Travel Archive

Really proud of the team this year!

Awesome job on the ground and Cherry, our video crew were amazing!

Here are some links to all the great content we created!

Navigating the Future of Digital Marketing Video–Advertising Week 2010

Stephen Kim on Digital Creativity at Advertising Week 2010

Blake Mycoskie from TOMS Shoes interviewed at Ad Week 2010

Video: Interview – Charles Johnson on Microsoft Mobile Advertising & Windows Phone 7

Doing Deals with Devil: AOL’s Content Play at AdWeek 2010

Kinectimals Demo for Xbox 360 at Advertising Week

AdWeek 2010: Defining Value and Driving Conversations on the Facebook Frontier

Navigating the Future of Digital Marketing at Advertising Week 2010

The Power of Positive Impact: 10 Billion Impressions, 0 Media Budget – AdWeek 2010

Doug Sweeney, Levi’s VP of Brand Marketing: Revitalizing Levi’s Brand and Rebuilding America – AdWeek 2010

Consumer Adoption of New Technologies and What it Means for Marketers – Advertising Week

Video: Interview with Carolyn Everson at Advertising Week 2010

Video: Interview with Rik Van Der Kooi at Ad Week 2010

Video: Kinect for Xbox 360 Demo at Advertising Week 2010

AdWeek 2010: Attracting Generation Luxur-Y

Have You Checked in Yet? OMMA Panel on the Future Fortunes of Mobile Location-Based Services at Ad Week

D. Costolo, Twitter COO: Brands, Monetization and Why Twitter Isn’t Competing with Facebook – AdWeek 2010

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO: The Web is Being Rebuilt and Marketing is Part of the Solution

Video: Talking Kinect and Me TV with Mark Kroese at AdWeek 2010

David Moore, IAB MIXX 2010 at AdWeek: Online Has Arrived and It Is Unstoppable

Designing an Agency for the Digital Age – Part 2 at Advertising Week 2010

Video Highlights from Day 1 at Advertising Week

Carat Research: It’s A New (Digital) World for Shoppers – AdWeek 2010

Designing an Agency for the Digital Age – Part 1 at Advertising Week 2010

Video Interview with Darren Huston at Advertising Week 2010

Brand-building Jedis: Influence Beyond the Q Score at AdWeek 2010

Digital Affluencers: When to Wrestle With the Pig at AdWeek 2010

Our Advertising Week 2010 Kick Off Video

TV for Me at IAB MIXX 2010 at AdWeek NYC 2010

Seth Godin Opens IAB MIXX 2010 at AdWeek in NYC

Beyond the Banner at Ad Week 2010 with Microsoft Advertising

Awesome job demoing Kinectimals for Xbox 360 Kinect by Mark Young at Advertising week during his session on the Future of Digital Technology.

I’m in the Big Apple this week for Advertising Week covering the event for Microsoft Advertising.

Follow all our news and videos here Advertising Week 2010

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Seth Godin kicked off with an awesome presentation!

Our intro video below:

From my cab ride this morning!

Not sure why I packed the sun tan lotion for my trip to Asia!

Re-posting this video seeing as I’m down in Singapore right now.

I’m en route to Hong Kong to see the Microsoft Advertising Asia team there and speak at SES Hong Kong.

I’ll be on the B2B ROI and Social Media panel with Eddie Choi at the helm.

Lots to come from this part of the world. I met a lot of agency and brand execs while I was in Cannes.

Check out these video interviews from our Microsoft Advertising YouTube Channel from the advertising festival in the South of France

Trying to keep Tiger Beer in business until Lee Odden and others get here

Some friends have been saying for a long while that as I do so much travelling, why don’t I write about that as well as all the tech and media I talk about.

Well, in the first in a series of travel reviews about our recent trip to the fabulous Scottish Isle of Arran, here’s a taster of the couple of hours I spent at the Whiting Bay Golf Course on the south east of the island.

At 20 miles long and 10 miles wide, you wouldn’t have expected to find SEVEN golf courses on Arran. But as the ferry trundles towards it from Ardrossan, you can’t help but see the adverts talking about the fabulous views and hospitality that awaits all ages and proficiencies of the great game of golf.

Last Sunday, I took the opportunity to let my wife – Ashley – do a spot of reading on the balcony of our lovely B&B – Ellangowan House – while I trotted off to thwack 9 holes for the bargain “after 4pm” price of £10!

I had rung up earlier to book a tee. I asked if they hired out clubs and was told, “We can give you a set for free but they aren’t very good!”

Replying that neither was my golf, I duly turned up at the allotted hour.

The lady behind the bar was very helpful in showing me a 10 hole route that would get me back to the clubhouse in time for a pint of Arran Ale before she clocked off for the evening.

So off I went.

Now I’m no Monty, but I managed to keep in single figures for all the holes which are mostly par 3s and 4s.

One hole called “The Plateau” was an incredible ride. Just 81 yards, it called for a skied shot “up and over” with very little room for error.

Suffice to say it got the better of me as I over-egged it a couple of times before landing a few feet away from the pin for an embarrassing 7!

The main wow-factor of this course is not that it’s just so well maintained and while I was there, virtually empty, but that the views are simply stunning.

Click on the above panorama which I made with Windows Live Photo Gallery to see just how beautiful the sight from the top of the course is.

Being on my own with not a soul around, it took me about 80 minutes trudging up and down to finish the recommended ten holes, none of which disappointed.

Back in the clubhouse, I was warned not to let Ashley know it was the highlight of my holiday so far, and settle down to a well earned beer!

I can honestly see a return trip to Arran for a seven courses in seven days adventure.

It’s not often you get such value for money in quality of course and scenery to boot!

Thought I’d start adding one of my fave photos every time I post some content from other blogs I have a hand in.

Today’s is a snap from a game drive at dawn in the Kruger National Park in South Africa last year. We were staying at the Arathusa Game Lodge on a holiday we’ll never forget.

Anyway…………….day dream over!

Microsoft Advertising Blog

Attention Please: Advertising in the Age of Overload

Think Visibility 2010 – Microsoft Advertising Speaking on Social Media and Community

Microsoft Advertising Asia Digital Showcase Video and Online Marketing Resources

UK OFCOM Report Proves Multi-Screen is Marketing Manna

Admira – Bringing the Emotion to Digital Affordably via TV

Microsoft Advertising TV – Episode 1 – Multi-screen Digital Research, Spikes Asia, Cloud Computing

Microsoft adCenter Blog

Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance News: Organic Search Update on the Bing Blog

Digital Image: Looking After Your Online Reputation

Updated Tutorials for adCenter Desktop Beta in the Microsoft adExcellence Classroom

SES San Francisco: All Customers Are Not Created Equal

SES San Francisco: Making the Leap From Search to Display

I’ve been a very bad person and not written for Media Week for a while so promise to get back on it next week after our long weekend in the Isle of Arran.

Taken at the top of Painswick Beacon in The Cotswolds, Ashley and I were having a romantic moment after a long walk in which I’d taken a wrong turn and nearly had us squished like a fox on a B road!

I’d surprised her with a trip having suggested she pack a swimsuit and her passport.

As we drove down the M4 she kind of twigged as we zoomed past the Heathrow turn off!

We stayed at Byfield House which caught my eye as it’s the number one B&B in the Cotwolds on Trip Advisor.

Jill and Brett’s hospitality was just amazing. Greeted like long lost friends with TWO bottles of wine, we were sloshed before we got to the pub to devour wood pigeon, duck and fish and chips!

£75 a night to stay in an antiques haven, with a healthy breakfast instead of a heavy cooked one, meant were able to enjoy some great food after exploring the countryside at the Royal Oak and St Michaels Restaurant the following night who did us a nice chocolate cake for our anniversary….after we’d scoffed some sumptuous puddings and cheese!

[Loosens waistband.]

We had such a lovely time. Think everyone should make a trip this part of the world as it’s just 2 hours max from London.

Seems we have a habit of climbing hills with romantic notions.

The last time was when we got engaged!