We’ve now reached the midpoint of the second month of election campaigning, and at this point all major Canadian party leaders are at the top of their respective social media games. Amongst all Twitter content either mentioning a federal party or its leader from...
When you wake up in the morning, does the thought of media monitoring look like a 50-pound dumbbell sitting in the corner of your office? If so, you’re not alone. I happen to be a morning person: I’m at the gym lifting weights for two hours starting at 5 am each day...
***Spoiler Alert*** After Wednesday’s airing of episode 10 of the Amazing Race Canada in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley, we’re down to the final four teams with only two episodes remaining. Unfortunately for ex-boyfriend and girlfriend Dujean Williams & Leilani Ross, they...
It was bound to happen, eventually: The economy has now taken centre stage in Canadian election-related Twitter chatter. The incumbent Conservative government has been pushing its economic record and reputation, while opposition parties have criticized the government...
It’s finally here, the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The movies, the stars, the parties, the after-parties, more stars...it’s a date circled on the calendars of movie buffs for months. And as the excitement builds and bursts forth, Twitter devotedly...
People, especially doomsday preppers or survivalists, fear the unknown: a weather system may or may not bring destruction and power outages, or World War III may erupt at any moment. Hollywood doesn’t help either, with various disasters played out on the big screen in...
***Spoiler Alert*** Well, the wrestlers Nick Foti & Matt Giunta finally pulled off a win, and it just happened to be a leg of the race where one of the roadblocks was wrestling. Not only did they win the leg of the race, but they also found themselves as the most...
McDonald’s has announced that it will indeed be offering nationwide all-day breakfast. After some apparently successful market testing in San Diego beginning in April, the fast-food chain has committed to implementing the massive menu change across the U.S. by...
Prior to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s dropping of the writ on August 2, the economy appeared to be the forefront issue in the upcoming federal election, when voters would choose to either stay the financial course with the Conservatives or make a change and vote a...
The media content curation workflow is central to a MediaMiser Enterprise user. Every day, our media analysts are required to select a handful of relevant media items buried in the enormous amount of online and traditional content. Productivity is key and content...
Though it doesn’t have the ad power of the Super Bowl, and doesn’t attract the gamblers among us as much as March Madness, don’t cry for the US Open; it gets its fair share of attention. Starting Monday, August 31st in Flushing Meadows, New York, the fourth major on...
***Spoiler Alert*** When it comes to reality TV, the cast is generally in on the joke: they know there’s an expectation to ramp up the emotions and produce epic one-liners that will keep us tuning in. In turn, Twitter takes the joke and runs with it—sometimes in the...