Articles By: Sam Watson

User generated albums: is this the Modern Way?

User generated albums: is this the Modern Way?

Some of you may have heard that local lads, The Kaiser Chiefs, have released their latest album through an innovative social media campaign. Innovative? Yes. Embracing digital? Yes. A novelty? Maybe. So the album, The Future is Medieval, has been launched on a wave of on and offline PR, as you’d expect. But what’s the [...]

* Featured, Social Media June 22, 2011 10:29 am 2 Comments

Spotify comes to Brass

Spotify comes to Brass

Yesterday marked the start of the new ‘semester’ at Brass Ed, our internal training school. We kicked off the new term with Spotify, the latest in a long line of excellent speakers, including the IAB, Facebook, Massive Gaming and Orange. The guys began with a demo of the app, highlighting some features that some of [...]

Brass October 15, 2010 12:07 pm 0 Comments

Arcade Fire use HTML5 to create interactive music experience

Arcade Fire use HTML5 to create interactive music experience

“Imma” let you finish Kanye, but Arcade Fire have the best video of ALL TIME! If Kanye West wants to interrupt anyone for any reason at this year’s MTV awards then it should be over Arcade Fire’s latest video for “The Wilderness Downtown”. It’s a refreshingly different way of creating a music video, utilising some [...]

Technology September 1, 2010 3:04 pm 1 Comment

A hat trick of World Cup treats!

A hat trick of World Cup treats!

This year’s World Cup is now over, and for many that’s going to be none too soon. But for others, like me, it will be too soon, as some of the things I’ve seen online will disappear, or at least they won’t be used again for a at least four years! Here is my hat [...]

Digital Marketing July 13, 2010 4:47 pm 1 Comment