by
robert campbell,
26 November 2009, 20:47
Anyone who's been down Carnaby Street recently will have noticed the following. 1) Beta towers is throbbing. 2) The Carnaby Street Christmas decorations are spectacular. Some believe they have been paid for entirely out of Mr Lace's unspent new...
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Justin Hunt,
26 November 2009, 19:08
I spend a lot of my time trying to persuade companies to engage with social media. Sometimes it can be demoralising. The defenders of the status quo are well entrenched in some organisations. However, there are plenty of enlightened people leading the...
by
Justin Hunt,
26 November 2009, 19:01
Some marketing people don't like to hear that they no longer control their brands. But it is true. You may spend millions on a finely created commercial. But it can still be commented on and edited through social media. Every brand is being talked...
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George Parker,
26 November 2009, 18:10
With all the talk and media hype about the Wizened of Oz (Rupert Murdoch) deciding to put Google out of business and throw in his lot with the Borg of Bing (Microsoft), particularly as rumors abound that MS will pay the Dirty Digger dumpster loads of...
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Justin Hunt,
26 November 2009, 17:55
Murdoch versus Google: who is going to win? It’s a classic old media v new media showdown. Murdoch claims his valuable content is being taken for free by Google and that he is not getting anything in return. But is that the complete story? Jeff Jarvis...
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BOB WILLOTT,
26 November 2009, 17:12
AIM listed internet technology specialist cScape Group suffered a loss of £319,000 in the year to 30 June, reducing its net assets to a mere £449,000. Three days ago the group disposed of ITM Group, a small loss-making element of its business, presumably...
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Mark Tomkins, TDA,
26 November 2009, 14:41
It’s the perfect, self-generating business model. An online encyclopedia that continues to grow as people update it. But it isn’t. Well, at least not recently. According to recent reports, Wikipedia has lost 49,000 of its volunteer editors and there may...
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Mike Spicer, EHS Brann,
26 November 2009, 14:20
As a football fan and a marketer, the recent announcement that Newcastle United’s stadium will now be called sportsdirect.com @ St James’ Park Stadium interested me both in a professional and personal sense. Unfortunately the two parts of me were resolutely...
by
Jeremy Lee,
26 November 2009, 14:04
Well that's what John Cresswell, acting chief executive of ITV, thinks in what is presumably an homage to Balham. ITV today paid in the order of £20m to Disney for the remaining quarter of the breakfast broadcaster that it already did not own. This...
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Gordon Macmillan,
26 November 2009, 13:06
Big Thinking in social media. Good line-up here. A bit of a run off between Jeremy Ettinghausen, digital publisher at Penguin, his anti social media line and VCCP's Amelia Torrode airing concerns about social media being like a snake oil fad. Jeremy...