Author Archives: James Bealey

We may not be die hard revellers over here at Mkt. but we are concerned with the environment.  Therefore, to embrace all things eco-friendly, we’re quite liking these sustainable garbage tents from Glad which allow festival-goers to literally throw out their tent and all its contents once the music stops and it’s time to go […]

PR daily provided a brief round up of predicted trends that will drive the 2014 marketing and PR industry. Researched and created by WebDAM, here are a few key highlights of interest: Social marketing budgets will double over the next five years A third of traffic from Google’s organic search results go to the first […]

Delivering what the Bulla Cream Creative promised guests, Executive Pastry Chef at the Shangri-La Sydney, Anna Polyviou demonstrated how ‘simple ingredients create delicious outcomes’ when launching the new Bulla Cream product range to media at an intimate event in Sydney on Thursday 31 October. Treated to a dessert degustation of Pavlova Roulade, Cream Brulée, Chocolate […]

Wearables, Apple-esque symposiums, fitness data sharing, connected platform thinking…enough to make your head hurt? Take a pain killer for the headache and brace yourself. Social products are here to stay…tipped to reach between $30 – 50 billion over the next 5 years and according to Business of Fashion, social products are set to be the next […]

Street artist Banksy set up a stall in New York’s Central Park Saturday, selling his original pieces — worth tens of thousands of dollars each — for $60. The event was documented on video and posted on Banksy’s website.  It took several hours for the first artwork to be sold, to a lady who managed to […]

In celebration of the launch of the new look Tarazz.com.au, Mkt. held an exclusive ‘Beauty Brunch’ on Friday 18th October. Held at the stunning Sailors Club in Rosebay, guests were treated with a skinsational breakfast and given the inside scoop from celebrity make up artist Diane Dusting on the Tarazz stocked beauty brands and products […]

Hashtags are everywhere and don’t seem to be going away! Despite the fact that they don’t seem to have done much for Facebook, Google will now let users to search for them—but the results will only display hashtags on Google +… Many (including us at times!) have had quite enough of the hashtag trend and […]

Ever wished you could take just the most pertinent information from a news article instead of having to read the entire article? If the answer is yes, your wish has been granted in the form of a new app called Wibbitz. The app is a free download on iTunes (to iPhone only) that converts online […]

Today is PARK[ing] Day – an  international event that is being put on by Architecture for Humanity which encourages people and businesses to transform metered parking spaces into parks for a day. If you want to find out more and enjoy a city park sans cars visit the corner of Little Lonsdale Street and Hardware Street between 11am […]