Coming soon from Free Scott , the new entertainment venture of Ridley Scott and his brother Tony, is a trippy new sci-fi entertainment project called Purefold that plans to let brand’s sponsor the content, and let the audience drive the plot line using social networking platforms. Produced by Ag8, the...
It starts with a little scamp in a flat cap purchasing a loaf of bread from a bakers. A near miss with a horse drawn cart and a healthy dose of sepia tells us we’re somewhere in Victorian England, and a midland dialect is thrown in to make us feel all warm inside. As the boy dashes home through the cobbled...
It really amazes me that there are still so many sloppy emailers that think they can apply the same strategy to their international campaigns as they do their UK campaigns, and use the same content and creative. Just last night I received an email from an Australian winter sports travel company telling...
This week the mobile browser Skyfire released it's long awaited 1.0 version, for use with smartphones, taking the company out of a hugely successful beta period that has seen 1 million people downoad the free service. Skyfire is free to download at: www.get.skyfire.com The service is currently available...
Apologies for not blogging over the last couple of weeks, but we’ve got builders tearing my house apart - and finding a temporary home for the family has been taking up a lot of time (outside of work of course)! I’m writing this from my 'Travel Tavern,' where we’re currently living Alan Partridge...
This week I was at an industry event chatting with a couple of old mates – one from a traditional media background who now works on the client side, and one from a media agency – about the use of data in our industry. While my agency friend, perhaps unsurprisingly, was up to speed with most of the huge...
