Posts Tagged ‘PPC Agency Manchester’

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Posted by
Andrew Campbell
May 8th, 2010

The General Election. Has new media had an influence?

by Andrew Campbell

The battle for 10 Downing Street has entered an age where new media is playing a bigger part in the election campaignFacebook, Twitter and YouTube… not what first springs to mind when you think about politics. But over the last few years, more and more politicians have started using the internet as a tool to drum up political support.

When the Presidential elections in the US got under way in 2008, Democratic candidate Barack Obama used the internet to great effect to raise funds and gain supporters in his race to be President. His success has seen UK politicians follow suit and with the current general election, UK political parties have been pushing their online activities more than ever. Below are some examples of what they’ve been up to:

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Posted by
Julian Gratton
March 14th, 2010

Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to creativity

by Julian Gratton

The cover to 'Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to creativity' from Red C Marketing, Advertising Agency, Direct Marketing Agency, Direct Response Advertising Agency and Online Marketing Agency 'We Like' postingSometimes the best ideas are done down the pub scribbled on the back of a fag packet. Or at least that’s what I was told when I started in this business. Who would have thought that someone would take that idea and turn it into a lucrative business… well that’s just what Hugh MacLeod did back in 1997.

When he first arrived in Manhattan to undertake a 2 week freelance Copywriting gig he had no friends and spending an evening back at the YMCA where he was staying did not appeal. So he basically sat in bars doodling on the backs of business cards just to give himself something to do.

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Posted by
Andrew Craig
February 19th, 2010

Battle of the search engine maps

by Andrew Craig

The search engines are always trying to find ways to tempt the user into using their specific site. After all, they are in it to make money, lots of money, buckets of the stuff in fact. Mark my words and mark them well. In the future we will all live and work at the whim of GoogleCorp… until that day, there is some competition in the shape of Microsoft’s oddly named Bing!

Now last year amid much fanfare and cries of invaded privacy (who can forget the poor guy caught leaving a house of ill repute) Google launched ‘Google street view’ a thoroughly marvellous piece of photo tomfoolery that allowed you to walk a virtual mile through any major city in the U.S. and then the UK and Europe.

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Posted by
Julian Gratton
November 26th, 2009

This week’s book in reception: Little people in the city by Slinkachu

by Julian Gratton

A miniature father protects his daughter from a bumblebee, just one of the street art scenes by Slinkachu as featured in Red C Marketing, Advertising Agency, Design Agency, Online Marketing Agency's We Like postingI stumbled upon a book recently which I simply had to buy for the sheer inventiveness of the images inside it. Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, ‘Little people in the city’ brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street artist who for several years has been leaving little people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered.

Flicking through the pages of this book is like discovering a whole new miniature world around us… think Land Of The Giants meets the Borrowers in the modern world. As you see page after page of these miniature statues going about their daily lives, whitewashing graffiti and moving into new homes… you really do get the sense that there could actually be miniature people living amongst us.

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Posted by
Adrian Rowe
November 30th, 2008

The Podcast revolution

by Adrian Rowe

 

Podcasting, like most of the Web 2.0 technologies, is a young medium, strictly 21st Century. The first Podcasts, or audioblogs, as they were first known, emerged between 2001 and 2003. It was the development of the RSS feed, allowing podcast listeners to ‘subscribe’ to shows and have new episodes automatically downloaded to their iPod or MP3 player overnight, that really caught the public imagination. In particular, the pioneering efforts of former MTV host Adam Curry, who was producing shows from mid-2004, helped to encourage the explosion of podcasts over the next two years.

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