Connecting the Dots / An Agency Blog

Since early 2009, watching broadcast live events online has undergone a substantial shift in the way we consume, interact with, and express ourselves while watching TV on desktop computers and now, even mobile devices. That very year, the Obama Inauguration went down in history for a handful of reasons, one of which was social media being paired with the experience of watching a live event online. Viewers were able to update their Facebook status through a web page that CNN used to cover the event — allowing online viewers the ability to publicly express themselves to a virtual audience. This was followed shortly thereafter by the 2009 NBA All Star Game, which offered a Facebook status component much like the Inauguration pioneered. Ever since these two pivotal events, new and engaging ways in which online viewers experience live events have been changing the online broadcast environment. Let’s take a look at five of them.
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We were honoured to be featured in December as The FWA Mobile Site of the Day

The Swiss Water® Decaffeinated Coffee Company continues to be a leader in digital marketing. They’re currently the only proprietary decaffeination process that we know of engaged in social media, their website — if you don’t mind us saying – is awesome and has won several awards, and now coffee drinkers on the run can learn about the Swiss Water® Process on their phones.
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It’s Friday, which means it’s time to drop another installment of everyone’s favourite ongoing blog-isode, Last Week’s Meme!! Where the team at Engine Digital decides on the most exciting thing that happened on the Internet, a week too late. (we’re busy, ok?)

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Welcome to another installment of Last Week’s Meme at the Engine Digital Blog, where we investigate the latest internet meme, a week too late. I’m sure you can guess what this week’s Last Week’s Meme is, since we haven’t seen an explosion of traffic around a piece of video like this since 37 million of us took part in the much loved Rick Roll.
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If you’ve been seeing a lot of guys on one knee in your online travels as of late, I can assure you it’s not a springtime rush of romance that has a bunch of dudes proposing marriage. Instead, it’s romance of another kind, and it’s been drinking up the internet lately as last weeks meme. I’m talking about brosicingbros.com, the latest craze for bros on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and just about every other digital channel that you can bro down on.
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