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Top 50 Australian marketing blogs 2009

Brad Howarth, writing for B&T Magazine in Australia has published a “Top 50 Australian marketing blogs” list.  Each year B&T look at the blogosphere in Australia and anoint their top 50.  This is their definitive list for 2009 and comes from the work of Julian Cole at Adspace-pioneers.blogspot.com.  Interesting that a mobile blog scrapes in at number [...]

London Calling makes the top 30 UK tech blog list

I came across a heads-up post from Neville Hobson that shows the top UK blogs ranked by blog search site Wikio for February 2009.  Wikio gave Neville an advance look at their latest ranking of some of the top tech blogs in the UK and listed here are the top 30.
I’m happy to report that London [...]

Jonathan MacDonald Volume 2: No way back from here

Yesterday in London, Jonathan MacDonald chaired an excellent day at the IIR mobile content conference in London – and also had a major announcement.
He mentioned that on the 8th December 2008 he will retire his existing presentation deck: – Volume 1: The Communication ideal.  On the 9th December 2008, he starts his new journey Vol 2. No Way Back [...]

The top UK marketing blogs for November

This month, the crew at Spinning Around have again dissected the Ad Age Power 150 to list the top marketing blogs in the UK.
This time round, it seems like it was a fair bit of work – so please visit the Spinning Around site for the full list.Â
London Calling is up 10 places on the [...]

Top 100 Australian marketing blogs

Over at Julian Cole’s ad pioneers blog, there is a comprehensive list of the top 100 Australian marketing blogs.  You will see that London Calling has snuck into the list at number 7!
The criteria for inclusion was the blog had to be written by an Australian (check) or by someone living in Australia.  Well done [...]

The top 101 marketing blogs in the UK

The team at Spinning Around have again produced a list of the top 101 marketing blogs in the UK, and this list is based on the AdAge Power 150, the top UK bloggers on all things advertising and marketing on 1 August 2008.
If you feel that you should be included, you can get in touch [...]

Top 250 Blog Posts – Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR at spotlightideas.co.uk

Over at spotlightideas.co.uk, Eamon Mahony has been burning the midnight oil to compose a list of the top 250 Top 250 Blog Posts in Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR, following on from his earlier list The Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blogs.
It is well worth a read – head over to Spotlight Ideas now [...]

Top UK PR and marketing blogs for August

Another month rolls by, and so it’s time again for the crew at Spinning Around to do the number crunching on the AD Age Power 150 list to see who’s who in the UK blogging scene.
We’re happy to say we’ve crept up 4 places on the UK chart to 38, and up 46 to #358 on [...]

Clicky – a new web analytics service worth a closer look

I came across Clicky from one of my twitter contacts, so I thought I’d take a closer look.
Wow! This is the analytics tool I have been waiting for. For 2 years I had to suffer with only matrixstats from my web host, then recently signed up for mybloglog which give a better view of what is going on with [...]

latest UK marketing blog leader board out for August

The crew over at SPINNING AROUND: SEVENTY SEVEN THINKING OUT LOUD have once again sliced and diced the Ad Age Power 150 at of 1st August to see who’s who in the UK blogging world.
I’m delighted to day that London Calling is shooting up the charts (up 4 on the UK chart to #42 and up 135 on [...]

London Calling makes the top 100 European media & marketing blogs

Tonight I was finishing an upgrade of the blog from wordpress version 2.5.1 to 2.6 and I saw that Nick Burcher had linked to London Calling so I took a closer look.
He has compiled the top European media and marketing blogs from the Ad Age Power 150 list compiled by Ad Age.
I’m delighted to say [...]

A happy blogger – thanks for reading and for your support

Thanks to everyone for reading London Calling. I am still very humbled that so many people from around the world take the time to check out my blog periodically, and also thrilled that our RSS feed subscribers keep trending up and up.  Below is a screen shot of subscriber numbers since mid January 2008.

At pretty [...]

London Calling is one of the UK’s top 50 marketing blogs

Over at Spinning Around, James has compiled his monthly list (presented below) based on the AdAge Power 150, of the the top UK bloggers on all things advertising and marketing on 1 July 2008.
London Calling are proudly in at #46 with a bullet.  See the full post at Spinning Around (with details on how to get [...]

London Calling theme featured at simplethemes.net

Looking through my weblogs over the weekend, I saw some traffic start to arrive from www.simplethemes.net. Heading over to their site, I see that London Calling has been featured as the demo for Robert Ellis’ excellent Fururocity Vero wordpress themethat I installed only last week.  Since upgrading the site to wordpress and installing Robert’s theme, I’ve had [...]

London Calling: new name, new look, new location but still providing great commentary on mobile advertising, location and social networking

Welcome to London Calling, the new name of my blog with thoughts on mobile advertising, mobile location, local search and social networking.
Why the name? As an Australian now based in London, I was used to many TV programs that used the line “london calling” when referring to long distance international calls to Australia.  When I [...]

Up close with Bena Roberts from GoMonews.com

It is always a pleasure to spend some time with Bena Roberts from GoMo news, and I was able to have lunch with her last week during the MMA Event in London.  I also caught up with Richard Saggers who is the current MMA Chair for EMEA and is also the head of Mobile Advertising [...]

Mobile social networking meets crowd powered media

I have been writing a lot about mobile social networking lately, and over the past 2 days have experienced the power of it first hand.

Below is a summary of how a few reasonably low resolution pictures of the new Heathrow Terminal 5 on opening day ended up on a new social media website, Now Public.
I [...]