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Build Trust with Marketing

The concept of trust has been around since the dawn of time, but in today’s society, trust is quickly becoming a critical component of business. This is due to the ever-increasing competition and [...]

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Gmail Now Finishes Your Sentences

There are days which I am inundated with emails. I trawl my inbox for the information, questions and essay-like briefings to dissect. Responding to all these emails takes time and endless [...]

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Why Are Online Reviews So Important?

Remember the days when you had to trust that spending your money resulted in what you were looking for. Going to the store and making a big purchase was daunting. How do I truly know this [...]

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Why Are Scam Emails Written So Poorly?

Have you ever received an email from a so-called Nigerian prince? They are harrowingly attempting to smuggle wealth out their nation, and need a foreigner’s help. Others will say you are the [...]

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The History Of The Hashtag

In August of 2007 internet aficionado Chris Messina proposed the early adopters of Twitter group tweets with the pound (#) symbol to tag posts. The idea did not fall on deaf ears. A writer named [...]

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How LinkedIn Has Grown Its Social Kingdom

Have you logged into LinkedIn lately? The social platform is now more than just where you go to update your digital resume when you finally receive that promotion. The place is buzzing. It’s the [...]

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Has Spell Check Ruined Us?

Some of us spend all day, everyday, typing away at a keyboard. Whether writing out a report or responding to an important client, we rely on spell check to guide us. The red squiggly little line [...]

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The New Nano-Influencer

You’ve heard of influencers, right? People whose job it is to, well—be influential. They’re on every social network and device spruiking festivals and luxury brands to their huge list of [...]

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What’s The Perfect Video Length?

Human beings are fickle. The internet and its infinite distractions have made us all realise our focus isn’t lazor-like. According to research, only about 20% of people read online articles [...]

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The Rise Of The Live Stream

It seems as if every brand is wading into the live stream this year. Amazon recently launched a 24 hour home-shopping channel with affable hosts discussing deals, holiday gifts and the latest [...]

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Where Is Twitter Heading?

Twitter is a brilliant example of the power of the internet. The social network was founded on the premise of brevity and was popularised by its chic 140 character limit. It launched the hashtag [...]

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What We Learned From Myspace

Myspace was once the social networking site. Its meteoric rise into the public spotlight made it the front-runner in the Web 2.0 race, right as the social internet was burgeoning. At its peak in [...]

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From Praise To Boycotts: When Is Controversy Okay?

With Australia Day almost upon the nation, strongly-worded articles and think-pieces about the day’s bleak history are being written, read and shared across our wide and hot country. Australia [...]

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Give Your Brand a Personality

It is often the case that companies focus their attention on sales and straightforward marketing tactics that they forget to take time to shift this attention towards crafting a solid brand. Just [...]

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What Happened To Chatbots?

‘Innovative’, ‘revolutionary’, ‘transformative’ – journalists and bloggers rely on these words to label emerging digital technology. They claim new inventions will make our current everyday [...]

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Is This the End of Earphones?

Technology has come a long way. No one can argue that. But we still attach the notion of technology to a device of some sort. Could this be changing? Tech startup company, Noveto is pioneering [...]

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Google+ Is Shutting Down Its Service

The search engine behemoth Google is dismantling its long-run social network Google+. The multinational company behind it is citing a data breach as the reason for the cease of service for [...]

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National Icon or Perfect Billboard?

Innovative ways to advertise pop up everyday. We are bombarded at every angle, most of the time without knowing. We have come to accept this as the society that we live in. But, can this go too [...]

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Why Vertical Videos Are The Future

Vertical videos were once the scourge of the internet. The unsightly black bars either side of an online video were the call signs of an amateur. Youtube, Vimeo and other video-sharing platforms [...]

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Facebook 360 and RED announce Manifold

RED Digital Cinema President Jarred Land today shared their collaboration with Facebook, the new Manifold 360 degree camera.

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5 Reasons why your business’s website doesn’t deliver

A business’ website is crucial to maintain, but with it so many things can go wrong. Poor load speeds, clunky design, and painfully absent features are just a few obstacles to stay on the [...]

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To Go Native or Not

Have you ever almost clicked on what seemed like a super interesting, super relevant piece of content, only to see a small ‘sponsored’ tag underneath it? That, is the power of native advertising. [...]

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Why The Bertie Beetle Showbag Is So Darn Popular

The Royal Queensland Show, otherwise known as the Ekka is in full swing this week. People from all over Queensland descend upon the Brisbane Showgrounds for a massive week of rides, carnival [...]

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Marketing Lessons From The Plastic Bag Ban

The plastic bag ban has finally come and it is here to stay. Beyond the online news stories and social media posts about abused retail and supermarket staff, society hasn’t crumbled like a [...]

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How Strategic is Your Strategy?

Strategy. A word that has absolutely exploded in recent times. What was once a carefully used word exclusive to the marketing and advertising world, has now been incorporated far and wide across [...]

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Marketing Tips from the Royal Family

Kensington Palace has announced the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will tour Australia this Spring. Millions of people around the globe tuned in to watch their [...]

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A Modern Day Threat

The digital world is changing at our fingertips, at a rapid rate that no one can keep track of. What once seemed like a very distant future, is now a harsh reality. That is the threat of [...]

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#adenough

The power of social media for greater change is unbelievable. If enough people get behind a campaign, it can change social norms drastically. This has been happening recently in a campaign [...]

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True Social?

Given the nature of the Facebook scandal at the moment, users are at their most aware about what they share and what privacy really means on the sites through which they share every inch of their [...]