5:56PM November 11 2011

Youth Marketing? It’s just like Adult Marketing in many ways

A few of us attended Haymarket’s Youth Marketing conference yesterday. It was really interesting to attend an event focused on a demographic that most of us in the room hadn’t been a part of for at least a few years.

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11:50AM October 10 2011

Augmented Reality: Are we there yet?

Augmented Reality has been touted as the next big thing ever since the last next big thing came and went. As a concept it’s magical; make something digital appear as if it’s in the real world on your PC screen, your tablet, or Smartphone. And with all the statistics pointing towards increased Smartphone penetration, and a more social and mobile audience, AR should be ready to explode. In the interests of full disclosure, we should reveal that we recently ran an advertising campaign for Dynamo: Magician Impossible that incorporated an AR app and some print advertising that did lovely sparkly stuff when you pointed your phone at it. All with pretty good results, so we’re fans of AR. But it hasn’t taken over the world yet. Here are a few things we believe need to be overcome before it does:

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9:56AM September 8 2011

Countdown to the Youth Marketing Conference in November

Exciting times! We’ve been asked to present the case study of our recent launch campaign for TV channel Watch’s new show “Dynamo: Magician Impossible” at Marketing Magazine’s 16th Annual Youth Marketing conference,  on 10th November in London. According to Marketing the conference brings together leaders in the field to analyse the latest trends, share insight and impart knowledge that will help brands get cut-through with an ever-evolving flighty, fragmented, multi-channel audience.

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