Influential trend site Trend Hunter has created a video detailing the hottest viral videos of 2008 so far. Amongst the inmates dancing to Thriller and Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty you will find our shooting at a baby pram video (18 seconds in), part of our award winning Bullet Proof Baby Campaign. That is most definitely viral…

We are happy to announce that our That’s Entertainment campaign site for Harrods has won the prestigious ‘Site of the Week’ award at influential trade magazine New Media Age with a great score of 83/100 (download the scanned article here). Big congratulations to everyone involved with the campaign and thank to NMA for recognising us!

When I first found the Feedblitz service, I was blown away. It’s a web tool which automatically creates an email newsletter from your blog posts and fires them out to your subscriber base without you having to lift a finger at a pre-defined date and time each month.

Problems first occurred a couple of months ago, when somehow their database accidentally sent someone elses blog posts to my subscribers. Feedblitz seemed pretty nonchalent about the whole thing when I emailed them about it, but I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt (this despite them having one of the worst User Interfaces for any paying service I use on the net). However, this weekend’s double email is the kiss of death, so I’ve taken the plunge and switched to the lovely Nourish.

Super quick sign up, beautiful UI, quick configuration, subtle 3rd party branding, great sign up form which keeps users on my site and a sensible pricing plan to boot. Feedblitz suddenly looks very web 1.0.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with future emails as I’m keen to keep a close eye on new suppliers.

Smashing out of the NMM offices this month (sorry!) is the International toolkit for Universal’s Home Entertainment release of The Incredible Hulk. Especially tasty is the expandable leaderboard which sees Hulk rip out of the ad unit, whilst in the expandable MPU he gives you the evil green eye. There is also a video content and countdown MPU-sized widget, perfect for the Hulk fans out there.

In the past we have dabbled with the world of luxury goods but here is our first big campaign, for the ultimate purveyors in luxury, Harrods. At the world famous store, the next couple of months plays host to ‘That’s Entertainment!’ themed performances, film screenings and a whole host of exciting events. We were on hand to quickly turn around the campaign site which includes, amongst other things, full event listings, competitions and our very own produced video charades!

Not ones to shy away from a free bar, this month we attended the Y Design Awards ceremony. Although we were pipped to the post, we had made it onto the shortlist in the most popular category, Interactive, for our work on Bullet Proof Baby last year. We are always happy to have our work recognised and we are extremely proud of our nomination so congrats to us! We have also just received word that we have been shortlisted for both the IMA Awards and the Pixel Awards  (vote for us here) for our work on Carrie’s MacBook so fingers are duly crossed…

With its tongue firmly in its cheek and an all-star cast, movie-about-a-movie Tropic Thunder is sure to be a massive success when it hits the cinema this month. Take a look at our explosive new media toolkit where the enhanced formats make excellent use of the high action video and some slick After Effects work and the expandables contain scrollable character biographies. Get some!