Marketing


Finance

Coinbase Names Former Facebook Executive as CMO

Kate Rouch spent more than a decade at the social media giant.

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Markets

Crypto Has a Marketing Issue

There’s a troubling cultural trend around cryptocurrency, one that encourages retail investors to “ape into” the market in search of riches.

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Finance

No Joke: Chipotle to Give Away $200K in Free Burritos and Bitcoin on April 1

The promotion was inspired by the former Ripple exec who lost the password to his bitcoin-filled hard drive.

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Finance

Crypto Influencers Are Following the Beauty Playbook – Even if They Don't Know It

Here's how influencer marketing drives the crypto industry – especially for product sales like hardware wallets and debit cards.

Michelle Phan (Credit: Mark Sacro for CoinDesk)

Markets

Brexit Divorce Is Advertising Opportunity for Crypto Firms

As the United Kingdom left the European Union this week, the Paris-based hardware provider Ledger and Vienna-based exchange Bitpanda made their thoughts known on the theme of “Brexit.”

Bitpanda's London billboard.

Markets

Airdrops Are a Marketing Ploy (And That's OK)

A currency is nothing if not widely used, and that can't be achieved unless people make some cost-incurring effort to encourage widespread usage.

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Markets

Email Service MailChimp to Block ICO, Crypto Marketing

Email distribution company MailChimp will bar marketing campaigns for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings next month.

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Markets

KFC Canada Is Accepting Bitcoin for Fried Chicken

Fried chicken chain KFC Canada is accepting bitcoin for a limited time for a so-called "Bitcoin Bucket."

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Markets

What's Horsepower? Or How to Differentiate Your Blockchain Startup

Having difficulty marketing your decentralized startup? Fear not, the past yields clues for how new disruptive tech can differentiate.

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Markets

An Open Letter to Decentralized Protocols Looking for Growth

Marketing expert Jeremy Epstein discusses the importance of the brand for blockchain startups in this open letter to the industry.

Providing a provably random string of numbers is not as easy as you may think. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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