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May 22, 2012
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Common sense would have it that, with just about everything moving
online, the role of online video advertising too will only get bigger.
MSN decided to find out and conducted some modestly sized local industry
research, with results indicating the majority of
local agencies are expecting to see bigger online video advertising
budgets over the next 12 months.
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High crime, unemployment, suicide, drug and
teenage birth rates. We know the drill; we’re not doing our youth any
favours, yet practical measures to address these dismal statistics are
few and far between. Radical reform could save hundreds of millions and lift us out of the OECD doldrums. But how? The New Zealand Institute’s first social wellbeing discussion document proposes two interventions to reverse the decline.
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The economic horizon looks rosier almost every day: confidence is on
the rise, GDP blew all expectations out of the water, and now the
services sector is the latest to continue the trend. “The financial market’s saying of ‘the trend is your friend’
definitely applies to the New Zealand economy right now,” says BNZ
senior economist, Craig Ebert. “Indeed, the tendency has been congenial
for a good while now.”
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As the name suggests, this innovation doesn’t really do anything. It’s completely useless. It just turns itself off and on. Yet it’s featured on US television show The Colbert Report, won Robot of the Year in the 2009 Engadget Awards and is on display
at the Museum of Ideas and Inventions in Barcelona. You can get the
construction plans, or buy kits, and make your very own Most Useless
Machine Ever. An internet sensation, perhaps? Do you have an innovation to share? Enter the Innovator Awards and you may be up in bright lights.
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