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Brylcreem’s MySpace Campaign Wins Creative Circle

We’re always really happy when anything we’ve been involved in wins recognition and so we were delighted that the Brylcreem Effortless campaign, for which we managed the online activity, won a Creative Circle for Best Multimedia Campaign last night.
The whole campaign was based on a great idea from the guys at WCRS, to find the […]

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Is There A Company That Yahoo! Isn’t Merging With?

First Microsoft approached Yahoo! about a merger/take-over. Then Google gave the guys at Yahoo! a call to see if maybe they could hook up.
And whilst Information Week thought that Nokia would be the perfect partner for Yahoo! lots of other people think that they should consider getting together with AOL. But of course that was […]

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Does Giving Music Away Make More Sense Than Selling It?

The big music news today is that The Charlatans are giving away their fourth album for free via download on Xfm’s web site. Why? They don’t make enough money via CD sales anyway, and giving away the music for free, they reckon, will give them a bigger fan base and increase the number of people […]

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Brylcreem’s Effortless Ad

We’re very pleased to anounce that the new ad for Brylcreem, which stars a chap who entered their MySpace competition, is now live. It was put together by our friends at WCRS whilst we’ve built the new Brylcreem site (it’s not finished yet) and will be working with them to promote the new ad online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYTQKoJ1N8

It’s […]

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Friday Round-Up: Facebook Apps, MySpace Sheep & Donkey Kong

It’s Friday, the sun is shining and all is well with the world. There have been so many interesting stories out there over the last few days, that we thought we’d share some of our favourites with you.
Carlsberg carried out what must be the first ever case of altruistic littering when they dropped £5,000 worth […]

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When Celebrity Blogging Goes Wrong: The Rosespace Affair

Roseanne Barr, the comedian most famous for the hit show Roseanne, has hit the headlines for the first time in years over what we’re calling The Rosespace affair.
Over the weekend a number of posts appeared on her MySpace page with messages such as “I need to stop drinking, but I do not wish to … […]

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Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, MSN & MySpace: Everything’s Connected In Web 2.0

One of things I love about the internet is the fact that I am constantly finding new sites that I love and also, that I am constantly challenged, and often proved wrong.
I’ve been telling anyone who would listen (following a conversation with my colleague Chungaiz) that Facebook would be sold this year for $1 billion. […]

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MySpace Idol: Brylcreem Launches Search For A Web 2.0 Star

As more & more businesses grasp the possibilities of Web 2.0, the ways in which they use it to interact with their users (or customers as they used to be known) becomes ever more varied.
An interesting example of this is the famous British men’s hairstyling brand Brylcreem. To publicise their new range ‘b: from Brylcreem’, […]

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Murdoch Buys Another Web 2.0 Site

It seems that Rupert Murdoch can’t get enough of Web 2.0. First he bought MySpace. And now, via MySpace, he has bought the photo & video sharing site Photobucket. The site may not be that familiar to many in the UK, but in the US it is more popular than Flickr, which is owned by […]

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Bank Holiday Search Round Up

Well, the bank holiday is almost upon us, but before we at eyefall leave the office to tend to gardens and the like, we thought we’d give you or view on the big stories in search right now.

Yahoo! to be bought by Microsoft? We first saw this story early today and didn’t think it was […]

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