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Toy trains make surprise bid for West Coast mainline?
Great coverage from nothing: Bigjigs Toys expresses interest in taking over Britain's busiest rail route, with wooden trains running from Manchester to London.
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Digital addicted Britain?
The UK now tops the mobile data league table, but a pandemic of on the go browsing dependence may also be emerging.
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The Blagger's Blog 4th January 2013
Google cleared of biasing results, eBay inundated with PR friendly unwanted Christmas pressies, Aurora victim families suffer Cinemark's insensitive marketing.
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Google specs may be en route to developers soon
Software may be developed for Project Glass imminently, according to MSN Tech- potentially one of the biggest changes to web browsing since broadband.
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The Blagger's Blog 21st December 2012
The last media roundup of 2012 sees Facebook sell our memories, an American school m'am teach us about Christmas, and Wallace and Gromit Googling, of course.
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Vital statistics: UK media update
It has been a torrid time of late, from press standards to low advertising spend. But how bad is the truth behind those headlines?
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2012 in the Smoking Gun study
What a few weeks. Recent times here on Quay Street have seen award wins, nominations, and plenty of media coverage.
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Infographic: The Christmas Movie Flow Chart
‘Tis the season to be jolly and with less than a week till Christmas day we decided to use our usual infographic blog post to share this handy flow chart to help you pick which festive film to watch. Thanks to lemon.ly for creating this infographic.
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A valuable acronym: SoLoMo
We all know about social and mobile media, but with the emphasis now falling on local too your business needs to adapt in order to remain competitive.
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Five PR and marketing predictions for the future
We asked leading media, marketing and social media experts for their thoughts on new trends. From the decline of Apple to social responsibility, here are their answers.
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The social media annual 2012
What was the most tweeted event of the year? Who is the most influential person on social media of all time? We reveal all.
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The Blagger's Blog 14th December 2012
Lidl's Twitter campaign goes viral, resulting in 10,000 Christmas dinners, a 50ft rubber duck sails the Thames, and Google avoids $2billion in global taxes.
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Introducing the Facebook glossary of terms
Page Organic Impressions, Post Consumers, Engaged Users... U.S. digital media pro Jon Loomer explains what Facebook Insights is really talking about.
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