February 13th, 2012
We’ve been having a giggle at DDCA HQ over some of the latest entries to the Chip Shop Awards.
Here are a few of our favourites:
Free Snowman (2012) – Steve Lownes
Category: Best Outdoor Advert
RAGE! (2012) – Lawton Bailey
Category: Best Consumer Ad or Campaign
New Hotspot Location in Newcastle (Archive) – nbdesigns
Category: Best Use of Regional Dialect
Tossers (Archive) – CreativePulp
Category: Best Charity Ad
The Chip Shop Awards are an international creative awards scheme with no limits or rules – it’s all about ideas. The work need not have run and the creator need not work for the client.
The Awards are open until the 16th March but in the run up, they’re running a weekly vote that’s open to the public to acknowledge some of the best entries to date.
With work being entered under categories including: ‘best work for any brand you haven’t a hope of winning’, ‘ best use of plagiarism’ and ‘best use of bad taste’, it’s definitely worth a look, if for nothing more than to get your creative juices flowing or to put a smile on your face.
See all of the entries and vote for your favourite here: The Chip Shop Awards. Or, click here if you’d like to enter the awards yourself: Add your Entry
Tags: advertising campaign, Awards, Campaign, Chip Shop Awards, design
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February 7th, 2012
Over the past year Facebook has gradually been updating their services for mobile and their latest addition is……Mobile Ads!
According to new reports, Facebook is just weeks away from running ads on your mobile. They are ready to exploit the lucrative revenue available in the ever growing mobile market, following the success of ads on Facebook itself. The ads will follow the same format for mobile as they do on the full Facebook site, so there’s nothing new for marketeers to master!
Tags: Facebook, Marketing, Mobile Ads, Social Media
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February 2nd, 2012
Well well we all new this day would come, but we didn’t think it would come in this form. Starwood Hotels and Resorts have added a new customer service tab to there Facebook page, Discover. Which allows guests to grade their experiences while staying.
Is this a good idea or just plain foolish opening up yourself to public opinion? Comments below.
Tags: Customer Reviews, Customer Service, Discover, Facebook, Starwood Hotels and Resorts
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January 24th, 2012
With the launch of the Facebook Timeline, the social media giant have also unveiled their latest expansion by adding 60+ new apps to their feed, allowing there users to share even more info like food, e-books, fashion, travel and photo through apps such as ‘Foodspotting,’ ‘Rotten tomatoes,’ ‘Pinterest,’ ‘TripAdviser’ and ‘Kobo.’ These will work on the same bases as ’Open Graph’ which already allows users to share the music they are listening or articles they are reading.
The one downside to this is that once you add the apps they will automatically share your activity through Facebook.
What do you think? Do you what to automatically share even more things on Facebook?
Tags: Facebook, Kebo, Rotten tomatoes, Sharing, Timeline
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January 19th, 2012
Ever wonder what people use LinkedIn for? Well here are a few interesting figures from a recent infographic:
61% use LinkedIn for professional networking
42% of users update their profile regularly
12% say they haven’t changed their picture since they joined the site
Take a look at the Infographic below for more info about peoples LinkedIn habits:
Tags: Infographic, LinkedIn, Profile, Social Media
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January 17th, 2012
Facebook has taken a leaf out of Google’s book and added a combination of paid-for and organic marketing to their offerings and have admitted that paid adverts are now appearing in users’ news feeds and look identical to normal posts.
Facebook have started rolling out unsolicited adverts into users regular updates, labelling them ‘Featured’ rather than ‘Sponsored Stories’: will this fool people into clicking on the ‘stories’ if they don’t realise what they are?
But the adverts are likely to prove extremely lucrative for Facebook as advertisers are ready to buy them, but the one down side for them is Facebook will only allow one paid news story a day to appear in news feeds and there will be no integration across the mobile version of the site. Facebook has, however, vowed to only display adverts for pages that users have already ‘liked’, so spam messages shouldn’t become an issue.
Facebook’s decision might not go down so well with its 800 million+ users.
Will it with you? Comments below
Tags: Adverts, Facebook, Google, News, Social Media
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January 12th, 2012
With Facebooks new addition of ‘The Timeline’ to users profiles pages, it’s no wonder that the Israeli Anti-Drug Authority is one of the first brands to use their service to advertise the use and non use of drugs.
As shown below, their timeline features the appearance of ‘Adam Barak’ after a year on drugs vs. a year staying clean. Facebook Timeline is not open to brands or companies to date.
Note: This is a fake profile page and not a real person:
What do you think, does this disturb you as much it does us?
Tags: Adam Barak, Anti Drugs, Facebook, Timeline
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January 5th, 2012
Like to drink? Like to Design?
Well this is the competition for you; help design the next Limited Edition Heinekin bottle.
After you finish your design you can upload to an online gallery, once there, users will pair your concept with another persons concept and they will be submitted together as one.
Get the brief, find out what the judges are looking for and go to www.yourfuturebottle.com to enter.
Closing date is January 31st 2012
Limited Edition Heineken Bottle
To me the only downside to this competition is that you have to be paired with someone else’s concept design and don’t have a say about which design it is. Apart from that this is a great way to get your name out there and showcase your ability as a designer.
Tell us your comments below.
Tags: Competition, Facebook, Graphic Design, Heinekin, YouTube
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December 30th, 2011
Youtube has thrown in another excuse for us to spend obscene amounts of time watching silly yet hilarious videos as they officially unveiled YouTube Slam. How does it work? Well basically every so often Youtube will present two independent videos and they will battle head-to-head for your votes. Public voting determines the winners.
The purpose of this competitive display is to help bring otherwise missed videos to users attention.
Youtube describes Slam as a “place for discovering talented amateur singers, the most adorable clips and the craziest videos on YouTube.” There are five different categories within Slam: comedy, cute, bizarre, dance and music.
Winners of your votes will be posted on a leader board and the voters earn points for voting for the most popular video.
Obviously there will be some glitches such as questionable content which has been felt with be Youtube via a “Flag as Inappropriate” button. Sorted.
Will this be yet another 5 minute wonder or another addictive cyber drug only time will tell.
Tags: Video, YouTube, Youtube Slam
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