Gratuitous post for our Becky who was dancing around in the office to this recently. Still conflicted about whether a masterpiece should be altered or revamped.
Mary Meeker and her team at Morgan Stanley were famous for their data-heavy state-of-the-internet presentations. Despite the fact that Mary has now moved to a venture capital company the presentation tradition lives on. Top 10 Mobile Internet Trends (Feb 2011) View more presentations from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
This tweet by veteran urban music promoter and radio presenter Tim Westwood just gives you an idea of how ingrained coupons have become to UK consumers. It does beg the question, at some point, will consumers eventually tire of deals and discounts as a ‘special’ and expect them as a hygiene factor?
brand tags – answer five or so questions and then check out consumer sentiment of a brand Defense Dept. Research Arm DARPA Tackles Storytime | Fast Company – storytelling to understand events better Sleeves & Bookmarks: Cover Art Collection continues – Moleskine ® English – really simple creative idea New PR approach key in China: [...]
I don’t want more fancy features at the moment, and a dual-SIM device isn’t likely to go down well with Apple’s carrier partners, but I would like a decent battery life.
These aluminium cabinets are more familiar running up and down the aisle of an aircraft dispensing food, drink or duty-free. Rather than scrapping old ones, they are repaired and repainted in red, black or white and sold on to consumers through the airline’s online shop. At almost 17KG they are surprisingly heavy but I expect [...]
I was going through Ogilvy on Advertising and I came across an advert that David Ogilvy did to recruit creative directors. I loved the concept of Trumpeter Swans which shows the grasp that Ogilvy had on the creative process.
DOCOMO and KT Agree to Launch Cross-border NFC Services— To develop international services building on partnerships with key players — | Press Center | NTT DOCOMO Global – interesting move, I wonder if the big four wireless companies (Telefonica, Vodafone, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom) can do something similar? Nigo Talks About His Sale of Bape [...]
If you’ve been around for a reasonable amount of time in marketing and PR agencyside you are likely to have looked at websites like Amazon Mechanical Turk, Elance, Freelancer.com or Tongal to farm out tasks in bite-sized chunks of work or tap into surplus abilities in the general population. A sort of moving production line [...]
Great presentation on tech trends, not surprisingly app stores, cloud computing, the internet of things and the convergence between online and TV get a lot of play. The New Next: 2011 Tech Influencers Predictions by TrendsSpotting View more presentations from Taly Weiss.
A really simple execution by OTC medicine Otrivine that I saw on a Jubilee train carriage. It’s a nice play on the London tube map which catches the eye.
I spent some time at the Tate Modern with Stephen and went to have a look at the Gabriel Orozco exhibition. Gabriel Orozco is a Mexican artist whose principal crime was to slice a Citroen DS down the middle to come up with a single seater car. I would like to have told you more [...]
Crédit Agricole-owned CLSA is one of APAC’s most famous financial services companies and is known for its research. It’s Feng Shui Index to capitalise on the start of the year of the rabbit was a great PR idea. CLSA backed this with great infographics and a report available as a download from its website in [...]
The Future of Search conference video where Google announced the evidence they had of Bing copying their search engine results page. Here is Google’s original blog post about it and here is the New York Times take on things. It brings some interesting questions that we need to think carefully about and consider the ramifications [...]
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