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First Mover: Frank Caliendo In taking his pitch-perfect impressions to ESPN, the comedian says it's time to mothball his Madden bit.

Specs Age 38 New gig Contributor to ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown Old gig Comic prognosticator, Fox’s NFL Sunday So, what sort of role are you going to play on Sunday NFL Countdown? I’d like to…

October 29 2012

Follow This Pizza Chain on Twitter, and It Will Follow You Back … in Real Life Mellow Mushroom gets stalker-y

If you're being tailed by a bulbous, yellow stalker, it can mean one of two things: Either Donald Trump is off his meds, or you followed Mellow Mushroom on Twitter.…

October 25 2012

Slowly Digging Out of Its Hole Digg was once a traffic fire hose for publishers. Now overhauled, can it get its mojo back?

When the New York tech incubator Betaworks bought the former social news giant Digg for a mere $500,000, there was confusion, but mostly snark and ridicule. “There was a lot…

October 23 2012

Nashville Hits a Sour Note in Week 2 ABC musical drama falls 29 percent in the dollar demo

A week after hitting all the high notes in its network television debut, ABC’s country music drama Nashville is singing a slower, sadder tune. According to Nielsen’s live-plus-same-day ratings data, Nashville…

October 18 2012

Romney-Obama Tilt Draws 65.6 Million Viewers NBC, ABC, Twitter among the night's biggest winners

The clear winner of presidential debate No. 2: television. Last night’s town hall debate between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney drew an average 65.6 million viewers on…

October 17 2012

First Mover: Amanda Goodfried A creator of lonelygirl15 is taking her social know-how to a new dance network on YouTube

Specs Age 33 New gig Chief marketing officer, DanceOn Old gig Senior manager of digital content, Disney Interactive Entertainment You went from working for a huge media conglomerate in a seemingly very fun space…

October 15 2012

Reddit Hits the Road Taking its open-Internet battle into the real world, the social news site campaigns cross-country

Launched in 2005, the social news site Reddit has become one of the most peculiar, powerful, and even controversial destinations on the Web. With 42 million unique visitors a month…

October 15 2012

Viewers Use Twitter to Determine the Course of Mercedes TV Spots Real-time social stunt in U.K.

Mercedes-Benz pulled off a choose-your-own-adventure TV commercial last weekend in the U.K. as part of its interactive #YOUDRIVE campaign. The ad, which followed a young pop star riding out to…

October 12 2012

Apple Unscathed by Map Flap September's biggest brand improvers

Apple's highly publicized maps blunder didn't seem to hurt its image with consumers too much. The company was one of the most-improved brands last month, as measured by YouGov’s BrandIndex, its…

October 10 2012

StubHub's Tweeter Was Obscenely Happy to Leave Work on Friday Another day, another brand fail

Let's all say it together: If you have access to a brand's Twitter account, make sure you log out before posting an offensive personal tweet. For the second time in…

October 06 2012

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