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VOTE NOW – Pakistan’s 2nd Annual Blog Awards

VOTE NOW – Pakistan’s 2nd Annual Blog Awards

| November 13, 2011 | 2 Comments

The long awaited Pakistan’s 2nd Blog Awards are here and the event is being hosted by PC World Pakistan & IDG in December 2011. The 2nd Annual Blog Awards are presented by Youtube and Google, with Nokia as the 1st Lead Partner, Djuice as the 2nd Lead Partner, where as Dell and Intel are supporting [...]

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PakMediaBlog Turns One and Wins Its First Blog Award Title

PakMediaBlog Turns One and Wins Its First Blog Award Title

| May 29, 2010 | 18 Comments

We are extremely excited to inform all of our beloved readers and contributors that PakMediaBlog turned one last week (20th May 2010) and got an award in the ‘Best Ezine’ category in Pakistan’s first ever Blog Awards held at the Regent Plaza in Karachi on 28th May 2010. How’s that as a perfect birthday gift? [...]

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The Dirty War of Advertising!

The Dirty War of Advertising!

| March 10, 2010 | 5 Comments

This was a guest post written by Beenish Qureshi, who is a Visiting Faculty at Iqra University & Principal Strategist at Reverb 27.   Since the times are changing we are moving on to modernization. Our advertising industry is also incorporating aspects some of which are culturally misfit. However, let’s not be too critical as they are catering [...]

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PakMediaBlog Nominated for Pakistan Blog Awards

PakMediaBlog Nominated for Pakistan Blog Awards

| February 4, 2010 | 15 Comments

Greeting Readers and Fellow Marketers! It is a pleasure for us to announce today that PakMediaBlog has been nominated for Pakistan’s First Annual Blog Awards that is being organized by Google Pakistan and CIO Pakistan, whereas Dawn News is the strategic media partner.We are all excited and looking forward for some serious competition by other [...]

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Djuice & Redbull Street Style Winner Announcement [PR]

Djuice & Redbull Street Style Winner Announcement [PR]

| February 3, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is to inform all people that “Areeb Iqbal” has won the finals of the competition and will be flying to South Africa for the world finals of Red Bull street style. The PakMediaBlog team wishes him the best of luck for the global competition and we expect you to do the same. Find the [...]

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HP Bloggers’ Meet UP!

HP Bloggers’ Meet UP!

| December 6, 2009 | 6 Comments

Greetings Everyone! Once again I hop in after taking a long break from writing. Well this is going to be a short post as I just wanted to inform all of you that HP is calling all bloggers for a meet up. The occasion is the launch of HP Mini and the event will take place in [...]

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Four Indispensible Tools For Any Marketer

Four Indispensible Tools For Any Marketer

| November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

1. Google Reader If you don’t know what an RSS feed is, learn about it now and start using them! For the rest of us, we all know the number one challenge (in any industry) is keeping up to date with what is happening in your field. RSS feeds make life 1000% easier since you [...]

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Wake Up Marketers! Spamming is not Blogging!

Wake Up Marketers! Spamming is not Blogging!

| October 23, 2009 | 15 Comments

So is there really a difference between blogging and spamming? Those of you who are familiar with the ‘internet’ jargons might understand each term separately and might also be able to differ between the two. Yes, I deliberately used the word ‘might’ because a lot of people still can’t figure out if they are really [...]

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Delivering on Brand Promise

Delivering on Brand Promise

| September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments

“Houston… We’ve had a problem” – James Lovell Trust is lacking where it matters – between people, companies & both. The complete corrosion of consumer confidence is making buyers cynical with each passing day. Can we blame them? Wal-Mart didn’t exactly handle the PR nightmare in China when one of its security guards killed a [...]

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Aftar/Dinner by Weblounge – Telenor Connecting With Its Customers

Aftar/Dinner by Weblounge – Telenor Connecting With Its Customers

| September 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

As always, Telenor has taken another great step towards building up its strong relationship with its customers. In the holy month of Ramadan it was Telenor, which invited its Web-Lounge customers to an Aftar-Dinner in Pearl Continental Karachi on Monday the 14th of September 2009. Telenor has always been one of the innovative companies, and [...]

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BodyGuard – Lest We Forget :D

BodyGuard – Lest We Forget :D

| September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment

Forget what you have been fed these few days and let me take you on a trip in my time machine… Now that I have been trying to find a job (with little success)… I haven’t had the time to make my usual postings and after the rebranding of the PakMediaBlog, I was looking for something [...]

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Telenor Persona Weblounge: Convenience At Its Best!

Telenor Persona Weblounge: Convenience At Its Best!

| August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

Providing convenience to the end consumer has always been at the top of the priority list of today’s marketers. And this is mainly because we as consumers are more likely to try out new products and services that we find convenient. Talking on the lines of convenience, the most recent attempt by the marketing professionals [...]

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Ufone –Right In Your Face

Ufone –Right In Your Face

| June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments

Although I do feel PakMediaBlog has posted many articles on Ufone over the past weeks. Somehow their ad campaigns do become the talk of the town in one way or the other. Obviously, a couple of their ads are better than the rest.     Now, recently they have made another concise ad after Zong [...]

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Editorial Teams & Authenticity of Publications

Editorial Teams & Authenticity of Publications

| June 9, 2009 | 4 Comments

Since all of us have already been talking about brands and the TV as a medium, I thought of writing something about the print media today. If we talk about the print media in Pakistan at present, there are hundreds of publications that go in to printing. Each publication is well targeted either to the [...]

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The Editorial Team

The Editorial Team

| May 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

Hello Everyone, We’re kickstarting our “Letters to the Editors” section today and we welcome all of you to write to us through the Contact Us page on the top. After getting to interact with our audience, we found a need for this section and we really thought we should have a place that can help [...]

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Launch: PakMediaBlog.Net

Launch: PakMediaBlog.Net

| May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments

Welcome to the PakMediaBlog. This is a launch post and this will explain you about what PakMediaBlog is all about. As we all know that when it comes to accessing information about Pakistan on the internet we have very limited options and resources. Keeping this situation in mind, PakMediaBlog has been launched in order to [...]

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