February 2012
24 posts
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ADVERT ON OXFORD STREET LONDON DISPLAYS ONLY FOR WOMEN
An interactive hoarding at a London bus stop aims to show a 40-second advertisement only to women and girls. The screen showing the short video campaign, by children’s charity Plan UK, is located at a bus stop opposite Selfridges on Oxford Street. A camera will measure facial features of the person standing at the screen to decide...
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FACEBOOK KNOWS YOUR FAVOURITE LOVE SONGS AND BREAK-UP TUNES
As a Valentine’s Day experiment, Facebook looked at the top 10 songs users are listening to as they make new relationships “Facebook official” or announce recent breakups.The Data Team looked at songs U.S. users played on Spotify after changing their relationship statuses. The team had lots of data to work from since the music platform...
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Smell-vertising hits the UK with potato-scented bus shelters
To promote its new product, Ready Baked Jackets, McCain Foods is tempting U..K consumers with the wafting smell of “3-D baked potatoes” as they wait at city bus shelters in York, Manchester, London, Nottingham and Glasgow. When people press a button on a poster, a hidden heating element warms the fiberglass 3-D potato and...
Insightful words from an ex-Facebook employee
From an article on the IPO:
Not all Facebook staff have remained on board for the cruise to post-IPO millionairedom, however. Jeff Hammerbacher, a Harvard maths genius, joined in 2006 to analyse how people use Facebook, according to the American magazine Business Week. After two years he became disillusioned by the firm’s focus on advertising and quit to tackle other problems.
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January 2012
24 posts
A wrap up of what has caught my eye in the world...
Red Bull: Launch Pad
For years now, Red Bull has been famous for the tag line ‘gives you wings’. They’ve utilized top extreme sports athletes and supported them in their quest to experience the ‘bigger and better’ by giving them the metaphorical wings to do it. Whether it be building half-pipes in the wilderness of Colorado for Snowboarding legend Shaun White, dropping the worlds greatest base...
