Thursday, 8 October 2009

Digital Agency - behind closed doors - part II

Rather incredibly, it has been almost a month since my last edition of Behind Closed Doors and what a month it has been!

We were ranked 8th largest digital marketing agency in the UK and 17th largest interactive agency, by the respected New Media Age Top 100 Interactive Agencies Report, also identifying us as the largest interactive agency in the South East.

We are now eagerly awaiting the results of Marketing’s Digital Leagues, which are due out towards the end of the month – we’re expecting great things!

Moving on from awards and we’ve had two really exciting new client wins this month; another case of ‘watch this space’ before we make the formal announcement, but both part of great new projects that will almost certainly become a part of your everyday lives in the not-too-distant future. Thanks to these new clients wins, we're also expanding our team - to find out more about our current vacancies, check out our careers page.

Moving on to the people behind the machine… Last month, I introduced you to Ewan, Creative Director and Bluhalo’s newest recruit. Rather aptly this month, I am going to introduce you to Kunjnita Udeshi, our longest running employee and Head of Production.

What Kunji doesn’t know about the web probably isn’t worth knowing, and with almost ten years behind her at Bluhalo, she’s definitely one of our long-termers! Having started her career at Bluhalo as a Web Developer, Kunji has filled a number of shoes in her time here, including Producer, Studio Manager, Director of Web Services… to name a few.

Interested to hear what Kunji has to say? I presented her with a few questions:


What have you been up to this month?
Lots! Travelling to Paris, working on an exciting project for a big global brand and building up to my annual leave next week!

What sites are you loving?
That’s a tough one - I’ve been so immersed in my current projects that I’ve done less of my usual web exploration! My most recent top find is dotspots, which is a universal annotation system for the web – capitalising on the wisdom of the crowds. Another site I’m currently loving is Vark.com - fancy joining my network?

What are you listening to?
Recently I’ve been listening to Akon, Dizzy Rascal, Kings of Leon and La Roux.

What’s the next big thing?
The next big thing – there’s so many things I could say! But for me it’s got to be the semantic web. We’ve started to see elements of it filtering through into everyday use, but it’s not yet hit the mainstream. When it does, we can expect to see a big change in the way we use the web.

That’s it from Behind Closed Doors today, I hope you’ve found it interesting - we’ll be back soon with more insight into the daily workings of digital agency Bluhalo. In the meantime, if you need a bit of digital magic working for your brand, give us a shout – we love a new challenge and have a few tricks up our sleeve to put you one step ahead of your competitors.

Jocelyn Kirby
Marketing & Business Development Manager
Twitter @JocelynKirby

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