Komodo launches emails from beyond the grave

Last Messages Club was a client with a heaven-sent story, the kind of client that PR companies dream about. Their service allows people to send posthumous messages to loved ones (you can find out more about them here). After launching them with an exclusive article on the front page of the Sunday Times more (followed by plenty of online PR), coverage went ballistic – BBC Radio 4, Five Live, Daily Mail, FT and much. Here’s a feature that ITN produced about them.

 
 

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  • Interview with DJ Laurent Garnier from our client Rivmixx

  • Aerial video of the Big Brother house, created for 192.com maps

 

The fault which caused a plane to crash land at Heathrow airport in January 2008 was "unrecognised", a report says.   Toyota recalls thousands of Prius hybrid cars sold in Japan because of braking problems, as it tries to limit damage from a stream of problems.   MPs are to vote on Gordon Brown's plan for a referendum on changing Britain's "first past the post" voting system.   Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray, denies a charge of involuntary manslaughter over the singer's death.   The BBC is to reveal the total amount paid to its performers who broadcast on radio and television.   A UK civilian stabilisation group is to be launched later to help rebuild countries hit by conflict or disaster.   The family of a Haitian man says he has survived four weeks under rubble since the devastating quake hit of 12 January.   A UK soldier from 36 Engineer Regiment has been killed by an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.   MPs say entry requirements for teacher training courses in England are too low and damage the status of the profession.   A US soldier is arrested after allegedly waterboarding his four-year-old daughter for not reciting the alphabet, say Washington state police.   Anne-Marie Duff and Andy Serkis win the best acting prizes at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, while gritty drama Fish Tank is named best film.   A mother-to-be goes into labour queuing for tickets for the FA Cup fifth round clash between rival clubs Southampton and Portsmouth.   Portsmouth say they are close to reaching an agreement to avoid being wound up in the High Court.   Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack hits out at Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger's criticism of his team following the Gunners' 2-0 defeat on Sunday.   Shane Warne describes England captain Andrew Strauss's decision to miss his country's tour of Bangladesh next month as disrespectful.   Sikhs should be able to wear ceremonial daggers at school, says a judge. Is he right?   Why surprise plays little part in latest Afghan operation   Hero pilot on the Heathrow crash landing   Metropolitan Police Commander Ali Dizaei's downfall   How important is the Kirpan to the faith of Sikhs?   What makes a great TV theme tune   Will Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko challenge outcome?   A man stabbed his ex-wife to death in front of her children and then tried to kill his stepfather, a court hears.   An inquiry begins to establish the extent of human trafficking in Scotland and whether victims have enough protection.   A body found in waters off south Wales is that of a missing woman whose car was found on the Second Severn Crossing.   The office of the first and deputy first minister confirm who will be on a working group to examine the issue of parading.   The first Darfur war crimes suspect to face international judges has the charges against him dropped.   The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base has been charged with the murder of two women, police say.   The US says new sanctions against Iran are the "only path" after Tehran announced it was stepping up uranium enrichment.   The campaign for presidential and senatorial candidates begins in the Philippines ahead of May's elections.   Ukraine is waiting for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to either contest results from Sunday's presidential election, or resign.   The defeated candidate in Sri Lanka's presidential election, General Sarath Fonseka, is arrested for "military offences".   Activity in the UK housing market was frozen by the snowy weather although prices continued to rise, surveyors say.   Overpayment of benefits due to official errors has doubled from £400m to £800m since 2000, says a committee of MPs.   Experts fear older women are ditching contraception in the mistaken belief that fertility inevitably wanes at a certain age.   Children as young as five are being targeted in a new online safety campaign by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.   The Cassini probe returns yet more data to back up the idea of a sub-surface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus.   The press watchdog upholds two complaints by X Factor judge Dannii Minogue against the Daily Mirror and Daily Record for invasion of privacy.   A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.   
 

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Foursquare…in a nutshell

Posted by Lucy February 1 2010 02:08pm

badgesHere at Komodo we’re always on the look-out for new and exciting ways to communicate, and we’re predicting this to be the next big thing in the social media world: Introducing you all to Foursquare, a social media platform that tracks where you are, where your friends are and recommends places to go relevant to the city you are in. (more…)

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Jedi knights, bounties to arrest Blair and other cause campaigns on social media

Posted by Jayne February 1 2010 02:00pm

From Facebook campaigns to get Rage Against the Machine to Number 1, to online petitions to get Gavin and Stnumber_one_two_1546974cacey back to our screens; cause campaigns powered by social media have become a favourite tactic for the PR world to ‘close the loop’ on brand campaigns.

As long as the cause is related to the brand that is represented, they offer a great reason to talk about products whilst trying to make some kind of social impact.

Here are three campaigns (not-necessarily PR driven ones) that have caught our eye at Komodo:

  1. Arrest Blair – a current campaign to raise a bounty for someone to make a citizen’s arrest of Tony Blair. At the time of writing they had raised over £2,000 in donations
  2. Inclusion of Jedi in census statistics – back in 2001, over 300,000 ‘Jedi Knights’ campaigned for Jedi to be included as an official religion on the British census
  3. Make St George’s Day a public holiday – a campaign from Komodo client This England Publishing to create a new public holiday on April 23rd raised a ton of awareness last year. Read more about it here.

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GetJar-ing our way into Wired magazine

Posted by Jayne January 14 2010 11:28am

With every client, there is a dream target publication. For our client GetJar, the world’s second largest mobile apps stuntitledore, one of those publications was Wired – the internationally acclaimed consumer technology magazine. 

Yes we’d already got them into the Guardian (several times) as well as The Times, Sunday Times and Daily Star (you see where I’m going with this?), but there was something extra special about helping GetJar to take its rightful place in Wired’s January cover story on the apps economy.

Perhaps it’s because we know how notoriously difficult it is to break through Wired’s avant garde doors, perhaps it’s because GetJar’s CEO was quoted alongside the likes of Steve Jobs, Microsoft and Jamie Oliver (yes, we mean the chef), or perhaps it’s because the editor David Rowan sent a personal thank you note. Who cares, either way we’re going to brag about it.

Catch GetJar in the January issue of Wired, on sale now. :-)

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