Orange have just launched a new flash site to promote their Animals packages on PAYG - and it’s pretty neat. Poke London built it. Basically, it’s the world’s first virtual balloon race. I would imagine the site will tell you about it better than I could.

Orange have just launched a new flash site to promote their Animals packages on PAYG - and it’s pretty neat. Poke London built it. Basically, it’s the world’s first virtual balloon race. I would imagine the site will tell you about it better than I could.

The latest site from Poke London is a redesign and build of their successful offering for Orange from last summer. To promote Glastonbury, Orange are giving away hundreds of free tickets. How do you win? Well, you Spot The Bull of course!

With real live video feeds of a bull in a field, you have to choose which square of the field he will be standing in at 2pm every day, and then winners are selected at random. That little moving image of the bull on your screen from above? It’s actual REAL LIVE VIDEO! Wow. It’s good, go see it.

New additions to the redesigned site are:

1. team play allowing you to win up to 8 tickets per group
2. live multi-cam video streaming from the field
3. real time stats and bull-tracking making the gameplay more strategic

The latest site from Poke London is a redesign and build of their successful offering for Orange from last summer. To promote Glastonbury, Orange are giving away hundreds of free tickets. How do you win? Well, you Spot The Bull of course!

With real live video feeds of a bull in a field, you have to choose which square of the field he will be standing in at 2pm every day, and then winners are selected at random. That little moving image of the bull on your screen from above? It’s actual REAL LIVE VIDEO! Wow. It’s good, go see it.

New additions to the redesigned site are:

1. team play allowing you to win up to 8 tickets per group
2. live multi-cam video streaming from the field
3. real time stats and bull-tracking making the gameplay more strategic

I have had some badly rendered emails appear in my inbox in the past. Regardless of the email client; Outlook, Thunderbird, Hotmail, Gmail and more. Companies like Campaign Monitor & the Email Standards Project should be utterly applauded for their efforts to try and standardise emails in a similar way to web browsers.

However, nothing, and I mean nothing can excuse mistakes like this. Morrisons are a huge UK supermarket and have a 7-figure online budget. They use multiple online agencies to manage their web presence. Presumably (and a little through experience on this one) Morrisons use an agency to send their email marketing. OK so it is wishful thinking for me to imagine they would test in every email client and ensure a readable mail for all the big ones, but you would hope that the email contained something legible.

I have had some badly rendered emails appear in my inbox in the past. Regardless of the email client; Outlook, Thunderbird, Hotmail, Gmail and more. Companies like Campaign Monitor & the Email Standards Project should be utterly applauded for their efforts to try and standardise emails in a similar way to web browsers.

However, nothing, and I mean nothing can excuse mistakes like this. Morrisons are a huge UK supermarket and have a 7-figure online budget. They use multiple online agencies to manage their web presence. Presumably (and a little through experience on this one) Morrisons use an agency to send their email marketing. OK so it is wishful thinking for me to imagine they would test in every email client and ensure a readable mail for all the big ones, but you would hope that the email contained something legible.

Awesome London web agency twentysixlondon.com have just relaunched their web presence with a simplified, prettified and scaled down site. The portfolio slideshow looks great and the showreel is simply inspired.

Check it out.

Awesome London web agency twentysixlondon.com have just relaunched their web presence with a simplified, prettified and scaled down site. The portfolio slideshow looks great and the showreel is simply inspired.

Check it out.