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Mike Hope-Milne, enterprise director at Pearl & Dean, discusses how experiential advertising in cinemas can be a valuable tool in promoting brands…It can hardly have escaped notice that one of the biggest trends impacting advertising is that communication can no longer be a strictly one-way affair. The proliferation of digital marketing, rise of the web,… Continue reading The Rise Of Experiential In Cinemas

Tim Farthing, commercial director at Dennis Communications, examines how brands and companies should go about choosing which media channel to use to communicate with their customers.I can’t think of a brand or company that doesn’t want to communicate directly with their customer. In fact, I am still being sent catalogues from a small cricket equipment… Continue reading Customer Communications – Choosing The Right Medium

Jonathan Gladwin, director at product placement company Prop.ag.anda UK, discusses the next phase of product placement in the UK and how it can be used to best effect.Research has proven that audiences want real brands in their programmes and following the ratification of Television without Frontiers by the EU, paid for product placement will be… Continue reading Understanding Product Placement

Nigel Jacklin, managing director of Objective Research, examines the findings of the recently launched Media Brand Values survey…The recently launched Media Brand Values survey is the first survey to respond to demands for globally comparable data concerning the relationships people have with the media they consume. This article looks at some of the key findings… Continue reading Media Brand Values

David Evans, MediaTel.co.uk business director, looks at the skills needed by researchers and how these can best be provided.Researchers on both the agency and owner side have to be chameleon-like in the wide range of skills they possess. The many stages of a research project mean that media researchers have to be able to innovate,… Continue reading Making Research Count

Antony Miller, head of media development at Royal Mail, explains why brands should not be dazzled by digital to the detriment of traditional media channels.It’s safe to say that the internet and other digital channels like email and SMS have been instrumental in driving the communications revolution we’re currently experiencing. For marketers, these new channels… Continue reading Dazzled By Digital

Derek Jones, MediaTel Group managing director, announces the launch of a new online trading system and the benefits it will offer the industry.Maybe it is a timely coincidence that we should announce the start of a trial programme for DELTA, our new booking and trading system for online, at the same time as the whole… Continue reading New Online Trading System To Bring Efficiencies To The Buying Process

Christina Goodman, head of global marketing and business development at Dynamic Logic, discusses how recent research from the company suggests that social networking sites present a unique platform where brands can connect with consumers.Social networking sites have enjoyed an undisputed popular growth phenomenon over the past few years. MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn currently offer advertisers… Continue reading Opportunities And Challenges For Brands On Social Networking Sites

Richard Maddock, station director of Radio City, Liverpool’s biggest commercial radio station, discusses the past two years that he has been working on the launch of City Talk 105.9, Liverpool’s first speech only station, which launched at the end of January…The prospect of launching any kind of new radio station in a tough local market… Continue reading Talk Radio

Peter Bowman, general manager of JICIMS, provides an update on the latest in the development of an online planning currency…JICIMS is making progress. The key stakeholders in JICIMS – that’s the Joint Industry Committee for Internet Measurement Systems – are determined to resolve the many outstanding issues on the road to providing both definitive internet… Continue reading JICIMS – Making Progress