Month: September 2014

Here’s a nice little vending machine stunt by Walkers Crisps. It transformed two bus shelters along London’s Oxford Street and one in Clapham Junction into interactive Twitter-activated vending machines. You know how I love stuff in the social world that affects things in the real world and this is one of these. The machine has Gary Lineker trapped inside, via a screen that looks very realistic. All people had to do was tweet a unique hashtag to the Walkers bus stop machine to let him know that they wanted to try some of his crisps, and watch as he drops ... Read more

We have all been there, frantically struggling to get our banners and profile pictures to look just right on our social media channels. Well for the last couple of weeks I have been working on a social media cheat sheet with my team that gives you all of the top social media channels dimensions in one place. It’s not rocket science but hopefully if you work in social media marketing it may make your job a bit easier and we could all do with that.       Courtesy of: Prohibition PR

Apologies for the blatant self promotion here in today’s blog but this is just a little nod to my team at Prohibition who have just scooped another major high street brand. I am sure you saw our little announcement this morning in The Drum or on Prolific North. But in case you didn’t I am delighted to reveal that we have managed to secure the national formal menswear retailer, Suit Direct. The popular fashion brand has more than 15 stores across the UK and sells suits, shirts, jackets, belts, shoes and many other men’s accessories. We have been appointed to ... Read more

I may be a bit late to the party on this one but I watched this clip and it made me laugh about how technology obsessed we have all become – me included obviously. The concept of the video is that Ikea has launched a new book which is so technology advanced but really it’s just their good old catalogue. What’s funny is they go through all of the amazing features it has and how you can scroll through it. I think this is a clever little content stunt for what is essentially just the launch of a new catalogue ... Read more