Category: Social Media

  • Girls aloud: Ten [INFOGRAPHIC] 2002 – 2012

    Girls aloud: Ten [INFOGRAPHIC] 2002 – 2012

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    Girls Aloud were formed by Louis Walsh in ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals: in 2002. The group consists of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. The group achieved a string of twenty consecutive top ten singles in the United Kingdom, including four number ones. They also achieved six certified…

  • New media meets old media

    New media meets old media

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    Following the Internet browser wars rumbling away including Google vs Microsoft other traditional Internet only businesses have taken to producing TV adverts. Facebook launched its first brand building television advertisement in the US to celebrate hitting 1 billion users . The advert comparing chairs to Facebook. Fighting the vomit back when the lines “that’s why…

  • Google vs. Microsoft: Battle of the ads

    Google vs. Microsoft: Battle of the ads

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    With less than 5% between them, the battle to dominate the browser market continues between Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. With the ability to set the default search engine and make it ever so slightly difficult to set another its easy to understand why Google and Microsoft would like to have more people using their…

  • K25 comes alive with social media

    K25 comes alive with social media

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    It’s 25 years since Kylie Minogue jumped from the Australian hit soap Neighbours and launched a pop career. To celebrate everyone’s favourite pop princess has rerecorded some of her amazing hits at Abbey Road. The team behind the social media campaign have got it right offering Kylie fans the opportunity to unlock one of these…

  • Yes Betty, you’re still hot

    Yes Betty, you’re still hot

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    I few months back a rumour appeared online that Betty White of Golden Girl fame was appearing as a dance track, I thought they were having a laugh. Then the video materialised on YouTube to confirm it was all true. Although it appears to be an advert for The Life Line Programme, the tune is…

  • Solo Spice defining moments

    Solo Spice defining moments

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    With Melanie C due to release a new solo album on September 4 and the video to her latest single, Think About It hitting YouTube last week, it stirred some nostalgia about what the defining solo moments were for each of The Spice Girls. With 75 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling female group…

  • Cinema 2008 – 2010 [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Cinema 2008 – 2010 [INFOGRAPHIC]

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    Digital Cinema Media (DCM) the cinema advertising sales house has been in business for just over two years since being bought by the UK’s largest exhibitors ODEON and Cineworld in October 2008. A lot has happened in these two years and the company wanted to do something to highlight this. Rather than the usual piece…