This past weekend Dan, Tony, Jeff and myself attended the Cleanweb Hackathon at the NYU Campus. The 24-hour event challenged programmers, college students, entrepreneurs and the like to create solutions for problems related to energy efficiency, transportation and clean technology. As Cleanweb notes on their website, the hackathon was an opportunity “to demonstrate the impact of applying information technology to resource constraints.” Companies such as Tendril, Genability, and Brighter Planet granted attendees access to their existing API’s, allowing hackers to… Continue Reading
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January 31, 2012
December 9, 2011
Spread the joy with Instacheer!
The Carrot crew thought long and hard about what to do for the agency holiday card this year, and after many late nights of apple cider and holiday cookies it dawned on us — Instagram! We’re an agency full of frenzied Instagram users, so why not incorporate one of our favorite photo-taking-social-networks into our annual holiday card? And thus, Instacheer was born! Carrot designed and developed a website that pulls in holiday themed Instagram photos that fall in snowflakes over… Continue Reading
October 13, 2011
Join the Carrot Family!
While my favorite thing about Carrot is the people and being small enough to know everyone’s favorite food (note to self: pick up peanut butter filled pretzels for Dan), it’s still exciting that we’re large enough to offer great benefits that rival any New York agency. We’re still working on that free cafeteria, but we do have medical, dental and vision insurance plans. We prefer that our team members spend their time worrying about how awesome the work they’re creating… Continue Reading
September 26, 2011
Did Facebook and Spotify just save the music industry?
A lot of Facebook news happened last Thursday, but some of the biggest news for me, and many of us here at Carrot Creative, is Facebook’s integration of music and the partnership with Spotify (Go Sean Parker, go). Essentially, this move blows previous attempts to “re-imagine the music industry” out of the water. By embedding a user’s listening history and real-time status and as a key platform feature, Facebook has now assigned a metric to every part of the music listening… Continue Reading
September 9, 2011
Remembering and Honoring
Today, like all days, Carrot Creative is proud to call America “home”. We are proud of the resilience, support and courage Americans have shown throughout the hard times following the September 11th attacks. We are also proud and honored to have the opportunity to watch the new One World Trade Center (known to us as the Freedom Tower) grow right across the water since we moved into our new office. The speed with which the tower is being built is an… Continue Reading
August 30, 2011
What Your Company Means For Your Stomach
In my years in New York City I’ve been fortunate enough to experience the gamut of companies. From large companies to the tiniest of tiny startups, I’ve seen the company landscape and let’s just say it’s not always pretty. Understanding what each type of company is like can help you understand the ideal company you eventually want to work for. I’m going to break down each, but I’m going to do so by equating them to desserts because, well, that’s… Continue Reading
August 25, 2011
BWB4 hosted by Bloomberg Sports
I’m not afraid to say that Blogs with Balls is my favorite conference — and I’m sure you can guess why. The founders are amazing, the panelists always blow me away, and the conferences are held in the coolest locations with the best after parties. This year it will be back in New York at one of the most spectacular corporate offices in the country — Bloomberg Global Headquarters. Blogs with Balls (BWB) is the leading sports new media event series… Continue Reading
July 28, 2011
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Learning
As they say, the only constant is change; a statement that can’t be more true in our industry. Everyday we are on the pursuit of awesome and figuring out how we can bring that awesome to our clients. From whosits to whatsits applications to social networks, we need to have our ears to the ground and be able to react quickly for our clients. Aside from the usual suspects—Mashable, Techcrunch, PSFK, Hacker News, Adage, and Agency Spy—here’s a quick taste… Continue Reading
June 30, 2011
Happy Social Media Day!
If you didn’t get the memo status update, check-in, tweet, or comment, today is officially Social Media Day. So, from us to you—a little tribute to Zuck, Dens, Biz, and Chad.
May 16, 2011
Digital DUMBO is All Grow’d Up
This post was written and contributed by Andrew Zarick, Co-Founder of Digital DUMBO Follow him on Twitter at @A2Z. Over the last year Kaitlin Villanova and I have worked hard to grow and extend the Digital DUMBO brand to match the exponential size of the monthly networking event. As you may have noticed, last week we officially rolled out the new brand identity for Digital DUMBO across our web presence and collateral. Surprisingly, this is actually the third iteration of our logo. It seems… Continue Reading
