Sarah Gavin, the communications director for social networking site Bebo, chats about…

• Bebo basics (incl. demographics and business model)
• Recent engagement campaigns with Coca Cola and Hasbro
• Future developments, incl. their new mobile service and Kate Modern - Bebo’s take on LonelyGirl15 (and done by the same team)

5mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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Jeff Kaplan and David Shackley, both from AOL’s central marketing team, chat about…

• The online-only Mark Burnett-produced show Gold Rush
• Consumer-generated content
• Performance of AOL properties
• Evolution of video search service Truveo

6mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO Denuo and Chief Innovation Officer, Publicis, chats about…

• The business importance of authenticity
• Why PR agency Edelman’s reputation suffered in the Wal Mart undisclosed blogger fiasco
• Three big media trends he’s seeing including the shift to on-demand, the participatory culture, and the shift from segmentation to reaggregation
• Why he’s ’short’ on Google’s ability to monetize YouTube and ‘long’ on Yahoo’s future

8mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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 PLANNER TALK  Four seasoned ‘planners’ discuss major developments in online and consumer generated media as attention shifts from conventional to PC-based viewing and interaction. The panel represents a diverse range of opinion and expertise from host Fiona Blades, a planner by background and now head of her own research firm, to the omnipresent planner John Griffiths, ad. agency research head Lee McEwan, and senior researcher Beverly Clarke who works for one of the UK’s largest and newest media groups, Virgin Media

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 STARRING 

• Beverly Clarke, Associate Director of Insight, IDS (part of Virgin Media)
• Fiona Blades, Managing Partner, MESH Planning (host)
• John Griffiths, Planning Above and Beyond
• Lee McEwan, Director of Research Services, Leo Burnett (blog)

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The masterful Ze Frank in conversation with the witty Johnny Vulkan of Anomaly

10mins | Recorded @ Wildfire ‘07 | More podcasts in this series

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The fact that companies like Toyota and Tesco and Proctor & Gamble in many of its categories have shown that you can in fact keep improving delivery on the basics, shows that it’s not just a commodity…
(Patrick Barwise)

 BACK TO BASICS  The renowned marketing Professor Patrick Barwise is a relatively rare animal, an academic with commercial instinct and pragmatism. Here he talks to Michael Warren about the ramifications of his two most recent books, ‘Simply Better’ (which won the American Marketing Association’s 2005 prize for the best recent book in marketing), and one that he is currently writing with the working title: ‘Customer Insights - Beyond Market Research’. His ability to cut through marketing myths, hype and meaningless jargon using solid reasoning reinforces his position as one of the industry’s most valued thought-leaders

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 STARRING 

• Prof. Patrick Barwise, LBS, and co-author, Simply Better
• Michael Warren, research consultant

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