Posts Tagged as ‘media’

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 [...]

June 7, 2009

The Living Book: The book written entirely in QR codes

I recently got sent some information about a very interesting marketing campaign in Brazil, for an online book store called Editoras. The campaign was looking to raise awareness of Editoras in Brazil, modernise the brand, and help the brand appeal to a younger audience. With these goals in mind DDB Brazil created a campaign that [...]

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 [...]

February 26, 2009

Could Brands take on The Pirate Bay?

Illegal music downloading has been a hot topic ever since Napster appeared way back in 1999. Since then we’ve seen the introduction of broadband Internet and the emergence of BitTorrent peer to peer sharing, now people can download a lot more than music and all with speed and ease. Currently the owners of a site [...]