Simon Young

TradeMe has sold for $700m. But what about the future? A NZ Herald article says that the users are speaking up, and showing a bit of their collective muscle. “We are Trademe” says one user. Fairfax, welcome to the internet!

Jack Yan reports (via a few other sites) that Wal-mart is getting bloggers on their side. Good luck to ‘em.

I don’t know if I’d get up so early if I didn’t know the Marketing Association always has good catering at their Brainy Breakfasts. Delicious. I didn’t need to eat all the rest of the day.
But what I was ostensibly there for was to hear (D’oh! I’ve forgotten her name!) from Tourism New Zealand, and [...]

At long last, Marketing Magazine is introducing a regular column on online marketing, sponsored by Facilitate Digital. And I’ll be writing it!
So if you have any news, views or particularly exciting data about the way marketers are using online, or the way consumers are receiving it, let me know. Email me on simon [at] simonyoung.co.nz [...]