Newcastle Brown Ale give $1 cheques to 50,0000 twitter followers

Newcastle Brown Ale want more twitter followers, so rather than lure them with a Twitter ad spend drive or clever hashtag / content campaigns, they are simply giving $1 cheques to the next 50,000 people that follow them.So far they… Continue Reading

Allen Solly: Twitter Powered Billboard Sampling

Simple but oh so clever idea by Ogilvy India for Allen Solly, a local menswear designer label. The way the it worked was that 52 shirts were placed on the he billboard. Behind each shirt panels were rigged with a… Continue Reading

Social Media Video 2013: Social Media Revolution 4

This years Social Media stats video entitled “The Social Media Revolution 4” is now available for your viewing pleasure. The video was again written by best selling author and Erik Qualman. It’s part of a series of social media videos… Continue Reading

Twitter: A Day in the Life (Infographic)

Great Infographic from Diffbot‘s new Page Classifier API. Some very interesting stats. Enjoy.

Jell-O Pudding: Twitter Billboard

Crispin Porter + Bogusky recently put up the above interactive billboard in New York for Jell-O puddings. The billboard monitors twitter for smiley and sad emoticons to work out an American average. If there are more smiley faces the billboard… Continue Reading

Twitter: Job Hustle

Wonderful work by Bas van de Poel and Daan van Dam (http://wonderyears.nl). In order to get a job at an agency, they created the above idea that uses twitter profile pictures to get select agency creative directors to go to… Continue Reading

Ogilvy: David Ogilvy’s Centenary #DO100

On June 23 next week David Ogilvy would be celebrating his 100th Birthday. As part of the celebrations to honour the life of "The Father of Advertising" Ogilvy has created a simple website where anyone can change their twitter avatar… Continue Reading

VW South Africa Digital

Proud to announce VW South Africa is now up and running online, today we launched their new Facebook site, Flickr, YouTube, and a stunning interactive campaign for the new Polo GTI called Date Drive from legends @captainjennifer and @Cuanan (more… Continue Reading

Twitter: Happy 5th Birthday Video

Great emotive video from Twitter launched on the day of their 5th birthday! The video features several celebs and others answering questions posed by twitter about who they follow, how they use twitter, and more. Celebs featured include: Hillary Clinton,… Continue Reading