Archive for the ‘general’ Category

Brand Psyche

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Having lunch yesterday with a lawyer friend. We touched on the legality of a brand not profiting from the goodwill of another brand. At the weekend I saw a press advert for cakes, using a clock, cartoon style lettering and garish pastel cake colours. This is very similar to another company's ...

b.TWEEN Beano

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Fresh in from the annual northern interactive meets media beano, b.TWEEN, I have spent 24 hours looking at all the new apps and technologies covered during the two day event. b.TWEEN is always a great event. Katz Kiely and her team, really think through the content, running order, venues and attendees' ...

Future of Television

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Last night I was invited to an excellent event hosted by Richard Lindley, formerly of BBC's Panorama programme. The investigative show had a massive following under Richard's stewardship in the 1980's and 90's. The audience at his event was a mixed media crowd. Who seemed like big TV fans. This may ...

Twittle Twattle

Monday, June 1st, 2009

We signed up to Twitter around 18 months ago. I would say it reached a tipping point within my group of friends in mid-2008 and the general public in late winter 2009. Becoming useful as a tool for seeing what was going on. The more people on there you know, the ...

Public Relations Value

Friday, May 29th, 2009

We had this fantastic email through today from Andrew in Leeds; who we have done some work with. "AMC Network has really helped RandomStorm get the message out to people who our usual advertising would not reach. It has really helped our brand promotion and the mentions in the Sunday Times ...

It´s the real bling

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

A friend at Coutts bank mentioned an independent gaming company called CyberSports a few times over the last few months. Knowing my interest and experience in the sector he was keen to get me to their product demonstration. Venturing down to the meet CyberSports at London´s Hospital Club proved an evening ...

Skycar, returns, but will it fly?

Friday, April 24th, 2009

An accidental dinner with some explorers a few weeks back, lead to a fun invitation from Kim, an expedition organiser and PR. The setting, Charlie Boorman's garage in West London. Yes, the one where they always start from, as I have been asked a few times now. Being a lover of innovation, ...

Regional Press, is not so dead

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Last night I enjoyed the company of other BIMA members at the refurbished Kettner's in Soho. James Bromley from the Daily Mail Group, kindly came to speak to us about the future of publishing in a digital world. While I know this is very un-voguey, I do not think the future of ...

Branding the mountain…

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Formigal write up coming soon...

NMK February 2009

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Chris Lee over at NMK, kindly covered some of my comments at the recent MWC show in Barcelona. Please see the extract below. Un-Crowded House Registered delegates at the show fell below 50,000 at Mobile World Congress this year, compared to more than 55,000 last year. This should not detract from the quality ...