29 Nov 2001
| by SUZY BASHFORD
BT wireless portal Genie scooped top prize at Marketing's
Connections Awards for its online and WAP campaign for reality series
Big Brother.
The awards, now in their second year, recognise excellence in technology
and customer communications for digital marketing. BT's WAP campaign won...
08 Nov 2001
BT has launched an irreverent e-mail marketing drive to bolster its
current 1571 Answer TV campaign.
The viral campaign invites recipients to 'release their anger' at not
being telephoned by their friends. It involves users filling in a
multiple choice questionnaire to produce one of 6000...
01 Nov 2001
Carphone Warehouse has signed an exclusive agreement with Pogo
Technology to distribute Pogo, the first UK handheld device to deliver
mobile access to the web without the need for 3G technology. It will be
available from January.
25 Oct 2001
Friendsreunited.co.uk, the web venture that puts old schoolfriends
back in contact, is planning to create a telephone service for people
without internet access.
It is also launching a similar service before Christmas intended to
reunite former work colleagues.
It is thought the...
18 Oct 2001
| by SUZY BASHFORD
British Design 220,000.
With the launch coming in the midst of the dotcom boom, britart.com had
to find a way to stand out from the crowd and be seen as credible by the
art world. Mother took an irreverent approach, sticking flyposters with
the words 'art you can buy', on everyday objects...
11 Oct 2001
| by RAVI CHANDIRAMANI
Thus, the telecoms and internet brand, has snapped up former Colt
Telecom chief marketer Leo Todd as its marketing director.
20 Sep 2001
Site: www.receiver. vodafone.com
An online resource pitching itself as a forum for future thinking
automatically qualifies as an albatross. The word 'futuristic' acts as a
trigger, to fire up readers' minds and inflate their expectations.
But one resource that succeeds in capturing...
06 Sep 2001
ZagMe, the online shopping service for mobile phone users, has
teamed up with the Clotheshow exhibition. Visitors to the exhibition in
December will be kept up-to-speed with the show's events via ZagMe's
text messaging alert service. Promotions will also run on
www.clotheshow2001.com.
06 Sep 2001
Quartez, the mobile messaging provider, has launched 'Txt2Air', an
SMS service which allows broadcasters to interact with their audiences.
Texts received are converted to e-mail and integrated into broadcasters'
web sites and monitoring systems. National radio station talkSPORT is
the first...
06 Sep 2001
| by ARON CAPLAN, a brand strategist at Zalpha
Whether you preferred calling it integration, convergence or some
other jargon, we have often read about the blurring of the old
demarcation lines between sales promotion and direct marketing.
While clients restructure to break down those barriers, agencies have
recognised the need to sweep...