Welcome to swampround – swamp’s breaking round-up of what’s fresh in digital.
Our tenuous theme this week? Love/Hate. Think European art-house cinema, at triple speed, with less weeping.
Strategy Gaga
First up? Unless you’ve been in The Bubble recently, you’ll know self-spoofing songstress Lady Gaga is making waves with her new song and video.
Peek behind [...]
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Welcome to swampround, our regular new round-up of stuff that’s caught our collective eye in the wonderful world of the web recently (not as painful as it sounds).
We hope you enjoy our collection of cool, weird and interesting stories from the digital world. Feel free to comment or let us know if there’s something you [...]
The Chip Shop Awards – the truly creative awards with a better class of judge
Award submissions can be tedious affairs. The prospect of preparing all those facts and figures to prove ROI and effectiveness. The pages and pages of do’s and don’ts. The sometimes nonsensical category choices. Well here’s some good news. If you’ve longed for some straightfoward awards that exist solely to reward a bloody good idea, you’ve [...]
Happy Birthday Swamp (at Brahm)
Today is our birthday! In fact, we’re a little bit like the Queen, we get two birthdays.
Swamp started in April 2002 with the five founders Simon Wadsworth, Paul Mallett, Andrew Brown, Ally Manock (me!) & Christine Osborne. It was a fantastic time…lots of award winning, lots of great work and lots of fun!
Brahm bought Swamp [...]
bye bye website
Well, we finally got to the point of deciding that our blog represented us much better than a static website ever could.
Like most Digital Agencies we’re too busy working for our clients to keep our website up to date. Where we’re at, our current clients, case studies and thoughts on the digital world are much better [...]
swamp are charging up the NMA and Marketing Magazine digital agency league tables
The team are beaming with pride this month with the publication of NMA and Marketing Magazine’s digital agency league tables.
swamp has jumped from position 72 to position 45 (a jump of 27 places with an increase of 156% of turnover in one year in Marketing) and we’ve been ranked 26th in NMA’s digital marketing agencies [...]
Emma Ashby joins swamp’s Online Media team
swamp’s award-winning Online Media team is continuing to grow and welcomes Emma Ashby (previously at Brilliant Media) as Online Media Manager.
You can see Emma’s introduction in The Drum:
What are you then?
Walking into work at Swamp is a bit like opening a box of chocolates. Or life I suppose.
You never know what you’re going to get.
The latest exhibition of artwork to greet Swampies as they walk through reception is a series of very personal works by Huddersfield artist Amanda Spawforth, exploring the identities we give ourselves [...]
swamp assists Econsultancy with their latest guide to Effective Web Design
We’re excited to see the latest Econsultancy Effective Web Design Guide has been published, and even more excited that swamp have been mentioned in it! We’ve been working with Yorkshire Water for quite a while and discussed with Econsultancy how, when developing the Yorkshire Water website, we used search and analytics data to develop a [...]
What do Martha Lane Fox, The Guardian newspaper and swamp have in common?
Strange question we know but, we’re all presenting at the Digital Engagement conference in Westminster on 6th October.
Michael Cross, the Guardian’s Public Policy Correspondent will be chairing the conference which features a keynote address by Martha Lane Fox, the Government’s Digital Inclusion Champion and founder of lastminute.com.
The swamp team are going to be presenting a [...]
