Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

Category for web / phunk

Do you work here?

Published March 29, 2010

Some home truths.. if you’ve worked in Ad world and get digital then you’ll probably relate to most of this. Everyone knows they need to change, and it’s about bloody time they did, rather

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Getting nexted on Chatroulette

Published February 28, 2010

Chatroullette is a hybrid of speed dating and hot or not (well pervert or not!), via video and IM chat, at least that’s my take on it. Watch Casey Neistat’s video study (above) to

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My ‘Hardchorus’ for Rachael

Published February 10, 2010

Lovely bit of work from Puma, The Hardchorus. An unlikely choir sing their hearts out for valentines and match day! Nice and simple Facebook integration allows you to get the message to your loved

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Google map for Ben Cooper

My name spelt out on the streets of San Francisco…

Published April 10, 2009

Using Google Latitude a team of people ran around San Fran and, via their mobile phones, positioned themselves to spell out my name – viewable on this Google map. Of course that’s not strictly

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Honda’s problem playground case-study

Published April 7, 2009

Creative idea, channels and execution explained for the ‘Problem Playground’ campaign for Honda by Wieden + Kennedy London. Visit the campaign website here – which is slow, but worth the wait. Another good idea

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Two more video’s that educate on digital

Published February 23, 2009

On my quest to make digital more understandable via video I found two more clips of note. Perhaps a bit geeky, but essential in getting the back story, the animation “History of the

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Addictive TV remix Slumdog Millionaire

Published January 8, 2009

Danny Boyle’s masterpiece gets mashed and mixed by the Addictive TV

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Addictive TV remix Iron Man

Published May 5, 2008

Addictive TV give the Iron Man movie their particular style of remix mashup bootleg that they’re famous for. I know that New Line Cinema got them to mixup Shoot Em Up and Snakes On

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The truth about FaceBook

Published May 1, 2008

Hilarious real-world sketch on the realities of connecting to people you weren’t really friends with in the first place. I totally relate to this. Hardly using FaceBook anymore, in fact, it outright annoys me

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I drink your milkshake madness on Twitter

Published February 25, 2008

I setup a Twitter track on the word ‘milkshake’ to see if it was the next internet meme… check this!! And yes, Daniel Day-Lewis won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in There

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Kittens sing my name, sing my name

Published February 22, 2008

New work from us. Get happy with the bankwest kittens who’ll sing a little song for you.

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Good Things Should Never End

Published November 7, 2007

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RH3

Published July 27, 2007

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

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Facebook Friendwheel App

Published July 20, 2007

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

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The Urban Spirit in MySpace, and yours

Published July 18, 2007

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

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