How ‘Local’ can you go?

Published 14th January
The frenzy has started as organisations jostle for a position in the mobile application hall of fame – ‘Local’ is shaping up to be one of the most hotly contested areas. What is it really going to take to make a mark and how ‘Local’ can you go?
The Apple strap-line resonates – [...]

Mobile advertising needs to recognise communication and social aspects

Published 10th September
Today the overwhelming majority of people with mobile phones use it to communicate with each other. Interactive communication is the most predominant, most consistent, and most active use of the mobile today.
The mobile phone is a communication and social tool. The mobile has given a freedom to the consumer to be contactable, organise, [...]

Impact of Online video on TV advertising – the future of online marketing

Published 14th August
Having recently read about the raging debate at Marketing Week on the potential impact online video will have on television advertising. Yesterday the bus waiting experience came true. Nothing for a while then a couple come a long at the same time. Online video as a promotional medium – broadcasters may well be worried.
Ok. YouTube has [...]

London teenager becomes City sensation with his thoughts on media consumption

The thoughts of a London schoolboy, Matthew Robson, on how he and friends consume media has become a sensation among City analysts and media executives desperate to discover the habits of younger generations.

Mobile advertising – what’s it worth?

Author: Martin Wilson
Despite so much doom and gloom about local advertising in general – across newspapers, direct mail, TV, radio, yellow pages, outdoor, magazines and fixed online – collectively forecast by BIA Financial Network (BIA), parent of the Kelsey Group, to decline to $144.4 billion by 2013 from $155 billion last year.  The decline is [...]