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Twitter to sell celebrity tweets to app developers?
Social / Viral

Twitter to sell celebrity tweets to app developers?

by Emma on Jan 11, 2012 • No Comments
Twitter is to allow its celebrity users integrate their tweets into other services and applications. For example, if a big name musician like Lady Gaga tweets then her tweets could start appearing beside her songs in media players like Spotify and iTunes. Twitter is [so far] inviting a select few music app developers (Rovi, The...
Competition - WIN, WIN, WIN!
Business / Culture / Viral

Competition – WIN, WIN, WIN!

by Edward on May 18, 2011 • 72 Comments
Our friends at GoSailing.ie have given us two sets of two tickets (that’s four tickets in total to you and me) to offer our readers in exchange for Facebook likes and Digital Times email subscribers. The competition ends COB Wednesday 25th of May, winners will be announced and then contacted by Aaron and his team...
Ireland Town hopes to take on Farmville
Marketing / Social / Viral

Ireland Town hopes to take on Farmville

by Emma on Mar 16, 2011 • 54 Comments
Tourism Ireland will launch an online game, which will go live on Facebook on St. Patrick’s Day. Called Ireland Town, the game “brings the holiday experience here to life for Facebook fans across the world”. This is the first time a national tourism board has launched a social game. It aims to tap into the...
4chan founder gives masterclass in publicity
Social / Viral

4chan founder gives masterclass in publicity

by Stephen on Mar 15, 2011 • 26 Comments
Christopher ‘Moot’ Poole, the founder of the 4chan online message board, gave a masterclass in attracting publicity at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas at the weekend. As he prepares to launch his ‘anti-social’ network Canv.as, he took to the stage at SXSW and ripped into Mark Zuckerberg’s fanciful ideas regarding online privacy. The result...
Lynx’s latest campaign debuts on Facebook
Brands / Campaigns / Online Marketing / Viral

Lynx’s latest campaign debuts on Facebook

by Mark on Feb 4, 2011 • 2 Comments
To mark the launch of its first scent of 2011 Lynx has teamed up with Rupert Sanders, creator of X Box’s Halo 3 Believe to create a seven minute short film called ‘The Fall’. This being a Lynx ad, it naturally features some scantily clad ‘angels’. Interestingly its debut was on Facebook before it hit...
A real eye opener?
Campaigns / Viral

A real eye opener?

by Stephen on Jan 20, 2011 • 8 Comments
A bit of eye candy here (excuse the pun). Here’s a short viral video that’s really taking off. The question is – is it real? Jonathan Post is a creation of Francois Vogel, a ‘visual pioneer’. Our guess is that this viral is the first part of a series of viral ads by a 3D...
Campaigns / Viral

Interacting with the suburbs – an Arcade Fire project

by Stephen on Aug 31, 2010 • 14 Comments
This is pretty cool. It’s an interactive music video for Arcade Fire’s ‘We Used to Wait’ single from The Suburbs album. You will need to launch Google’s Chrome browser and type in your address (Dublin comes up). The HTML5-enabled engine will then use multiple Chrome windows and Google maps to take you on a journey...
Social / Viral

‘A way to blog that is as random and incoherent as writing on a bathroom wall’

by Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 • 10 Comments
Following the release of the full length trailer of ‘The Social Network’ a film about Mark Zuckerburg starting Facebook, come this – the ‘Twitter Movie Trailer’. Obviously a spoof but many agree it is as ‘factual’ as the Facebook movie trailer. Biz Stone, founder of Twitter, likes the trailer. Maybe he’d put some money behind...
Viral

Are these really ads?

by Edward on May 7, 2010 • 7 Comments
Okay, these ads come with a bit of a health warning, don’t watch them if you don’t like cussin’ and moochers. The reason we are blogging about them is because they were made for a big US footwear brand and are probably the furthest removed we’ve ever seen from a traditional big brand ad (e.g....
Campaigns / Viral

‘Mixed Tape Amnesty’ part of viral ad campaign

by Stephen on Apr 29, 2010 • 13 Comments
The ‘Mixed Tape Amnesty’ video was doing the rounds of Twitter land yesterday, much to the amusement of all those who watched it. Ad agency Chemistry is behind the viral and the hoax is part of an ad campaign for 4FM. In just a few hours after going live the site had attracted thousands of...
Business / Viral

Animate your message

by Stephen on Apr 21, 2010 • 7 Comments
Here’s an interesting new service by Igloo Animations. ‘Gimme the short version’ is an animation service for businesses and the marketing & communications sectors. Trevor Courtney, creator of the programme and director of Igloo Animations, says it can, “be used as an educational or promotional tool, offering a simple and direct way of explaining any...
Campaigns / Viral

The Doc turns 50 and remains right on

by Stephen on Apr 8, 2010 • 8 Comments
If you were born in the 60s, 70s or 80s it is very likely that at some stage you owned at least one pair of Dr. Marten’s, or Docs as we used to call them. I remember my first pair, purchased in 1990 from a stall at the back of the Ilac centre, they were...

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