Posts Tagged as ‘Brands’

August 18, 2009

What playing Poker can teach us about using Social Media

Brands are finally starting to enter social media channels, and those that are yet to do so will have to in very near future. Social media provides some very real challenges for brands, but with these challenges comes some amazing opportunities. It’s a complex game that requires some serious attention, skill and knowledge. Not unlike [...]

July 15, 2009

Lego: Pretty cool for a 50-year-old

This month Lego turned 50, you might have seen the brilliant ‘making history’ ads created to mark the occasion. It’s hardly surprising that a toy based around small plastic blocks has been around for 50 years, what is a little more surprising is the fact that 50 years on and in the digital age these [...]

July 6, 2009

Evolving traditional communication channels: Interactive Billboards and Cinema ads

Advertising is becoming more and more focused on the getting the consumer involved in the process, it’s no longer a one way broadcast model but a two way communication model where the audience play a vital role in any brand communication. We might assume this spells the end for many traditional advertising channels such as [...]

June 14, 2009

Do you really want your TV ads to make your audience mad?

Here’s the latest TV ad for TV advertising, which I ironically saw on youtube. Don’t get me wrong I thoroughly enjoyed the ad, it brings back memories of some great ad campaigns of the past and the context and comic timing does raise a smile. This ad would have been perfect before the emergence of [...]

May 13, 2009

So you’ve got a great brand website, but is that really where your customers are heading?

The Fact: The ten web brands on which Britons spent the most time last month, including Facebook and Google, accounted for 45% of all UK internet time during the month, compared to less than 42% in April 2008 Source: Brand Republic The Lesson: It has never been more important that brands have an good online [...]

May 11, 2009

Social Media: Do you need to reinvent the wheel?

It’s claimed that in Mesopotamia (part of modern day Iraq) 3500BC one of the most important tools ever was invented. That tool was the wheel, however the original use of the wheel is unlikely to be the use that most people would automatically associate it with in the current day. In 3500BC the wheel was [...]

April 1, 2009

A short history of marketing: 1932 to the digital age

This is a great little video from Germany that provides a little bit of marketing history and nicely demonstrates how our new digital culture is changing everything. For some people the content in this video is hardly anything new, but it’s presented in such a great way that it can serve as a little reminder [...]

March 27, 2009

Twitter: For Beginners