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by Strahan Wallis • No comments

Facebook marketing - looking in from the outside

Is it just me or is there a concerted effort being made to attack the validity of Facebook advertising and marketing. As an observer, it seems very cynical to me and possibly indicates a very worried commercial digital advertising community, including Google, of Facebook’s impending listing. A new set of owners who will want to see aggressive pursuit of commercial returns will put additional commercial pressure on Facebook. It will be interesting to see how this will play out in the way Facebook continues to pursue the commercialisation of its social infrastructure. Additional commercial pressure on the company could force it to innovate more and find ways to deliver better quality advertising products and services. It could …

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by Bill Rundle • No comments

Is buying Twitter followers ethical?

Note: Twitter has since deleted the 2000 bought followers from the @Corplunchbox account.

Accusations that Newt Gingrich was buying Twitter follows brought the practice of buying followers to the fore at the end of last year. Surely a Presidential candidate would be influential enough as it is and wouldn't need to resort to buying followers?

But with many offline influencers coming to the online party unfashionably late, the temptation to jump start a fresh account must be huge. No one wants to be in that awkward zero to 100 follower stage.

While friend-culling on Facebook became popular in recent years, Twitter remains very much a numbers game.  Profiles with less followers …

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Beer porn reigns Supreme at PRINZ Awards

Porter Novelli was the top New Zealand PR agency at this year's PRINZ Awards jointly winning the Supreme Award and Special Event/Project category for launch of the WilliamsWarn Personal Brewery.

The top honours were shared with Louis Brown and Daniel O'Regan for their work with the Student Army helping to clean up Christchurch after last year's earthquake.

The judges praised Porter Novelli for innovative use of social media, and generating significant outcomes for WilliamsWarn on a small budget.

The award-winning campaign involved traditional media relations activity, which was highly effective reaching New Zealand target audiences. But it was the social media and digital tactics of the campaign which helped …

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