Author: Daniel Cross

Susan Boyle tops charts on both sides of Atlantic, has been watched at least 400 million times on YouTube, appeared on Oprah and even sung for the pope. Well that statistically makes as famous as the Beatles. OMG guradian.co.uk...

Apple has announced that it will be launching its iAd mobile advertising network in Europe shortly. First up are the UK and France, which will be getting iAd this December, with Germany following next January. And for all of you than don’t know what iAd is – its interactive...

TOUCH MTV is available exclusively on the Samsung Galaxy Tab through Deutsche Telekom in the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Holland, Hungary and Poland when its launching later this month. mobile-ent.biz...

Today AOL UK launches SafeSocial, a service previously launched in the US, which is designed to allow parents to monitor their child’s activity on social networks. AOL is now offering a free 30 day trial for the new product, after which it costs £6.99 per month....

The Salavation Army have done a clever ambient cmapaign for their second hand fashion line Fretex to communicate how second hand clothing will soon be part of the Salvation Army’s fashion line. The”surprise” catwalk happened during Oslo fashion week, and highlighted how the clothes people...

In March, YouTube said that 24 hours of video are being uploaded to YouTube every minute. Now that number has jumped to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. Who is going to...

Repertoire from Domino, Merge and the Beggars Group of labels will no longer be available on the eMusic subscription service as eMusic sells out to big majors. The statement: ”We have loved eMusic, and the support it has given to our music, but it was the...

Take That’s new album “Progress” released on Polydor this week moved more than 235,000 copies on its first day on sale (Nov. 15) in the U.K., according to the Official Charts Company. The OCC said it was the biggest day one sale since Oasis’s “Be Here...

Domestos, the Unilever bleach brand, has launched a quirky app that enables consumers to track the progress of their toilet flushes, in support of the World Toilet Organisation. And its appropriately called the “Flushtracker” app. brandrepublic.com...

Google is preparing to roll out an ad format that will allow UK brands to include videos in their AdWords sponsored search listings. The company is promoting its “video extensions” initiative to advertisers and agencies as a way of combining the benefits of brand advertising...