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By Pierre Monké at 10:01 am on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 // 0 Comments

The shift from print advertising to social media is no longer a burgeoning trend. It’s on! Brands that began testing the waters 16 months ago with social media advertising have seen such great results they’ve been steadily increasing their budgets. By how much? In the last eight months companies have increased their spending 10 fold, [...]
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By Matt Mernagh at 3:11 pm on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 // 3 Comments

Lately I’ve been stopping in to use the technology at our favourite digital agency Pixel Dreams. It’s been a decade since I worked in an office. The last experience resulted in one of the most violent moments in Canadian music history (punk band gob politely running amok terrorizing working interns)…Let’s not talk about decade old [...]
Opinion
By Khalid Mokhtarzada at 2:19 pm on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 // 6 Comments

Aside from our day to day viewings of Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Kirk series, our PD family also enjoys watching documentaries. This past month we had the pleasure of discovering three really cool documentaries that we thought we should share. Check out the following doc trailers.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Released in 2006, this [...]
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By Lannie Le at 10:03 am on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 // 1 Comment

Shortly after Mr. Jean Van Claude Boombastic, we welcome ten lovely additions to our family. Pixel Dreams studio is now the home of Love, Peace, Gratitude, Compassion, Faith, Joy, Hope, Trust, Patience and Serenity. Among them are four chili pepper plants to add even more spice to our red hotness. We’ve named our plants as [...]
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By Matt Mernagh at 3:54 pm on Monday, August 23, 2010 // 0 Comments

Generating great links leading to your site is easy if you have a passion for your profession. That’s because you’ll need to become involved in the community around your field to develop your online reputation. Before launching your site, comment on blogs in its niche, make forum postings relating to it, ask to guest blog, [...]
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By Chris Dignan at 3:48 pm on Monday, August 23, 2010 // 2 Comments

Fundamentally, I am an artist, creator, free thinker and musician at the core. I am a kind spirit, a child of the enlightenment, concerned with issues of humanity, community and solidarity. I have however now spent roughly 10 years at war with the notion of truly embodying and expressing such ideology and creative freedoms, [...]
Opinion
By Matt Mernagh at 12:00 pm on Friday, August 20, 2010 // 2 Comments

Imagine our shock when a friend of ours told us he was shopping for a cellphone on a Friday night and not a smartphone!
“Just a cellphone? Are you crazy!” We mocked. Then we decided we had to do a whole article dedicated to mobile devices. In 2000, businesses needed a website, now a decade later [...]
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By Patricia Lourenco at 10:53 am on Thursday, August 19, 2010 // 1 Comment

It’s been three weeks I’ve been working here at Pixel Dreams and what a journey it’s been so far. Having experience in either a corporate environment or a laid back photography studio a few challenges arise. One I now face is the ability to produce high quality designs at a reasonable pace. I don’t want [...]
Opinion
By Pierre Monké at 7:23 pm on Sunday, August 15, 2010 // 7 Comments

Dedicated To All Our Agency Friends.
The benefits of being small and feisty is that you get away with shit every once in a while. – At least, more often than the big boys. I remember an ad campaign gone wrong at the last agency I was at. The campaign was not in our office but [...]
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By Lannie Le at 1:45 pm on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 // 15 Comments

Recently Rogers has significantly lowered bandwidth limits on some of its most popular Internet Service plans. What does it mean for Rogers customers? Our buck is getting a lot less bang. A lot less. Why am I not surprised.
Rogers didn’t make any public announcements regarding these service cutbacks. What a shame. Customers had to find [...]