Year: 2007

  • Virgin Media’s myopia

    Virgin Media is back on track after its customer exodus slows down, said The Times a week ago: […] The pay-TV and broadband group, whose hoped-for sale collapsed amid the global credit crunch, is expected to reveal a decline of…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #292: November 12, 2007

    Content summary: Personal branding teleseminar podcasts available from Nov 12; Sallie Goetsch reports on fempowerment, bacon and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; women are a major force among UK internet users; Hillary Clinton’s Fact Hub; a lot of…

  • Welcome iPhone visitors!

    The iPhone came to Europe last night. If you’re in Germany or the UK, you can now get hold of one over here. If you do have an iPhone, no doubt you’ll be spending a lot of time this weekend…

  • The rise of conversational advertising

    The latest edition of The Economist asks whether Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites can transform advertising. There’s already plenty of activity on social networks such as these by companies large and small, using their brands as personalities in endeavours…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #291: November 8, 2007

    Content summary: A Brand You World 2007 Global Telesummit takes place today; follow up on Wired’s Chris Anderson posting lame PRs email addresses; discussion: allow or ban anonymous commenting on blogs?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Office Depot deploys…