NL-ix are the sandal-wearing Oompa Loompas behind the Internet. They don’t just run one of the world’s largest peering exchanges, they were also the first to distribute it geographically, offering a range of interconnection services across most of Europe. But they could never quite explain this – or their many other brilliant ideas – concisely. …
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Professional Focus
Canon make some of the world’s best professional photographic equipment. This is one of the main things that drives consumers to buy their products. We gathered stories of high-end users and products into the European HQ’s first ever online press pack program. The quality of the images and the personal stories of the photographers –…
An App in the Ocean
About 3700 apps launch every day. As Android Apple and Amazon head for the 6 million mark (and Chinese developers add several million more) it’s worth asking what happens to them all. Smartphone users open 10 apps a day on average and 30 apps a month. While those numbers are not growing fast, users are…
Virtual Reality
Immediate business benefits are the real drivers of change, but in the case of virtualization and the cloud, these benefits have not always been easy to express. We helped Microsoft overcome this challenge in Europe, promoting their Hyper V/Dynamic Data Center products to partner CXOs in the hosting and independent software segments. Working with a…
Award-winning
We worked for several years with Equinix, the world’s largest carrier-neutral data center operator. Initially, as they established their reputation in Europe, we worked with the CMO as a bolt-on Quality Control office for their marketing and media relations program in EMEA, making sure that the messaging and style of announcements from multiple agencies across…
Rewarding Tech Start-ups
The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 is an extremely effective global ranking and awards marketing tool for Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecoms division. Based on national ‘Fast 50’ programs, the Fast 500 charts and celebrates the fastest-growing young tech businesses by global region. Key to successful exploitation is the interpretation of ICT trends from the ranking…
All Systems GO
For many years TomTom has been synonymous with satellite navigation, developing ground-breaking software, devices, and business-to-business apps. The Communication Matrix was the company’s go-to content provider during one of the most exciting phases in the company’s history, when the first ever portable navigation device – the TomTom GO – was launched and the company was…
Vertical Ascent
Interxion is one of Europe’s leading providers of colocation data centre services, with over 1600 customers and 40 facilities. The Communication Matrix worked closely with the HQ marketing and sales team and other agencies to define the right key messages for the business overall and for a range of vertical customer and prospect segments. Once…
New Directions
This was a fascinating high-speed project where we looked after everything from brand design and positioning to packaging and PR. Route 66, a medium-sized satnav software business was keen to add hardware to their software. To compete with consumer products the company needed a complete rewrite; new feature-driven messaging, a new aspirational strapline, a new…
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