media

by: Ilya Vedrashko

Raided the Modern Mechanix site to see what advertising media were budding in the 1930s.

by: Nancy Baym

by: Gary Hayes

Over the years I have been creating lots of confusing, busy yet at the same time, meaningful and insightful emergent media diagrams. These attempt to help the uninitiated heritage media folk, get to grips with a multiplatform, shifting-social-media-sands, transmogodified entertainment landscape…breathe.

by: Karl Long

Exec Summary: Yes, advertising is still a valuable discipline, but what it needs is a higher purpose. Advertising needs to inspire more than mass consumption, it needs to communicate ideas that inspire action, and participation. The good news is the internet is one of the best mediums ever for the propagation of remarkable ideas, and at their best ad agencies create great ideas that inspire above and beyond the act of passive consumption…

by: Gary Hayes

by: Dick Stroud

That’s a headline to send newspaper proprietors away with a skip in their step.

The death of traditional media has been exaggerated, according to global leader for entertainment and media practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, during his pitch at the World Association of Newspapers conference in Hong Kong.

by: Mark Rogers

The huge success of Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live parodies of Sarah Palin (see below) has pointed up something the TV networks increasingly see as a great new opportunity.

by: David Jennings

All through last week the smart people at BBC Radio Labs published a series of research summaries under the heading "fan cultures in radio".

by: Iqbal Mohammed

by: Gary Hayes