Jonathan Smith

A recent post over on the Digital Buzz Blog has a great infographic on the “Meteoric Rise Of Twitter”. Slightly US centric, but nonetheless interesting in proving the credibility of the network which many wrote off as a fad as little as 12 months ago. The numbers don’t lie, with a reported 55 million tweets per day in April of this year Twitter is here to stay.

While it’s been widely reported by the naysayers that Twitter is nothing more than a vocal minority of users creating the majority of the tweets, these numbers work hard to prove that while this may have been the case once upon a time, it’s no longer par for the course.

We’ve been on the bandwagon from an early stage, and have been touting its brand enhancing potential to all our clients for over 18 months now. While initially it felt a bit like an uphill battle, our current roster sees all our clients agreeing with the potential that harnessing Twitter as a platform with which to have meaningful engagement with the public has.

If you would like to find out more about how we have help made Twitter work for them, please get in touch.

Our website for The Diner has been shortlisted for the 2010 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.

Rewarding both operators and designers for design excellence, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards now in its second year and totally independent, is the only concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to design.

With only one month to go, the winners of the Awards, including Best Restaurant and Best Bar, will be announced at a cutting-edge ceremony on 22nd June at Victoria House in Central London.

Through the use of new technologies (including RFID), the Awards event will not only reflect entrants’ creativity, but also offer a unique space where guests will be able to celebrate, relax and network with the leaders of the bar and restaurant design industries.

Attended by both the UK and world’s top hospitality designers, architects and operators, this will be one of the most exciting and innovative events in the hospitality and design calendar.

Fingers crossed. Read more here: www.restaurantandbardesignawards.com

Our friends over at Twin have launched their second issue of their bi-annual style “mook” (magazine/book). The second issue is available to buy online and features the likes of Tracey Emin, Amy Sackville and Christina Kruse.

The Twin website has also evolved and continues to have the regular posts on fashion, art and music. Posts include “Lust for Life”,  “Girl Crush #1: Zooey Deschanel” and “X-Ray Vision” (image featured above).

Respected online creative ezine It’s Nice That have an interview with editor Becky Smith which you can read here.

Head over to www.twinfactory.co.uk and check it all out!

This morning saw members of the Catch team attending a breakfast at The Lansdowne Club, put on by our client JLA, with digital whizz kid Josh Spear, one of the most influential digital marketing strategists (and certainly the youngest at just 25 years old!).

3 years ago Josh founded the digital strategy firm Undercurrent in New York and is now advising some of world’s biggest brands. His consultancy specialises in creating strategies for deeper, lasting online relationships, and acts as a think tank on the influence of technology on human behaviour.

If you’d like to attend the next “Speakers breakfast” or to peruse JLA’s database of Motivational Speakers, After Dinner Speakers, Cabaret and Dance Bands, Conference Speakers, or Presenters take a look at www.jla.co.uk.

Our new “one pager” website has now gone live for our client Altitude, a live events and marketing company.

The website allows all content to be accessed on the home page. Making heavy use of  jQuery the site offers a modern and animated AJAX interface. To allow Altitude to update the site themselves we built it on top of Wordpress using the PODS CMS.

Combining events expertise, marketing experience, and new media knowledge, Altitude creates unique, interactive communication programmes for live marketing events.

www.altitude.cc

Catch’s SEO specialist extraordinaire Danny is a multi-talented chap. Not only does he play in one of London’s most successful wedding bands at weekends, he has also just been signed up to JLA, the UK’s leading speaker bureau, as a speaker-for-hire on the subject of search engine optimisation.

JLA have a huge range of motivational speakers, after dinner speakers and presenters, of which we’re proud of Danny for being one.

Catch offers a comprehensive range of SEO services in order to help your business rank and convert through the use of conventional on/off page optimisation, and our slightly more off-piste tailored Social Media strategy.

Get in touch to see how we can help you get onto page 1 in Google.

We’re on the look-out for a supremely talented graduate keen to take up an internship in our Client Services department.

Don’t be fooled by the mug, you’ll certainly not be making tea 8 hours a day here at Catch. You’ll be expected to meet clients, help produce reports and brief the design and development team, among many other things.

Why not read the job spec here and see if this internship is for you?

We’re proud to say that we’ve been awarded Recommended Agency status for 2010.

The Recommended Agency Register is an independent organisation that undertakes extensive research, in association with MRUK Research, to identify the most reliable and respected agencies across advertising, design, PR and digital specialists.

RAR surveyed a number of our key clients and asked them to score us in the following areas:

• Creativity and innovation
• Strategic thinking
• Account management
• Overall professionalism
• Value for money

Having scored highly we’ve been awarded Recommended Agency status for 2010. Thanks to our clients for the kind words and a big thanks to all the staff for their hard work and dedication.

We’ve just put a new website live for one of London’s most prestigious serviced office, meeting rooms and virtual office providers, Argyll.

Argyll has an extraordinary portfolio of historic buildings in Mayfair, Belgravia, St James’s and the City of London.

With some of the most stunning office space and meeting rooms available, head on over to www.argyllbusinesscentres.com to take a look.

We headed off to Bloomsbury Lanes for bowling, hot dogs, beer and free Whiskey(!) earlier this week. There were a variety of bowling styles on show, with Rory’s smooth efficiency, Matt’s through the legs backwards technique and Joanathan’s unrefined but deadly bullets (Yes, ‘Joanathan’, the staff down there might be lovely but they sure can’t spell).

With a game won each by Jonathan and Owen we moved on to left handers and spin bowls under the guidance of Rory, who claimed to be very knowledgeable on the subject.

All in all there seems to be plenty of talent just waiting to be tapped here at Catch, perhaps you will see us in a second appearance at the 2012 Olympics. We’re already dead certs for the Foosball following our Friday night post-work/pre-pub training sessions here in the office.