April 2008
12 posts
Big Brother posts worst ratings start ever →
Come on guys - who is surprised at this? It’s never been interesting except for maybe the first season (just because no one knew what was coming). I do love this comparison though: of 1.511 million viewers for this year’s season premierem vs the 1.548 million for last year’s. As though the OzTAM panel can really, accurately, scale down to 37,000 people.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
Weddings Parties Anything
Everclear
Marvin Gaye
Kate Miller-Heidke
The Killers
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Two nice creatives for the N.T.
Just been looking around at some creative for a thing for this arvo, and found these: - Northern Territory 1 - Nice way to show a bunch of different content. (Few little executional things like lacking clear CTAs.) - Northern Territory 2 - Same, in a way that plays on the familiar map interface. Could be infinitely zoomable too, to show heaps of content. Both done by Frost.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
The Smiths
Weddings Parties Anything
Duke Special
Angus & Julia Stone
Crowded House
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Liquid Crunch - MP3 Download Store →
Andrew Dubber, a consultant in digital music strategies and university lecturer in Birmingham, is someone I’ve started following more closely, and respect a great deal. Last night he launched a music retail site - (not that his background in traditional music scene is shallow by any means but) it’s always nice when those advising on what to do also jump in themselves in the doing.
MTUB hits double digits. →
Just spotted via Specht’s twit that MTUB is about to have it’s 10th meetup.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13) →
Idina Menzel/Kristin Chenoweth
Frente!
Damien Rice
Stars
Idina Menzel
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A rise in self-explosion
If something bursts into flame with no external action, it’s called self combustion. What’s the equivalent for when objects explode with no external action? Whatever it is, adland in the UK is suffering an influx of it lately it seems - there’s been the bottle of Bacardi, and the fruit on a Tropicania ad, plus a couple more I can’t think of the products advertised (not to...
Creative vs media..
.. on your marks, get set… go! In any trade rag each week there’s the usual “so-and-so has won this account” story. Let’s say the figure for the advertiser in the article is £10million. If the account win is a creative one, give or take some things like external post-production or TVC directors fees, that £10million is revenue for the creative agency. If the...
My digital stats
My average usage stats of some digital services I use: Twitter: Days using: 462 Avg tweets per day: 3.7 Last.fm: Years using: 2.2 Avg tracks scrobbled per day: 57 Delicious: Years using: 2.5 Avg pages tagged per day: 2.8 Blog (my main blog): Years using: 3.4 Avg posts per day: 0.4 (Actually more than I would have guessed. Given my quietness there of late, means it was very...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-6) →
Kisschasy
Holly Throsby
The Cat Empire
Datarock
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
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March 2008
10 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →
The Whitlams
Lenny Kravitz
Damien Rice
Stars
R.E.M.
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