Media
Cool Award winner carves up iTunes charts with ‘Ask the Butcher’ iPhone app
Protein One, winner of the Commercial Creativity Award at the 2009 Anthill Cools for its Ask The Butcher creative campaign, unexpectedly stormed up the iTunes charts over the holidays with its ‘Ask The Butcher’ iPhone App.
Social Media’s BIG year — An illustrated video retrospective
2009 was the year that graphic sketch videos — brief clips using slickly produced animations to explain new products or complicated concepts — came of age.
The History of Social Media: As Seen by Geekstorians
People who say social media is a fad have a profound misunderstanding of the internet and the reasons why people love it so, writes Leela Cosgrove.
The universe has never seemed smaller, thanks to this amazing digital recreation
Just in case you were ever wondering how insignificant you (and the entire planet earth) really are, this mind boggling digital recreation of the ‘The Known Universe’ will take you from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and into the inky black of space, all the way to the afterglow of the Big Bang.
Your votes are in. So what was Australia’s dumbest business decision for 2009?
Clearly, iSnack 2.0 and Westpac’s banana smoothies left a strange taste in your mouth, while Mars and the Liberal Party delivered a wrong’un with their spin. Readers who don’t take the world too seriously agreed with our pre-emptive request (to not take the report too seriously), while Virgin’s black email generated enough annoyance to equal the sinking of Storm. Jackson Jive shimmied in to score your number eight vote, while the social media attempts of the big brands to attract your clicks failed to inspire you (once again). The Myer float scored the least votes at number 10 (perhaps due to the number of people who now own their own special parcel of this prestigious accolade).
Friendster spoof likens the barren social media site to a lost civilisation.
According to this satirical video from The Onion, archaeologists have found ‘ruins’ of a lost internet civilisation called Friendster. You can imagine how the owners of MySpace, Facebook and (still revenue-less) Twitter might not find this as funny as the rest of us.
Anthill named Australia’s “most engaging” media site, according to Audit Bureaux of Australia
Today, we were pleased to discover that Anthill has defied a downward trend and, indeed, scored top spot as the most ‘engaging’ site among the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s Top 20 Media Sites.
New Fax-to-Twitter service proves there’s a Twitter app for everybody
It’s hard to not watch this clip with mixed feelings. I’m so happy that Dorothy Miller, an 80-year-old grandmother, has found an easy way to avoid actual conversations with her yappy daughter. But using a fax to tweet… C’mon!
Do you really understand online marketing? It’s about more than having a pretty website.
If you are serious about growing your business through online marketing, Anthill is pleased to announce that it has extended the run of its sell-out event series, Online Marketing by Design, to include Sydney. This evening seminar and networking event is a must for any growing business with a desire to improve the performance of [...]
What Tiger Woods Should Have Known! (7 Fatal Sins that Will Kill Your Personal Brand)
We’re now two weeks into the Tiger Woods scandal and it has already cost him a lucrative contract with his sponsor Accenture. His deal with Nike alone is worth $40 million a year. Fortunately for Tiger, at this stage, Nike still has his back with Phil Knight, Nike’s chairman, referring to Tiger’s shenanigans as a [...]









