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Quick one from me this morning. I’m a couple of days late on this as I believe it was released on Tuesday, but above is the teaser video for My Space, who it seems have once more dusted themselves off and tried to go again following their continued demise at the hands of other newer social networking sites. It’s only a teaser, but this latest incarnation actually appears to be...

  A warm welcome to this week’s guest blogger Naomi Sudworth, usually plying her trade in loyalty and data marketing, today she talks a little bit about Charity. If you’re anything like me every now and again I think I really should be doing a bit more for charity, giving something to those less fortunate. Day to day life takes over far too easily and before I know it...

As we are constantly reminded now on all marketing blogs and in all marketing publications, we are most definitely no longer in the age of interruption. Consumers nowadays can (and do) actively and easily avoid a large proportion of traditional advertising. The key now, as we are told, is content marketing. Ensuring that you are not only associating your brand with the type(s) of content that your customers and future customers are already consuming...

Guest blogger Paddy Collins is fast becoming less of a guest and more a host with a great collection of insightful posts here on Shop Talk London. Remember you can follow Paddy here. A few months ago I went on a training course that, somewhat optimistically, was designed to turn me from a mere manager into a leader. As with all good ideas, one of the best things we learned was...

This past month I have been looking a little bit deeper into the creative side of the digital landscape and thought I would post a handful of examples that I think are all worthy of a share. Enjoy. Maersk –  We Are Maersk I came across this campaign for Maersk when browsing July’s entries to the creative showcase on the IAB UK website (http://www.creativeshowcase.net/). This campaign created by LBi,...

I was laying in bed last night trawling through a days worth of twitter I had missed and realised I am now following quite a few a football players. How this has happened I’m not sure? Despite being a pretty mad football fan, I like many, have no time for the ‘pro’ footballer. A feeling amplified by the media, especially following the impeccable and humble media performances of the majority...

With the consuming hours of the creative industry hitting STL contributors hard over the last week, guest blogger Paddy Collins jumps in with another thoughtful post: Last month Anil Dash produced a blog post urging us to move away from web pages and toward publishing in streams (http://dashes.com/anil/2012/08/stop-publishing-web-pages.html). Aside from the obvious intuitive advantage to consuming content in streams on the touchscreen devices in our lives, he also drew attention to the...

Before I spoil the surprise for you all take a look at these wonderful illustrations. Can you work them out? They are in fact Food App Icons for the iPhone. Created by Dutch illustrator and designer Julian Burford, the mini illustrations showcase a piece of design at its very best. Simple, well crafted and charming – blooming marvelous. 8 in total, my standout is definitely the baked beans. You could really...