Urban Spam

outdoorJust found this video on The Hive and think it’s quite funny and challenges out business alway creative view on Outdoor media - Is it urban spam or are people entertained on their walk through life?

Joining the choir

I (also) think this is very very nice work from Saatchi - Is it real or not? Judge yourself! Either way - it’s a rarely good piece of work and starts setting the scene for viral video in Denmark. Looking forward seing the results…  

 

mediablog

Just wanted to recommend my co-worker Daria’s Blog on media - it’s inspirering and fun, so enjoy! Here you go.

Super Bowl on YouTube

Now it’s running. How’s the User- generated-ads doing? Right now it looks pretty damn good for “me and you” being ad agnecy of the year.

This moment this one is leading the race….

Being close with my media

Every brand seems to reach for a friend, lover or partner status with their consumers. But these days it seems harder and harder to achieve that kind of loyalty. But while giant brands keeps pushing their well-thought print or TV ads down the choking consumers - offering suffering not friendship, small media companies are starting to offer friendship through other channels. Perhaps it is because of a lack of money to throw into a big advertising campaign - then it’s their luck! Perhaps it’s because they see that we need to meet people on their premises - then it is a quite clever move.

An example is the danish fashion magazine Cover having a profile on Myspace inviting friends to special events and puts itself into the network of its target group. See the profile here. It has today 3,383 friends (read : pretty loyal consumers embedded in a easy to reach network establish around the brand). That nice isn’t it?

Content - not position - is king?

Once again critiria for SEM is being discussed. An article by Brandt Dainow CEO, ThinkMetricson, on imediaconnection claims that the consumers are getting so used to navigating through search that number one position loses effect, and instead the text is being the most important factor in the choice of ”which-of-these-damn-5.786.365-results-to-click”.  Brandt says “The number one position in the listings is not the best position. No ad position is any better than any other. The factor which has the most bearing on your chance of being clicked on is the text in your ad, not the ad’s position.” . Read the whole story here.

Still I’m not sure I agree - We still have the fear of scrolling barrier to break through to even get the text exposed. So perhaps it’s not necessary being the one, but still I would like to be visible in the “no-scrolling-window”.  

A busy market…

Inattention

After Henrik Dahls very positive talk Anker Brink Lund from CBS talked about the opposite trend being consumers paying less attention to TV commercials. He raised up an inattention index being the medium crossed with the level of other activities normally carried out during mediatime. TV and Phones were often dual-media-use. ABL did a good job in shaking up the discussion and taking the Hymn of TV on the ground of reality. A well used friday morning….

The TVmedium as commercial platform in the future?

A really great morning in Charlottehaven in Copenhagen with an interesting debate on the future for the TV medium. Henrik Dahl Explora started out with something like a hymn to TV as being center of social context, with the ads as a common denominator for the public agenda as well as the content is. A special point was his differentiation between attitude and behavior. Is it really true that we all hate commercials on TV. Attitude says yes - behavior no. But after that he drew out some points on how to lower the hatred towards TV ads. Interesting and most of all a solid base for further discussion.

Hello world!

I’m Pernille Fruensgaard - working in the media agency world, but this is a private blog and an expression of my own  thoughts and attitudes towards what is happening in the media and communication field today. I had a danish blog on www.medieinnovation.wordpress.com. After a busy christmas month I’m back in the sphere. New URL, design and this time in english. Hope you’ll enjoy the relaunch…. To watch the old blog go to www.medieinnovation.wordpress.com or here