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Monopoly City Streets: Wow.
By Stuart Sheridan at December 4, 2009 | 9:52 am | 0 Comment
Best extension of an old-school brand into digital world (IMHO) in the last decade... Overview: Just thought I'd write about it as I enjoy it so much - the Monopoly City Streets online brand (game) experience using GoogleMaps at it's core. Still playing....everyday for about 7 weeks now....it's so damn addictive! Mind you, if you don't log on everyday to more...
Latest VJ Brandtube: Nikon “Make a Scene”
By Stuart Sheridan at December 4, 2009 | 9:08 am | 0 Comment
Nikon has recently launched a new campaign "Make a Scene" via Sapient Nitro (Sydney), media agency Media Contacts (Australia) and in partnership with NineMSN. The campaign highlights the various effects the new NikonD5000 has when using the settings. Visual Jazz executed a new Brandtube online advertising execution as part of the campaign. (View live version more...
Summer cricket online: Johnnie Walker on SMH
By Stuart Sheridan at December 4, 2009 | 9:07 am | 1 Comments
I’ve been a fan for many of the past years of the Johnnie Walkers live score updates on the www.smh.com.au (or the age.com.au and others) websites for all the Australian Test Match cricket games. You know summer is really here and the cricket season is in full swing (*bliss*) when this feature starts appearing. I especially enjoyed the download widget last more...
VJ Sydney representing #creative at NineMSN Small Business Tradeshow
By Stuart Sheridan at November 23, 2009 | 2:03 pm | 0 Comment
Today through to Wednesday 25th November, Visual Jazz will be partnering with NineMSN at a tradeshow to educate small to medium business owners in Sydney about digital marketing So far (1/2 way through day one) we've seen about 150 attendees come to the session. First session crowd arrives: Session #2 crowd: NineMSN stands NineMSN have pulled together more...
Wanna find out where your favourite film was shot? Filmaps is your answer
By Stuart Sheridan at November 11, 2009 | 1:09 pm | 0 Comment
Filmaps is rapidly creating a crowd-powered database of filming locations around the world. Users can search by location or film title to bring up a Google Map that features location photos from Panoramio and videos from You Tube. Since its launch in January this year 998 films have been mapped in 2363 locations. Filmaps adds social elements through Facebook and Twitter more...
Cooking Wiki that can be edited by anyone
By Stuart Sheridan at November 9, 2009 | 1:06 pm | 0 Comment
We've all been there, downloaded a recipe, followed it to the tee and getting a result looked nowhere close to the picture or tasted any good.. Check out Foodista - the cooking encyclopedia that is editable by anyone. Launched late last year in Seattle, Foodista is a collaborative project to build the world's largest, highest quality cooking encyclopedia. Rather more...
Dunlop Volley Campaign Review
By Stuart Sheridan at November 6, 2009 | 2:47 pm | 0 Comment
(Adnews Digital Choice Article: 6th November 2009) Dunlop Volley (Volley Warehouse Campaign) I recently came across this very cool and humorous digital execution from Dunlop Volley - a well known brand but one I hadn’t seen much from in many years. I am probably not the exact target market for this brand, but it really appealed to me. The Volley brand more...
Trivial Pursuit Experiment
By Stuart Sheridan at November 5, 2009 | 2:04 pm | 0 Comment
We’ve all played it, the classic who’s the smartest person in the room board game of Trivial Pursuit. They’ve now entered the digital world. (Much like my favorite website of 2009 – Monopoly City Streets). But with Trivial Pursuit, they’ve gone after a man vs woman approach pitting the sexes against each other in a good more...
Virgin Atlantic launches iphone app to help fearful flyers
By Stuart Sheridan at November 5, 2009 | 1:14 pm | 0 Comment
How to broaden your customer base if you're an airline? Remedy people who are too afraid to fly. Back in 1997, Virgin Atlantic started offering courses for fearful flyers. The courses—which are GBP 199 for a full-day session—are reputed to have an extremely high rate of success. Aiming to replicate that success for a much larger crowd of anxious travellers, more...
Bilingual web addresses
By Stuart Sheridan at October 30, 2009 | 5:40 am | 0 Comment
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/924768/web-addresses-to-become-multilingual this is interesting, could be a definitive next step for more...