30/08/11
Record ticket sales as Edinburgh Fringe draws to close The Edinburgh Fringe has seen an increase in ticket sales of 3% since last year, with 1,877,119 tickets being sold by its box office in the last three and a half weeks. It is good news for the Fringe which experienced poor weather throughout August, and [...]
26/08/11
Blackberry confirms social music launch Yesterday saw Blackberry announce that they were trialing a cloud-based music service, powered by Omnifone, that allows users to build music libraries within their Blackberry Messenger (BBM) groups. In what is being called ‘BBM Music’, users will be able to select tracks from the catalogues of the industry’s four major [...]
25/08/11
Steve Jobs resigns as head of Apple The co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has stepped down as Chief Executive. Jobs has helped Apple to revolutionise the way music is played and bought with the launch of the iPod and iTunes, however since 2004 he has suffered from ill health, and the announcement won’t come as [...]
23/08/11
Topshop to target student shoppers with SCVNGR campaign Topshop has announced a partnership with location-based mobile gaming app SCVNGR. The aim of it is to get students into their store for back-to-school shoppping, and starting from September 5th anyone who is within a 500-meter radius of a Topshop can play the game via app’s on [...]
22/08/11
The X Factor announce M&S as fashion partner Marks & Spencer has been announced as the exclusive fashion partner for this year’s series of The X Factor. The deal will mean that M&S will be the sponsor for the fashion section of the show’s website, as well as for the live final weekend which is [...]
12/08/11
Twitter adds new feature Yesterday Twitter revealed a new subtle feature which prompts users to publicly reply to other users when they visit a person’s account page. It is a significant interface enhancement to its web app, and allows further social interaction. The launch was given no fan-fare, surprising given Twitter had also just launched [...]
11/08/11
‘Justifying social media spend still difficult’ – Kraft The top UK digital marketer for Kraft (owners of Cadbury) has said that she still has ‘to battle’ to prove to her senior executives that the use of social media is valuable. Sonia Carter said yesterday that due to the company’s history of creating strong campaigns based [...]
10/08/11
Facebook launch messenger app to take on BBM et al. Facebook last night released a standalone app for iPhone and Android called Facebook Messenger, in an attempt to compete with other messaging apps such as BBM and Apple’s iMessage. It has not yet been made available to those in the UK, however the app will [...]
09/08/11
Social media to blame for London violence? Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger have had a large role to play in the rioting that has taken place in London within the past three days, that’s according to politicians and the media. Those involved in the rioting have been recounting the events using phones to access Twitter, while [...]
08/08/11
So far we’ve attended a fair number of Festivals this summer – Glastonbury, Wireless, T4 on the Beach, Latitude – and they’ve all had their unique characteristics and highlights. The main constant in these Festivals though is that they are highly commercial. Event organisers are trying to make money at every possible moment, whether through [...]
