Archive for April, 2009

The Susan Boyle saga continues

24, Apr 2009

Just seen the latest stats on the Susan Boyle saga – over 103 million views worldwide. Just incredible. Compare that to the number of views on Barack Obama’s speech on “A more perfect union” – only 7 million. Difficult to understand how people prioritise, really. It will be interesting to see how many tune in [...]

TV is dead. Long live the TVC.

23, Apr 2009

I confess: I’m an avid fan of the Apprentice. For those of you who don’t know about the programme, it’s a reality TV show where prespective candidates are asked to perform various tasks to determine their suitability to work for one of Alan Sugar’s companies. At the onset of the series, individuals are grouped into [...]

Domino’s debacle postscript – all publicity is good publicity

21, Apr 2009

Following on from the recent escapades of two (now ex) Domino’s employees I have been trying trying to follow up on whether either the damage to the brand has actually impacted the share price. The clip was posted on April 15 to You tube. Over the day, views on You Tube increased as follows (all [...]

Collaborative working in practice: the internet symphonia

17, Apr 2009

Read about this the other day – a group of musicians collaborated around the world to audition and then perform a symphony which was constructed from the individual videos of each musician playing their specific part. An interesting example of collaborative working.

the price of fame

17, Apr 2009

It’s been a week of surprises; both on the populist culture front and on the business front. First, we saw Susan Boyle shoot to instant stardom, courtesy of a breathtaking performance of ‘I dream a dream’ from Les Mis on Britain’s Got Talent, which was immediately uploaded to YouTube and has already attracted over 17.5 [...]

Hope springs eternal

12, Apr 2009

In these days of manufactured boy bands, media manipulation, short-termism, capitalism gone haywire and “reality TV” it is incredibly easy to be cynical. The daily press is rife with tales of greed, theft, selfishness and extortion; if one were to read each item literally, it would paint an incredibly depressing picture of humanity. And every [...]

Preparing for all evantualities?

11, Apr 2009

In all the shenanigans over the UK Chief of Police’s blunder over revealing details of a forthcoming exercise to expose terror cells in the UK, it was interesting to note that ‘Media Strategy’ was deemed to be so important that it was listed on the first page. I guess that, given the modern use of [...]

Happy Birthday World Wide Web!

3, Apr 2009

You may not be aware, but the World Wide Web has recently celebrated its 20th birthday. The 13th March 2009 marked the transition of the www from spotty adolescent into (nearly) full adulthood. To me this represented a huge milestone, as it meant that, amongst other things, we have people entering the job market who [...]


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