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TV keeps losing ground

Does this mean ITV1’s shows will get even worse?
Call me old fashioned (or possibly forward thinking) but I feel there are too many TV channels anyway.
We’ve all seen the research, but it becomes really stark when even my wife spends evenings that were once dedicated to TV online instead.
Where the eyeballs are the brands will […]

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Use online for direct-response, but don’t forget the power of brand

In the early days of online some marketing teams were amazed that they could present real, seemingly trustworthy figures for how effective their digital properties were.
From the first time the management board was told that the corporate site had taken several million ‘hits’ in a month to the complex measurement of each channel’s ability to […]

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TV bites back

Regulations have just been relaxed by Ofcom allowing advertisers to sponsor entire channels. TV and Radio.
It means that those annoying and usually cheesy idents around your favourite Soap could start to appear around everything!
I’m sure I read some research saying that they were really ineffective. Can’t find it though.
Well, with all that money finding its […]

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Different strokes…

We recently had a brief for a campaign where the target demographic was described as pretty much everyone. In the past we might have had a chuckle and thought the client was barking mad or didn’t have any research to go on.
But just occasionally there are brands that are all pervasive and they have budgets […]

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911 in paint?

According to at least some members of the public, who have taken it upon themselves to complain to the ASA, the new Sony Bravia Ad is too reminiscent of 911!

Non-toxic paint, in a multitude of colours, being fired over and out of a dissused housing estate in Glasgow is, it seems, terrifying for some!
What I […]

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