I recently came across an Observer supplement entitled “The Future of TV” from back in 2007 which predicted that “The broadcasting dinosaurs like ITV, Sky and the BBC will be challenged by newer, more nimble opponents, including YouTube...
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It was great to see women’s football get its own show on BBC Two last night. The Women’s Football Show was a well produced, interesting programme and, looking at the Twitter comments, it was clearly filling a need. There was plenty of...
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Alan Carr’s Grand National Specstacular on Channel 4 used Twitter and its celebrity connections to create a huge buzz around the programme and around the Grand National (which incidentally reached 8.9m viewers according to Barb’s...
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Stepping into the immaculately polished shoes of an Edwardian merchant prince has been an education and a treat since Liberty842 was commissioned to bring @MrSelfridge to life on Twitter by the retail pioneer’s great store to tie in with series 1...
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Yesterday I attended Social TV: The next 12 months hosted by Digitas. (You guessed it, I’m in New York attending events at Social Media Week.) Panelists included Digitas Social Media exec Jordan Bitterman, Bravo TV Exec Lisa Hsia, Greg...
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Just two weeks into our project for Selfridges, @MrSelfridge has been deemed Retail Week’s campaign of the week. Needless to say we’re chuffed to bits! We’ve stepped into the glorious shoes of the ghost of Harry Gordon Selfridge...
Read moreAlan Carr’s New Year Specstacular topped SecondSync’s New Year’s Eve leaderboard for most tweeted about programme with over 33,000 tweets about the show around broadcast. According to Broadcastnow.co.uk, “The entertainment...
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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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 moreBig up to Channel 4 and Jon Richardson for last week’s A Little Bit OCD, which was broadcast on Tuesday night. It’s part of their 4 Goes Mad season which aims to challenge mental health stigma and discrimination. The programme topped...
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Last Tuesday, I went to the first of Pact’s Connected UK events. We heard from Rabin Mukerjea and Andrew Hill, from Grand Central Entertainment @GrandCentralEnt; Martin Trickey @chuffty from TwoFour; Simon Harris, Executive Producer at...
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We’re chuffed to bits to be shortlisted for a Marketing Week Engage Award for our social media work for Channel 4’s Chatty Man. For the last 3 years we’ve worked closely with Alan Carr, Channel 4 and Open Mike Productions to...
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