Katy Daniells - who has written 144 posts on Digital Buzz Blog.
Katy Daniells is currently the social media strategist at Match Media in Sydney, Australia. Katy has worked on a number of global brands and many Australian companies over the past 5 years; developing integrated marketing strategies, online marketing campaigns, social media strategy and execution, social media campaigns (including managing large social communities). View Katy's Full Profile Here Read her full profile here
Now this is a pretty cool concept. Over in Japan, Cogoo, a bicycle sharing service, has created the world’s first device that transforms your bike into a DJ turntable. Check out the stunt above which shows this ‘Turntable Rider’ in action, combining two great elements of street culture, BMX and music. The ‘making of’ video [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 16, 2012
What social media sites are popular with the Fortune 500 companies? Here’s a nice infographic from Go-Gulf.com that shows some key social media statistics for the big corporate players. A few key points: Only 23% have a corporate blog 58% have an active corporate Facebook account 62% have an active corporate Twitter account and have tweeted from [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 5, 2012
Heineken celebrated their 140th birthday by offering the design community the chance to create a limited edition bottle via a Facebook collaboration piece. The challenge aimed to showcase social connections from all over the world and received over 30,000 entries across 100 countries. In order to connect designers with each other, part of the competition [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 26, 2012
With most brands just trying to work out how to best use social media, it’s interesting to look at the flip side where social loyalty is now the big focus of the airline industry (look at all the great KLM work), where social loyalty plays will no doubt transform traditional style frequent flyer programs faster [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 25, 2012
This is a great concept from a chocolate store in Denmark. The Anthon Berg Generous Store has introduced a new way to buy your chocolate gifts without the need for any cash, you simply pay with the promise of a good deed toward a person you care for. This pop-up chocolate store, in the center [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 19, 2012
Cadbury have launched the ‘Cadbury Keep Team GB Pumped Parade’ to rally support for the British Olympic athletes in the lead up to London 2012. The virtual parade can be viewed from within a Facebook app on the Cadbury UK page which let’s users create an avatar to join the parade. Users can select their [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 18, 2012
Tomorrow Domino’s Pizza in Australia will launch a new campaign on Facebook called “The Social Pizza”, this ‘Social Pizza’ app will allow their 500,000 fans to create a custom-made pizza which will feature on the real Domino’s Menu. Facebook fans will be building the pizza by voting on their favourite crust, sauce and ingredients. The [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Here’s a great infographic showing what happens on the internet every 24 hours, and as you’d have guessed, it’s a lot. The volume of blog posts, time spent on Facebook and video content being uploaded to YouTube has exploded yet again! A few facts that really stand out – each day: 294 billion e mails are [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 12, 2012
Here’s a nice little campaign from IKEA in Norway to launch the iPad version of the IKEA-catalogue. They created a brand new IKEA product called “BERÖRA”, it´s a simple sewing kit with a special conductive thread to sew into the index finger of gloves. This transforms your gloves enabling them to work on a touch-screen, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 11, 2012
Now this is cool. American Express have launched an interesting play with Twitter which lets US card members turn customised Twitter hashtags into savings. When customers sync their American Express Card with Twitter, they can enjoy exclusive offers loaded directly onto their card. American Express are showcasing “Sync. Tweet. Save.” at SXSW 2012 where all [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 10, 2012
Coca-Cola brought tweets to life to celebrate the Argentinean national soccer team playing in Copa América last year. Every time the team play people cheer for them, anytime and everywhere, by tweeting and throwing bits of paper into the air at the stadium during the game. To boost encouragement for the team, Coca-Cola combined the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 4, 2012
Brazil’s Gol Airlines created a simple Facebook competition to grow their online community and raise brand awareness in the highly competitive airline market. Based on the insight that a trip is the most romantic Valentine’s gift that you can get they turned the Valentine’s weekend into a competition on their Facebook page with ‘Valentine’s flight’. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 27, 2012
Here is a another good example of how Microsoft’s Kinect can be used to bring interactivity into the digital space. This video features the game PONK which combines touchless and tangible gameplay. Powered by Kinect, PONK creates a new digital experience by providing an interactive platform combining a 2D playground and 3D real, reactive elements. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Here’s a new take on flashmobs from Intel to showcase the features of their new Ultrabooks. Intel used 60 people to create a digital billboard made of Ultrabooks to demonstrate the product’s ultra-thin design and responsiveness. The flashmob team carried out a series of live surprise stunts across Los Angeles, using the laptops to interact [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 12, 2012
Check out this data visualistation from Coca-Cola to celebrate their 125th anniversary. Created by the guys at Antilop, it’s called the “Future Room” concept, made specifically for the Turkish modern-art museum Santralistanbul. They transformed a section of the gallery into an impressive 90 square meter, 270-degree projection mapping installation. What a great way to celebrate [...]
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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