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Facebook's commercial potential continues to grow with the Comment ad unit launch. We explain, briefly, how it works.
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Staying local(ish)
Local design agency Raw picks up a contract for Wolves, which makes us think about Burrda and the prominence of creative business in the North West, and UK as a whole.
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The world wide web, worldwide
By 2015 3billion people will have access to the internet, and flat screen TVs will see the biggest increase of all web enabled devices.
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Newspaper readership figures increase in May
NRS reports The Guardian increased readership by 30,000 between April 2010 and May 2011. That's where the good news stops.
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The power of hindsight
Usually advertising-savvy Cadbury causes shock and offence by comparing Naomi Campbell to a bar of Dairy Milk Bliss in another one of those painfully stupid moments.
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Addition to the Bank Holiday shopping list
The latest ad from CHI and Partners for Samsung has been causing a stir online, and is tantamount to torture. We're shown stunning televisions displaying beautiful images, making us want to steamroll into the nearest electrical store and buy a fresh one.
Social Media & Digital
Everybody's talking about it
David Abraham, Chief Executive of Channel 4, and Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, have both jumped on the trend-wagon, making various statements regarding the UK's digital future, and what needs to be done. Interesting times ahead.
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Future advertising prospects skyrocket online
Magazine giant Future Publishing's profits continue to fall, while online advertising revenue jumps 44 per cent, and monthly iPad edition sales reach £100,000.
Events
Don’t Panic Ensures PR Professionals are Thinking
Last Thursday (12/05/11) Manchester based events management agency Don’t Panic took over the beautiful venue of the British Library for the first ever Think event. Bringing together sector leaders that were chosen by industry practitioners (through conversations with friends and questions posed through Quora and LinkedIn) they were given free reign to talk about a … Continued
Social Media & Digital
Turning the tables on GPS social media
Foursquare Explore now provides users with recommendations of where to go next based on wants, needs, desires, and the recommendations of friends. And now the developer has made the service available to third parties with its API.
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The future's bright, the future's Apple white or black
The UK Audit Bureau of Circulation began taking iPad and iPhone app use into account for newspapers and magazines, 12 months after the US equivalent got wise to the new requirement. More proof to suggest we all need to be thinking mobile media.
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