Weekly tip: Follow it up
Check out our weekly business lesson provided by 50lessons Sir Gerry Robinson is the former Chairman of Allied Domecq, an international company that operated spirits and wine companies and quick service restaurants. After leaving college at age seventeen, Sir Gerry planned to become a priest. Instead, in 1965, he joined Matchbox Toys (a division of [...]
3D teleconferencing coming to a boardroom near you
We’ve been introduced to 3d movies this winter with the blockbuster Avatar , and as a result of its success a new wave of movies is hitting cinemas soon. Here’s an example of how 3d might be hitting boardrooms. It won’t quite be this summer, or even this year but the technology is exciting nevertheless. This [...]
Times newspaper will start to charge for online content
After months of debate, Murdoch-owned, the Times and Sunday Times newspapers are introducing payments of its online content. The price will be £1 per day or £2 per week. The fees will be introduced in June this year. It is said other newspapers in the News International Group will follow. The announcement follows the news that the newspaper had lost [...]
Connect with digital media buyers and sellers in new community
The first registrations to Fast Media Connect, the community for the digital media industry are coming in. We have been testing this new feature this week and are happy to say that everything is working (famous last words). I’d like to invite you to register and become part of a community where buyers can [...]
Universal breaks mould by lowering CD prices
As a result of the pressure of online music sales and in the hope to bring back clients to the shops Universal Media Group (UMG) is planning to permanently lower the price of music CD’s. The new prices will be $6, $7, $8, $9 and $10. In the meantime the company plans to release more [...]
Books are not dying in this Dorling Kindersley video
The UK branche of publisher Dorling Kindersley produced a video for an internal sales conference that has become a hit on YouTube. The idea is from a famous, price winning, video created by Argentinian agency, Savaglio/TBWA entitled Truth (see the second video). The video takes the forward/backwards idea and applies this to the challenges pubishers [...]
The most expensive viral video of all time?
Check out this making of a campaign that has landed Heineken over 5 million hits on their website while 1.5 million people watched their reaction live on TV. In this elaborate scheme, football fans were convinced by their employers, wifes and friends to go to a classical concert/poetry reading on the night of a big football [...]
All media integrated in one digital magazine demo
We’ve seen the demo’s of Sports Illustrated, Bonnier, Interview and Wired Magazine for tablet readers. Now here’s a new one with a different vision. Check out these 3 video’s of Viv Magazine and in particular the making of. It shows how stills, video, sketching, illustration, 3d and music all work together to create a single feature. Daunting? [...]
You can now embed Animoto video tool on your website
We interviewed Animoto last year and were impressed with the very simple way to create a compelling video presentation from stills, video and music elements, automatically. Animoto is now introducing Quickstart, a tool that allows companies to initiate Animoto projects directly from their websites. The service is targeted at websites that aggregate photography content. The intention is to allow [...]
The Stock Photography Ecosystem
Having burnt my hand badly as a little girl, it was never for me the concept of “Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire”. So when people talk to me again and again about is it time to get out of Stock, my first thoughts are what is there to get out of – [...]
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