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The Zesty Show Epiosde 6 – Flipboard, The Times & Ford

The Zesty Show Epiosde 6 – Flipboard, The Times & Ford

Welcome to episosde 6 of the Zesty show! Fagan is back this week and normal service has resumed. Basically that means Fagan raving about the lates iPad app and Tom and I remaining unconvinced…

Exciting Youtube project – Life in a Day

Exciting Youtube project – Life in a Day

This is a great project on Youtube, being run by 2 acclaimed directors to crowd-source a documentary that marks one day across the globe. We’ve heard a lot about crowd-sourcing projects by various brands but this one is really incredible and an exciting online experiment.

Youtube advertising – case studies

Youtube advertising – case studies

An interesting new service from Youtube has just launches, which provides stats and case studies into the benefit of advertising on Youtube. Look past the sales fluff and there’s some interesting content on there and the fact that we have a channel like this points to the fact that there is likely to be a much bigger focus on youtube ads in the coming months.

The Zesty Show Episode 4 – Google Me, Browser Wars And Jonah Lomu

The Zesty Show Episode 4 – Google Me, Browser Wars And Jonah Lomu

This week on the zesty show we have the lovely background back and are in a rain forest to talk about Google me and all the speculation that goes with it, the latest round in the browser wars and a bogus Twitter account from one of rugby’s most famous ever players Jonah Lomu. This is [...]

Episode 1 Of The Zesty Show Or Whatever You Want To Call It

Episode 1 Of The Zesty Show Or Whatever You Want To Call It

We wanted to try and expand this blog and offer some new features to it over the coming months so today we trial the first episode of The Zesty Show which is a short video featuring Tom, Fagan and Lauren talking about a couple of social media topics that have made the news in the past week. Let us know what you think about the new show and make any suggestions that you think can improve the show…

10 Simple Youtube Video Tips For Brands And Businesses

10 Simple Youtube Video Tips For Brands And Businesses

Youtube is of course one of the most important social media channels that you or your business can use but are you using it effectively and are you making the most of the second biggest search engine in the world? There are some simple tips and tricks that are easy to implement that will vastly improve your Youtube presence…

Irish Bar Doing Glee Recreation Is A Good Use Of Social Media For Small Business

Irish Bar Doing Glee Recreation Is A Good Use Of Social Media For Small Business

Over the last few months I have seen tons of large brands trying to do flash mobs in countries all over the world and for the large part they are pretty annoying and predictable but Leo Fogarty sent me a great example of a small Irish business using Glee and video in a really smart [...]

How To Effectively Use Annotations On Youtube To Increase Website Traffic

How To Effectively Use Annotations On Youtube To Increase Website Traffic

Annotations on Youtube have had a very bad name for some time now as they are normally used as spammy ways to increase traffic to bogus sites but there are also some great examples of how they should be used which is what I wanted to share here. If the content is edited in to the video and then made clickable it can act as a very compelling part of the story and be something that people are more likely to click on. This is possibly the best example I have ever seen of Youtube annotations…

TEDx – Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish

TEDx – Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish

Last month I wast invited to Smurfit to talk at a TEDx event with the title Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Essentially it was a talk about entrepreneurism and the theme of the evening was inspired by this great talk given by Steve Jobs at Standford a few years back. The videos are below and I [...]

Kickass – The Movie Of The Year

Kickass – The Movie Of The Year

Full disclosure (Universal Ireland Are A Client Of Ours) We don’t often blog about clients as we just like to keep the blog about social media tips and news from the online world but a combination of a busy couple of days and the burning desire to tell you about something really cool led to [...]