Out With A Bang

Nicked it out of the The Guardian’s live blog of events from Oxford…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/jan/22/1

“Richard Allan, chair of the Government’s Power of Information Review, pointed out that central Government spends around £100m on advertising each year, and argued that some of that advertising could be placed on small websites as a way of funding their development…”

Well, well, well. And, lo, there was a light at the end of the tunnel…

Who knows, even a pot of Government gold at the end of that digital, postcode rainbow…?

http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=219

I’ll get our Kev to give him a bell now.

“MyFootballWriter/NorwichCity… 40,000 monthly uniques; seven minute average engagement time; target demographics 18-30-year-old males; postcode NR1… what you got?”

As ever, the response isn’t so much ‘Way to go!’ as ‘When?’; not ‘We can do…’ but ‘When will you do…?’

[4.20pm update... Just put our Spring '09 ad rate card in; knocking up some flyers for Kev to drop round Whitehall... Well, it's all very well talking the talk, let's see if the Dept of Work and Pensions are up for walking the Job Centre ad walk...]