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Revolution ranks Enable as UK's No.1 digital agency

January 4th 2008

Revolution survey

Amazing news. The readers of Revolution Magazine have voted us the UK's no. 1 digital agency in their annual survey.

Nearly 400 agencies were ranked by different criteria and we scored a whopping 9.78 out of 10 average. We topped the tables in strategic ability, creativity, new technology, and account management.

A big, big thanks to everyone who voted for us!

HIV: What’s the story?

November 30th 2007

In time for World AIDS day, British Red Cross and Enable have launched HIV: What’s the story? on redcrosshiv.org, Bebo and Facebook .

The campaign features a ‘nano-soap’ where you can watch the videos of Shabna, Marco and Kirsty, they all know each other and they’re all worried about HIV in different ways. The story starts with Shabna: she’s just had Marco’s baby but he’s had a one night stand with a girl everyone’s saying has HIV. What should she do?

We came up with the initial concept, characters and stories and then worked with our friends Hazel Grian (who writes for KateModern) and Greg Browning (who makes very good films).

War Child Iraq Appeal

November 1st 2007

We’re awfully proud of our work with War Child. Our friends there need to raise £1.5m to continue their amazing work in Southern Iraq where they estimate that one child dies every five minutes.

Here are some things you can do to help:

Visit the Iraq Appeal site site where you can find out more and become a donor
Text CHILD to 88818 to donate £1.50
Show your support by posting the widget or badge on your blog/profile/site

Futurelab and Microsoft launch Exploratree

October 1st 2007

Isn’t it about time web 2.0 and social networking came to the classroom? Check out Exploratree, our new online educational software for Futurelab and Microsoft.

Exploratree is a mix of modules that allow children and teachers to express themselves creatively and a social network where individual pupils, groups and teachers can work together collaboratively on projects.

- UPDATE -
There’s been a great reaction with loads of schools adopting it already and Adobe have made it their site of the day.

Adventures in Second Life with WWF and BBC

September 3rd 2007

Conservation Island in Second Life is the latest initiative in WWF’s global campaign to get people to live in harmony with nature. We’ve spent the last six months creating a place for Second Life residents to learn about conservation in a fun, engaging and interactive way.

On the island you can befriend a panda, buy ice-cream from ‘Mr Tangee’ the orangutan, play games and watch films in a surreal town powered by a 100 metre high child’s pinwheel. Other areas of the island include further interactions designed to inform and educate on WWF’s key campaign areas.

There’s an ongoing series of events drawing visitors to the island and we recently hosted the BBC’s first ever virtual ‘outside broadcast’. We built the beeb a working virtual studio for the event which was used to interview guests using Second Life’s voice over IP technology.

Visit the island.

Enable & Aardman launch Webbliworld

July 24th 2007

webbliworld

It's official. WebbliWorld is now live and already getting a lot of attention. And we say, rightly so. WebbliWorld (and yeah we might be a little biased) is the most exciting and vibrant kids website around, all made a little easier with the brilliant character design and animation from our fab partners at Aardman. Hey, and this is only Phase 1.

Over the next while, WebbliWorld is set to become a full blown entertainment and social network which becomes the destination site for kids around the world. We will be introducing some of the hottest trends from social networking and user-generated content, as well as a few new ones, including innovative models for prospective sponsors. If you'd like to know more about WebbliWorld or sponsorship opportunities then feel free to get in touch.

FT and T-Mobile challenge Enable to 'Mobile Survival'!

July 11th 2007

Matt and Darius have just spent a week travelling all over the country testing out the new 'Web 'n' Walk' kit supplied by our friends at T-Mobile. Their adventure was followed daily in the Financial Times who challenged them to work as normally as possible using only mobile communications.

To find out why Matt has formed a sudden obsession with power sockets and Darius should be kept away from monkeys at all costs, check out the FT article, listen to the podcast or read their blogs: Darius | Matt.

Guardian Angel

June 11th 2007

Jemima was interviewed in The Guardian this weekend as part of an article called 'Pursuits of Happiness'. It's about businesses who encourage their staff to have a life outside of work, which is one of the things we're very serious about Enable. In Jemima's case it's how she mixes her job at Enable as an Account Exec and her career as soon-to-be-famous rock star with She Tells Lies.

Enable in the Dragons' Den

May 14th 2007

We've just been told we've won the UPS Local Business Awards as judged by Dragons' Den business guru Theo Paphitis. The awards celebrate businesses who contribute to the local community and needless to say we're thrilled.

WWF Climate Solutions

April 16th 2007

WWF International have entrusted us to help support the launch of their 'Climate Solutions - the WWF Vision for 2050'. This is their strategy for avoiding the worst aspects of global climate change and contains radical solutions that will be presented to, quite literally, some of the world's most powerful people including heads of state. Our part is pulling the presentation together. It's a big information design challenge and we're having to make some very complex data easy on the eye.

Insuring Success

April 2nd 2007

We’re excited to be working with BCWA, who are part of the Simplyhealth Group – a community of healthcare businesses that joined together to help make people feel better, boasting over 70 years of market experience. We’ll be using our digital marketing nous to help them significantly develop their position in the Private Medical Insurance market.

BCWA commissioned us after a hotly-contested three-way pitch against agencies with significant experience in the healthcare market, so we’re particularly pleased to be working with them, along with a range of technology partners like Mediasurface, ATG and Omniture.

10 Rules of SEGOR Marketing

March 30th 2007

If you're a brand who wants to communicate with ethical consumers then you need The 10 Rules of SEGOR Marketing.

Last year we worked with a field of ethical brand ‘superstars’, researching best practice communications for brands with SEGOR (sustainable, ethical, green, organic and responsible) attributes.

Contributors include Mick Bremans of Ecover, Dan Germain of Innocent and Craig Sams of Green & Black’s. As expected, we've had lot's of requests but we’re only going to give it to those who ask nicely! So if you'd like a copy, have a quiet word with Kit.

New HQ

February 1st 2007

Enable Offices

We’ve finally moved into our awesome new solar-heated pad by the waterfront. 4 Alfred Place was designed by Architect/Artist couple Mike and Sandie Macrae and we first fell in love with the place when it was profiled in the Sunday Times magazine.

The building contains a studio (formerly an art gallery) offices, 2 wetrooms, kitchen, lounge area, creative spaces, meeting rooms – in fact everything a young agency could want. Best of all it was designed and built to have a low environmental footprint by Mike, who’s a specialist in sustainable architecture.

Come and visit us - you can even hang out in the garden and feed the fish!

Light Up Bristol

January 2nd 2007

During December we worked alongside Bristol's best and brightest creatives to produce Light Up Bristol, an alternative Christmas lights show. 8 images were specially produced for projection 400ft wide onto Bristol’s Council buildings during the peak shopping period. The work was commissioned by Bristol Media (www.bristolmedia.co.uk), with Darius doing creative direction. The Enable contribution was ‘Xmas Invaders’, a particularly retro response to Christmas!

To see more, visit our Flickr Group or check out our video.

Reaction to the how has been great – the Guardian and Telegraph gave us a write-up and we even made the Daily Mail’s picture of the day.

Shoe appeal

January 2nd 2007

We've just helped Clarks with their first-ever email campaign, in which they’re promoting two great causes.

To raise funds and awareness for leading children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent, Clarks' brand team gave themselves 24 hours to write, illustrate and print a unique story book for the under 5s. The result is the tale of Toby the Taxi - for sale online and instore at only £5 - with every penny going to Clic Sargent.

The Blue Peter Shoe Biz Appeal is raising money to set up fun-packed Children's Corners for some of Malawi's poorest children. You can support Blue Peter and Unicef by dropping off any old and unwanted shoes at your local Clarks Store.