Damien Saunders

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Integrated marketing takes a new turn. This latest viral marketing video focuses on the state of the internet and is essentially a load of stats overlaid with a nice cheesy beat playing. All [...]

Android mobile owners in the UK will be pleased to know that location based social networking apps have begun to improve and increase in the number of users. In the past few weeks, top location based social networks such as Brightkite and Foursquare have really improved the quality and details of UK locations.

It is a [...]

Recent indepth report from New Media Age in the UK focused on the internet usage habits of kids.

Kids research is hard – the age group is from 7 – 13. They are already exposed to a lot of marketing, aware of trends and ‘peer pressure’, but still very much aware of having to please their [...]

Running competitions using social media is a good way for brands and businesses to create welcome visitors and friends to their sites. You can now take that competition mobile using mobile apps, games or mobile websites and you don’t have to use SMS.
Using Social Media to get your customers discovering you on their mobile
Your marketing [...]

Take a vote … what do you do for mobile marketing and have you tried any mobile apps?
http://polls.linkedin.com/p/69091/tbhgt

The problem with doing research on social media and mobile marketing is the overwhelming amount of noise you get from doing searches on Google, Delicious and Twitter.

Here are a few links of really useful and easy to consume ‘research’
best ‘inspirational’ video on social media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8
map of social media world
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasabibratwurst/3128711125/sizes/l/
top 100 companies by media spend
http://adage.com/globalmarketers09/