Entries Tagged as ‘psychology’

July 2, 2009

Top 10 Trendplanner tweets: June 2009

Once again using the magic of Hootsuite here are the most clicked links from the Trendplanner Twitter account for last month. For other useful Twitter links on similar themes, check out Qapture which collects links shared by various people on Twitter (including Trendplanner). 1. Agency site – made in YouTube – BooneOakley.com – Clever. http://ow.ly/altG [...]

April 14, 2009

Nothing is original these days but that’s not a problem

The first video in this post is an ad for Freesat (UK TV service), the second video is from youtube called ‘Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years’. The second has been viewed over 12 million times and was posted over 2 years before the freesat ad. Notice any similarities?? Clearly [...]

April 3, 2009

Want an opinion on maximum social connections in the digital age? Just ask an X-factor reject

It’s hard to debate the notion that the Internet has increased the potential connections an individual can form. However, what is widely debated is the quality of these connections and relationships formed in the digital world. In 1992 Robert Dunbar proposed that the number of meaningful social connections we can successfully maintain is 148. Since [...]

January 28, 2009

Neurosense: The marketing agency of the future?

Psychology has always played a part in marketing and advertising, after all you require an understanding of the human/consumer mind in marketing and psychology is the study of exactly that. Marketing Agency Neurosence aim to truly combine the two. An ever growing and major field in Psychology is Neuroscience, which in this day an age [...]

January 27, 2009

Skins – Great marketing means there’s no need to make a decent programme

So E4 teen drama ‘Skins’ is back. For those that don’t know Skins is a UK drama that follows the lives of a group of teens living in Bristol. Now in it’s third season, it’s back with a new group of characters. Like the series that proceeded it the third season is a triumph in [...]

November 25, 2008

You Don’t See With Your Eyes

The ‘Take the Test’ virals showed us how we don’t always see what is right in front of us, now here’s a nice demonstration of how we see more than is actually in front of us. Have a look at the centre of the image, you should experience some illusory motion. Both remind us that [...]

November 19, 2008

Internet Addiction – A real disease?

Psychologists in China are pushing for Internet Addiction to become classified as a disease. Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) symptoms include staying online for more than six hours a day, instead of working or studying, and having adverse reactions from not being able to get online. Many people will already fit this criteria, and in the [...]