Month: April 2015
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#millennials
The Millennials have been called the unluckiest generation by some. They have been written off as a feckless generation by others. (Interestingly including by millennials themselves but they’d like to point out that it is not their fault). The Economist Group on the other hand disagrees and believes that the future is very positive for…
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You say correlation; I say causation
TLDR “Too long, didn’t read”. Microsoft’s Chief Envisioning Officer Dave Coplin swept into our offices this month to remind us that behind every bit of tech there’s a human being. He described the symptoms of the Digital Deluge on the average human, one of which is that you can’t manage to concentrate on anything…
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The dominance of the “Visual Web” may herald a new era in human communication.
Nicola Mendelsohn of Facebook, speaking at last month’s Guardian Changing Media Summit, where she was described as the “most powerful media figure” in Europe, laid out the company’s vision for an “immersive, visual based web that makes communications easier in an increasingly frantic world”. Marketing Magazine said that Nicola claimed that the growth of…
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“Um, excuse me but the client would like to see him with his top off”
The first and only casting session I ever attended was for the Ajax Houseproud Hunk. I’d been involved in every stage of the pitch and idea. The product was for a new cleaning variant that meant that there was no residue after you sprayed your kitchen surface and wiped – there was no need to…
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TV and Social are the perfect marriage – is NetFlix set to break them up ?
As Thinkbox have often pointed out to us we love talking about TV. TV shows are still cultural glue for the nation. Against all doom laden predictions from a decade ago we are still watching lots of TV and we love to talk about it. Thinkbox write : “The advent of multi-screening has seen TV…