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She’s everything, he’s just Ken – The best Barbie campaigns from the film’s promotion

Prohibition

Xbox’s Barbie-themed console You heard us correctly – Xbox has teamed up with Mattel to launch not only a themed console but a wireless controller and Barbie cars in the Xbox-exclusive Forza Horizon 5 too. Barbie selfie generator This Barbie campaign round up wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the viral Barbie selfie generator.

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2016 – A Year in Traditional Media

Shift Communications

From the perspective of the consumer team in the Boston office the answer is a resounding, NO! PR people often talk about ideas to make news go viral, but there is no way to predict or plan for when something will be a hit. Julie Staadecker, Account Director. Client: McDonald’s. Cassandra Faro, Account Executive. Client: Blink.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

That year, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" (16). For example, it also forms the basis of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) which both transmit data wirelessly. Along with Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1909, the pair were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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