Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Streamed web ads as effective as television

Monday, November 15th, 2004Brand Republic reports that video advertising on the internet has the same impact as television advertising, this has been proved via a new study. The study was carried out on behalf of Pfizer Healthcare, from advertising it ran on MSN Video. ...

Living in a converged mobile world

Monday, November 15th, 2004Today's Daily Telegraph unveils a music vending machine that allows people to buy and download songs in the street, at railway stations or in the pub. The kiosks, which transfer tracks to a mobile phone or personal music player for about ...

Ad agencies sound the alert

Thursday, November 11th, 2004Back page of the Financial Times November 9th 2004 Ad Agencies sound the alert over the mobile phone. The principle outline of the piece is that the ad agencies are going to find it much harder to reach young people ...

Branding is no longer what you do to cows

Monday, November 8th, 2004Wired Magazine published an article this month about brands and marketing communications. The Decline of Brands The author is James Surowiecki. Surowiecki says:The world, it seems, is disappearing beneath a deluge of logos. In the past decade, ...

Nowhere to run to

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004Unlike the UK, blogging (online publishing and peer to peer feedback) is big in the US. It is also increasingly used in the US as a powerful mediator of the truth. Mazda got themselves into some very hot water recently when they ...

Football, mobile phones and bird watching

Sunday, October 31st, 2004Premier League downloads could answer 3G operators' prayer reported the Financial TimesWhen Vodafone officially launches its 3G service on November 10, it will showcase a wide array of new services designed to persuade its customers to spend more ...

Distrust of the Corporation

Sunday, October 31st, 2004Mark Moody-Stuart writing in the Financial Times this weekend Distrust in the land of pyschos and soya milkThe aim is to demonstrate that the modern corporation is a dysfunctional development and that the economic system supported by corporations ...

Growing up with Television

Friday, October 29th, 2004 I watch a lot of Television, I've always watched a lot. There's a great deal of resonance in the shared experience of Hong Kong Phooey - Not the Nine O'clock News and the Rise and Fall of Reggie Perrin. I ...

Marketing Awakens

Thursday, October 28th, 2004Published in the FT Creative Business 26 October 2004 I opened FT Creative Business today and thought I must be dreaming. It felt like at last I was reading about the real, threatened, exciting marketing world of 2004, rather than ...

Another business model under threat

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004 WHAT KEEPS THE FOLKS AT BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO UP LATE AT NIGHT? HINT, IT'S NOT COUNTING THE LATE FEE RECEIPTS - If there were any doubts that the video rental marketplace is coming to an end, cable giant Comcast and ...

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