This week sees the end of analogue TV in the UK, and with it goes Ceefax. BBC News Magazine has a delightful video taking us on a trip down memory lane including clips of old BBC idents and continuity announcements “cheesy music and...
Read moreIt’s Ada Lovelace Day today and it’s always great to be reminded of heroines that have helped influence and shape the world as we know it. My sister and I started our business in 2009 because we were inquisitive and wanted to create a...
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The second of our Social Media Week events took a look at the risks for people and brands when communicating online while also showing some brilliant examples of the positive ways in which young people in particular can make use of digital...
Read moreBest practice for using social media in TV and radio was the theme for the first of our Social Media Week events, ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’, at Gateley LLP on Monday 24 September. First up was Simon Poole from Somethin’ Else...
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It’s over a week into the Paralympic games and it’s drumming up some impressive stats. Team GB are second to China in the medal table, with 32 gold medals in total, including ten for Athletics alone. You may be familiar with a few of them –...
Read moreWhether they ran, swam or pole vaulted their way through the Olympics, there was one event that every athlete could take part in: tweeting. Forget the journeys thousands of fans made to the games each day – in the end, it was Twitter that...
Read moreWe’ve come a long way since the Ancient Olympics – athletes competed naked, prizes included vats of olive oil and results were inscribed on ancient Papyrus for a handful to read. Shocking to the modern native – yes (though the olive oil may...
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Liberty842 took time out last week to attend Channel 4’s Fuel4 event in Brighton. Daisy was speaking on a panel of the great and the good in social TV. She talked about how @chattyman came about back in 2009 – and how it kick-started...
Read moreLiberty842’s Tilley Harris is directing the inexchange project, a photography, film and social media project about organ donation. Tilley is part of Voist who are conducting the project, a small creative collective that uses photos, video and...
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“Then I saw his face… now I’m a Belieber”. If The Sun’s news story, telling how 300 girls broke into ITV London’s studios to meet their idol Justin Bieber, is anything to go by then it really is that easy. The teen throb was recording...
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I had the pleasure of working with Liberty842 for the week on a work placement and I definitely learnt a lot! On the first day, Tayler gave me an introduction to the company and took me through the ins and outs of what they do. I started looking...
Read moreBusinesses of all shapes and sizes, from the big players right down to one-man bands seem to feel the ever-mounting pressure of having a digital strategy in place. How to crack the social code, how to market to the masses, or how to simply make...
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