Last weekend I had the tough job of going all the way to Newquay for the Relentless Boardmasters festival. A festival celebrating music, surfing and boardsports – 5 hours on the train from Neoco HQ brought me to Cornwall (for the first time) where I was blogging, tweeting and status updating for our client Ubisoft ... Read more
Here follows a recap on last night’s seminar ‘Accelerating Buzz about Contagious Products’ at Grey London with Word of Mouth UK:
Emanuel Rosen, the author of the very much talked about book “The Anatomy of Buzz” and expert of word of mouth marketing, gave an eye-opening talk with examples from his books and life experience. He ... Read more
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Posted February 18 2010 By Benn
Brands are no longer able pitch the credentials of their products to the current social media generation. Push is almost out, but pull is sky rocketing in. Buyers and consumers want trusted and real information from people like themselves and know where to go, to get it. They need it stamped as trustworthy and good ... Read more
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Posted December 11 2009 By Neoco
Last Monday WOM UK organized another debate, this time the topic was whether social media should be paid for or not. They panel consisted of; Molly Flatt, President of WOM UK and WOM Evangelist at 1000 Heads; Kate Box, Head of Social Media Sales at Microsoft Advertising; Steve Filler, Commercial Director for Unruly Media and ... Read more
The Guardian and Observer have just released some insight from their latest Word of Mouth study. It’s good in covering established points and exposing a powerful marketing channel to a new audience. Below is info on Weak Ties but there is more at the main website here.
Weak Ties (in Word of Mouth)
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Because the Wii girlfriend was just to subtle, Alton Towers and Ultimo combined for this viral.
“Alton Towers Resort teamed up with Britains leading underwear brand, Ultimo to make sure women don’t make a boob on the rides this summer.
A group of test-riders donned a variety of Ultimo bras and were put through their paces on ... Read more
Social Media/”Consumer Generated Media”, although fairly new compared to other forms of online communication is the third most popular way to spend time online, in fact 1/5 of all time spent online, in the UK is spent on Social Networks. Added to this is the perception, among the more traditional among you is that Social ... Read more
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Posted May 26 2009 By Benn
For the fourth report in a row, Peter found his face replaced with a title graphic and now regrets dumping the Nielsen graphic designer.
As a founding member and part of the council for the industry body for Word of Mouth (marketing) UK, I manage to get my hands on all manner of interesting gubbins – ... Read more
http://ping.fm/fNXco – we are now offering a selection of digital marketing workshops and seminars to clients (brands and other agencies).
We often get clients asking us about all these different channels and the best way to communicate across them. Good news is that we are going to start running workshops and training days to ... Read more
Speak to some of Neoco’s big global brand clients and you will soon hear them going on about the ‘co-creator generation’ and how to engage them. Co-creators are a group of people who share a similar love for something and work to create or progress the ’scene’. Have you seen the Kill Bill special ‘fan’ ... Read more