Month: April 2007
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Free Alan Johnston
Alan Johnston, BBC correspondent in Gaza, disappeared on his way home from his office in Gaza City on 12 March. There has been no word since. He is thought to have been the only international correspondent still working there, but it is […]
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Doll face
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Lay a little egg for me
I think I must be the only person who works in advertising who keeps chickens. I was a bit reticent at first but the missus talked me into it and I have to say I’ve really warmed to them. Yesterday, Tinkerbell (the […]
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Sacre Bleu
The ever fascinating New Scientist ‘Short sharp science’ blog has posted on these French public Health posters warning about the dangers of AIDS. As they rightly point out, some governments including our own have a track record in the effective use of […]
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Sublime Subliminal
Conscious I’ve been a little worthy of late so here’s some light relief. Derren Brown taking on the ad industry. Fascinating (and slightly worrying) insight on how ideas come about. A little long at six minutes but believe me it’s worth it. […]
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Changing the world one step at a time
http://affiliate.kickapps.com/kickapps/flash/media_drop.swf?b=1&widgetHost=affiliate.kickapps.com&mediaType=VIDEO&mediaId=33083&as=3193 This is Avery Hairston. He’s 15. When he was 13 he saw Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ slideshow and decided to do something about it. His question was always the same “Why aren’t people doing the simple things to help?”. One such […]
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24 youth insights in 147 seconds
Because killer facts are often lost in the melee, the threebillion project have collated a video which assembles 24 youth related random facts, stats and insights that have hit the internet over the last 4 weeks. Each one of them “was either […]
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This is how you do things
I have long admired Pearlfisher’s work (for brands such as Absolut, Waitrose, Innocent, Green & Blacks) and their approach. Now I admire how they communicate it. Type in "Pearlfisher" to Google and (right there at the top) this is what you get: […]
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Green Matters
So what do people really think about the environment? We’ve just done a pretty big piece of research (we’re calling it Green Matters – mostly because it does) into UK consumers’ (sample size of 3000 men and women) reactions to, and engagement […]
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On a mission
So, brands should be generous. Like Amelia’s JFK school of branding, they need to ‘ask not what your consumer can do can do for you, ask what you can do for your consumer’. Co-creation, consumer power – it’s all clear, right? If […]