A different perspective and data on second screen viewing and its negative impact on attention

I just found this fascinating piece on the effects of 2nd screen on ad recall for TV advertising. http://www.appmarket.tv/opinion/1691-study-do-smart-phones-distract-from-tv-yes-and-no.html
The emergence of multi screening behaviour is a topic we’ve written a fair bit about this on the blog before; we noticed how the rise of companion apps like Fango signify the TV companies intention to capture […]

Member’s Welcome.

Our latest launch for client Virgin Mobile.
Virgin Mobile’s Members’ Lounge is the pointy bit of a new approach to Telco marketing based around rewarding members for their custom, rather than hooking them in on fancy plans and deals and then forgetting about them.
In the new world of Virgin Mobile, members get benefits like:

Access to […]

Branded Content – Where is it all heading?

The direction from which brands approach content online is at a cross-road. The brand-to-content model has evolved from one of brands filling in the spaces between shows, to brands integrating into shows, to where we are now: brands producing their own shows.

Qantas Socceroos Widget

Do you love football? Did you love watching the Socceroos play in the World Cup in ‘06?
We recently launched the Qantas Socceroos Widget, which delivers the latest Qantas Socceroos player updates, breaking news, fixtures and football developments live on your desktop as the team again fights to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South […]

BRAND BIBLES – WRITING THE NEW TESTAMENT

A while back some clever strategist looking for another way to afford another beach house, conceived the idea of creating a special little book for a brand. The book would treat the brand like a person; give it a personality, a social standing, a few colours that it clothes itself in and a few key […]

45 degrees of ad deliciousness

“Recent advances in cereal technology have allowed us to take Shreddies cereal to a whole new level of geometric superiority. Welcome to Diamond Shreddies country.”
This spoof campaign by Ogilvy in Toronto was so effective it had some consumers scratching their heads. See for yourself.

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Meet or Delete

I came across this great motion piece for Meet or Delete a global branded entertainment series from HP & MTV. The idea for the matchmaking series is simple, contestants get access to each others hard drives and from their snooping they decide who they delete and who they meet. So they say that the […]