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Livestation Targets TV News Addicts with Smartphones

Livestation Targets TV News Addicts via Smartphones

If RSS lets you bundle up a personalised fix of your favourite newspaper columnists and bloggers, Livestation’s live news streaming service is an RSS…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | December 10, 2009 11:50AM | 4 Comments »


Supermarket Funding and Alternate Reality: Independent Film in the Recession

Supermarket Funding and Alternate Reality: Independent Film in the Recession

With the recession derailing the bank finance model and with it the vast majority of film funding, filmmakers now have to adapt quickly to get…

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Posted by Mike Bennett in Creative Economy | December 9, 2009 4:13PM | 3 Comments »


The Neuroadvertising Paradox

The Neuroadvertising Paradox

Advances in neuroscience are being adopted by marketing and advertising industries keen to show the efficacy of their communication in an era of falling

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Posted by Matthew de Abaitua in Creative Economy | December 2, 2009 9:35AM | No Comments »


UK Advertising Still Doesn't Understand Online

UK Advertising Still Doesn’t Understand Online

Online ad spending may be on the up, set to rise by 7% next year, but judging by various recent industry reactions, the…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 16, 2009 1:28PM | No Comments »


IAB Engage Conference: Here Comes The Advertorial

IAB Engage Conference: Here Comes The Advertorial

The Internet Advertising Bureau’s Engage conference went down yesterday, in a week where the media industry is thoroughly unimpressed with the returns from…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 12, 2009 12:40PM | No Comments »


Johnston Press And Observer Prolong Respective Death Rattles

Johnston Press And Observer Prolong Respective Death Rattles

Two stories to faintly warm the cockles of the old-school print journalist today – firstly the Observer isn’t getting canned as previously mooted,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 11, 2009 12:24PM | 1 Comment »


Rupert Murdoch Blocks Google, Stalls Paywalls, Dodges Hacking Charges, Beefs Rudd

Rupert Murdoch Blocks Google, Stalls Paywalls, Dodges Hacking Charges, Beefs Rudd

There’s been a flurry of activity across the Rupert Murdoch media empire recently as the Digger hatches his plans to get people to pay for…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 9, 2009 12:23PM | 2 Comments »


Armistice Day Of The Freesheet War: London Lite Folds

Armistice Day Of The Freesheet War: London Lite Folds

It’s the least surprising media news this month, but the London Lite, the freesheet that has clogged many a tube aisle over the last few…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 28, 2009 11:58AM | No Comments »


Changes at BAD IDEA: Creative Economy

Changes at BAD IDEA: Creative Economy

While we continue to hone our new website, here’s the third of the subject areas that we’re going to be covering, following Hot Money and…

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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Creative Economy | October 12, 2009 2:32PM | No Comments »


Amazon Kindle's Shaky UK Launch Proof Of Their Apple Tablet Fears

Amazon Kindle’s Shaky UK Launch Proof Of Their Apple Tablet Fears

What with Christmas books like “Here’s My Annual Cash Cow” by Peter Kay and “Socialnomics: You’ll Buy This Because It Has ‘nomics’ In The Title”…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 8, 2009 12:37PM | 2 Comments »


The Sun Drops Support For Labour, Now Only Believes In The Individual

The Sun Drops Support For Labour, Now Only Believes In The Individual

The Sun’s late show of support for Tony Blair six weeks before the 1997 general election sealed, maybe even swelled Labour’s landslide victory,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | September 30, 2009 11:45AM | No Comments »


How Will Media Change With The London Paper Gone?

How Will Media Change With The London Paper Gone?

It only seems like yesterday that News International was crowing over the sale of the Evening Standard to Alexander Lebedev for a pound, with

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 24, 2009 12:14PM | 2 Comments »