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SlideShare: What the F**k is Social Media NOW?
For the last three years, Marta Kagan, has updated her famous SlideShare presentation called “What the F**K is Social Media” and for 2010, the presentation has been updated with some more amazing stats and growth comparisons to 2009. Marta has also collected some of the best quotes on social media, from a few of the [...]
Continue reading...Sony: Media Monster Wars Facebook App
26. August 2010
Sony has been running a pretty cool Facebook app over the last few weeks, called Media Monster Wars, featuring Justin Timberlake. It’s a well integrated social game that utilises the content on your wall to power your monster. The more photos, videos, comments, likes, shares and interaction you have, the bigger, better and meaner your [...]
Continue reading...Facebook Places Explained (video)
24. August 2010
So everyone who reads Digital Buzz would have heard about Facebook Places by now, but really, unless you’re in the US, you’ve not had an opportunity to experience exactly what Facebook Places is. So here is the demo video from the official Facebook YouTube Channel. Facebook Places to me, will ultimately kill off Gowalla & Foursquare over [...]
Continue reading...Target: Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular
22. August 2010
Target launched their Fall 2010 fashion range with a mammoth out door event, the sort of occasion we’ve been seeing some amazing projection mapping come to life at. But this time Mother N.Y and Target managed to create an extravaganza with just as much wow factor, using The Standard Hotel in NYC as the event stage, they [...]
Continue reading...Precious: The Bike With A Brain
11. August 2010
Meet Precious, the bike with a brain that’s riding across America to raise funds for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG charity. So what do I mean by bike with a brain? Well, it’s a bike with all sorts of sensors attached to some pretty cool code and a few silicon chips to bring the bike to life. [...]
Continue reading...Old Spice Social Campaign Case Study Video
11. August 2010
Well here it is. The Old Spice Social Campaign Case Study from WK. To save the judges some time this year, I’d suggest sending the pencils, lions, grand pix’ and the like straight to the WK head office in an overnight express bag, no need for a tracking code, everyone know’s who those awards will belong [...]
Continue reading...Bacardi True Originals Facebook Fail?
2. August 2010
Maybe it’s because I’ve had a seriously long day, but this ongoing webisode series on Facebook from Bacardi called True Originals has just completely disappointed me, in fact using these videos as a Facebook campaign is a clear and epic fail on a number of levels. But first, let’s look at these amazing short films where a mysterious character seems [...]
Continue reading...Diesel Facepark: The Analog Version of Facebook
27. July 2010
Diesel’s “Be Stupid” campaign platform continues to drive ridiculously innovative work. This time they’ve said that Digital is smart. Analog is stupid. And with that, Diesel has created a social event called Facepark, a live event where thousands turned up to create an analog version of Facebook, simulating pretty much everything you can do on Facebook in a physical [...]
Continue reading...Starbucks Social Strategy Keynote
26. July 2010
If you are interested in Digital & Social Strategy you’ll want to bookmark 25mins to watch this video (or flip through the Slideshare pres below), it’s the keynote presentation by Alexandra Wheeler (Digital Director of Starbucks) that opened the recent Social Media Influence 2010 conference in London. And for those of you who don’t know, [...]
Continue reading...Old Spice Sends Personal Twitter Video Replies
14. July 2010
Wow! Not only did Old Spice and Wieden Kennedy pickup a Grand Prix at Cannes for their campaign, they’ve just started rolling out one of the best social campaigns I’ve ever seen, all based on the ads that generated so much talk over the last few months. Old Spice has just started delivering personal video [...]
Continue reading...Canadian Tourism’s Live Twitter Murals
11. July 2010
Canadian Tourism has launched a new campaign aiming to grab interest from busy Americans in New York, Chicago and L.A in the hope to lure them up to Canada for a holiday. And to do this they’ve jumped on the twitter wagon with interesting digital storescapes or what they are calling live twitter murals, that show aggregated tweets and photos from [...]
Continue reading...Skittles MOB #003 – Scholarship the Rainbow
6. July 2010
I think I’ve mentioned before that Skittles have one of the most powerful and engaged social communities online, and I look forward to each and every one of the Skittles MOB The Rainbow initiatives. For MOB #003 Skittles decided it would be cool to send someone to bowling management college if the skittles MOB thought it was [...]
Continue reading...Red Bull X Fighters Crowd Sourcing Campaign
18. June 2010
Holler in the UK together with Red Bull have launched a crowd sourcing campaign to kick off the London leg of the words biggest Freestyle Motocross tour called Red Bull X Fighters. They are asking budding film makers and Motocross fanatics to stand up and get noticed by creating the best 30 second mashup video (to promote the tour) from [...]
Continue reading...Skittles: The Facebook Gifting Tree
6. June 2010
Part two of the Skittles “Mob The Rainbow” social platform was a poll on their Facebook page, with three choices, the winner, again, would be brought to life in the real word just as they did with the Valentines day Mob of Love for the very first part of the campaign. This time the Skittles [...]
Continue reading...NRL: Back Your State Facebook App
25. May 2010
Tonight is the night, the first of three State Of Origin battles begins in Sydney! So I thought it was timely that I post up my new Facebook App concept, it’s called Back Your State and we’ve built it specifically to take advantage of the crazy State Of Origin hype, banter and passion! The Facebook app [...]
Continue reading...Lexus Dark Ride: Digital Experience
17. May 2010
Lexus has just launched a new interactive action experience called: Dark Ride to help promote their newest model, the Lexus CT200h hybrid. The website contains cutting edge technology like user pannable film sequences, webcam + microphone integration, personalised trailers, and Facebook connect integration. The aim of the campaign is to build hype around young people who are interested in driving ecofriendly [...]
Continue reading...Diesel Cam: Connecting Stores With Facebook
16. May 2010
This is the Diesel store in Spain and while people like Levi’s have been busy building in the new Facebook ’like’ functionality into their online stores, Diesel has been integrating Facebook into a real-world store and they’ve called it Diesel Cam. It’s a touchscreen system that sits outside the change rooms and allows customers to take photos of themselves, [...]
Continue reading...Socialnomics: Social Media Revolution Version 2
6. May 2010
Erik Qualman from Socialnomics has just released Social Media Revolution 2, a refresh based on his original video from 2009 that had about 2 million views on YouTube and was a must watch video with some amazing statistics. For 2010, he has updated the video with the latest stats, figures and information on everything social, [...]
Continue reading...Netvibes: Social Dashboard Showcase
15. April 2010
If you’ve not yet tried the new Netvibes social dashboard, it’s about time you did! It’s a great app that lets you dashboard just about anything on any topic, blogs, twitter, feeds, websites, news, keywords, photos, and just about anything you can think of. It lets you choose to pull content from almost all the [...]
Continue reading...Vodafone: Madame Tresesti
20. March 2010
As many people knows I started to work for Achtung! just five months ago and I am proud of it. In this time period we spent a lot of effort on Vodafone‘s new integrated campaign Madame Tresesti and finally we launched it last wednesday. In the coming weeks I am gonna update this post with [...]
Continue reading...Social Commerce: It’s time to make the move.
14. March 2010
I think 2010 will be remembered as the year social commerce really took off. Last year, I posted on how to explain the benefits of social, and I think that video is pretty relevant to how Social Commerce works (albeit a pretty “plain English” explanation) from a different angle. This great little video from Good Magazine (in partnership with [...]
Continue reading...Coca-Cola: ‘Fans First’ Approach in Social Communities
16. February 2010
Yesterday, when I was googling about big brands on social media, I found “Coca-Cola: ‘Fans First’ Approach in Social Communities” presentation by Michael Donnelly. He is the group director of worldwide interactive marketing for Coca-Cola and created this insightful presentation for the iStrategy2010 conference. Share This Digital Buzz Post:
Continue reading...Google Buzz: is this the bridge to Wave?
10. February 2010
Google Wave was a pretty big step up from email – and maybe it was a bit too much of a step leap away from the email messaging we are all used to using for it to gain traction in the marketplace. What could be bridging that gap is Buzz, and it is on its [...]
Continue reading...The Economist: A World of Connections
2. February 2010
The Economist has released a special report on social networking last week. You can find a lot of important insights and statistics like, how social networks are changing the way people communicate, privacy in social media: Privacy 2.0, the future of social media towards a socialised state, recruitment in a social world and much more. [...]
Continue reading...Your Sad Friend: Facebook Case Study Video
14. January 2010
A little while ago I posted the latest campaign from Mccann Erickson Israel for Yellow Retail – who provide online games and all sorts of interesting things. Now, this is the “Your Sad Friend” Facebook Campaign Case Study Video and details out some fantastic results while showcasing the campaign elements and strategy. (thanks for sending [...]
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