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We are very pleased to announce that our work for Air New Zealand has won us a Webby Award!

‘Forget Everything You Know About Flying‘ has scooped the best banner campaign, and we would like to thank (our Mum’s) and each and every one of you who took the time to vote.

Thank you!

Psssst – check it out here

Digital Shoreditch is right around the corner and if you haven’t heard we’re holding a tech pub quiz on Wednesday along with Latitude. Essentially it will be like any other pub quiz but with questions such as ‘What came first, The Apple or the Altair?’.

Thanks to some kind sponsorship by Interxion the top prize is an iPad2 for each team member! The teams are limted to 4 people each. But that’s a pretty decent pub quiz prize by any standards.

It’s taking place at Bar Music Hall in Shoredtich on Wednesday 4th May – click here for tickets.

Much has been written about how the music and newspaper industries have been broken and reconstructed by the internet. Less has been written about how the advertising business has been through the same upheaval. Largely because most of the industry is still in denial – in denial that Google took away half their business over the last 4 years. In denial about falling effectiveness of the traditional advertising media. In denial about the demise of the agency as the gatekeeper of advertising. The result is that advertising is still operating in roughly the same way it did prior to ‘the event’.

On Wednesday 4th May, the Albion Society will host a discussion between three people who, in their own unique ways, are making advertising do what it wasn’t meant to do. People who don’t accept that adverting has to be corporate, broadcast or intrusive; people who are either protesting this, or creating something better.

This month’s Albion Society is in association with Digital Shoreditch - reserve your place here…..

In March, the Albion Society held another breakfast meet up in London. This time, on the topic of Mobile. (Click here for a refresher).

We wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who was involved, especially our fantastic speakers, Simon Andrews from Addictive, Raam Thakrar from Touchnote, Clive Dickens from Absolute Radio and last but not least, Mark Curtis from Flirtomatic.

For those of you who couldn’t make it, fear not…..

To register your interest for future events, just click…..

Congratulations to Kaya (our West Coast Account Director) who recently returned from her Hawaiian honeymoon!

Wishing you all the best for the future…

Love from all at Albion

One of the big upsides for us with Albion West Coast is creating opportunities for the up-and-coming talent we already have at Albion. We have a generation of digital talent who are incredibly savvy, entrepreneurial, with lots of transferable skills, and a few of them are already working inside the new company. Tim… God bless you… it’s always a pleasure. It gives us a warm glow to be able to do this for people, and of course it’s great for them too (and having a beach a stone’s throw away helps!)

In addition to creating opportunities for existing Albionites, we now have opportunities for US natives who like how we work. If you have an entrepreneurial flair, are digitally savvy , have a passion for all things Silicon Valley,  Account Management or Planner experience, then I want to hear from you.

You can find me on Twitter @jasongoodman or drop us an email at hello (at) albionlondon (dot) com - with the subject ‘AWC Opportunities’

Friday night saw the launch party for NSEW taking place in a quiet cul-de-sac off the main strip in downtown Shoreditch. A hundred or so of London’s most culturally curious, cerebrally minded and generally not in Texas folk gathered to drink margaritas, beers and celebrate the diverse range of events taking place in the coming week .

The music flitted from math rock to disco to yacht rock and then back to disco while the conversations spanned the possibility of the emergence of black holes forming in Austin due to the extreme smugness of geeks with the iPad2, which was the better venue out of the RSA and Conway Hall and why was it still not possible to find decent ribs in London? Even Mike Butcher from Techcrunch / Tech Hub fame popped in for a few drinks and told us about the various other festivals he’s attending in the coming weeks from Tel Aviv to Beirut.

Despite the exitement the party was wrapped up by 11 and everyone hurried home to their beds to rest up before a gruelling 9 days of talks, screenings, gallery shows  and openings. Thanks to everyone that came and made it such a great start to the festival.

Here at Albion London HQ, we are delighted and very proud to announce the launch of our new office, Albion West Coast.
Check out the Campaign magazine exclusive for all of the details!

In a recent addition of Campaign, there was an article on the AAR’s latest report on the new-business market and agency performance . We are very very proud of the results, which you can check out below.