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Author Archives: Ben Ayers

Twitterers @ITV

January 9, 2009 – 5:32 pm

At ITV we’re finding that Twitter is an increasingly useful way of connecting with fans of shows, industry specialists, journalists and analysts, so I thought it would be worth jotting together a list of ITV people and programmes on the platform. The main Twitter feed @ITVinsider was set up by me as a way of [...]

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How news spreads online

January 8, 2009 – 6:34 pm

A nifty overview of how online media influences the spread of news and information from RealWire (formerly webitpr), the UK online news distribution company.
The Online Media from RealWire on Vimeo.

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Big TV in a YouTube world

December 17, 2008 – 8:03 pm

Just stumbled across this snippet from the Monaco Media Forum 2008. It’s a conversation with Ben Silverman, Vice Chair, NBC Television & Mark Thompson, Director-General BBC.

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Six months in: A look back…and forwards

December 17, 2008 – 4:59 pm

In the summer I left the ample bosom of ITV Publicity to join the broadcaster’s corporate communications team. Communications director Mark Gallagher gave me the perfect opportunity to channel my enthusiasm for all things web into the corporate engine room of ITV by appointing me as PR Manager for what was then ITV Consumer. I’d [...]

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Estate agent marketing FAIL

December 15, 2008 – 6:36 pm

OK so I have a really heavy cold and as a consequence am probably a little more grouchy than usual but an email from an estate agent has really wound me up.
By way of background, for the last 6 months or so Nicola and I have been looking to buy a home a little bit [...]

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