November 2011
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Entertainmentwise Overtakes Mainstream Gossip...
Entertainmentwise Overtakes Mainstream Gossip Sites Heatworld & Hello Magazine
We are very proud to announce the success of site Entertainmentwise.com ranking above Heatworld and Hello Magazine as the country’s most visited independent online entertainment news site. According to the official comScore figures covering October 2011, Entertainmentwise ranked at 30, with 265,000 visitors,...
October 2011
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Gigwise in MusicWeek...
Music site Gigwise.com and record giant EMI are celebrating a hugely successful collaboration promoting new band Morning Parade’s debut album. Over the course of five weeks Morning Parade hosted a media player on the Gigwise site which streamed a new exclusive track every Monday. All of the content was pulled together on a dedicated page and promoted using the ROS hotbox (see below),...
September 2011
2 posts
Win a box of Entertainmentwise branded cupcakes...
As part of National cupcake week we have done another ‘LIKE’ to win competition on Entertainmentwise, this time to win a box of Lolas delicious cupcakes! We have also branded the cupcakes with the Entertainmentwise logo to make them extra special. To enter is simple….LIKE Entertainmentwise on Facebook!http://www.lolas-kitchen.co.uk
Win £100 worth of Cheer Up! Clobber by 'Liking'...
Gigwise and Cheer Up! Clothing have teamed up to give £100 worth of their new range of clothing. We have made the competition really easy, no questions or registering to enter, simply ‘LIKE’ the Gigwise Facebook Page …Yes that easy! The competition will close on Thursday 22nd Septmeber 2011 so hurry up!
You can also check out Cheer Up! Clothing large range of awesome clobber...
August 2011
4 posts
Gigwise team up with the BT Digital Music Awards...
Gigwise has teamed up with the BT Digital Music Awards as the sponsor of the award for Best Song.
Jessie J, Ellie Goulding, Adele and Taio Cruz are set to fight it out in our category as the year of the female artist (sorry Taio) continues. Fans can vote on who they want to win Best Song – and all the other awards – by heading over to www.btdma.com.
The BT Digital Music Awards will be held...
TaleTela At The Notting Hill Carnival....
No we didn’t miss it! One of our sites TaleTela made it down on Monday to take photos right in the epicenter of Europes biggest street festival that is Notting Hill Carnival. The annual celebration of Caribbean did finish three hours earlier than the previous years but that didn’t stop the party spirit! We even managed to take pictures! Go to out Taletela site and see if you can...
Giant Digital Cupcakes
Here we have a our very own Giant digital cupcakes courtesy of Lolas Kitchen. You may be lucky enough to receive a batch of these if you happen to be doing business with us, we like to spread the love and, yes, we have been tempted to gobble these up before they have even seen the light of day! Luckily enough, our will power has served us well and they are probably being devoured by our favorite...
Marketing Intern Wanted
Giant Digital are currently on the scout for a talented Marketing Intern. You will have a degree or be studying Marketing or Journalism / English and be eager to learn the ropes within a small but fun team working with some of the world’s biggest brands and advertising agencies.
To be in with a chance, you’ll need to send us an email at work’AT’giant-digital.co.uk...
July 2011
4 posts
Gigwise 10th Birthday @Cargo Shoreditch, London...
Gigwise would just like to say a big thankyou to everyone who braved the rain and made it to the Gigwise 10th Birthday party on Wednesday last week. It was good to take people out of the digital world and into the meet and greet world! We would also like to thank Two Wounded Birds and Friends Electric for putting on great performances along with the staff at Cargo who assisted...
The Giant Digital Team Take Part In The Asics 10K...
The Giant Digital Team took part in the annual Asics 10k run in London on Sunday 10th July 2011. It was a great day, the sun was shining, the sweat was pouring, and members of the team raised money for their favorite charities ranging from The British Heart Foundation to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Yahoo And Giant Digital Partner For OMG
OMG for Yahoo! UK & Ireland is coming to Europe this July as Yahoo! launches its new celebrity and entertainment site. The new site will be dedicated to daily celebrity news with original content that’s both engaging and interactive, with exclusive blogs, videos and photos and taking original content from three of Giant Digitals most popular entertainment ...
June 2011
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Gigwise Announce Stage At Get Loaded In The Park
This year, Gigwise is proud to announce its first ever 3000 capacity arena at Get Loaded In The Park. The stage will have a diverse selection of acts promising something for everyone. This year, the festival will incorporating more live bands into the line up with Gigwise promoting their favorite acts.
Joining Darween Deez to get everyone in the summer mood will be Babeshadow, who...
May 2011
1 post
Gigwise & Liverpool Soundcity 2011
Gigwise played host to Liverpool Soundcity 2011 this weekend with Scottish rockers The View playing the Gigwise stage at the O2 Academy. Organizer David Pichilingi said the festival was ‘the most successful to date…’ For more information on the festival, go to www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk.
March 2011
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Introducing TellyGossip
Giant Digital welcome the newest addition to the family today in the form of TellyGossip a new website dedicated to TV news.
The site will be headed up by Deepika Rajani, who has been with the company for a year and a half as assistant editor of Entertainmentwise.
TellyGossip will cover all the latest news and gossip on soaps and reality TV shows as well as the best of American TV and...
January 2011
3 posts
Gigwise & Snowbombing 2011
Gigwise is the official media partner of Snowbombing Festival and will be hosting ’King Of The Mountain’ competition taking place between the 4 - 9 of April 2011 in the snowy mountains of Mayrhofen Austria.
The competition will see four bands plucked from hundreds, if not thousands, and given the chance to travel to Austria and play the event on the side of the mountain.
One band...
Entertainmentwise Celebrating Its 5th Year
Entertainmentwise launched in 2005 quickly establishing itself as a leading independent online source of up to the minute entertainment news and exclusive celebrity photos
Now celebrating its 5th year, Entertainmentwise has been at the forefront of breaking stories about the most talked about stars, the hottest red carpet shots and in-depth interviews with the biggest names in Film, TV and...
Gigwise: The UK's Number 1 Online Music News...
The latest comScore Key measure statistics for October 2010 have now confirmed Gigwise as the UK’s biggest music news website in music entertainment. The site ranks 20th overall in the category 3 places above NME, ranked 23rd and Drowned In Sound ranked 90th. Positions 1 to 19 are occupied by aggregated music networks, social sites, newspapers and etailers ie, VEVO, MTV, AOL, Spotify,...
November 2010
1 post
Giant Digital Features In AiCache Tutorial
The good people over at aiCache have kindly featured Giant Digital in their tutorial for their fantastic caching servers that we use. The tutorial talks through how the statistic pages work as our servers often have peaks of over 4000 requests per second so we make a good subject to dissect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSmuAFv-HdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df6V8nomNtQ
October 2010
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The New Entertainmentwise.com
We’ve been working hard on a new version of the Entertainmentwise website, rebranding the site and designing the site from scratch. We’re working with a fantastic logo designer Kevin Macey and web designer Micheal Pumo of Unibands.
Here’s a sneak preview of the new site, which we’ll be launching by the end of October.
August 2010
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Gigwise Gets Its Own URL Shortener gwi.se
Music site Gigwise.com has introduced its own URL shortener for use with the Twitter messaging service.
From today (31st August) Gigwise wil be tweeting its URLs using its own gwi.se URL in association with dlvr.it.
Although there are many great URL shortening services out there, dlvr.it provide an outstanding dashboard that provides the Gigwise staff with the ability to run detailed reports on...
December 2009
1 post
ZenithOptimedia predicts global ad spend grow 2010 →
Growth of nearly 5% predicted by 2012.
October 2009
2 posts
UK Consumers Won't Pay For Content?
Interesting post on MediaWeek saying that 9 out of 10 UK consumers won’t pay for web news. What’s most interesting about this study of 2,000 UK consumers by Lightspeed Research (apparently commissioned to challenge Rupert Murdoch’s decision to charge users to access news content on his websites) is that 1 in 10 respondants said they would pay for online news (4% even saying...
The Inaugaral Blog Post
Welcome to the Giant Digital blog where we’ll be posting marketing insights and updates on what we’ve been up to at Giant. Stayed tuned for more news!