Tumblr founder David Karp has now confirmed what we've all known for a couple of days, that he's... Read more
United States - 20/05/2013
Almost nine-tenths believe social media is channel that all marketing practitioners should use and that it is not a ‘stand-alone’ discipline, a survey of 2,000 marketing students has revealed.
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Youth media brand Vice is evolving its ad network AdVice to become a premium content ecosystem for brands as part of its strategy to help publishers’ better monetise and co-create “high impact” digital advertising.
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International - 20/05/2013
Weetabix is promoting the launch of its On the Go Breakfast Biscuit range by asking the public about their morning routine in order to determine how a series of Vine videos progressed.
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Would you know if you were becoming a “total Glasshole”?
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A study into the activity of 1m Facebook users has painted a picture of the preoccupations of the average user for the first time.
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So the rumours were true! Yahoo is buying the blogging website Tumblr, founded six years ago by David Karp in his bedroom in his mother's apartment in New York.
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United States - 19/05/2013
HeadCast, a new technology which allows users to create a personalised animated talking head which is brought to life through audio, has been backed by Stephen Fry.
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Yahoo is set to announce “product related news” at an event in New York on Monday 20 May.
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A man in China found his way home 23 years after he was abducted by pinpointing two bridges he remembered from his childhood on Google Maps.
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International - 18/05/2013
Hyper Island students studying Interactive Art Direction, have launched The Pop Up Agency as part of a three month internship, aiming to challenge the traditional ways of approaching a client brief.
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International - 19/05/2013
Google has revealed that social networks including Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter as well as Ebay have been developing apps for Glass ahead of its general release next year.
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International - 19/05/2013
Former Dragon's Den judge, Doug Richard, has asked would-be entrepreneurs to pitch him their best business ideas in six seconds as part of his Launch Me campaign.
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According to Rupert Murdoch, Facebook could find itself in a similar situation to ‘crappy’ MySpace.
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International - 18/05/2013
#KittenCamp, the ad industry event that started in London in 2010 and now runs in cities across the world, has partnered with BuzzFeed to hold a viral event in London as part of Digital Shoreditch.
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Yahoo is said to be in talks to buy Tumblr , a service that hosts 108 million blogs, for a sum north of $1 billion.
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United States - 18/05/2013
The Financial Times website was hacked on Friday by supporters of President Assad , with the message appearing, "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here."
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International - 17/05/2013
GPY&R, Melbourne, which last month launched an interactive recruiting campaign for Defence Force Recruiting, “Behind the Visor”, has launched another campaign for the Air Force, "Anytime. Anywhere," which its creator says is leading the way in... Read more
1000heads agency has announced a 10% increase in the fan base and a reach of 670,000 after picking up the contract for a 12-month social media campaign for BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand.
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Twitter is frequently used as a platform for brands to run competitions as a cost-effective means... Read more
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will meet Prime Minister David Cameron next week, just days after the internet giant was roasted by a Commons committee over how it avoids paying hundreds of millions in UK taxes.
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Crimson Hexagon has analysed social media conversations to gauge public reaction to the announcement that David Beckham is to retire from football at the end of the season, and has discovered that 51 per cent of the conversation consisted of... Read more
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