Category Archives: Industry

How long should a web film be?

As long as it’s engaging. The same rule for any kind of storytelling. Keep walking – BBH London’s one take for Johnny Walker Pretty amazed that this is one take. Via @lesliejz Via @BBHlabs Posted via email from message not found
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Spreading Susan Boyle

It’s nice to know that I am still thinking in the same direction of the industry at large, this is a really great article about the Susan Boyle video and why it spread so quickly on the internet. The author talks about social networks accelerating the pass along nature of this amazing video and the [...]
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Twitter in Real Life

Full credit to the ever awesome (CAO Chief Awesome Officer) @benrameriez:
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Is it time to re-visit viral videos?

With the emergence of great conversational web platforms such as Facebook (specifically their underused connect service), Flickr and Twitter is it time that we started to look at viral tactics again? At McCannSF we have used these platforms to spread and broadcast our client’s messages and to support their messaging pillars (yeah I can talk account [...]
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How To Work

This is something I found on the internets but really sums up the way I always want us to approach work and therefore I also thought this was a great way to re-start this personal blog. Via today and tomorrow
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GotoAndPlay

I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Big Spaceship and working with Firstborn on several occasions over the past few years and I can’t help but be impressed with their work, professionalism, and understanding of the digital space. They make some of the best work out there and for today only they are yet again proving that [...]
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Some useful proof

I wrote this following article for an quarterly magazine that we write at McCannSF, I think there is some value with it being re-published here too. At the beginning of my career I once asked my creative director what defines great digital creativity. Without hesitation, he said it was the same principle as any good work [...]
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Confessions Of A Fake Mad Man

Now I am big fan of AMC’s MadMen (it’s a TV show for my non US readers) it’s a great series about an advertising firm set in 60’s New York. During the second series that just aired, Don Draper, the main character appeared on Twitter and started to extend the story line into the online world. [...]
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SocialMedia to unveil ‘friendship ranks’ | News Blog – CNET News

Here’s a great article on CNET about two startups that are trying to harness the power of social networks: Internet start-ups out to crack the problem of advertising on social networks are developing ad technology that can analyze which people are most influential to their friends on social networks so that they can target those people [...]
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A musical road trip

On the drive into work today I think I had an epiphany in the way I explain how brands can extend their presence and value online. Now I have already blogged about how Dell has changed the way they project their brand image online and engage in conversations. But that would only seem to work because [...]
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