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Our Lead Planner Kate Miltner, freshly back from the States, is featured in Brand Republic’s BR Think column this morning. You can view her panel discussion in full here.
Our Lead Planner, Kate Miltner, has headed to Boston, USA to lead a panel discussion on studying memes at ROFLcon 2012. She has an MA in memes. Check back here for updates all next week. The buzz around Conservative MP Louise Mensh raised some interesting questions about whether Twitter abuse should be criminalised. A whole Continue reading →
A few weeks ago, we covered the ‘David and Goliath’ fight between Saul Zaentz Company (SZC), which owns the rights to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the Hobbit Pub in Southampton and the Hungry Hobbit cafe in Birmingham. Now, we all know that Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry saved the Hobbit Pub Continue reading →
Social Media DJs Following on from the recent SXSW it seems all eyes in social media are fixed on the box – Zeebox to be precise. To quote the words of Mugatu from the movie Zoolander: Social TV is “so hot right now”. But beyond all the hoopla, another media channel has been quietly perfecting the Continue reading →
Last night saw the launch event marking the 50th anniversary of St Giles Trust. From its origins in the Crypt of St Giles Church, Camberwell, St Giles Trust is now one of the leading charities helping ex-offenders rehabilitate. Fifty years and an estimated 400,000 clients later, St Giles Trust works in prisons and communities offering Continue reading →
The ‘Stephen Fry effect’ was well and truly in force last week, when Britain’s most iconic Tweeter helped to raise a virtual crowd of protesters against the actions of the Saul Zaentz Company. Saul Zaentz owns the rights to both the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming film, The Hobbit. To capitalise on Continue reading →
Campaign’s Alasdair Reid asked London’s social media set how brands can benefit from the latest Facebook developments. Our CEO, Alex Miller, said: Timeline has had mixed feedback from users (but then any new feature always does) and time will tell whether or not this pans out. However, the dramatic rise of the social network Pinterest Continue reading →
Our own Katie Graham explains why: That’s right, they’re hoping to score one of 150 pairs of Nike Air Foamposite One Galaxy that will be released on Friday. That’s brand loyalty for you.
Monday Monday kicked off with Ray Kurzweil’s keynote: “Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit”, which was full of mind-blowing predictions. Among other things, he posited that within 25 years, what we think of today as ‘mobile phones’ will be shrunk to the size of blood cells and live, always-on, in our brains. No typing, no differentiation Continue reading →
Friday I’m sure you’ve already noticed that half of your digital department is missing this week. And you probably already know that the reason for that is a certain SXSW event taking place in the US. Not wanting to be left out (and with lots of technical stuff needing to be discussed with the digerati) Continue reading →
