The London 2012 Olympics are just twenty-five days away. In the UK, the BBC has started building a sense of excitement… Check everything the BBC is planning for this global event. Reshared post from +BBC News The BBC has just released its trail and titles sequence for the Olympic Games. Watch the 60 seconds film [...]
The FT’s 1 million milestone on Google+
published June 17, 2012 by
The Financial Times’ post on Google+ yesterday was understated yet powerful: Today the Financial Times has reached 1m Google+ followers… Just three months ago, a survey reported that of all British national newspapers with a presence on Google’s social network, the FT was the leader in terms of numbers of followers – meaning, people who [...]
Twitter can’t be gagged, even in France
published April 23, 2012 by
The first round in the French presidential election ended yesterday with the result that Socialist Party challenger François Hollande narrowly edged in front of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy by the slim margin of just over 1 percent of the vote. Both men will compete in a second round run-off, due to be held on May [...]
Engagement methodology evolved
published April 16, 2012 by
You hear often about mainstream media publishers designing a digital version of a print publication for mobile devices such as the iPad. Turn that idea the other way around – via PaidContent UK, here’s what Hearst UK is doing with the relaunch of their quarterly Good Ideas magazine: “[...] Good Ideas has been especially designed [...]
Universal reputation
published April 10, 2012 by
I’m hooked watching The Voice UK, the reality talent show with a difference that the BBC started broadcasting in primetime on Saturday nights a few weeks ago. I’m not a fan of talent, reality or any other such TV show. I’ve never seen a complete episode of Britain’s Got Talent, The X Factor, Celebrity Whatever, [...]
The Economist is asking how readers like to read the publication
published March 15, 2012 by
I’m a subscriber and +The Economist is the only publication where I get the print version each week and also read it digitally: online on the website, via the Android app on any of my mobile devices, and listening to the audio version (usually in the car) Each of those consumption methods depend on many [...]
I bought a copy of the first edition of the Sun on Sunday
published February 26, 2012 by
I bought a copy of the first edition of the Sun on Sunday to see what the fuss is all about. A multiple first – it’s also the first time I’ve ever bought The Sun. It looks and feels like the Monday-Saturday paper – one of their goals, I would imagine, not to look different. [...]
Print remains in The Economist’s future
published February 26, 2012 by
A clear and robust outlook on print media: [...] Despite recent digital successes and developments – with digital-only subscriptions topping 100,000 at the end of last year, 300,000 out of the Economist’s one million print subscribers using the Economist’s apps, and 70 per cent of subscribers expected to be reading the publication digitally in two [...]
The whirlwind of Social Media Week London
published February 19, 2012 by
Social Media Week took place last week in more than a dozen cities around the world including London. It’s only a few days since events concluded so I’ve yet to see any in-depth analysis of how it all went on a global perspective: how many people participated, what the key topics and trends were in [...]
