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New cheeky bingo ad goes live

Posted on May 10th, 2011 by Colette
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The online gaming website cheeky bingo has launched its new advert recently, hitting both TV screens and most popularly, the video sharing network YouTube. The ad depicts the cheeky bingo mascot, the glamorous bingo ball animation also known as Cheeky, recruiting new players with her trademark purple smile. Cheeky bounces past the residents of Britain’s [...]

Using vending machines to deliver and advertise your product

Posted on April 4th, 2011 by Reece
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If you have a drinks product to sell then you can increase the visibility of your brand by having it included in vending machines. Vending machines are actually found in a great many more places than other drinks fridges and counters. The great thing about vending machines is that they are standalone and so frequently [...]

Doritos offer £200k prize to make advert

Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Reece
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Doritos are offering the chance to win £200k by making your own advert, the ad will also be shown during the World Cup. They are running the competition via their website and a select few will go up in front of a celebrity judging panel who will decide who the winner is. This whole campaign [...]

Corporate gift giving in a digital age

Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by Reece
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In a day and age where most business is conducted over the internet or by phone it wouldn’t be wrong to ask if corporate gift giving still had a place or purpose. Businesses send e-cards at Christmas and attend video conferences and seminars, always keeping miles of fibre optic cable between them. I think that [...]

Manchester City on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr

Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Reece
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It’s fair to say that social media hasn’t been the number one priority for most Premier League football teams in the past but now all that’s changing. Manchester City are now seeing their use of Twitter, Facebook and Flickr start to pay off. Their official Facebook fan page now has around 80,000 followers and their [...]

Paywall model not right for the Guardian

Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Reece
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A lot of newspapers are keeping a close eye on Rupert Murdoch’s decision to introduce a paywall on all of his newspapers websites, which will dramatically change the model of the current free-to-view news website. It is somewhat of a bet, whether this model will work, but it has already been rejected by The Guardian [...]

The Sun mimics Apple TV ads

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Reece
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As part of the Sun’s 40th birthday celebrations it has released a video on YouTube mocking Apple’s iPhone TV adverts. In the video the tabloid claims “The Sun has been the UK’s best handheld for 40 years. Top news, sports, photos, gossip and games in an easy-to-share format. No waiting for pages to load, no [...]

Does you-centric advertising work?

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Reece
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Recently there seems to have been a speight of you-centric advertising campaigns, notably Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” and “Windows 7 was my idea”. This approach has also been used by the likes of Apple, Vodafone and Yahoo. The idea of you-centric advertising is to put you the customer at the centre of the universe but [...]

YouTube advertises it’s TV shows

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Reece
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From today YouTube is going to be using some more traditional advertising methods to get the message across that it now has a selection of full length programming available for viewing. The video site owned by Google will be placing ads on the sides of buses, inside tube trains and in some publications. In addition [...]

Is Milo.com the future for local store owners?

Posted on November 26th, 2009 by Reece
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Milo.com is a website that puts an interesting twist on e-commerce and comparison sites, it allows local shop owners to upload their stock lists, enabling shoppers to check if an item is in stock before they venture out to buy. The website has just raised $4 million from investors to grow it’s business, which already [...]