The chaps at CMM News have found yet another unusual approach to viral marketing.

"You've got to love it when small companies get the viral bug and use it as an excuse to play with smut (e.g. the most popular vid I've ever posted). Vizelia is an office management company (sexy!) and this ad really is on their website. I would love to know whether the MD or CEO (or whoever has the bondage and spanking fetish) really did think this would sell the firm."
 

Notes from the BlogHer conference.

Check out Jennifer Pozner's latest article about media coverage (and marginalisation) of women who blog, published recently at the Women's Media Center and based on some of the issues she has been writing about over the past few months. In massive numbers, women are using new media tools including blogs, podcasts, vlogs (video blogs), and other information communication technologies (ICTs) as a means of self-expression (craft bloggers), connection to community (mommy bloggers), political organizing (the “netroots”), and citizen journalism.

Is this marginalisation of women bloggers happening in the UK? What do you think? Send your comments to Will Corry.
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"You are either old or a laggard if you aren't producing video-based content on a regular basis. Right now, that makes me an old laggard. A job title of the future for marketing departments is Video Producer.

Like a news producer at a television station, she decides every day what's worth covering at the company and produces a short video segment for YouTube, the company blog or even the company intranet.
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The Chip Shop Awards originated 20 years ago in England, when a disheartened creative team down on its luck decided to use its combined creative skills to re-brand Barnacles, a beleaguered chip shop. One brilliant, but unpaid for, re-branding exercise later, a born-again Barnacles was busting the chops of every pizza house, fried chicken shack and burger bar for miles.

You can now book your tickets for The Chip Shop Awards 2007. Click here to download your booking form.
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Sue Turton - C4 News - Oxford -
backside pinched.
The boys in blue are going all out to try to find this man, to slap him with a fine. Despite the fact that the woman does not want to press charges.
 

Exhibitor list
for ad:tech London.
 

Register for free exhibition ticket.
ad:tech London.
 

The Digital Consumer Forum at ad:tech London.

10 fascinating brand case studies designed to stimulate marketers, enabling them to win back loyalty and achieve great alliances in a competitive marketplace.

More here.
 

Hi Will, Just thought, have you seen our new wine auctions?

Perhaps you'd like to mention our new functionality in theMarketingblog?
The auction is here 
Benjamin Hopkins
 

This is a commercial for a dentist listing 

A woman comes home from work and plans to get in to her bath tub to relax.

After she removes her clothes and enters the bathroom she turns on the light and gets a surprise.
 

WWAV Rapp Collins has scooped the £10 million direct marketing account for the US insurance company AIG.
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