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Bluetooth proximity marketing

Bluetooth proximity marketing – or Bluecasting as it has been trademarked by one agency – doesn’t get a great press. Yet it has obvious potential for the marketer. It works like this: you walk past Starbucks with your mobile phone set to discoverable. You receive a message. Such as: ‘Starbucks wants to send you something [...]

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Students’ unions launch marketing website

Students’ unions launch marketing website

? Almost every university students’ union nowadays has someone responsible for selling on-campus media. Almost all of them talk to each other via a private network, sharing best practice, ideas, resources and of course gossip. If one brand or their agency has upset a union, it will only be a matter of minutes before every [...]

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Hotxt – hot or not?

Hotxt – hot or not?

Dragons’ Den is back on our tellies. Beta Bunny recently tested the new youth-aimed mobile product Hotxt, so it seemed pertinent to post our review. Because Hotxt is owned by original dragon Doug Richard, the no-nonsense Californian tech entrepreneur. Hotxt has been dubbed – initially by Richard himself – as the ‘Skype of texting’. It [...]

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Diary note – Barkers

Diary note – Barkers

? I met some of the graduate team at Barkers last week for several coffees and a plate of biscuits. We got together to chat about digital marketing to students – Barkers manage the integrated communications marketing for over 40 major graduate employers including Accenture, McDonald’s and Toyota.

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