Posts Tagged as ‘tv’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 15, 2009

BBC The Cut: The future of youth TV?

The BBC is to a launch a new series aimed at 12-17 year olds called The Cut. But this is not just another Grange Hill or Byker Grove , this series is embracing the new technologies available to the youth of today, as well as their new attitudes towards entertainment. The show will be aired [...]

April 27, 2009

Honda Insight: Don’t simply post TV ads online – use the power of digital to bring them to life

more about “Honda Insight – Don’t simply post TV …“, posted with vodpod These days it goes without saying that your TV ad should live online. But why simply post the ad online, ignoring the possibilities of the digital channel? There has been some great examples recently of branded video content that engage the audience [...]

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 [...]

March 2, 2009

Rule number 1: Don’t scare your audience

I came across a list of seriously messed up ads the other day. Some of the ads were meant to be disturbing (Playstation got 2 ads in the 10), but most nightmare inducing ads were those that set out to do anything but scare the audience. See if these ads make you want to rush [...]