Monthly Archives: March 2009

Vintage Radios

These radios are just too kool for skool! Some people say I was born in the wrong decade—and that I should have been a child of the sixties. Things made before my time look so damn cool, I don’t think we’re half as cool as our parents were. via boingboing.
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What happened to Yahoo?

I was just playing about with my analytics account and I started to look at my top 10 referrers in a bit more detail. What has happened to Yahoo? Last.fm, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn all drive more traffic to my blog than Yahoo does. A report by Search Engine Land discusses how Yahoo and Microsoft [...]
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Ideas and not advertising

A rather old article I know but I found it doing some detective work around management consultancy firms. The big consultancy firms steer some of the largest brands and businesses in the world. As the blogs of Ad-World celebrities now indicate, “businesses now need ideas and not just advertising”. Ideas such as more cost efficient [...]
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Eastern Electro

I bought some great albums this weekend by Nasha Records, just supreme eastern electro breaks. Their online shop doesn’t let you download directly; however, I recommend tunetribe, who have the online music purchasing experience well and truly mastered. Everything from UE, SEO and good design have been addressed very well. I had my music downloaded [...]
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Taking advantage of the sun

I’ve been a crap blogger recently, if you subscribe to my feed you’ll probably notice that I haven’t given you much to read. I haven’t packed in the blog, I’ve just busy been reading, observing, analysing and thinking. The Ad/Media world has turned into a circus over the last 6 or 7 months. Budget cuts, [...]
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CBS Outdoor

The economic downturn has seen many brands pull budgets away from offline media and digital display advertising. Brand marketers are now seeking more bang for buck, ROI centric methods of advertising, and cross channel optimisation. The spaces you once saw plastered with Ad’s appear to be vacant as media owners seem to be err…advertising themselves! [...]
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ECRM done the right way

There are only a few e-mail newsletters that I do open, I’m not one for spam. Not so long ago I subscribed to the newsletter for someecards, it doesn’t disappoint. A note to any brand invading my inbox, send me something original and maybe I will carry on reading your email’s.
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