks, IE had to adjust its operations over the past year. We revised the manner in which we gathered data for our annual sentiment survey. IE spoke with executives from Canada’s Big Six banks to get a sense of the year’s developments instead of speaking with the financial […]
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks gain on economic data as dollar trades little changed
* China’s yuan surges to 16-month high on economic data * Gold slips as dollar rebounds, all eyes on Fed * Oil rises but bleaker demand outlook weighs * Central bank meetings dominate week’s agenda * Graphic: 2020 asset performance http://tmsnrt.rs/2yaDPgn * Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh * […]