We’re pleased to announce that our latest collaboration with Nokia is now LIVE! Apps for Ireland can be found on Facebook and it allows anybody to submit their ideas for what Apps they’d like to see developed, and they can also vote for other ideas to win loads of great prizes ranging from meals in Supermacs to Nokia Phones, and some lucky winners will win grand prizes up to a value of €3,000…

Check out the App on the Nokia Ireland Facebook page here

Have fun!

The staff here at eightytwenty would like to apologise for the high number of tweets surrounding Dragon’s Den and Bank Of Ireland’s allaboutbusiness.ie last night that resulted in the Twitter server becoming over capacity and displaying error messages for a lot of users.

We realise that the integration of Twitter into the comment stream on the allaboutbusiness.ie website is causing a spike on Thursday evenings and would like assure you that we are doing our best to resolve this issue so that it doesn’t happen again.

Yours in Digital,

The Team

New years is over and everyone is back at Cloud Number 9. It’s not great to be back but looking at some of the campaigns we’ve got coming up it’s hard not to get excited!

Anyway i’ll keep it short and sweet, so here is the latest video to come through the production team at eighty:twenty, a Carol-Off Mashup for Meteor.

Enjoy!

In our latest campaign, this Christmas season we’ve teamed Bord Gais up with Pix.ie to run their “Big Switch On” campaign, in which they are sponsoring the switching on of Dublin & Cork Christmas lights. We’re using Christmas themed Twitter #Tags to create a buzz around the campaign and pulling them in to a live stream on the Pix.ie group page.

A further goal of this campaign is to invite budding photographers to get involved by uploading their favourite Christmas ’09 images. If we gather 500 festive image uploads, Bord Gais will donate €10,000 to the Dublin Lord Mayor’s Christmas Fund. Festive fun while also contributing to a good cause!

You can find out more about it here: http://pix.ie/group/christmas09

Happy Christmas!

It’s finally here, our first edition of the ADA eMag. If you’ve been directed here you probably already know about the great features contained in it…..but….. let’s go over them again! The emag contains written and video content and is fully shareable. Simply drag your cursor over the any of the content to send to a friend. Click on any area to zoom in on text or video.

If you haven’t seen the eMag yet you can find it here.

We’d love your feedback so comment on this blog post with your thoughts. Hope you like it!

We’re making progress on our eMag at last! It’s been a few weeks in the making so can’t wait to finally be able to share it with you all and get some feedback on it. We’ve got interviews with a top Facebooker, loads of great video content, interactive videos, and loads of other features to keep you busy!

*Update: You can now sign up to receive the emag, just fill out the form on the link here: bit.ly/8020emag

…and we’ll send it to you as soon as it’s ready!

Bebo and Eighty:Twenty have joined forces to create Ireland’s first Bebo documentary consisting of 8 webisodes based around the launch of Ireland’s first urban female focused eMag called Dash.

The new series ‘The Ms. Adventures of Lisa Lane’ will feature our lead character in the run up to the launch of the eMag. The winner will feature in the series and win a spanking new Toyota Aygo for the year. The series will follow our leading character’s exploits as she interviews up and coming bands, celebrities, attends exciting showbiz events, new niteclub openings, fashion launches…

Dash Magazine will be a downloadable eMag aimed at women from 18-30 featuring cool content about fashion, entertainment, music and social news. Dash will run every month and will be launched to the viewers of the Ms Adventures of Lisa Lane online series and key opinion leaders. Throughout the year viewers can vote for the kind of content they want to see in upcoming issues, the new cover designs for the eMag and send in contributions. Video blogging keeps the series alive throughout.

We are looking for a sponsor for each section of the emag as follows:
• Music
• Entertainment
• Social
• Fashion and Beauty

In return your brand will:
• Be written into the Ms. Adventures of Lisa Lane show
• Sponsor the relevant section in the Dash Emag every month
• Receive ongoing advertising support directly for your branded support on Bebo

Why should you get involved?
• International trend for Web TV series. This original campaign has huge media and PR potential for building affinity for participating partners.
• Nationwide recruitment process extends the campaign duration & talent spotting programmes are very popular.
• Applicants & participants create viral WOM through Bebo & beyond.

You will see that the costs are extremely competitive, with your investment being mirrored by the advertising support for each brand alone, excluding your brand integration into the show and the corresponding digital magazine.

View the presentation about the Ms. Adventures series here: http://www.slideshare.net/francesmacken/the-ms-adventures-of-lisa-lane

Dove Go Fresh is a light and invigorating range of girls products recently launched on the Irish market. The people at Dove asked to create a cool online presence to showcase the range. We created an all encompassing site streaming US webisodes with Alicia Keyes and featuring vox pops with Irish women giving their fresh perspectives on the themes Career, Relationships, Body Image, Dating & Family. The Dove Go Fresh Life Coach answers questions submitted by women all over Ireland. Site visitors are signing up to receive samples from the Dove Go Fresh range. Take a snoop at:

www.DoveGoFresh.ie

We’ve got a stash of tickets to the Munster vs. New Zealand rugby match on the 18th November! There’s 4 sets of 5 tickets to be won. Just go to

www.toyotarugby.tv

and register you and 3 friends to be in with a chance to win a set of tickets. Alternatively, email in a video of you and your mates singing along to Stand Up & Fight, the rousing rugby anthem. Here are the words so you’ve got some time to practice!

“Stan’ up an’ fight until you hear de bell,
Stan’ toe to toe, trade blow fer blow,
Keep punchin’ till you make yer punches tell,

Show dat crowd watcher know!
Until you hear dat bell, dat final bell,
Stan’ up an’ fight like hell!”

Check out the video we recorded at Thomond Park in the last couple of weeks, those Munster supporters are raring to go!

We’re oh so proud of this one. Focus On Her is a game created to showcase the new Lynx anti-perspirant, Sharp Focus. The aim of the game is to stay cool while the action heats up. Natasha the seductive boss and Candy the gym instructor will do their utmost to break your concentration and increase your emotional sweat. You can click on the icecubes or the electric fan to keep cool but its the can of Lynx Sharp Focus that will help you to clear the level and get to the bonus footage. We’re overwhelmed with the positive commentary the game has received, check it out now at www.focusonher.ie