Archive for the ‘about ben’ Category

Mr Whitty Sings Christmas ‘LIVE’ at HOST

All this week (17-21 December) we have Mr Whitty, the jazz songster, stationed in our reception. Through the magic of the ‘interweb’ you can dedicate a song to a friend and he’ll sing it for you live on webcam. Plus, between the hours of 1-2pm (Sydney time only), its happy hour when one of [...]

ABC Media Report. My first radio interview.

Yesterday, The Media Report, presented by Antony Funnell, covered The future of advertising online.
Antony interviewed two experts and me. The first Professor Duane Varan, he’s the Director of the Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdoch University in Western Australia. The second, Anne Parsons who is the Chief Executive of the media buying agency, MediaCom.
Its [...]

Australian Creative Magazine: Future Shock Article

I was asked to write an article for the August issue of Australian Creative on the Internet in 10 years. Sadly the whole thing didn’t get published (only up to 16.00, that’ll make sense when you read the following) so here is the full version for your pleasure.
If you get the actual edition you’ll [...]

RH3

New work from us (aka HOST) for New Line Cinema’s Rush Hour 3, its a Trailer Translator… go translate!

Facebook Friendwheel App

This is a picture of my friend wheel, all the people I’m connected to through Facebook. Great application developed by Thomas Fletcher. There are a number of custom settings you can mess around with - have a play. Go here to get the Facebook Friendwheel application.

The Urban Spirit in MySpace, and yours

Finally we’re live! the time it takes to develop within MySpace is quite astonishing… baring in mind the speed at which the online social world moves. We’ve been working on Lion Nathan’s McKenna Bourbon brand for sometime and our strategy this year was to compliment their online presence with a destination in MySpace called The [...]

Single Origin Roasters

Resevoir Street in Surry Hills is the heart of my week day, every morning starts at Single Origin. So when they needed to take their brand online - we got chatting. This is the fruits of our labour, big round of applause to the Host team. Check out the website but most importantly try the [...]

23. Pass on the paranoia!

So the ‘Engage’ team at Host has been hard at work again. This time its for New Line Cinema and ‘The Number 23′ film.
The plot outline (from IMDB) “A man (Jim Carrey) becomes obsessed with a book that appears to be based on his life but ends with a murder that has yet to happen [...]