It was a warm and muggy evening in Castlefield, but that didn’t stop people dancing (and sweating) up a storm at the MEC Manchester Charity Ceilidh. The event, held at Dukes 92, was all in aid of raising money for this year’s charities. Katie’s Ski Tracks and the Oncology Ward at Manchester Children’s Hospital The [Read More]
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
It was Ceilidh Night…
Half of UK population now reading digital publications
It seems the uptake of digital magazines and newspapers is in full swing. Recent research by digital newsstand Lekiosk shows that more than one in two Brits have bought digital magazines in 2013, which is up from one in three in 2012. The report, which surveyed over 2,000 consumers nationwide, found that one in twenty [Read More]
Penguin 2.0 – A Wish For Bings That Work
Spheniscidae and Ailuropoda, more commonly known as Penguins and Pandas, are considered, by most, to be harmless creatures. But to SEOs, the cuddly image found in such films as ‘Happy Feet’ and ‘Kung Fu Panda’ is replaced with a darker meaning – both are codenames for two of the biggest systematic Google updates in the [Read More]
Can Sky continue its reign over UK sports broadcasting?
With BT set to launch BT Sport, Sky at last seems to have a serious rival. Sky has already seen off the challenge of Disney owned ESPN, as well as ITV Digital and Setanta Sports, so it will be interesting to see if this signals the start of the end of Sky’s sporting dominance or [Read More]
OK Google – Who’s Siri Now?
Although Zooey Deschanel’s cringeworthy Siri commercial may have inspired a lot of parodies, Apple’s voice-activated search tool has received plenty of traction in the mobile market. And with new voice-upgrades and a translucent iOS7 overlay announced recently, there’s clearly a push to make it an integral part of the search process – and since it [Read More]
Mobile leading the way in digital growth
Recently released Adspend figures show that Mobile spend more than doubled in 2012 to £526 million. With the Internet Advertising Bureau reporting that the second half of the year saw higher growth than the first half, we are surely now in the midst of a mobile revolution. The growth in mobile can be partly attributed [Read More]
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