by Minter Dial | Sep 20, 2015 | Minter Dialogue, Podcast
Minter Dialogue Episode #164 This interview is with Del Levin, head of the Marketing Effectiveness practice for Nielsen China, based in Shanghai. With a blue chip background in marketing at Colgate and as an American who speaks Chinese, Del is in a unique position to...
by Minter Dial | Jun 22, 2014 | Social Media
Minter Dialogue Episode #107 This interview is with Justin Brown, co-founder with Mark Bakacs of Ideapod, a social platform for collecting and amplifying ideas that matter. It’s a really interesting initiative that has just opened a beta version. There are already...
by Minter Dial | Dec 4, 2013 | Social Media
WeChat, launched by Tencent initially in January 2011 under the Weixin brand, is a far cry from Twitter. In film speak, we might say that WeChat is Whatsapp meets Twitter meets the iPad. {Click to Tweet} There are some 350 million users already, with...
by Minter Dial | Nov 24, 2013 | Minter Dialogue, Social Media
Minter Dialogue #82 This interview, recorded on November 22, 2013, is with the trilingual Nao Sato, President and CEO of Warp Japan, a digital agency based in Tokyo, Japan. I was introduced to Nao by Alain Soulas (merci!), investor, entrepreneur and co-founder...
by Minter Dial | Nov 19, 2013 | Branding
As much as I may be a fan of Twitter (and I remain so, especially for business use), I cannot but admire the growth and functionalities of the “new” social media sites coming out of China and Japan. The two headliners are, respectively, WeChat (from...
