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The Albion blog. This is where we talk about our news, our people, and what we’ve been working on. It’s more for the PR-ish side of things, so if you’re looking for the sillier, funnier side of Albion, you’ll want our Twitter and Pinterest.

The final live debate….

Friday 30th April 2010
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Last night (Thursday 29th April) was the final live debate where Cameron still took quite a hammering gaining a total of 1,205,542 (56%) slaps during the 90 minute programme. Brown was lower than we expected... read more

Slapometer hits the streets…

Thursday 29th April 2010
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A 20 second demo of Slapometer is currently being shown on large digital screens situated in Manchester and Glasgow today ahead of the final live debate on BBC 1, 8.30pm.  The site has already pulled... read more

Slaps against Gordon Brown continue to rise…..

Tuesday 13th April 2010
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As of this morning, (13th April)  Gordon Brown had received 47.8 per cent of the slaps, David Cameron had received 37.9 per cent of slaps, while Nick Clegg had endured just 14.3 per cent of... read more

‘The British election campaign inspires creative actions on the Internet’..

Monday 12th April 2010
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Speigel Online, a German news source has picked up on the Slapometer, titling their article ‘Powerless against the slapping machine’. We’ve also grabbed a spot on ITN Yahoo News today where Jason Goodman (our CEO)... read more

Channel 4 News – Vote 2010: slaps, spoofs and skulduggery

Friday 9th April 2010
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Just when we thought our press coverage this week for Slapometer couldn’t get any better Emma Thelwell from Channel 4 News contacted Glyn our Strategy Director to find out more about why we created the... read more

A New Barometer of Public Opinion: Give It a Slap…

Thursday 8th April 2010
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The Slapometer phenomena continues globally as it gains a space in The Wall Street Journal: The Source they describe it as ‘live, up-to-the-minute and enthusing the electorate in a manner the country’s politicians can only... read more

Slapometer at No.9….

Wednesday 7th April 2010
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Slapometer is at number 9 in a listing of websites to follow on the lead up to the general election on pocket-lint.com, a site that gives you a guide on how to follow the election.... read more

‘Vote with the back of your hand’

Thursday 1st April 2010
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Last October, while the BNP leader Nick Griffin was sweating on BBC Question Time, one of our creatives built slapnickgriffin. It was a simple site where people could express their dislike of the man, by... read more

Another day in the life of Steve Henry

Wednesday 31st March 2010
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Steve Henry, our non exec advisor picked up the Chairman’s award at the BTAA awards the other week. He calls it “one of those lifetime achievement awards which make you feel like your career is... read more

Future Creatives in the making?

Monday 22nd March 2010
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With Cafedirect being one of our clients and at the forefront of the fairtrade initiative, we were delighted to be approached by Chacewater School in Cornwall to judge some adverts that the children in Class... read more