Shiny NewsTo promote Windjammer Landing's free-night stay promotion, Shiny Agency and EllisDon, parent company of Windjammer Landing, created a fan page contest to find out the best song of summer. Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville" has taken a quick lead on the first day of the contest.
To promote the new Nokia N97 mini, Freshdaily (publisher of hyperlocal sites blogTO, Beyond Robson and Midnight Poutine) and Shiny Agency created a fan page contest to determine Canada's bet city from Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. There are 97 categories for the Facebook fan to vote in, spanning people, places, events, organizations, food and drink. Users are ranked within their city and winners will be chosen from that leaderboard. Within days of launch, the contest had amassed over 13,000 votes.
Roy Pereira was on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news show "Connect With Mark Kelly" speaking about Facebook's popularity and security scams around it.
Shiny Inc. has released their new advertising technology offering called Shiny Ads. Now all web publishers can directly take new advertising orders on their site and through their ad server by integrating Shiny Ads. Best of all, the pricing model is a simple revenue split with no setup or monthly fees. Niche content and local news/reviews web sites now have an unbeatable mechanism to increase their eCPM and their lost revenue from small and local advertisers.
Roy Pereira is speaking today at the Canadian Association of Journalists' annual conference in Toronto on Facebook and Journalism.
Working with our client, Poolhouse, Shiny designed an iPhone application that took the most popular features of the Dogbook Facebook application and added features that would work well in a mobile GPS-enabled platform, such as nearby dogs. We then worked with our execution development partners, Five Mobile, to build the iPhone application.
Our customer's goal was to reach golfers worldwide. Our concept focused on allowing golfers to socialize, find new golfing buddies and new courses wherever they maybe travelling. Users can create an extended personal profile, join group discussions, find nearby golf courses and with the unique search tool, can find other golfers that meet their criteria, including friend-of-a-friend, specific golf club member, handicap, and more.
In cooperation with Refresh Events, Entrinsic Partners, and Jay Goldman, Shiny Agency's Roy Pereira will be presenting today on the state of Marketing inside (and outside) Facebook with applications, Fan Pages and Facebook Connect.
Working with Entrinsic Partners and Zoocheck Canada, Shiny Agency launched a custom Facebook Fan Page to raise awareness of Lucy the elephant and the campaign to have her moved to a more suitable location.
In anticipation for this year's Toronto International Film Festival, Shiny Agency has launched a Facebook application that allows users to review all of the film's and schedule viewings with their friends.
We are now located at 260 Queen Street West, Suite 400 (at John Street). The CN Tower is so close that it looks like it could fall on us.
On June 2nd at the Sullivan Room in NY, the NYC dev community came together to share Facebook knowledge, insight and socialize at the Facebook Developer Garage. We had 8 speakers all together including Annand Sharma from Facebook.
Shiny Agency, one of the co-organizers of the Facebook Developer Garage in New York, wants to thank Intel for sponsoring the event, the Sullivan Room for providing great beverages, and of course Facebook for bringing in a speaker on the same night as their big 2 year Platform anniversary party.
Tungle, a leading web-based scheduling software provider, today launched their Facebook application. Facebook users can now enhance their existing online profiles by adding using the Facebook application to display a real-time view of their availability. The Tungle.me Facebook application also gives an “at-a-glance” view of the availability of all friends that have the Tungle.me Facebook app installed, making it easy for users to connect with their network.
"Shiny Agency was great to work with. Professional and full of experience, they got Tungle on Facebook out in record time.", said Marc Gingras, President of Tungle.
Working with NY-based advertising agency AppsSavvy, Shiny Agency today launched a pet voting application to extend Progressive Insurance's pet insurance campaign into Facebook.
Poolhouse today signed with Shiny Agency to revamp and manage their premiere Facebook applications on Facebook; Dogbook, Catbook, Horsebook, Ferretbook, Fishbook, Rodentbook, and My Babybook.
Spring is here and its time to expand our team. Check out our jobs page to see if you could be part of our excellent team.