Anyone who has attempted to search for an app without knowing it’s name will know it can be tricky to find exactly what you’re looking for. That’s where Quixey comes in. A shiny new start-up company, based in California and providing a functional search engine for apps,  Quixey aims to address the common failings in adopting [...]

Whilst on the hunt for a “Friday Fun” blog post for everyone’s perusal…I came across this advert for Cycle Safety UK starring British Olympic medallist James Cracknell. It’s definitely one of the most thought provoking adverts of its kind that we’ve have seen in some time. On the 20th July 2010 James suffered a near [...]

French car manufacturer Citroen teamed up with UK based Candyspace to develop an innovative digital media campaign that uses gaming and location based apps to launch the DS4. The mobile marketing and multi platform competition, DS4 Seekers is essentially a massive game of hide and seek where players hide a virtual DS4s in the streets [...]

The new “Summer Time Is Pepsi Time,” campaign from Pepsi takes a swipe at their long term rival Coca Cola with a little help from Santa Claus. The ad from LA Based agency TBWA\Chiat\Day…shows the bartender offering Santa a pair of Coca-Colas for himself and Mrs Claus. Santa declines the offer in favour of a [...]

The fair city of Edinburgh is this week playing host to TED Global 2011. An annual conference renowned for showcasing cutting-edge technologies. TED Global is a grand affair, with around 850 attendees from 70 countries and tickets costing nearly £4,000. Spread over 4 days, with over 50 speakers and performers this years theme is “The [...]

This week’s Friday Fun post brings you a great campaign by American communications company AT&T. Their “Hands” advertising campaign, created by BBDO, shows human hands intricately painted and posed to depict iconic images of countries around the world that fall within AT&T’s “international footprint”. The result is stunning imagery that draws viewers into the artwork [...]

Google has announced the launch of a free mobile landing page tool called Google Mobilise, aimed at allowing SME’s to easily create a high-quality mobile site or landing page. The ‘Mobilise’ tool was introduced for the first time in the UK by Google’s Ian Carrington at a press conference ahead of the search engine giants [...]

Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for the weekend (and a spot of tennis perhaps?) Remember this advert from all the way back in 2005? (That long ago?!) The ad was for the arrival of the Sony BRAVIA LCD range, with a short film featuring coloured bouncing balls (in real time) [...]

Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for the weekend (as if we need it)! The hugely successful smart phone game Angry Birds in which players demolish castles and bomb pigs (who have stolen said birds eggs) is now available to play in real life. Yeah that’s right, real life! T-Mobile and [...]

Investment in mobile advertising has doubled in the last two years as more companies catch on to smartphone technology becoming a realistic medium for successful marketing.  The best mobile marketing understands that people, often bored commuters, want something fun and interactive, with traditional advertising not cutting it on the mobile and train platform. Highlighted by [...]