Navigate Media Group announces its latest campaign and brand partner, Exodus Travels, a leading adventure tour operator based out of the UK. Exodus offers a diverse range of adventure holidays all over the world. Navigate and Exodus are partnering on the “Feel More Alive” campaign by showcasing the four different types of tours Exodus offers: […]
Want to Be a Travel Writer? Try Gapyear.com’s Writers Academy
February 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Gapyear.com, the world’s largest gap year social network, has launched the Gapyear.com Writers Academy, an online tool for people to get their work published. And the best thing is, it’s completely free. The Gapyear.com Writers Academy (GWA) has been set up to help first-time travel writers break into the travel industry by developing their writing […]
In Vine, six second Veritas
February 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Vine, a new mobile service that lets you create and share short looping videos. It’s a video service without a play button. It also doesn’t have a pause button, a timeline scrubber, a blinking red light, or dials and a brushed-metal finish to give you the impression that you’re using a dusty video camera. It […]
Open and Connected: Social Media Week 2013
February 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Starting in Tokyo then off to Singapore, over the next few hours around the world begins to kick off SMW13, powered by Nokia. Explore the Open and Connected theme, whether online or through mobile, via the live stream or in person. To ease you into the week BuzzFeed and Entrinsic created a video series with […]
O2 Tracks
February 13, 2013 by 1 Comment
O2 has taken a step into mobile music apps with the launch of O2 Tracks, an application which enables users to download and (temporarily) store all the tracks in the UK Official Top 40 Singles Chart (with the tracks changing as the chart updates). The new app will carry a monthly subscription charge, following a […]
Hostelling International Launches The Big Blog Exchange
February 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We can change the world using the power of blogs. Are you a blogger? Have you ever thought about swapping lives, places, cultures and BLOGS with someone across the globe? Bloggers are being offered a unique, once in a lifetime chance to do just this. Introducing, The Big Blog Exchange. With over 170 million of […]
Doddlr – A Social Future Without Walls or Timelines?
January 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Shinesquad creative media agency in London was asked to make the launch video for Doddlr – the social aggregator for the individual. Founded by young entrepreneurs Sai Eccles and Jack Halstead, Doddlr is a new web service that allows users to access all their social networks and emails through one simple dashboard. Users can connect […]
Top Travel Bloggers Select Top 13 Destinations For 2013
November 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
Travelling bloggers from five of the most popular online travel blogs have combined their worldly knowledge to identify their Top 13 Destinations for 2013. Everything Everywhere (Gary Arndt), Legal Nomads (Jodi Ettenberg), Nomadic Matt (Matt Kepnes), Uncornered Market (Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott) and Wild Junket (Nellie Huang) are all part of G Adventures’ Wanderers in Residence programme. G Adventures works with this group […]
Walmart’s ‘Goodies Co.’ – A Social Snacks Subscription Service
November 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Food is personal. Food is social. So runs the slogan from Walmart’s Goodies Co., a $7-a-month box of gourmet, organic, ethnic and specialty trial-sized food snacks hand-selected and delivered to your door. Subscribers then earn loyalty points by uploading product reviews. “If you’re active in the site, participating in the community features, the box will eventually be […]
Red Bull Tops Social Video Charts
November 13, 2012 by 1 Comment
According to The Global Social Video Equity Top 100 Report powered by goviral, there are few brands that hit upon a magic formula. The starting point for the survey is the comprehensive Interbrand top 100 list which values brands as a social concept and looks at how brands were using social video to connect with their audiences. Whilst content remains king, distribution is […]
