BeanCast 301: It's Craptastic!

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Clay Hebert, Speaker/Consultant, CrowdFundingHacks.com

Craig Waller, President, Pace Communications

Tom Webster, VP of Strategy and Marketing, Edison Research

Bob Knorpp, Host, The BeanCast

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Topics

Collapse of the Mega-Merger

Sources: Ad Age reports, Digiday reports, Levy's comments, Wren's comments, Sorrell's comments, Marketers didn't see value, IPG denies acquisition rumors, what's next for the players, the winners and losers

Is Native Killing Journalism

Sources: GigaOm on trust, the Sullivan interview

Beating Facebook's Shortfalls

Sources: The Verge on the problems, Digiday on solutions, Digiday on rethinking Facebook's role

Retail and Mobile Assistants

Sources: Engadget reports

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#AdFail5

Vevo to put retroactive ads in old videos.

Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand goes one selfie too far.

LiveLens and the Mandela interpreter fiasco.

Morrison's projects their ad on art.

Amazon patents photographing stuff on a white background.

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