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Ben Hall

Producer

Ben has been with Brand Media since July 2011. He works as a wesite producer across all of the Brand Media sites.

Twitter name: @thebenhall

Relevant experience: Worked at Huddersfield Students’ Union creating video and interactive content for its web presences. Also completed work experience as a video producer at The Times. I’ve been creating content for the web since the age of 10 – not all of it was great, but the experience has stood me in good stead.
 
Favourite ad: The PEN Story - Olympus

One thing not a lot of people know about you: I once played Jafar in my school’s version of Aladdin. Versatile.

 

Latest Articles From This Author

Campaign Viral Chart: Sony XBox One spoof leads

- Sony's PlayStation 4 tops the Campaign Viral Chart this week, with an ad poking fun at recent confusion over whether games can be shared between friends on the new XBox One console from Microsoft.

Campaign Viral Chart: Happy camel leads upbeat chart

- US insurer Geico tops the chart this week with its surreal "hump day" ad, featuring a happy computer-generated camel, shared 174,474 times in the last seven days.

Campaign Viral Chart: Kmart leads chart with 'big gas' viral

- Kmart, the US retailer, has topped the chart of most-shared ads with 290,176 shares for its "big gas savings" video, just weeks after its success with "ship my pants".

H&M leads top ten most-shared Beckham ads on the social web

- Viral videos and TV ads for H&M are the most-shared ads starring David Beckham, who last week announced his retirement from professional football and played his last game on Saturday for Paris St Germain.

Campaign Viral Chart: Samsung scores hat-trick in tech-heavy chart

- Samsung and its agency Cheil dominate the chart this week with three ads, shared a combined 375,000 times.

Campaign Viral Chart: Beyonce switches to H&M as Evian stays top

- Beyonce's ad for Pepsi slips out of this week's chart but the megastar makes a reappearance in a spot for H&M, alongside work for the Windows Phone and the Nokia Lumia 920.

Campaign Viral Chart: Evian's dancing baby returns in first place

- Evian's latest baby ad has shot to first place in the chart after being shared 1.5 million times this week.

Campaign Viral Chart: Kmart ships its pants and takes first place

- A comic ad from American retailer Kmart has shot to first place in this week's viral chart after being shared more than 1.2 million times in the past seven days.

Campaign Viral Chart: Pepsi and Beyonce lead celeb-heavy list

- Pepsi's spot starring music megastar Beyonce is the most-shared ad this week after generating 226,737 shares across Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere.

Campaign Viral Chart: Google dominates top 10

- Google's video ads for its range of products dominate this week's viral chart, after five of the internet giant's April Fools ads racked up a combined 739,189 shares across the social web.

Campaign Viral Chart: Pepsi Max stays on top

- Twitter's ad, celebrating its seventh birthday, has been shared more than 28,000 times this week, but Pepsi Max's hidden-camera viral, starring Nascar's Jeff Gordon, remains in first place.

Campaign Viral Chart: Dove men let their hair down

- A Brazilian ad for Dove's Men+Care range of shampoo, created by Ogilvy & Mather Brazil, has been shared 232,831 times to become the third most-shared ad of the week.

Campaign Viral Chart: Nascar's Jeff Gordon takes a test drive

- A Pepsi Max ad, created by TBWA\Chiat\Day, is this week's most-shared ad, which features disguised Nascar driver Jeff Gordon taking an unsuspecting car salesman on a test drive.

Campaign Viral Chart: Harlem shake spoofs dominate chart

- The Simpsons, the US cartoon family, features in this week's viral chart, with an in-house ad from Fox spoofing the 'Harlem Shake' shared more than half a million times.

Campaign Viral Chart: Google smashes the competition

- Google's futuristic 'Project Glass' has returned to the chart this week with a video demo from Google Creative Labs, which has been shared 245,464 times.


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