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- Escapism is a Booming Business
- Two pieces of news hit the wires recently. The most surprising of the two is the fact that gaming outpaced the U.S. economy by a ratio of 4 to 1 from 2003-2006. The second is the merger of two large game producers, Activision and Blizzard, in a reported $18.1...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
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- Cable's back in Playboy tax promo. (Marketing & Advertising).(Playboy TV promotion for April, 2003)(Brief Article)
- Apparently to Playboy TV, sex and taxes go together. As a way to promote the adult channel as escapism in a month when people are stressed out about the Internal Revenue Service's April 15 income-tax filing deadline, that channel has slated its &qu Apparently...
- Research articles 2003-02-10
- To Brand Or Not To Brand?
- Does Corona succeed wildly in certain markets because of its brilliant branding? Or some fluke of human taste buds? The debate is raging in the comments of Kiss Your Brand Goodbye. BNET readers have been trying to pin author Jonathan Salem Baskin to the wall about his...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Escapism without Alcohol - Kraft Foods launches Frosted Escapes - Brief Article
- Kraft Foods, Glenview, Ill., keeps changing and expanding its Crystal Light brand. Earlier this year, the company introduced Health Quencher drink mixes as an alternative to other low- or no-calorie drink mixes on the market. The new line is fortified with vitamins and minerals. Kraft is now offering, for a...
- Research articles 2000-09-01
- Did the Video Game Industry Finally Spring a Leak?
- Seth Gilbert submits: The video game industry has been on fire. For twenty seven months, a streak almost unfathomable in electronics retail, the U.S. marketplace returned double digit year over year percentage growth via NPD. Every month had yielded a more than 10% gross sales improvement, every month until now....
- External links 2008-09-14
- Video Online Ads Three Times as Valuable as Display, But Still Have a Ways to Go
- Video Online Ads Three Times as Valuable as Display, But Still Have a Ways to GoRE: Video Online Ads Three Times as Valuable as Display, But Still Have a Ways to GoIts great that video ads are commanding more than display. They are able to use audio and video and...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Fed-up with a life of drudgery? Fancy a spot of escapism? This is
- THIS week Sunday News is offering five lucky readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to see Shirley Valentine at the Grand Opera House, Belfast. Shirley Valentine is the archetypal role model for women who rebel against the enslavement of the kitchen and the marital...
- Research articles 1999-03-14
- 'Step Up' steps up, but 'Talladega' wins
- Moviegoers opted for escapism over reality this weekend, powering Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby to the top of the box office and leaving World Trade Center in third. It was uncertain whether news of a suspected terrorist plot last week in Britain affected World Trade Center, the...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Summer reality gives way to fall TV escapism.(Suburban Living)(TV/Radio)
- Byline: Ted Cox All right, everyone, it's OK to come back to the TV now. Our long national trauma, our summer of reruns and reality, is almost at an end. Next week the TV season begins with the return of "Prison Break" and the...
- Research articles 2006-08-15
- Rick?s: Still Entertaining or Ready to Slide?
- Chris Fernandez submits: The economy might be going down the proverbial toilet, and consumer stocks on most people’s radars are getting crushed, but one industry that is bucking the trend, at least up till now, is the adult entertainment industry. I guess something about the escapism that a beautiful woman...
- External links 2008-12-22
- FOOTBALL COMMENTARY : Ferguson fosters Everton's sense of escapism
- The sequence was kick-started by Eric Cantona. Within a week it was continued when a spectator tried to attack the referee at Blackburn, and then by a near riot at Chelsea. Seven days later came Dublin, followed by Highbury's mourning for the demise of George Graham: four Wednesdays and a...
- Research articles 1995-02-27
- Club Of The Week
- Come Dancing Presents The Last Waltz @ brixton academy Five years of innovative aesthetics, and a unique sense of escapism, have produced many great parties, but this last roll of the dice offers the perfect send-off. With the Academy's foyer converted into a shrine to kitsch, the ballroom's...
- Research articles 1999-02-06
- R.E.M.(Concert Review)
- R.E.M. (Greek Theater; 5,800 seats; $75 top) Presented by Nederlander Concerts and Clear Channel Entertainment. Band: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe. Scott McCaughey, Ken Stringfellow, Bill Rieflin. Reviewed Oct. 13, 2004. With...
- Research articles 2004-10-15
- The internet and the 'e-solated'
- A decade ago most of us had never used the internet – now we can't imagine life without it. Actually, some of us can: there are 10 million people in the UK still without a connection. Are they, Tim Adams asks, losing out economically and culturally? Below, we ask four...
- News items 2009-10-26
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