Orange Spot the Bull

Spot the Bull with Orange (image from Poke)

Orange are again doing their Spot the Bull competition, giving away tickets to Glastonbury if you can predict where a bull will be in a field at a certain time of day. I played this last year and it was good fun; it got launched yesterday, [...]

Social Media expertise

Armano Tweet

David Amarno just tweeted this:

people heading up social media initiatives with almost zero online footprint is the new jumbo shrimp

I think I’m missing a cultural reference when it comes to the jumbo shrimp, but I’m guessing he’s referring to people getting involved with social media activities despite never actually using the tools. [...]

Videos 25 May 09

I have no idea what to make of this ad from Air New Zealand except to say it makes me laugh. I’m guessing it makes lots of others laugh as well. I’m not sure what you would do if the staff actually did turn up in nothing but body paint.

That’s the only one in the [...]

BBC Poetry Season

I like poetry, or at least some poetry. I prefer short stuff, nothing too difficult; I dip in and out of the various anthologies I have, working through my favourites. At the moment, I’m loving the promos the BBC are running for their Poetry season. They continue the tradition of bring poetry to all, [...]

Videos 18 May

There’s only one video in the rankings this week It’s all a bit quiet amongst the Eurovision, SNL and Enimem stuff. I bring you the making of the Samsung HD8910. Glad to see I got it right.

links for 2009-05-14

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Following up on T-Mobile

Campaign has a piece in the dead-tree edition today, about the latest T-Mobile ad, about how agencies can follow a successful execution.

It says about the singalong event in Traflagar Square “lacks something of the spontaneous feel of its predecessor, probably because of the organised nature of the event”.

Personally, I think something of the opposite. [...]

Quest TV launches in the UK

Update: they appear to have put back the launch for ‘commercial reasons’:

Regrettably we have made the decision to postpone the launch of Quest.
Due to a number of commercial factors we have had to make this difficult decision.
We did not make this decision lightly and we are working towards launching Quest in the near future.

I went [...]

links for 2009-05-13

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First impressions and bad experiences

When you get to an advertising or marketing website, what makes you wonder what the creators were thinking about when they sign it off, what things make you dislike the brand? Here’s my list, supplemented by a quick poll around the office.

Useless Splash pages. I’ve gone to a site and all I get [...]