Spoiler Alert! On this week’s episode of Amazing Race Canada, contestants flew from Buenos Aires, Argentina back home to Canada, landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. The show saw a 5.0 per cent decrease in social media activity compared to last week’s...
Spoiler Alert On this week’s episode of Amazing Race Canada, contestants flew from Santiago, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The show saw a 10.5-per-cent increase in social media activity compared to last week’s episode. In last week’s post, we speculated the...
Last week’s premiere for season 3 of the Amazing Race Canada was extremely successful, after being up 11.5 per cent in social engagement compared to last year’s premiere. But Episode 2, unfortunately is a different story: engagement for the No. 2 installment this...
Already the Amazing Race Canada seems to be a hit, as early analysis shows an 11.5 per cent increase in show engagement on Twitter from last year’s premiere. There is no doubt the Amazing Race Canada brand is growing, and to reinforce that brand the show has changed...
On last week’s episode of the (June 11) Disruptors, hosts Amber Kanwar and Bruce Croxon discussed Jack Dorsey taking over as CEO at Twitter, Jim Balsillie’s realization when Blackberry was in trouble, Amazon’s move into Canada, and some not so PG friendly discussions...
I’ve been watching and analyzing BNN’s The Disruptors since April. As an entrepreneur, I really appreciate the show—it encourages me to think differently on how I view opportunities, and even how I make decisions at MediaMiser. On June 4’s episode, hosts Amber Kanwar...
This week’s The Disruptors kicked off with online shopping solution Shopify’s IPO and a quick interview with Chief Platform Officer Harley Finkelstein. However, the majority of the show focused on startups looking to disrupt the marketplace. The show looked at...
Most would agree the Internet is probably the most disruptive technology of the 20th century, if not all time. Why? Because it facilitates ideas and communications in nanoseconds, along with mass collaboration. And it’s this mass collaboration that has turbocharged...
The banking and financial industry are not immune to disruption and this was the focus on this week’s The Disruptors, on BNN. The show focused mainly on three companies: Payso, a company looking to disrupt your wallet; Grouplend, which crowdsources loans; and...
On this week’s BNN’s The Disruptors, Bruce Croxon and Amber Kanwar conduct interviews with Wattpad, Pressboard, and Eyecheck. They also discuss Sofia Vergara and Snapchat, Uber delivery service VS FedEx, Facebook’s partnership with newspaper publishers, and Jim...
This week on BNN’s The Disruptors, I paid special attention to Bruce Croxon’s chat with Freshbooks CEO Mike McDerment. Being an entrepreneur that has bootstrapped a company from nothing, looked for financing, and was eventually acquired, I could relate to Mike...
It’s now the third week of BNN’s The Disruptors and the show’s co-hosts Bruce Croxon and Amber Kanwar are really finding their groove. Interviews with potential disruptors — such as Kanwar’s interview with Brainsights — are interesting, but most compelling are the...