Ben Hall
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 Ben Hall
- H&M leads top ten most-shared Beckham ads on the social web
- 20 May 2013
- 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
- 17 May 2013
- 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
- 03 May 2013
- 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
- 26 April 2013
- 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
- 19 April 2013
- 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
- 12 April 2013
- 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
- 05 April 2013
- 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
- 28 March 2013
- 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
- 22 March 2013
- 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
- 15 March 2013
- 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
- 08 March 2013
- 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
- 22 February 2013
- 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.
- Campaign Viral Chart: David Beckham rises to the top chased by viral hit Sweet Brown
- 15 February 2013
- David Beckham's ad for H&M has risen to be the most-shared ad this week, while viral sensation Sweet Brown makes the most of her internet fame to promote Shortline Dental in the US.
- Brands... for Valentine's Day
- 14 February 2013
- Ikea, BT and Tesco are among the brands hoping to get lucky this Valentine's Day in our round-up of love-themed ads and brand activity.
- Campaign Viral Chart: David Beckham H&M spot takes third place
- 08 February 2013
- In a chart dominated by Super Bowl ads, Guy Richie's H&M spot, starring David Beckham, is the third most-shared this week.
- Campaign Viral Chart: Diet Coke 'hunk' rides out Super Bowl rush
- 01 February 2013
- Diet Coke's "hunk", brought back to celebrate the brand's 30th birthday, joins a host of Super Bowl ads in this week's most-shared virals.
- Campaign Viral Chart: Cristiano Ronaldo leads Nike's viral ad hat-trick
- 25 January 2013
- Three Nike ads are in the most-shared chart this week, with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo leading the celebrity fronted spots by Wieden & Kennedy.
