Went to the Online Marketing & Media08 Show is Islington a few weeks back and attended a panel discussion; Adriana Lukas, Al Tepper, and James Cherkoff were presenting biggest blunders in social media over the past few years and key lessons learned from them.
You could tell that it was the end of the day. […]

The BBC have launched a new look and feel for their news and sports sites. Have you noticed?

The site now reminds me (a bit) of a talk I heard last year at Internet World when one of the speakers (sadly can’t recall who) was describing that we’d be forgiven for thinking a […]

Hitwise have confirmed that youtube.com and uk.youtube.com have over 63% of the UK’s online video audience. The BBC’s iplayer is third with 5.66% - a huge difference! Read more on the original article at mashable.com here.

Hitwise, mashable, online video, You Tube

Once again I’m going to point you in the direction for a very useful and up to date summary of what is available online in the social media video arena. Please visit mashable for the update here.

mashable, Video

And the winner is Flickr

Have you received this email? Act now and move your images or lose them on 18th October - a month away.
A lovely polite notice from Yahoo straight to my inbox. What good sense for the business to condense and concentrate on their successful, more consumer regognised asset and service. […]

In this months copy of ‘Revolution’ on the news page (pg 8), the very useful stats provided monthly by Hitwise reveal that Facebook has made it into the top ten uk sites! However still behind myspace and bebo. Interestingly, Facebook also scores lower on average time spent on the site from Bebo’s 31 […]

Apologies for the delay in commenting on the talks we heard at London’s Internet World, but at last the opportunity has arisen to jot down some perceived wisdom and pass it on.
The speakers we enjoyed listening to - who had real news and views to impart - were Ashley Friedlein (CEO of E-consultancy.com) and Loic […]

“Universal McCann conducted research across 21 global markets. It claims that Asian markets are driving adoption, with China and South Korea leading the way in actively creating content and socialising online.” To read the full article on brandrepublic, follow this link.
This does perhaps add credibility to the claim that we didn’t support (!) that […]

Friends of the pop queen Lily Allen have rushed to her rescue at her profile page on the MySpace site. Lily posted a blog complaining that she feels “fat and ugly”. Her fans reacted prompty telling her to get real! This is pure UGC - the ultimate - where people can […]

We recently undertook informal research of the FTSE 100 companies and found that none of the listed companies has a blog at the corporate level (or at least not easily found).
Granted their brands may have *consumer-oriented, open communication platform tools of engagement, but we were surprised that, despite the media buzz, there still doesn’t appear […]