Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
PPC
Chinwag’s PPC earthquake event on tuesday night was entertaining. Hosted by Mike Butcher, as per his usual style, discussions cut to the chase immediately. This was a welcome break from the normal sanitized chat on PPC that occurs at these types of events. Panellists included three agencies, Blue Barracuda, Latitude and Neutralize and Nigel Leggat from Microsoft Adcenter. (names updated)
Firstly, i liked to say that most PPC events tend to be pretty dull for anyone who knows about the industry becuase typically what happens is the agencies tow the line and refuse to get drawn into opinionated discussions whilst the search engines play a game of diplomacy. Which all leads to a rather luke warm discussion on what is now a more mature industry. Nonetheless, there were lots of things to nod at or mumble under your breath about.
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Industry News
A ‘health check’ on how Yorkshire and Humber is performing compared to other English regions has confirmed that overall Yorkshire is becoming a better place to live – but there are major challenges ahead.
Positive changes double the number of areas that Yorkshire has worsened, with particular improvement found in areas such as jobs, with employment in Yorkshire rising twice as fast as the national average between the late 90s and 2005 (when the rate stood at nearly 75%.) Other improvements include better air and water quality, higher waste recycling rates, and more people passing A’ levels. Life expectancy rose to 75.8 years for men and 80.4 for women – around a year longer than five years ago.
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Google, Industry News, Microsoft
Having discussed the plans of Ask.com to take on the likes of Google last week, an executive in charge of Microsoft’s ad-funded business has done an interview with Cnet News.com about why he left Ask.com (the lack of money to put plans into practise) and joined Microsoft (lots of money, lots of potential).
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Digital Marketing, Social Media, Yahoo
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo are in talks with Face Book, the seventh most tracked site in the US, as well as the number one site for uploading photos (ahead of even Flickr). The proposed figure for the sale could be for as much as $1 billion. Not bad for the 22 year old founder and Chief Executive of the company!
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Google, Industry News
News just in…..it’s been reported that there is a hive of extraterrestrial activity in the skies above the small town of Hilversum, near Amsterdam, Holland. It seems our friends at Google have stumbled across what could be the first of many ‘Interdimensional Portals‘ , which act as the doorway to galaxies far far away…
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