Posts Tagged as ‘Future’

February 19, 2010

If you go down to the woods today… you’ll find some great targeted advertising

There aren’t many places left in this world where you won’t be subjected to advertising. However, you would assume that while walking the dog in the middle of the woods, miles from any LCD screen, or even mobile signal, you might have found one of the few remaining places still devoid of advertising. So it [...]

October 21, 2009

New technology: New expectations

The latest technology has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and in turn these possibilities have brought with them new expectations. It doesn’t take us long to adjust to the benefits of new technology, and what starts out as a luxury or perhaps novelty can soon become a necessity. Not many of us [...]

September 23, 2009

Social Media: Why not make a game of it?

There’s a lot of hype around right now about the mobile service called foursquare. For those that don’t know foursquare is a location based social networking mobile application. The first element of Foursquare is a friend locator; it allows users to share and see the location of their friends that are also using the service [...]

August 27, 2009

YellowBird: The future of video?

This demo has been available for viewing on the official Yellowbird site , however, it has  been taken down in preparation for the next set of examples. For those that missed it I thought I’d embed it above. Yellowbird lets you watch video in a complete 360 degree view, that you control. Think of it [...]

July 23, 2009

Mobile Phones let us change our plans – Geo-location could stop us planning altogether

Remember the days before mobiles (some of you actually won’t!)? Plans to meet friends were made days in advance, there was no changing plans at the last minute, you had to be where you said, when you said. In theory this sounds great, no last minute cancelling, no slack time keeping, however, it’s not much [...]

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 17, 2009

Everything new is bad, but ‘everything bad is good for you’

Just watched a great clip over on FreshCreation.com of Steven Johnson the Author of ‘Everything bad is Good for you’. Johnson is asking us to consider if games had been invented 500 years ago and that books had only just been invented and were gaining popularity amongst young people. He argues that books would come [...]