Top 10 Christmas Ads for 2010

No surprise there are always great ads for the Christmas seasons, I’ve put together 10 ads that I really enjoyed watching for this Christmas. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2010!

Forget about your door keys, just check-in on Foursquare!

Often times when people talk about location based services, there is always a crowd at the corner that goes, “I still don’t get why people would want to check in!” Ask these Brooklyn developers, they recently coded a hack for Foursquare that basically allows user the unlock doors with a Foursquare checkin. They will host [...]

Meaningful TVC: Disconnect to Connect

Internet doesn’t make people stupid, people, make people stupid. It’s very common to see couples going out for dinner these days with them both on their own phones for the whole meal. This is terrible! Technology is an amazing tool that helps human being learn shortcuts for many solutions, but these shortcuts can never be [...]

New Campaign: Sexy ladies choir shares brand message

Sex always sells. I’ve seen tons of ads and other marketing tactics that use sex as a major tool to drive views, but this new campaign by La Senza is “sexily creative” and has the potential to go viral. It is a dead simple mechanism in terms of sharing and microsite development, it’s a piano [...]

No, you can’t (always) trust customers!

Businesses are supposed to be built around, or even within consumers these days, that’s why research is becoming more and more important when it comes to any kinds of business development, but should companies trust their customers? Polls, surveys, and focus groups are what most companies use for consumer insights, I don’t doubt the accuracy [...]

How to create viral videos?

Working in an agency, and being in the leading social media team in Asia Pacific, there are a few common questions that I always get. “How to make my video viral” is one of the most popular ones that comes up all the time, clients even tried to pay us for a “formula” to make [...]

Advertising is “back” – Is social media not working?

Fox Sports just announced that all their commercial spots for Super Bowl next year are all sold out. Super Bowl starts around first week of February every year, commercial airtime from previous years was sold out around December or even January. We’ve been hearing companies shifting their marketing budgets from tradition marketing/ advertising to social [...]

Why would guys with multiple girlfriends make a good marketing agency?

The favorite girlfriend A man can have multiple girlfriends, but there’s always a favorite one or the wife who they want to (or have to) pay most attention to. This man would try his best to satisfy this one woman, he would put this woman in the centre and make plans around her. This woman [...]

How the Internet and Social Media are similar to movie Inception

I wasn’t too impressed by the movie Inception, maybe I set the expectation too high because of all the great buzz online and offline. This movie, however, reminded me about how social networks are structured these days. Many people said that the Internet is like their second life, they can’t live without it and it’s [...]

Why luxury brands are forced to engage on Chinese social media (even when they don’t make money)

Many of us are aware of how fast the luxury market has been growing in China, it is currently the second largest market in the world for luxury goods. China is also a country with most internet users, so it’s pretty obvious that luxury brands should start targeting netizens and let Internet plays huge role [...]

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Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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