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In 2006 Red and Shiny Media formed Shiny Red, our groundbreaking online PR practice. Combining traditional PR skills with social media expertise, services range from training for in-house PR teams to fully-formed web PR campaigns, plus blog buzz monitoring and our Europulse database of influential online commentators.
Everyday Adventures - New videos for UK parents
Over the last 6 months, we’ve been working on a video project which aims to tell parents from a range of backgrounds about some of the real life stories and circumstances that people in their positions find themselves in. “Everyday Adventures” tells the stories of ordinary families from around the UK as they face these and other challenges. [...]Interns Wanted!
Despite the doom and gloom in the job market, Shiny Red is looking for any bright sparks out there keen to get a foot on the career ladder. As part of our summer internship programme, we’re offering graduates who are passionate about social media the chance to get their hands dirty on digital campaigns for some [...]Feeding your friends gets popular again
Sandrine at Buzz Attitude has written a post on the renaissance of FriendFeed. About 12 months ago, it appeared at a one-stop-shop for social media, but user interface issues meant that although sign-up was high, usage wasn’t so great. Recently, it’s had a revamp and the results are impressive - very usable, and great for [...]Shiny Red and Simply Media team up
Over the last few months we have found ourselves spending quite a lot of time at the Old Street offices of online video specialists Simply Media. We chose to start working with them because of their unrivalled knowledge of online video, and as time has gone by we have been blown away by their creativity [...]UK’s top 20 tweeters by posting volume
Alright so we all know that Jonathan Ross is the UK’s most influential Twitterer and that Mashable’s Pete Cashmore has the biggest number of followers for a Brit (though we know he spends lot of time in San Francisco these days), but the question that I really wanted to know the answer to is who [...]Stuff we like - May; Seesmic’s desktop, Spoonfed’s iPhone app and blogs about bus shelters
Every so often the Shiny Red team gets together over lunch to talk about stuff we like and don’t like while chomping merrily on posh, but overpriced crisps. Today’s session was exceptionally good as it threw up a series of very cool links, which we decided we’d like to share. So here’s what we have been [...]McDonald’s goes interactive at Piccadilly Circus
The Shiny Red team has recently had a lot of fun supporting the re-launch of the McDonald’s sign at iconic London landmark, Piccadilly Circus. The new sign is a brand new interactive concept, where people can take pictures of themselves interacting with fun images such as a bowler hat, an umbrella or a bouquet of [...]The web on your tellybox - an update.
Adapted by the author from an original post at social Probiotic A few months ago I wrote a piece on my own blog about internet content making its way to the TV screen. Not in a Media Center box kind of way, but a way that is done from the point of view of the [...]How the Guardian’s Ian Tomlinson G20 video changes the media landscape
An astonishing piece of amateur video obtained by the Guardian shows just how much the world has changed for big media players. The footage shows Ian Tomlinson, the man who died at last week’s G20 protests in London, being struck by a police officer and falling to the ground minutes before suffering a fatal heart attack. You can view [...]Get Social
The sun is shining and spring is definitely in the air in the Shiny Red offices. This brings a host of new get-togethers in and around London for all you networking types. Facebook Developer Garage – This event returns on the 8th of April with a variety of speakers to giving advice on structuring your Facebook [...]Our work
Connecting Through Social Networks
When Bassetts asked Red to promote its fruit-flavoured Allsorts, Shiny Red was brought in to add digital strategy and execution.
