Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: Facebook, fun, polls
There’s been a lot of talk lately of brands using Facebook as THE platform for decision-making about their products. This week we read that Bobbi Brown are to use the social network to let its fans determine which discontinued shades of lip colour the company will put back into production later in the year. The cosmetics [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Fun
Posted on 01 December 2011. Tags: alcohol, Christmas, drinking, hangover, office party, party
As the festive season is almost upon us and the annual onslaught of Christmas parties is around the corner, we thought we’d be really nice and suggest a few measures to avoid or eradicate hellish hangovers! There’s nothing worse than a mid-week Christmas bash which leaves you battling to get through the rest of the [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Fun, Social Opinion
Posted on 24 November 2011. Tags: advertising, ban, billboards, controversy, posters, tv
Yesterday we read that the latest Prada ad featuring the True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld has been banned by the ASA. The ad features the model sitting on train tracks and has been deemed to show a child in an unsafe location. It got us thinking here at Admast Towers as to other campaigns which [...]
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Posted in Advertising News
Posted on 19 October 2011.
Source Since its launch (to much speculation) in 2010, the Apple iPad has become the latest ‘must have’ gadget. Based on the very same operating system that powers the iPhone and iPod touch devices, the iPad is a touch-screen tablet computer that lets users do all sorts of things – from writing articles to doing [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Tech, Trends
Posted on 14 October 2011.
On Wednesday 7th October 2011, the world lost a true visionary. An extraordinary inventor who truly made significant changes in the world of technology and communication as we know it. Sadly, Steve Jobs lost his long running battle with pancreatic cancer and much of the world reacted with instant outpourings of love and appreciation. It’s [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Tech
Posted on 05 October 2011.
Have you invested time and/or money into social media but aren’t reaping the rewards you feel you should be seeing? Or are you simply interested in what other big businesses are doing to build online attention? Then this maybe be the inspirational list for you. Whether you own a restaurant, car hire or an online [...]
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Posted in Advertising News
Posted on 09 September 2011.
I’d love to do a short post and simply reply, ‘Yes’, but I think you would lose patience with me. Trains, planes and automobile spotting has been a hobby ever since the first vehicles sprang to life. Bird watchers, particularly the peripatetic twitcher have a similar mindset. Long derided by social commentators and comedians, the [...]
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Posted in Advertising News
Posted on 08 September 2011.
With the recent London riots cooling down there are a number of predicaments which will more than likely be addressed in the couple of months.The riots caused a number of disturbances to a whole host of businesses such as restaurants and shops. Though the riots have now stopped, it has been said that there is [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business, Social Opinion, Tech, What is Social Media?
Posted on 21 August 2011.
Whilst shopping in Paris I got talking to one of the local tradesman about French produce. I discovered that France whilst being well known for baguettes, patisseries and fine fashion, is also a country that has given us a whole host of inventions, discoveries and theories. Some of them I was extremely surprised by so [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Retail News
Posted on 11 August 2011.
What does a logo tell you about a product or a company? Well it’s often the image you associate with the brand and also the only image that will appear on all their output. If you are considering a logo for your own business then you need to bear in mind that it works towards [...]
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Posted in Advertising News, Social Media Business