The Moonwalking Bear Gets A Gold Lion
We’re very pleased that the dothetest ad for Transport for London, created by our friends at WCRS, and for which we handled the digital marketing (resulting in over 5 million views online in the space of one month) won a Gold Lion at last week’s Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. It really is a great ad, […]
Video Killed The TV Star
Over the last few weeks I’ve been using the BBC iPlayer via my cable TV service. Although it’s not so intuitive navigating with a remote, it’s still a lot nicer ‘on demand’ experience than watching on my laptop.
This creates an interesting overlap - I’m getting BBC content (which is currently paid for via the license […]
LinkedIn: Hate To Say I Told You So
A very short post today. LinkedIn, the social network for business people, have announced a new round of funding that values the company at $1 billion. According to The Guardian:
LinkedIn is … understood to have received takeover interest, but decided instead to retain its independence. Chief executive Dan Nye said yesterday that his hope is […]
The Lion, The Witch & The Domain Name
The Guardian is reporting on an upcoming legal battle between the estate of CS Lewis, author of the much loved Narnia series of children’s books, and Richard Saville-Smith, a father who allegedly bought the domain narnia.mobi as a birthday present for his son.
According to The Guardian, Saville-Smith received a very large dossier (128 pages) from […]
Yahoo! & Google: And The Little One Said..
Yahoo’ announcement that it was rejecting Microsoft’s long-running attempt at a take-over came as a bit of shock. Just 2 weeks ago an MSN staff member was telling me that the deal was all but done and that when Yahoo! had finished grabbing headlines then both companies would get down to business and put together […]
Online Ad Spend To Overtake TV? Maybe Next Year
The Guardian reported yesterday on the latest figures from the Advertising Association (note, PDF link) on the UK advertising market. As with just about every other such report for the last few years, it shows online advertising in rude health.
[Online] spending up a dramatic 39.5% - year on year - to just over £3bn. Online […]
Kiva: Microfinance 2.0
As part of the Engine Group, with its Our Little Bit CSR policy, we at Altogether Digital are always on the look-out for ways of doing our little bit. And via a Tweet by Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch UK, I found Kiva.
Basically Kiva is a site which takes the idea of microfinance or […]
We’re Back
Well, we’ve been a bit quiet recently, since our big move from Soho to Fitzrovia. However, it’s not just because we’ve been busy unpacking boxes and trying to make our swanky new offices feel like home, we’ve also been ridiculously busy working as well. Apart from launching new or updated sites for some of our […]
