Last night’s FA Cup 4th game between Everton and Liverpool provided a powerful glimpse of how television is out of step with its audience. The game was a replay after a draw at Anfield. It was long game – not pretty – and after 90 minutes there had been no goals. The [...]
Author Archive: Simon
Open letter to Virgin Boss Branson about inflight food
January 28th, 2009 — SimonThe Guardian highlights an eloquent (and extremely funny) critique of Virgin’s inflight food. The letter already has 333 links according to Google. The famously media-savvy Virgin boss is said to be taking it in hand.
Does the techy agency exist?
December 20th, 2008 — SimonWe spent a lot of the summer visiting the senior executives at major agencies, talking about the world, figuring out what we could offer them and what they could offer us. It was an interesting experience because the overwhelming sense we got was that the communications world was on the cusp of a big [...]
Dell tweets bargains
December 20th, 2008 — SimonCharles Cooper on CNet points at Dell’s neat use of Twitter to spread the word about bargains.