News from our digital media community [Updated]
[Updated] Picture buyers can now post research requests in the new group Picture search requests. Libraries and photographers can see the requests when they come in, ask for clarifications, send direct messages and post links to lightboxes with a selection of relevant content. Here’s a quick update from our, now one week old community for [...]
Present your business to media buyers, for free
We soft launched our community last week and, fingers crossed, everything seems to be working fine. That is why we’d like to invite you to register yourself so you can connect with the buyers of photography, music, video and other digital media that visit our site everyday. In fact we think there’s a great opportunity [...]
Inspirational reading from the biggest modern thinkers
“Now more then ever we need to shake things up” This is what Seth Godin wrote when he presented this impressive free ebook. He asked over 70 modern thinkers the question “What matters now?” They answered with a single idea in 200 words maximum. If you’ve read our only other post today you’ll know a [...]
Happy holidays!…and do check out our 2010 plans
Fast Media Magazine is now about 3 months old and has quickly become a daily destination for the creators, distributors and users of Stock Media. I have been happily surprised by the speed of the readership growth and thank you all for your time, interest and feedback (please keep it coming). 2010 Will be important for [...]
More campaigns to make people happy
One month ago I shared two video’s of the Volkswagen sponsored ‘campaign for happy people. A new video has now been released on the fun theory website. Here it is: The site now also features ideas of visitors on how to make fun use of day to day objects. Here are some of the entries for the [...]
Music Video with a social media element
I’ve shared a number of video’s here that took user generated content to create new unique content. Kutiman used random elements and put these together. The video here creates original content through contributions of a large community, a bit like this one that has been released recently. It does appear that in the end all content will be [...]
How to land a book and movie deal through Twitter
When I first started following the updates of Justin, a 29 year old guy who lives with his 73 year old dad he had 40.000 Followers. Justin Halpern started ‘Shitmydadsays’ in August 2009 and now has over 700.000 people following the daily rants and remarks of his dad, who, until a few weeks ago, knew nothing [...]
Star Wars uncut, helping to recreate a classic
Here’s an interesting social Media experiment; Star Wars uncut is recreating Star Wars episode one A new Hope by splitting it in 15 second clips and allowing 473 people to film/create the scenes and create a totally new version of the original movie. Check out the trailer below and the site for more details. In fact, there [...]
Political marketing that made us chuckle
On speechbreaker you can create your own speech for Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg. This leads to some hilarious results, here’s one we made earlier. While no credit is given on site the purpose becomes a whole lot clearer when you click on Nick Clegg and see the choice of words for him…smart
Use social networks for better client retention
Brands which combine official activity on social media services with paid-for search advertising typically enjoy a wide variety of benefits as a result, according to a new study by GroupM Search and comScore It aimed to assess the interaction between consumers and brands on the web, with a focus on three specific forms of internet [...]
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