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In May 2015, Toronto hosted North America’s first ever YouTube Fanfest. Thousands of screaming fans packed Yonge-Dundas Square to glimpse their favourite YouTube stars, many of which have millions of subscribers. So, who are these fans? Google and YouTube have dubbe

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Games are inherently fantastic motivators. They've been used by educators and marketers for years to boost engagement in topics ranging from medicine, to finance, to auto-mechanics. You can pull elements from the game environment and integrate them into your digital p

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2014 has been an amazing year at Rich Media. In just 2014, we managed to play 728 games of pool and consume 2,400 pieces of candy (it’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it!). We also added eye tracking to our research lab and celebrated an incred

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The browser market is witnessing the erosion of Internet Explorer's (IE) dominance and the emergence of Google Chrome as the top browser that led in market share as of October 2014. A surprise statistic for the October 2013-2014 period is the more than 25% growth enjo

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Close to 15% of Canadians are older than 65, and it's predicted that by 2030, 1 in 4 Canadians will be over 65 years old (Statistics Canada). It's no shock that Canada's population is aging, but what surprises many is how Internet savvy seniors are becoming.

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You've worked hard to promote your site, and you've assembled some really useful and important information, but your users are leaving after just a few minutes. The content is simply too complicated, long and too much work to get through. Gamification may be t

Many of us in digital marketing have built exciting online properties and have had a good deal of success over the last few years; however, the industry is maturing and you may be asking what you should be doing to grow your digital channels and take them to the next

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We all know that online tools are one of the highest hit places on your site, provide some of the best engagement and some of the best opportunities for lead generation. Why then, do so many of us post our tools and forget about them? Here I've put together a quick "O

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