.tv Would you like some really good news?

[GoneWalkabout]

Would you like some really good news?

Well, if so, may I inform the good folk of the TV section of Namepros that the UKs best-known, and most loved, department store has gone all TV


Marks & Spencer TV


If M&S are doing it, so will the rest of the UK!

 

[freedom30]

Damn, Jimbola,

that is one sweet looking site. and user friendly to boot!

Thanks.

of course the inane and arcane set up here at the forum would not allow me to rep you, so my thanks will just have to suffice.

 

[Argos]

Excellent info, thank you for sharing Jimbo ! Good to see such a popular company jumping on the .tv train, slowly but surely the extension is gaining in exposure and recognition.

 

[GoneWalkabout]

Thanks Freedom

For people outside the UK, they may not realise that this store is seen very much as the barometer of shopping in the country.

If M&S are doing well, so are the rest of the country.

They have really picked themselves up from a horrible time over the past few years and seem to understand their market. How nice they see .TV as part of that mix important to the retention and build of a good customer base.

Take a look at their last Tv ad and you'll get an idea of the quality of this organisation...

YouTube - Marks & Spencer Christmas Advert 2009



The UK at least, it seems, has gone 100% TV acceptable. I think that much of Europe and Asia is going that way too.



EDIT: Thanks as well Argos, I think we posted at the same time so I didn't see your post (I wasn't being rude)

 

[MrRhee]

great news.

 

[jlc]

All I can say is......Wow.

JLC

 

[Vito]

Jimbo,
That is some really good news.

That is one incredible looking site!
Very cool to know that it is UK's Best known and Most Loved Department Store!

Repped.

 

[top19site]

All I can say is......Wow.

 

[snoop]

I went to marksandspencer.co.uk and clicked on "M & S TV" that took me to

M&S TV :  Marks & Spencer

If you watch the status bar really closely it looks like a couple of images load of the .tv aswell as the .com. All in all I really wonder how this is news for .tv? Did you see them promote the .tv somewhere?

 

[freedom30]

I went to marksandspencer.co.uk and clicked on "M & S TV" that took me to

M&S TV*:* Marks & Spencer

If you watch the status bar really closely it looks like a couple of images load of the .tv aswell as the .com. All in all I really wonder how this is news for .tv? Did you see them promote the .tv somewhere?

...our brave crusader, wandering to the site that has been spoken of by many, appeared to be in disbelief and pondered how a site of the heretical extension can exist in so solid a state without the support of the .com extension. Quixote at once thought that he may very well be witnessing a mirage, a trick of the mind. No .tv site can stand on it's own in such a fine format, or so he thought.

The question well raised put doubts in his very soul, doubts he must refute as temptaions of the devil himself. He steadily raises his banner once again and rides fiercely into the territory that he deemed as a mirage to vanquish any form of evidence of the 21st century. His battle rages, the war will be a long and protracted one, he concludes, and the 20th century is still in sight...

 

[WEEarraPEOPLE]

edited

 

[snoop]

They promote the .tv everywhere.
In PR they talk about the .tv, on their youtube channel then all links point to the .tv, on their channels on various video sites they link to the .tv, on videos featured on various social networking sites then they use the .tv domain....etc

I had a look through their old press releases and couldn't find a reference to the .tv domain.

They use MarksandSpencer.tv as the brand for their web tv channel.
They may redirect it but the brand name for all the public to see is: MarksandSpencer.tv

On their site it doesn't mention marksandspencer.tv though, they call it "M&S TV", that looks to be the the brand.

Interesting about the youtube channel (which has one reference to the .tv under each video), though it looks like it is getting very little traffic, around 130 subcribers/30k views compared to the claim of over a million views for M &S TV. Even then if you play the videos it says "for more go to marksandspencer.com" at the end.

Saying "all links point to the .tv" isn't accurate either, the only actual link goes to the .com. Each video in the description references the .tv though, without having a functioning link. Effecively on that youtube channel they interchangeably use the .tv and the .com.

Profile

Channel Views:
35,676
Joined:
19 October 2009
Website:
http://www.marksandspencer.com
Welcome to the M&S YouTube channel.
About Me:

On this page you'll find all sorts of videos from M&S TV - from wine tasting to party planning and special events.

We'd love to know what you think about our videos, and what you'd like to see on our channel in future.

For more videos take a look at

Looking at compete also it looks like the .tv is getting about 20 visits per day,

[url=http://siteanalytics.compete.com/marksandspencer.tv/]Site Profile for marksandspencer.tv (rank #1,658,419) | Compete

Alexa looks better,

marksandspencer.tv - Site Info from Alexa

Though if you look at that Alexa data 95% of traffic is just from people loading videos via the .com site, not people who actually visit the .tv.

 

[freedom30]

I had a look through their old press releases and couldn't find a reference to the .tv domain.



On their site it doesn't mention marksandspencer.tv though, they call it "M&S TV", that looks to be the the brand.

Interesting about the youtube channel (which has one reference to the .tv under each video), though it looks like it is getting very little traffic, around 130 subcribers/30k views compared to the claim of over a million views for M &S TV. Even then if you play the videos it says "for more go to marksandspencer.com" at the end.

Saying "all links point to the .tv" isn't accurate either, the only actual link goes to the .com. Each video in the description references the .tv though, without having a functioning link. Effecively on that youtube channel they interchangeably use the .tv and the .com.



Looking at compete also it looks like the .tv is getting about 20 visits per day,

Site Profile for marksandspencer.tv (rank #1,658,419) | Compete

Alexa looks better,

marksandspencer.tv - Site Info from Alexa

Though if you look at that Alexa data 95% of traffic is just from people loading videos via the .com site, not people who actually visit the .tv.

...and the brave man of la Mancha quenched his parched throat upon the desert sands, though not a soul was stirred to his passionate cry of the crusade and quest. His battle cry hath fallen upon deaf ears, as the multitude were determined to maintain their place and remain in the 21st century.

His facts were indeed based from a formula of ages past, where magic spells meant fortunes for those parked souls of yore. It did not work in the present, however, and would likely work not in the future for our poor lost soul Don Quixote.

Undaunted, he makes ready to set his sights upon another target...

to be continued...