Jim Marshall says that while the Arab Spring seemed to be a righteous uprising, aided and abetted by a liberating social media network, events at home (in the riots and the hacking scandal) saw a potentially more unsavoury side to the use of some media channels… not so much an Arab Spring as an English Rusty Nail!
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Dominic Finney, director at digital consultancy FaR, says with the right strategy media owners with strong brands and clear business models are well placed to thrive…
Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on mobile advertising; Facebook making money; mobile disruptive music and Amazon…
Having let the dust settle, allowing me time to watch Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture in its entirety, I was struck by his sincerity, self-deprecation (“if we were responsible for TV programming, you’d get a lot of bad sci-fi”) and an innate understanding of where TV fits in the new media eco-system.
Raymond Snoddy says it is totally banal to say that instant communication tools in the hands of almost every citizen can change societies dramatically at breakneck speed and be a force for both good and evil in equal measure. But it would be true…
Greg Grimmer, partner, Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer, says six years on and people have finally come around to his way of thinking…
David Fieldhouse, co-founder and strategy director at Linking Mobile, says QR is on the rise and is here to stay. Companies must consider relevance before they use QR for their brands, but the benefits are now big enough to take the plunge…
I have been following the Athletics World Championships this week, as I am sure many of you have too. I hadn’t realised until I went to tune in for the first time that Channel 4 had snaffled this from the Beeb – and taken Michael Johnson with them.
Raymond Snoddy: Britain’s broadcasters may indeed be stuffed too full of arts graduates but Google may have too many engineers in power positions for its own good. Maybe Google should bring in some of those highly creative British “luvvies” to advise the “boffins”…
“Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.”