Media Week

I met an Oscar winner last night. Estelle Parsons , who won best supporting actress in Bonnie and Clyde, was performing in August – Osage County at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle and I was lucky enough to get back stage and shake her hand. The play...

Last week I was lucky enough to catch up with Andrew Sampson who runs Stephen Fry's website and works with the actor on a host of new media projects. In this interview he talks about how they started, how they see social media panning out, and gives...

There’s already been a lot of coverage about the Twitter deals with Bing and Google announced in the last couple of days and waking up this morning the day after Windows 7 launched and Nick Griffin made an arse of himself on Question Time, just goes to...

I'll be with Microsoft Advertising at Advertising Week 2009 in a few weeks and will be blogging and Tweeting both here on Media Week and my personal blog . Anyone else coming? Up for a hot dog and a foamy beer? Details to come on exactly how we'll...

Sue Unerman’s recent Media Week Comment “ Conference tweets left the chair and speakers lagging behind ” had me tittering a little. There has been a fabulous trend recently for using Twitter Fall and HashTags at conferences to show live tweets on stage...

Where were you when the untimely death of Michael Jackson was announced? I was on the beach in Cannes with colleagues winding down after the festival. Someone mentioned it and I went straight to Twitter, then Facebook then my email on my phone......nothing...

Not sure many of us that attended the International Advertising Festival in Cannes last week will be able to look at a glass of rose for a while. Although numbers were down this year, it was deemed a huge success, especially for digital advertising. My...

Just a couple of days now till Cannes and I’ve been hunting down Tweeters for you to follow! http://Twitter.com/Cannes_Lions {Obviously} http://twitter.com/dabitch & http://twitter.com/adland from adLand http://twitter.com/mnieuwpoort http://twitter...

Last week the guys at HubSpot released a compelling report into the state of the Twittersphere ! The facts? • 79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL • 75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile • 68.68% have not specified a location • 55...

I’m in the US right now busy organising and MCing some conferences here and in London. It’s 9.43pm and I’m still at my laptop on the 15 th floor of the Westin in Bellevue still working! It’s a far cry from last week where I successfully negotiated a whole...

I just got an email from the fabulous Guy Phillipson at the IAB which had a side bar that looked like this: You'd have to be a woolly mammoth buried under ten feet of ice for the past 10,000 years NOT to have heard of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or...

I’m off to Seattle tonight and then San Jose for the 10th Anniversary Search Engine Strategies conference on Sunday. Looking forward to catching up on all the latest news and views on the search industry at what is billed as the biggest search marketing...

Lee Odden’s got a great thread going on his Internet Marketing Blog on how business is done via Social Networks, and which are the most influential. He’s set up a poll which has some interesting results. LinkedIn - is coming out top, but only just ahead...