Bing UK’s homepage today – inspired as it is sophisticated.
The below photo that Ashley took on safari in South Africa last year, will be me from about 7.30pm tonight.
I may now have American family, but when it comes to sport……
Some great content on the Microsoft Advertising and adCenter Blogs this week!
Cannes Lions 2010 – Interview with CEO Phil Thomas #CannesLions
World Cup 2010: Bing’s Brilliant Football Facts
Carolyn Everson Joins Microsoft Advertising as Head of Global Ad Sales
They Searched Bing, Won Bling and Reign Supreme
Yusuf Mehdi Keynote, SMX Advanced Seattle 2010: New social vertical from Bing
Less than 2 weeks to go now till I head down to the south of France for the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
The organisers have done a great job with the agenda, attracting the likes of Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, Ridley Scott, Ben Stiller and a host of advertising gods like Sir Martin Sorrell and Rory Sutherland.
Microsoft Advertising will be there in force – we sponsor the event – and I’ll be running around with my esteemed colleagues – Colm Bracken and Kelley Myers – filming, blogging, photographing, tweeting and, hopefully, getting the chance to imbibe some quality rose wine.
This video, from our Microsoft Advertising YouTube Channel, sets the scene nicely, with an interview with Cannes Lions CEO Phil Thomas and a look back to last year when we managed to get an insightful chat with Biz Stone from Twitter and many, many others.
Keep an eye on the Microsoft Advertising Blog, our Flickr feed and our dedicated Cannes Lions 2010 site which will be fed with all the news and views from the festival.
Follow us on Twitter too!
Steve Ballmer receiving Media Person of the Year 2009
Just showing how easy it is to get your free ice lolly in London this month courtesy of the folks from www.Bing.com
Check out this post from the fab Cedic Chambaz on where to get your free ice cream!
Video of my presentation yesterday at the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle
Based on our white paper Learning & Earning
Check out all the videos from the day here: http://www.ustream.tv/user/Dell_Inc/videos
Enjoy…
Couldn’t resist sharing this warning on the back of my #OhSoHealthy brazil nuts:
“This product is packed in a factory where nuts and sesame seeds are handled”
Saw this ad on the train last night.
Toshiba will basically refund the cost of certain TVs if England bring home the World Cup from South Africa.
Clever marketing ploy or just an obvious lack of faith in our boys without Beckham?
I blogged about Multi-Screen Advertising at Digital Hollywood last week.
This is a nice video showing what a campaign scenario might look like.
Digital Hollywood is going great here on Santa Monica beach in Los Angeles. The Loews Hotel is excellent and the digital discussion has been fast and furious.
I’ve cranked out about 5 posts so far.
Here are the top 3:
Multi-Screen Advertising Gets Upfront at Digital Hollywood
Video: Talking Advertising Accountability at Digital Hollywood 2010
Video: Xbox LIVE and Branded Entertainment at Digital Hollywood
The huge news from yesterday is that we’re hosting TED at Cannes this summer.
For anyone who doesn’t know about them, they run these talks where people from all walks of life come and share ideas to an live audience and the videos get seen my thousands across the web.
I download them to my Zune HD and watch them on the train.
One of my favourites is Blaise Aguera y Arcas from Microsoft (who I met a few years ago to discuss how best to demo Photosynth) talking about Bing Maps.
We are very excited about the TED event. We’ll have access to the speakers and will be interviewing and blogging from the venue too so check out our Cannes Lions 2010 page for updates.
Went out last night with my mate David McKimmie who was regaling stories of his latest movie exploits. He’s a post production supervisor for FOX and has just finished Wall Street 2 with Oliver Stone.
While were in Sushi Roku on Ocean, I spotted Peter Gabriel about 4 feet away.
I’m a huge fan, but reminded myself of how embarrassed I felt for interrupting Ian Botham’s dinner a few years ago in London.
I didn’t bother him.
But if I had, just think of what he could do with a Surface table at one of his live shows?!
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