Author: Daniel Cross

Greenall’s Dry Gin are sponsoring ITV 1′s peak time ‘Adventurers Guide To Britain’ from November. This is the first time the drink has had an above the line campaign in ten years. brandrepublic.com...

The new  ’subscribe’ ability on Facebook (which means you can subscribe to posts made by non-friends in order to receive public posts from them) is getting some to question the necessity of  the current Fan Pages. hypebot.com...

Twitter is now selling ads for political figures over in the US. The move has meant a Washington based Political Sales Team has been set up with an ex Google exec at the helm. adage.com...

We7 is changing the aim of its service towards an ad supported radio stream, away from the Spotify like design it currently incorporates. This change is based around the current trend in the US, where services like Pandora have had recent success. musicweek.com...

Along with quality, click through rate and other stats which make up the results of a ‘quality score’, effecting the results you get from a search, Google will now be adding into the mix mobile optimisation capacities. The move is in the line with what...

Vevo have launched a Facebook app this week allowing artists to sell merch, showcase music and stream gigs. With Facebook about to announce an official music facility, are these apps going to be useful? Or based on the current redesigns, will anyone bother getting into...

From the man that made Google’s Related Searches what they are today comes Julpan, which does largely the same thing, but is now owned by Twitter. As Twitter starts to incorporate ads, the ability for companies to target themselves at relevant consumers will be crucial. allthingsd.com...

Spotify reached 2 million subscribers this week, an increase of 12.5% in six weeks, impressive stuff. The number of paying users now stands at around 1.7 million across Europe and America. digitalmusicnews.com...

A songwriter named Ernest Lee Straughter is taking Usher to court over claims that his US No1 ‘Burn’ was a lifted version of Straughter arrangement from 1998. This comes just weeks after Leona Lewis and Syco were taken to court by Ministry of Sound over theft...

Hardcore console gamers (generally 15-15 year old males) are slowly turning to online social games, though the majority of ‘social gamers’ are 30+ females. Games such as the Glory of Rome are offering a mroe in depth world to play within away from the casual...