Those of you in the UK will know that over the last few weeks, twitter has made the front page of the UK newspapers as part of the #superinjunction issue. While I was in the US a few weeks ago, I was asked constantly about the difference between the US and UK adoption of social [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted May 18, 2011
in social media
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Tagged blogs, celebrities, facebook, Fred Goodwin, gagging order, Jeremy Hunt, Parliamentary Privelidge, privacy, social media, social network, super injunction, super-injucntion, superinjunction, Tiger Woods, twitter, UK courts, UK laws, uk privacy laws
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As a regular and long standing blogger in the social, mobile, advertising, tech and digital marketing spaces, I regularly receive approaches from PR companies hoping to promote a client’s release. I receive between 1 and 5 per week depending what is going on in the market. To save my time, and the poor PR’s time, [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 29, 2010
in blogs, social media
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Tagged advertising, blogger outreach, blogger relations, blogging, blogs, digital marketing, mobile, pr release, pr tips, press release, public relations, social, social media, tech
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I have just been sent this really insightful report on “social shopping” from UK based agency Immediate Future. Summary: Consumers want incentives for review and recommendation. Credibility of reviews is unaffected when reviewers are rewarded. New research* published today by social media agency, immediate future, demonstrates a desire from consumers to be more involved in [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted October 12, 2010
in research, social media
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Tagged adam lewis, blogs, facebook, GWI research, immediate future, incentive, internet retailing conference, ocial shopping, onlien shopping, online, online buying habits, online shopping habits, recommendation, retail, shopping, social media, social networks, social shopper, survey, twitter
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This week sees London host two important events, one being the G20 meeting, the other is carnival of the mobilists, hosted right here in London at London Calling. For those of you who don’t know much about the carnival – have a look at www.mobili.st and to the one person this week who emailed me thinking [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 29, 2009
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Tagged 3g enabled, 7th mass media, Africa mobile costs, Ajit Jaokar, Amazon kindle, America, andrew grill, australia, Barack Obama, blogs, carnival, carnival 167, carnival of the mobilists, Chetan Sharma, china, clud services, cotm, Dennis Bournique, embedded clients, eu, european union, G-20, G20, G20 mobile summit, G20 summit, G20 summit special edition, geekcast.fm, Gordon Brown, india, iphone, iPhone myth buster, James Cooper, Kevin Rudd, london calling, Luxembourg, Martin Sauter, mjelly, mobile, mobile advertising evangelist, mobile blogger, mobile broadband, mobile markets, mobile opinion, mobile sensors, mobile social networking, mobile tribe, mobili.st, mobility, Per-Fredrik, sydney, Tomi Ahonen, twitter, United Kingdom, us iphone traffic, wap review, wireless moves
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The team at Spinning Around have again produced a list of the top 101 marketing blogs in the UK, and this list is based on the AdAge Power 150, the top UK bloggers on all things advertising and marketing on 1 August 2008. If you feel that you should be included, you can get in [...]
London Calling has a wide and varied audience, and sometimes on the comments section on individual posts we see some real gems. Last week, Rainer Simon at BlogLoc left a comment on my Locatik service launch post about his own location service. Curious to find out more, I headed over to www.blogloc.com to satisfy my [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 4, 2008
in location
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Tagged blog location, blog location badge, blogloc, blogs, fire eagle, fireeagle, google gears, gps, gps location, lbs, location, mobile location
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Another month rolls by, and so it’s time again for the crew at Spinning Around to do the number crunching on the AD Age Power 150 list to see who’s who in the UK blogging scene. We’re happy to say we’ve crept up 4 places on the UK chart to 38, and up 46 to #358 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted September 1, 2008
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Tagged ad age, ad age power 150, blogging, blogs, marketing, pr blogs, public relations, spinning around, spinning around seventy seven, spotlight ideas, top marketing blogs, top uk blogs, top uk pr blogs, uk top marketing weblogs
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The crew over at SPINNING AROUND: SEVENTY SEVEN THINKING OUT LOUD have once again sliced and diced the Ad Age Power 150 at of 1st August to see who’s who in the UK blogging world. I’m delighted to day that London Calling is shooting up the charts (up 4 on the UK chart to #42 and up 135 [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 3, 2008
in blogs
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Tagged ad age, ad age power 150, blog chart, blog ranking, blogging, blogs, london calling, ranking, top uk blogs, top uk marketing blogs, uk blogs
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Tonight I was finishing an upgrade of the blog from wordpress version 2.5.1 to 2.6 and I saw that Nick Burcher had linked to London Calling so I took a closer look. He has compiled the top European media and marketing blogs from the Ad Age Power 150 list compiled by Ad Age. I’m delighted [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 20, 2008
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Tagged ad age power 150, advertising, blog rankings, blogger, blogging, blogs, eu, european blogging, european blogs, marketing, ranking, top 100, top european blogs
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Over at Spinning Around, James has compiled his monthly list (presented below) based on the AdAge Power 150, of the the top UK bloggers on all things advertising and marketing on 1 July 2008. London Calling are proudly in at #46 with a bullet. See the full post at Spinning Around (with details on how to [...]
Welcome to London Calling, the new name of my blog with thoughts on mobile advertising, mobile location, local search and social networking. Why the name? As an Australian now based in London, I was used to many TV programs that used the line “london calling” when referring to long distance international calls to Australia. When [...]
