Ship’s log.

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.

Helping Telefonica design their TU Me iPhone app

Friday 11th May 2012

TU Me is an iPhone app from Telefonica Digital that offers free voice calls, texts and photo-sharing with other users, tying these elements together into threaded timelines. Happily, we played a part in its creation... read more

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Anyone for cake?

Monday 16th April 2012

To celebrate reaching 100,000 likes on Facebook, team giffgaff decided that celebrating with cake, was the only option. Obviously we stuck our oar in too, and this was the outcome! Congratulations giffgaff! Here’s to the... read more

“Stick it in your queue”

Friday 9th March 2012

We’ve just launched a prototype version of our first own-brand mobile app. We didn’t create it because SXSW was coming up and we wanted something to show. Nor because building an app is a good... read more

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Orville and agile advertising

Thursday 1st March 2012

* Updated 5/3/12 You’d expect the story of how we came to make an Eminem-style rap video starring 80’s ventriloquist superstars Keith Harris and Orville to involve maverick creative directors, rampant egos, overblown budgets and... read more

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A Space: Albion’s startup incubator

Wednesday 29th February 2012
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We’ve just opened a new Albion space, directly above the office we’ve been in for 6 years. (In The Tea Building in Shoreditch, which is also home to Moshi Monsters, Firebox, ustwo™, and lots of... read more

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Albion takes on Hackney work week at Lauriston Primary school.

Friday 17th February 2012
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Nick get it right, it’s not ad-vur-tis-muh-nt, it’s ad·ver·tize·ment! Hackney Work Week is a programme that has been developed by the good people at Inspire for primary schools and aims to develop children’s awareness of... read more

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ANNA award takes pride of place on Albion reception.

Monday 30th January 2012
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What a great start to the year! We’ve only gone and won ourselves an ANNA award! The ANNA‘s are a relatively new award, put together by those lovely people at the Newspaper Marketing Agency. Our... read more

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GLL wins contract for two Olympic venues after the games.

Tuesday 17th January 2012

Great news for client GLL… Seven years ago the leisure trust GLL helped to organise tens of thousands of signatures to ‘Back the Bid’. Since that moment they have been working hard to be the... read more

Get your #shotcast on!

Thursday 24th November 2011
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Tonight is a big night for Team Albion. Tonight, for one night only, we’ll see OK Go live streaming a pop up show from Brazil through #shotcast. All week OK Go have been popping up... read more

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Happy Halloween from Albion London & Albion West Coast!

Monday 31st October 2011
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Things are getting spooky over in LA – Team West Coast have been working night and day to launch a new mobile web app which allows trick or treaters to identify where the best areas... read more

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