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I’ll Have The Usual Please Pet!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 | Branding, Industry News | No Comments

ITV have announced that they are considering creating their famous on set pub ‘The Rovers Return’ as a high street pub chain.

Fans of the ITV show could enjoy drinking their ‘usual’ in one of the most iconic pubs right in their high street. ITC are aiming at exploiting the popular TV brand by launching themed lookalike venues.

Coronation Street could also become a sponsorship vehicle if a business partner owned its own brewery, and they could even be allowed to promote their beer, according to The Times. This would mean im assuming that instead of asking for ‘the usual’ or a ‘pint’ they’ll be asking for a well known brand like ‘John Smiths Please!’

It’s a crazy idea, but i believe it will work. When launching the pub brand as a new company consumers will already know of the brand and be familiar with the show. ITV will aslo earn addional revenue from their long running TV show. We love it! Could The Queen Vic be next?

So who fancies a swift one in the Rover’s?

Tags: brand, coronation street, ITV, pub

Netscape Discontinued

Friday, February 29th, 2008 | Industry News | No Comments

Netscape one of the first browsers on the web is now set to disappear.

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said. In the mid-1990s, as the commercial web began to take off, the browser was used by more than 90% of people online.

Its market share has since slipped to just 0.6% as other browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox have eroded its user base.  Impact Media Design test all future sites in various browsers across the platform. From here on we will start to phase out our testing with the browser to concentrate on current and future browsers such as “flock” which are becoming web 2.0 based and are still originally built using some of the underlying technologies of navigator.

Tags: aol, flock, Internet, netscape

People Go Anti-Facebook

Friday, February 29th, 2008 | Industry News | No Comments

People have rallied together to create an anti-Facebook campaign. Now if you use facebook i think you’ll find this quite amusing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzP_69ZTFk

Tags: , social networking

BBC Launch New Website

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 | Industry News | No Comments

Today saw the New BBC homepage go live. The redesigned homepage has been available to view under a BETA button on the homepage for a few weeks. The new site re-introduces the classic BBC analogue clock back to our screens and also displays many new fascinating features.Created by its own in house design team, the BBC guys have made critical additions like localisation and widget support. For us it’s a much needed improvement which will benefit site visitors from its new clean, open and user friendly interface.

www.bbc.co.uk (As if you didn’t already know!)

Tags: Website Design

Getty Images Gets Snapped Up!

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | Industry News | No Comments

One of the largest stock libraries on the internet today has undertaken as offer from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman today for a massive 1.2 billion pounds (2.4 billion dollars). Getty Images has one of the interents largest stock imagery, video and digital content that has been used by marketing, design companies and photographers for the last 13 years since Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein co-founded the company

Tags: , brand, Photography