Digital Connections

A wordle of my tweets during June

Mucking around with Wordle and thought I'd create one from my @graeme_harrison tweets during June.

 

No real surprise for a Sport & Digital Marketer, but the World Cup and iPad dominates my tweets.

Chats with @mdite105 are about her John O Groats to Lands End cycle and @Grumblemouse about the end of 24 series 8.

Next month ... expect more World Cup tweets along with L'Etape du Tour and Tour de France chat ;)

The Last Advertising Agency On Earth

Despite it being very bleak and somewhat over the top, it does raise many good points.

And a very good online ad for a conference!

I've got bloggers block....... So here are my 10 most viewed Posterous posts of 2009

I’ve struggled to write a post so far in 2010...

...maybe I’ve got bloggers block?

Perhaps I just need to upload one "post"..

So to break the ice, I’m blogging my 5 most viewed posterous posts from 2009.

Enjoy ..... hopefully this will open the 2010 floodgate.

10: Johnny Cash: Personal Jesus

Awesome track and possibly my favourite cover of all time ... hats off to Depeche Mode and Johnny Cash... I'm so glad it sneaked into the 10.

9: Lego: Matrix - Trinity Help

Lego had to get in there somehow.. after all its the retro story of 2009. This is my favourite, slo mo animation + Lego + The Matrix = The  Whole Enchilada

8: Basketball: I Think We All Get a Bit Of This

If you feel like the guy in the white on a regular basis, then maybe pop on over to AdLandSuit's blog,  ....you're not alone!

7: Tactical Advertising: BMI & BA

In Mid -December BA announced their planned Christmas Strike, BMI ran this ad in the Evening Standard the following day... brilliant stuff!

(Pic spotted and taken by Andrew Grill)

6: The Mill's 2010 Showreel

Stunning work....

5: Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban: 2010 FIFA World Cup Venue

Pretty awesome shot of the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.

The stadium will host a total of seven FIFA World Cup 2010 football matches including Germany v Australia, Spain v Switzerland, Holland v Japan, Nigeria v Korea Republic, Brazil v Portugal, A round two game and the semi final.

4: "If You Kiss Jesus" by Robin Skouteris

My favourite UGC from 2009, I love this stuff, featuring Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Depeche Mode, Flo Rida, Goldfrapp & Hilary Duff

3: "Procrastination" Tales of Mere Existence

I guess we all need a kick up the arse every now and then, this usually does the trick

2: Wenger, Henry, Mourinho Impressions

Hey, I have no idea who this boy is - but he's damn good.

He's got Thierry Henry absolutely nailed.

1: Buggy Rollin: Crazy, Awesome and Quite Frankly Insane

It still leaves me speechless.

Thats better I think I'm unblocked now ;)

Winner of The BBC Sports Personality of The Year 2009 (according to Google Insights)

Want to find something out?

... "Google it".

This Sunday night, the BBC host their Sports Personality Of The Year 2009, and the bookies have Jenson Button as the odds on winner.

Which made me think, could "Google Insights for Search" predict the winner before the public actually voted? Could Google Search be and accurate indictator as who would win?

And the results?

Firstly, Mark Cavendish, Phillips Idowu, Beth Tweddle or Andrew Strauss, I'm sorry to say that you're not even close ... sorry guys - you have all had a fantastic year but you're not going to win - in fact you're not even in the ballpark. Tom Daley fared slightly better, but still didn't make the Top 5.

Now onto the real contenders.

The first query I ran was for "Google searches during the last 30 days". The results showed a skew towards David Haye, Jenson Button, and to a lesser extent Andy Murray. However, it became pretty obvious that results were distorted. Haye, Button and Murray scored higher due to the fact that they were in "competition" during the 30 day period. David Hayes won his World Title fight against Valuev, Jenson secured the F1 World Championship and Andy Murray played at the ATP World Tour Finals.

The BBC announced nomination on onday 30th November, and this immediately led to an increase in search volume for David Haye, Jess Ennis and Jenson Button, and to a lesser extent Ryan Giggs - with a decline for Andy Murray.

Therefore surely the proof would be search results on and after the December 1st.....

 

We can see that Andy Murray searches are in rapid decline after the ATP World Tour Finals and Jess Ennis looks like an outsider unable to mount a big enough challenge.

Ryan Giggs received the most searches, although we do need to take into account the fact that he's played football during the voting period and that strong performances would account for several non-SPOTY related queries. It's also worth noting that there appears to be a correlation between searches and Manchester United's fixture list. However, Giggs shouldn't be discounted altogether.....after all on Tuesday he won the BBC Wales Sports Personality 2009.

Jenson Button, the bookies favourite, is next - ever so slightly ahead of David Haye  in 3rd. Of course we shouldn't forget that racing drivers and boxers traditionally perform well at SPOTY.

So according to Google Insights, the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year for 2009 will be:

1. Ryan Giggs

2. Jenson Button

3. David Haye

Well its a bit of fun ;)

..Oh and for those interested in Overseas Personality of the Year...according to Google Searches the overwhelming winner is Tiger Woods ;)

Interesting Media Buy: Windows 7 Banner On MacUser.co.uk

Rather surprised at this media buy.

Can't imagine that too many Apple Mac evangelists will rush out and buy Microsoft Windows 7 on launch day.

.....Not one for the Marketing Week Effectiveness Awards.

Ricardo Autobahn: The Golden Age of Video (c/o B3ta.com)

Enjoying the weekend - and this little piece of entertainment popped up on my laptop, courtesy of the chaps at B3ta.com.

Brilliant - I love Sundays ;)

Smell Like A Man: Old Spice - "Scents for Gents"

This glorious peice of advertising made me chuckle...

"Scents for Gents", new US Old Spice ad by W&K Portland,

They should run this in the UK - with absolutely no changes.

Social Notworking T-Shirt by Howies

This made me laugh

Hat tip to Neil P for his tweet earlier this afternoon

Available to buy from Howies here