Sentences with phrase «mass appeal of»

The services of Homestyling by Cathy aim to step up the mass appeal of your home to potential buyers.

I liked the watch (still do), and while it may not have the mass appeal of its standard Moto 360 brethren, the Sport was a nice option to have for those with more active lifestyles.

Because of the mass appeal of Hockney's Royal Academy Exhibition, the iPad paintings have unfortunately been branded by popular criticism and media as the epitome of contemporary art practice, fuelling the delusions of those who unwittingly consider landscape painting to be one of the few modes of visual art.

It's a big deal when it comes to player retention rates, although the mass appeal of EA's games seems to be compensating for that pretty well.

From the riotous popularity of its first mobile title, Miitomo, to the mass appeal of its second, Super Mario Run, to the enduring fanfare for its third, Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo is on a winning streak.

«The title's success illustrates the mass appeal of interactive entertainment as millions of consumers are choosing to play Call of Duty: Black Ops at unprecedented levels rather than engage in other forms of media.

Items, stage transformations, gimmicks and the implementation of various modes of play over the series» lifetime have contributed to the mass appeal of the Smash Bros. franchise.

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One of the reasons for this popularity is the mass appeal of one series evolving into a full category, for example, the popularity of The Twilight Saga leading to a wealth of titles in the young adult paranormal category.

Popular authors Asher (Thirteen Reasons Why, 2007) and Mackler (The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, 2003) combine the mass appeal of Facebook with a thoughtful meditation on how current ideas and actions can change our futures.

The mass appeal of the CLA makes it an incredibly popular option, and it's no surprise to us that we are frequently asked when we expect the 2016 model to arrive.

Disney Infinity would ostensibly path the way for a safe re-entry into the market, bolstered by the mass appeal of licensed properties.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

Less astutely, Bloom opined that Rowling «feeds a vast hunger for unreality» and that the mass appeal of Harry Potter is a «mania.»

The process is comparable to the modern effort of teachers of religion and morals to attempt to get their material into the movies, on the radio, or in television, which are the media of mass appeal of today.

Away was among the first startups to shake up the luggage industry in recent years, thanks to the mass appeal of its smartly and attractively designed rolling suitcases.

Not exact matches

Selling media buyers, especially those focused on mass TV audiences, on the concept isn't necessarily a slam dunk, either, because Blue Ant is trying to push out so many different content formats, which appeal to different demographics and different sorts of advertising strategies.

There's a real stratification of games where only the really high - quality games with mass market appeal are making money.

In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the rare popcorn event film to achieve mass appeal, earning $ 377 million in its theatrical run, and also emerge with the year's top Oscar honor.

Yet it may also be a mark of the company's powerful mass appeal that it can calmly take these kinds of risks.

Most of the people who get air time on the show have passion, but combining innovation and mass appeal seems to be the tricky part.

Sources say the move is an acknowledgement that its revamped line of devices has failed to win mass appeal.

The company, which launched Versa worldwide in April, is hoping the smartwatch would have more of a mass appeal than its Ionic device.

All of the winners, he says, share three traits: «They're unique, they could appeal to a mass market, and they solve a common problem.»

«The Ionic offering really truly wasn't a mass appeal smartwatch, it was more of a performance product so it didn't really have the reach that some of our competitors had in the market,» he said, explaining that a lack of apps also hurt sales.

Content can be created for any stage of the buying cycle, but viral content tends to have mass appeal.

The report also examines the plans of various tech giants in the smart home market and discuss their monetization strategies, and makes suggestions for how these companies can position themselves to make their products and devices more appealing to the mass market.

By contrast, the film's audience score on the site sits at an impressive 86 % — a figure that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently cited to suggest that critics of «Bright» were «pretty disconnected from the mass appeal.»

How, then, did I completely miss the appeal of what may be the broadest mass - market phenomenon since The Simpsons?

«Speaking engagements are a great way to network, which allows you more of a mass appeal,» says Nuttall.

By appealing to the mass - market, companies have access to more potential clients, and they'll likely face less initial competition since incumbents offering this luxury product or service likely ignored this portion of the population.

«We do strongly feel that there's significant opportunity for us to gain more share through the launch of more mass appeal devices in the category... most importantly all at the right price point.»

I have a layout in mind of how this network could be executed properly to have mass appeal for both bloggers and PR people.

Although gun sales rose consistently during the Obama years, most of these sales were to existing owners, reacting to his appeals for more stringent laws after several mass shootings during his time in the White House.

To reach the masses, we decided we needed to create something accessible, appealing, and most of all fun.»

Content that goes viral has mass appeal and strikes your emotions, but the goal of content marketing shouldn't be to «go viral.»

Making ground on these issues would make crypto significantly more appealing to the masses as a form of payment.

«Early sell through of Fitbit Versa, our first true mass appeal smartwatch, has been the best in our company's history, positioning us to expand our user base and capture greater share of the fast - growing smartwatch market,» said Park.

Buoyed by the mass market appeal of the Model 3, Tesla hopes to produce half a million electric cars by 2018, vastly ramping up its output over last year, at 85,000 vehicles.

Greg Pelling, MaRS advisor and Senior Vice President of Sierra Systems, says, «InteraXon represents a new kind of company where technological innovation and social creativity intersect to create new experiences with mass market appeal.

Too many progressive Christian books I see, even if I find them agreeable, are imo just too shallow and narrow, as if trying to appeal to the same kind of shallow interests groups as those of of the mass pop Christian evangelical culture.

I believe that the success of the christian church can be credited to it's appeal to the masses.

After he became Pope, Pius XII did everything in his power to prevent the war from breaking out — issuing appeal after appeal, warning the mass destruction that would ensue — but the forces of evil would not listen, and war commenced.

Sure, the «good news» of safety, popularity, and political power is more appealing to the masses, but it's not the good news Jesus preached.

Kimmel is a peer more of Sean Hannity than of earlier late - night hosts, who had mass appeal: Johnny Carson, even Jay Leno or the 1980s version of David Letterman.

Starting from simple, focused and accessible starting points is a guarantee for campaigns to have mass appeal, as was demonstrated both by the campaign against the MAT and the launch of ATTAC.

It pains me to see how many people - in this day and age of scientific enlightenment and understanding - still cling stubbornly to outdated beliefs that originated through * lack * of understanding; through appeal to the pack nature of humankind, in yearning for kinship and to «belong» to something greater; and through efforts to control, suppress, and subjugate the masses.

Similarly, he appeals somewhat unconvincingly to the idea that «nothing is annihilated in nature» (p. 118, i.e. the principle of conservation of mass - energy) to support the immortality of the soul.

To appeal to the Quine's metaphor from his famous essay «Two Dogmas of Empiricism» (TDE 42 - 46), if the synthetic and the analytic are not dichotomous, but rather the respective periphery and center of a web of knowledge and beliefs, then our casual use of the word mass lies at the periphery, while our technical meaning lies near the center.

Some strongly support the efforts of Billy Graham, of the Campus Crusade for Christ, or other such mass appeals.