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Report: How Australian consumers and businesses use social media

May 27, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

Social media is joining more and more Australian business’s marketing plans, a new report reveals. To date large companies have seen the benefits of engaging in social media, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn, to develop a more direct and…
Digital media budget? Let’s include YouTube marketing!

May 26, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

If you’re working on your marketing budget for 2011/12 and trying to decide the value of including more digital media, in particular, YouTube productions and channels to that budget – new figures just released from the video giant in celebration…
Slash your advertising spend with Facebook ads and DSPs

May 25, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

When it comes to media planning and buying we all want to reach our target market with little or no wastage. Media is expensive – it often outweighs creative by 5 to 1 – and must be measured in terms…
Johnny Cupcakes: a lesson in brand equity

May 24, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

Johnny Cupcakes is an inspiring fashion brand story. John Earl (aka Johnny) has managed to build amazing brand equity through a simple product offering. How so? Well, in essence by simply injecting his personality into every touchpoint of the brand…
Accessible food for thought

May 23, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

If not now, then when? If not me, then who? These two interesting questions come from a TED Talk by Mick Ebeling, an entrepreneur who did something amazing and helped “unlock a locked-in artist”. He helped give a paralysed artist…
World Press Photo hits Brisbane Powerhouse

May 22, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

The world’s most prestigious photo-journalism annual exhibition, World Press Photo, is coming to Brisbane for its fourth year running. The amazing collection showcases some of the most beautiful, haunting, shocking, and very raw moments from across the globe as photographed…
Augmented reality in retail

May 21, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

The media has been rife with stories of late about the use of Augmented Reality in advertising, but how about in an actual retail environment? I ran across this use of augmented reality recently where international fashion retailer Topshop has…
Cleanse and refresh your creative soul

May 20, 2011

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Tanya Heading

The Dalai Lama is coming to Australia next month, and I managed to score a ticket to see his seminar in Melbourne. I’m really looking forward to dosing my soul in clean, refreshing perspective. So this month, I’m getting ready…
Celebrate Italian Week in Brisbane

May 19, 2011

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Belinda Vesey-Brown

The flavours, fashion and flair of Italy will be celebrated during Italian Week in Brisbane from 26 May – 2 June. To coincide with the week, at Brio Group we’re excited to launch Optical FX’s new website, which gives a…

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