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Rollerskating - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - BBC classic comedy


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In perhaps the most famous moment from Some Mothers Do Ave Em ever, Frank Spencer goes rollerskating... Hilarious clip from BBC Worldwide starring Michael Crawford.

What's a rilk? - Porridge - BBC classic comedy


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Vintage comedy porridge. Set in Slade Prison, Fletcher and Godber discuss the migratory backward flying bird known as a Rilk! Starring Ronnie Barker.
From the BBC

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin - The board meeting


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Determined to drive Grot into the ground, Reggie Perrin has appointed some interesting candidates to the company board. Classic BBC comedy tv series, The Rise and Fall of Reggie Perrin

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Regional Sales Areas


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Leonard Rossiter, so much funnier than Martin Clunes

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Golden Square Maximises Visual Effects for WCRS and Stink's 'Minimiser'

WCRS’s latest TV spot for Weetabix takes us on a tour of the mythical ‘Minis’ factory where cereal gets minimised with comedy consequences. Golden Square’s Flame team, led by Fasa Oybio, played it for laughs with visual effects that combined set extensions, giant 3D Weetabixes and greenscreen compositing.

Audio Network Announces Opening of New International Division.

Leading Music Producer Audio Network today launches new International Division and promotes experienced team to spearhead its global strategy.

Knifedge Creates New Animated Films for Dyslexia Sufferers

Knifedge, the creative network, has created two short animated films for Dore, the personalised treatment programme for people with learning difficulties.

British Gaming Designers talk about their creations this summer at Urbis

Get up close and personal with some of the greatest names in British gaming design at Urbis this Summer, including legends David Braben (Elite) Arthur Parsons (LEGO series) and the Oliver Twins (Dizzy)

Twentieth Century Fox International unveil global online drive for worldwide launch of Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Twentieth Century Fox International has today unveiled details of a new global online advertising and viral campaign for the July 1st worldwide launch of “Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs”, the sub-zero animated adventure which follows the success of the worldwide blockbusters “Ice Age” and “Ice Age: The Meltdown”.

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Dog iPhone apps, dog tracking devices, pet cam and dog social networking

19. dog iphone.jpg One day someone will breed a Pekingese with an iPhone and the result will be beautiful. Perhaps even better than this. In the meantime there are many useful and even more non-useful ways your dog can interact with technology.


Social-networking sites & blogs have love-children

17 - baby blogs copy.jpg The mounting buzz around short-form blogging sites Posterous and Tumblr puts a new spin on the blogs v twitter debate; a third way. It's got me thinking that rather than killing each other, or even co-existing, social networking sites and blogs are actually coming together and making mid-length social blog babies. Metaphorically I mean, there's no business deal or sex involved anywhere. Suggestions that blogs are shortening comes along with the idea that tweets could lengthen: new service Twitblogs is an near-exact replica of Twitter with the difference that you can extend posts beyond 140 characters. It seems to be that having stoked the desire for in-depth lengthy posts (blogs) and up-to-the-minute link-tastic chatty random short posts (twitter) - businesses are moving into a middle ground that caters to both.


Bing - why you should be using it

18. microsoft_bing_search.jpg To say that Google runs the biggest most successful search engine on the world wide web is so obvious it's slightly ridiculous, so when Microsoft launched its search engine Bing I didn't really envisage myself using it beyond the odd curious poke-around. But having Binged (Bung?) for a few months now, I'm going to recommend Bing for anyone interested in visuals and graphics. It's not just that the wallpapers on its home page are pretty pictures of seahorses and rainforests, it's that the image and video searches are genuinely better. Apparently several Bing functions are only available in the US, but we'll compare the mutilated version we've got anyway. Let's do a quick run-down of the key services: Follow on after the jump


 
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Social Media Done Right - A Contest That Helps Promote Your Business

A few days back, I received an interesting email from Start Up Nation. This site is an absolutely tremendous source of information for the beginning entrepreneur. I discovered this site several mo...

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Dissertation Writing Help or a Dissertation Writing Nightmare? huh?

Hello friends… how r u all? Actually I was just stuck in thinking what to do with my dissertation writing assignment. Since doing something is better than doing nothing, therefore i just decided to...

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Internet marketing, SEO, communication and sales professional needed for online video production company Listen!

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So what name did you take on Facebook this week?

Over the weekend Facebook launched a new service allowing people to create their own unique user name and URL, generating 3 million registrations within the first 12 hours of the service going live...

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We are about to launch the world's first "Payment by Results" programme...

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We launched a new online advertising/branding solution. I am currently looking for agencies who could sell the service onto their current and future clients on a revenue share basis. The solution c...

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Beware of Janith Tucker Spammer! 1 Reply

Janith Tucker is a spammer, she just spammed my ning with pornographic pop ups and websites and she caused havoc amongst my members. Beware!

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Is Facebook good for brands - if so which ones 5 Replies

There is a debate to be had around social media - we all know it is here to stay, but what real impact does it have for companies. Obviously Skittles have made spalsh with their use of Social Media...

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Webchat 23 with Stevie Spring & Evelyn Webster

To coincide with the PPA's magazine week, Media Week TV welcomes two of the most powerful women in UK publishing to the studio. Stevie Spring, chief executive of Future, and Evelyn Webster, managing director of IPC Connect, are responsible for many of the biggest names on the news-stand and, with Media Week editor Steve Barrett, they will be discussing the modern publishing marketplace, the continuing power of print and the evolution of major publishing houses into multi-platform media groups.

Webchat 22 with Dave King and David Emin

Media Week editor Steve Barrett puts the focus on newspapers, still the biggest advertising medium in the UK, with TMG’s Dave King and Mirror Group’s David Emin. UK newspapers are facing challenging times, and many of them are reshaping their commercial and editorial operations to better reflect the modern multi-platform, multimedia environment. Barrett, King and Emin discuss the way the companies do business and also the products they take to market, from traditional daily newsprint, to online TV and mobile offerings.

Webchat 21 with Ian Armstrong & Jonathan Allan

Honda’s Ian Armstrong and OMD UK’s Jonathan Allan examine the changing media model and offer insight into the client/agency relationship, with Media Week editor Steve Barrett.

Highlights from Media 360 23/05/2008

At the luxury Celtic Manor resort in South Wales, more than 250 media owner, client and media agency delegates gathered to debate the big issues surrounding the media industry.

Webchat 19 with Jane Lighting

As chief executive of broadcaster Five, Jane Lighting faces many challenges, not least the rapidly changing landscape of the multi-platform, on-demand world, and the ongoing review of the role of Public Sector Broadcasting in the UK. In an interview with Media Week editor Steve Barrett, Jane answers your questions on the future for Five and the broadcasting industry.

Media Week Jobs Board

PFJ: Senior Direct Response Director

£50000-£60000: PFJ Direct response media expert needed for senior management role in a top agency! London, England

FLETCHER & PARR LTD: Graduate Media Sales Executive - Training Academy

£18K +comm +bens: Fletcher & Parr Ltd As a Graduate Media Sales Executive you will be selling advertising for a global publisher and event organiser across their magazines, online portals and events. London

ROUND8: Search Account Director

£45000-£50000: round8 An opportunity is available for an experienced Search Account Manager to take the next step in their career into a Director level position. London, England

ROUND8: Campaign Manager

£25000-£30000: round8 An opportunity is available for an experienced Campaign Manager to join this specialist Online Media consultancy and gain exposure to cutting edge ideas and technology. London, England

ROUND8: Ad Operations Executive

£20000-£23000: round8 An Ad Operations Executive is required to join the existing Traffic team at this leading Digital Sales House. London, England

ROUND8: Classified Ad Manager - Leading Women's Titles

£35000-£40000: round8 The world's largest magazine publisher is looking for a Classified Ad Manager to lead from the front and maximize their leading Women's Lifestyle Portfolio. London, England

ROUND8: Head of Ad Operations

£40000-£50000: round8 A Head of Ad Operations is required to lead the existing team at this high profile digital media company. London, England

B3 RECRUITMENT: Field Sales Executive - b2b print

c. £20-22k + comm. + car: B3 Recruitment FIELD SALES EXECUTIVE - c. £20-22,000 + COMMISSION + CAR - KENT Opportunity to join a leading publishing house selling display advertising on a well established ABC audited journal. Kent

REILLY PEOPLE: Direct Response Account Director Media Agency

£Neg + Benefits: Reilly People Account Director Direct Response. Central London based with large variety of big brand accounts. Paying to £44K with generous benefits. Career Development and assurity in leading Media agency Network. London

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Watch this Space, Issue 42

Tory Pay Per Budget

In a superb demonstration of how quickly paid search marketing can be used to good effect, the Conservative Party recently used Google Adwords to promote their real-time rebuttal of Alistair Darling's budget. Buying up keywords as soon as the chancellor used them during his speech to Parliament, the campaign directed webusers to the Conservative Party website, where they could read the opposition's budget response.

Captain Kickback says: "This shows just how quickly Pay Per Click advertising can be arranged and altered to target a precise audience. If a bunch of fusty old ex-Etonians can get the hang of it, so can we all."

Good News in a Downturn

BSkyB have managed to bag an extra 80,000 customers during quarter one. Presumably due to cash-strapped consumers opting to stay in and entertain themselves, the satellite broadcaster has increased its reach to over 9.3 million households, 15% of whom also rely on Rupert Murdoch's firm for their broadband and phone services. Over the same three-month period, 243,000 of Sky's existing customers upgraded to its HD service.

Google Growth Slows

The last three months have shown a marked slow down in the growth of the search giant's revenue. Year on year, Google's Q1 revenues grew 6.2% from £3.5 billion to £3.7 billion- this is 3% lower than the growth in revenue year on year for Q4 of 2008. Despite the slow down in takings, however, the media giant's profits grew over the some period due to job cuts and a significant reduction in overheads.

In a similar story, recent research has shown the first ever decline in total paid-for search marketing spend. According to a study by Efficient Frontier, the spend over the first three months of 2009 was 6% lower than that of the same period 12 months ago.

YouTrouble

More Google Grief, as speculation grows that its subsidiary You Tube might never turn a profit. A report by Credit Suisse has suggested that the video sharing giant is set to lose $470 million in 2009. Enormous operating costs caused by the website's bandwidth and storage needs mean that even its expected ad revenue of $240 million this year won't touch the sides.

Ask Who?

Having ditched its smarmy butler character Jeeves three years ago, search engine Ask.com is re-branding itself and bringing the self satisfied servant out of retirement. During his break Jeeves has had a bit of a makeover, including a suit designed by Gieves & Hawkes of Savile Row, and his presence is now being trumpeted across national TV, radio, press, and online. Bringing the character fully up to date with Web 2.0, Jeeves will even have his own accounts on Facebook and Twitter, which he will use to show users what he's been up to during the last three years.

According to a story promulgated by the people at Ask.com, changes to their list of popular searches during Jeeves' sabbatical speak volumes about changes to the wider world since 2006, so terms such have "private school fees", "fake tan" and "flight upgrades" have ceded ground to the likes of "Primark", "property auctions", "Robert Peston" and "left-over recipes." Seems a trifle contrived to me, but believe what you will.

Captain Kickback says: "It's all very well getting the gentleman's gentleman involved with search again, but doesn't that mean that we're all Bertie?"

The Independent in Trouble

It might seem as though I'm picking on the poor old Indie recently, but with the thrashing it has been taking in the ABC figures over the last few months, it's difficult not to see the vultures circling. The daily paper's circulation for March was 16.7% lower than it was last March, while the Sunday Independent has suffered even more, with its circulation declining 24.3% over the same period. Looking at the papers' distribution stripped of the helping hand given by their considerable bulk figures reveals that the Independent now sells only 119,927 copies at the full price, and its Sunday counterpart sells just 79,286. To put this into context, consider that the West Mids Express and Star sells 130,000 copies each week.

Captain Kickback says: "I've predicted before that not all our national press titles will survive this economic downturn. Unless something drastic is done at Indie Towers, it looks like this paper's ahead by a nose in the race to the bottom. The recent price hike to £1 was spectacularly short-sighted, and the paper's switch to the tabloid format might also have been a blunder. In a recession it's always the middle ground that suffers: some people will always pay a premium price for a high quality product, while at the other end of the scale, slashing the costs on a mass market product will ensure that there's still money coming in the door. Unfortunately the newly tabloid Indie is neither fish nor fowl- not a strong enough product to compete with the likes of the Times, yet far too dear to stand alongside its red top tabloid competition." That's all for this time, if you'd like more information on anything covered in this bulletin, reply to this email or contact your Account team.


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