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New Birmingham Office!
Space and Time are to add a fourth account-handling office, following the announcement that they are opening a new business premises in the Midlands.
The new office is based in the Custard Factory within Birmingham’s revolutionary Media and Creative Arts Quarter in Eastside. With other offices in Surrey, Manchester and Edinburgh, Space and Time combine national [...]
New Adbars blow away competition
Officially launched in the late Autumn, Space & Time Media’s new dynamic digital ad format ‘Adbars’, has shown to be 10-50x times more effective than normal Banners and MPUs and increased user engagement with clients’ brands, services and products to far greater levels.
Leading brands for example Comet, Priceminister, PluggedIn and CALA Homes have been the first [...]
Captain Kickback
Circulation Changes
In the weeks since the News of the World closed its doors for the last time, the Sunday tabloid?s competitors have been competing tooth and nail for the readers of its 2.7 million copies. TV campaigns, direct mail pieces, price reductions and reader giveaways have all been deployed to entice the discerning readers of [...]
Watch this Space Issue 48
We love QR Kit
QR codes are all the rage this year. Quick Response codes can be generated in this new iPhone App QR Kit launched by Space & Time Media UK advertising agency and available now in the App Store.
QR Kit lets you instantly generate a QR code on your iPhone and send via email or [...]
Watch this Space Issue 47
Cookie Monster Law
Cookie law legislation This comes into force on Thursday 26 May and the Information Commissioner’s Office has issued advice to businesses on compliance. New legislation requiring websites to gain users’ consent for cookies.
The document from the data watchdog will help make website owners think about how intrusive their use of cookies is and how to secure [...]
Watch this Space Issue 46
The end of Google Property listsings
Today Google announced that it was to scrap its real estate property listings on February 10th on Google Maps in a number of countries including the UK where it launched only half a year ago.
From day one the service quickly became unwieldy as many estate agent groups and property portals added details of at [...]
i Launch
I promised you something more was afoot following Lebedev’s purchase of The Independent and, at risk of donning my smug trousers and parading around like a drill sergeant doing a peacock impression on his birthday, today’s launch of i was definitely something more. The new national tabloid newspaper, billing itself as “the paper of today”, [...]
Watch this Space Issue 45
Lebedev in the Money
It seemed at best an unlikely plan when it was announced last year that Alexander Lebedev and his team intended to move the Evening Standard from paid to free distribution. However after just 9 months the paper has begun making money. Doubling the print costs and bidding farewell to the revenue made [...]
Watch this Space Issue 44
Poor ABCs for Regional Press
The most recent six-monthly ABC figures were released recently. Covering the back half of 2009, the numbers provide further evidence of the continued decline in circulation across nearly all local press titles. Among daily, weekly, paid and free titles the trend was overwhelmingly negative, which will put further strain on [...]
Watch this Space Issue 43
Free As Standard
Hopefully all those of you with no direct interest in the London market will forgive me for kicking off with one of the most significant media stories of recent months: on the 12th of October the Evening Standard went from paid to free distribution, increasing its print run by more than double, to [...]
