Round table report: Telecoms marketers discuss brand loyalty in a price-driven market

LONDON – Despite spending millions of pounds on advertising, mobile and broadband operators still suffer from low brand loyalty. Meanwhile, handset manufacturers are experiencing a significant power shift toward their brands, with Apple’s iPhone commanding an army of devoted fans.

Marketing video: Telecoms round table

LONDON – The lack of loyalty to telecoms networks was top of the agenda when Marketing and Yahoo! hosted the latest in a series of round table discussions.

U2ube: Irish rock band to stream gigs online

LONDON – U2’s next gig will reach beyond the Rose Bowl stadium in California to an audience of millions around the world by being streamed live on YouTube, with accompanying Twitter feed.

O2 Media expands sales team with four key appointments

O2 Media has boosted its sales team with four new hires, the first raft of key appointments following Shaun Gregory’s arrival as managing director of media in February from Blyk.

Mirror Group calls a review of its £6.5m media account

LONDON – Mirror Group Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mirror, is to review its estimated £6.5m UK and Republic of Ireland media planning and buying account.

Arqiva appoints Vizeum to handle £5m SeeSaw account

LONDON – Arqiva has appointed Vizeum to handle the estimated £5m media planning and buying account for SeeSaw, its soon-to-launch video-on-demand service.

Venice Biennale: Pascale Marthine Tayou

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One of the most striking artworks at the Arsenale for me was Pascale Marthine Tayou’s installation ‘Human Being’ which fills in a gigantic room with a bric-a-brac of objects, furniture made of recycled material, colourful figures, videos and urban noises that re-creates the activity of that small village that we call our world continue

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Hetilica Bold

This font I just finished is based on the local alcohol stores around the beach in the city of Cartagena over here in Chile. It was a project for our school workshop class and I’ll be giving it out for free in the upcoming days, just gotta adjust some minor tweaks, add a few more characters and maybe, just maybe release it in a couple more weights.

Anyways stay sharp for the release of this and a couple more fonts of mine.

Thanks for dropping by.

Exhibition tip – Edens Hage at 0047 in Oslo

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With this project, Hans E. Thorsen wishes to explore how the reconstruction of another artists work can be worked into ones own production and how the public artwork will transform inside the white cube, with its many corners and structures. continue

Retro Ballerina Clothing – The Lyell Fall 2009 Collection is Delicate and Sublime (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fashion keeps on looking to the past for inspiration for its future. This is evident in the Lyell Fall 2009 collection which is a series of designs that take an 80’s ballerina vibe and run with it.

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Online Advertising Spending Expected to Be Down for 2009


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yep, 2009 was a bad year for online advertising, too. This year figures to be the first down year for online ads since 2002, the hangover from the internet-bubble years.

Color.NOISE

Le projet Color.NOISE est une animation expérimentale imaginée par le graphic-designer russe Andrew Morev, associé à une bande son de Combustion “Fake ID”. Un travail très réussi sous After Effects et le logiciel 3D Studio Max, à découvrir dans la suite.



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Previously on Fubiz

NFL Scores Sunday Wins for NBC, CBS



MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) — Frustrated by the rush to judgment in his attempt to be an NFL co-owner, Rush Limbaugh wrote an op-ed for Saturday's Wall Street Journal titled "The Race Card, Football and Me."

In it, he refers to reactions from critics, including Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, that "'Racism' is too often their sledgehammer," adding, "and it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us." But it's more likely the ratings card, as much as the race card, that led to his partners thinking his deal would be better off without Limbaugh on board.

Supersized House Pets – Giant Savannah Cat Promises to Eat You Out of House and Catnip (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Tiny-sized pets have long been the latest and greatest fad to bombard our senses, but maybe the tide is turning in favor of extra large pets. Meet Magic: a giant Savannah cat that is breaking records and…

Google Says It’s Hiring Again

There's one bright spot in the beleaguered media and advertising employment scene: Google is hiring again. During its reassuring third-quarter earnings call, CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the worst was over and that it was a time to return to investing in both capital expenditures and people.

Pizzetta: Snow White, Romeo, Thelma

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“Think twice before you take the last slice.”

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy, Durban, South Africa
Creative Director: Christo Nel
Art Director: Robyn Cook
Copywriters: Christo Nel, Liza Kleinloog
Illustrators: Steven Fellmore, Cliff Brown
Published: June 2009

Developing Advertising Markets to Grow 7.8% in 2010

Unsurprisingly given the structural issues facing the U.S. and Europe, devloping markets are expected to kick off the shackles of recession and grow 7.8% in 2010 and 9.8% in 2011 compared to -2.9% and 1.5% for mature markets in those years.

Misdirected Barter Finds ad:tech in a Pickle Barrel

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Lest anyone accuse us of ignoring negative publicity about a company we’re in bed with (which we very much are when it comes to ad:tech), it’s our duty to let you know about a little pay for play snafu.

Photo: Blagojevich Seen Waiting Tables in Manhattan


On the same day former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is expected in district court to see if the judge will let him participate in the reality show I found him casually leaning toward a pair of suits with pen to pad of paper, taking orders.

A Conversation (and Experiment) With Author Shel Israel


Shel Israel and I conducted an experiment — we did an interview via Twitter last week. I found the content interesting, but the delay between when tweets are entered and when they appear made this challenging. Twitter has the reputation of being real-time, and it is a very immediate medium, but measured in minutes, not in seconds.