At the end of last year we ran a highly successful Pinterest campaign for The Portland Hospital. The Christmas themed competition, named My Childs Dream Christmas Stockinggave mothers (and fathers alike) on Pinterest the chance to win a £200 Hamleys voucher to help them with their Christmas shoppin… [read more]

Tags: #PortlandHospStocking, Children, Christmas, Christmas stocking, Fathers, Mothers, Parents, Pinterest, Stocking, The Portland Hospital
Posted in: Blog, Campaign launch, Design, Events, Games, Our Work, Social Media, Web

The manliest event in the world, Movember, is already upon us and MadeMan (a proud partner of Movember) has enlisted the help of actor and renowned mustache grower, Nick Offerman (Parks & Recreations) to show the uneducated masses how its done. Take notes gentlemen, hes a professional… De… [read more]

Tags: MadeMan, men's health, Movember, mustache, Nick Offerman, Prostate cancer, tache, testicular cancer
Posted in: Blog, Campaign launch, Events, Uncategorized, Web

Social Media and The Modern Mother Social Media Week London It was great to be part of Social Media Week London this week as we attended the talk on Social Media and The Modern Motherat Diffusion PR on Great Portland Street. Speakers included: Carrie Longton, co-founder of Mumsnet and Sally Whittle,… [read more]

Tags: babies with iPads, Brandcast Health, brandcast media, Carrie Longton, kids with ipads, Mummy bloggers, Mums and social media, Mumsnet, Sally Whittle, Social Media and The Modern Mother, social media week London, Tots 100
Posted in: Blog, Events, Social Media, Technology

Last Friday, the team at Brandcast took some time out of their busy London schedules to head down to Oxfordshire for a day in the country and our own attempt at a mini-Olympics. A round of archery quickly separated the wheat from the chaff and we were surprised to find out that Kelly beat everyone… [read more]

Tags: archery, Brandcast Health, brandcast media, hovercraft, team away day
Posted in: Blog, Events, Games

Its been four years since the last Olympic Games, and a lot has changed in the world of social media since then. As a result, The London Olympics are being dubbed the first “Socialympics”. “We are at a dawn of a new age of sharing and connecting, and London 2012 will ignite the f… [read more]

Tags: 2012 London Olympic Games, Alex Huot, brandcast media, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Athletes Hub, Olympic Games Facebook, Olympics 2012, Panasonic's Flash Tags, Social media and the Olympics, The Socialympics
Posted in: Blog, Events, Gadgets, Games, Our Work, Social Media, Technology

We had a wonderful evening at The Grosvenor Hotel last Thursday for The Communiqué Awards – the annual event which recognises excellence and best practice in healthcare communications. We were thrilled to be nominated for our work with The Portland Hospital, which made it to the finalist stag… [read more]

Tags: Brandcast Health, Excellence in Digital Communications, Finalist in The Communique Awards, Jimmy Carr, The Communique Awards, The Grosvenor Hotel, The Portland Hospital
Posted in: Blog, Events, News, Our Work

Kelly, Charlie and Steve are in Barcelona at the moment at the ESMO 14th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, filming for ecancer. The congress is the largest GI meeting of the year, debating and discussing all the latest advances and data in GI oncology with top consultants from all over the… [read more]

Tags: brandcast media, ecancer, ESMO 14th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer, filming for ecancer, filming in Barcelona, gastrointestinal cancer
Posted in: Blog, Events, Film, Our Work, Production, Video, WebTV

On Friday June 22nd we attended BritMums Live, a two-day blogger event that has grown out of BritMums, the UKs largest parent blogger community. Hundreds of bloggers from all over the world, descended upon The Brewery in the City of London for the parent blogging conference, to learn, laugh, network… [read more]

Tags: BritMums Live 2012, Carla Buzasi, Mummy bloggers, Parent bloggers, Ruby Wax, Steev Keenan, The Portland Hospital, Travel Perspective, video in blogs, Yummy Mummy
Posted in: Blog, Events, Social Media, Technology, Video

With digital still firmly in the marketing hot seat, we went along to Econsultancys annual Future of Digital Marketing conference to join in the debate. It was an intensive full day of insightful talks from a host of leading digital experts across a range of sectors. Here at Brandcast two of our key… [read more]

Posted in: Blog, Events, News, Our Work, Social Media, Technology, Video, Web

Hospitality is now the fifth largest industry in the UK and directly employs more than 2.4 m people, contributing over £34bn in gross tax revenues. According to David Cameron, income from the £115b tourism sector is fundamental to rebuild and rebalance the UKs economy and the sector provides one o… [read more]

Tags: brandcast media, British Hospitality Association (BHA), InterContinental Park Lane, The Hospitality and Tourism Summit 2012
Posted in: Blog, Events, Production, Video