Your Zone Friday: And the winner is...
Things we've done and like this week...
After being highly commended at the BIMAs last night (well done to the Relentless team), and with the APAs just around the corner, there’s been a celebratory spring in the step of Zone staffers over the last seven days. Keeping this in mind, we’ve been thinking about going all the way to the top…
Three things we've done
Gone all Christmassy
Edging ever closer to the festive season, our Coca-Cola team have pulled out all the seasonal stops with the launch of a Christmas hub. Check out their retrospective on Haddon Sundblom’s 80-year career and cast your vote on when the first of Coca-Cola’s iconic Christmas ads will air…
Met David Weir
Welcome to the gun show! Our Channel 4 Paralympics team have secured an interview with GB’s number one wheelchair racer. David Weir talks dedication, double sessions and dumbbells while taking us through his rigorous training programme.
Let the audience decide
Our Channel 4 Food team have been busy creating content for new daytime cook show, Drop Down Menu. Fave quote so far? “It almost brings a tear to my eye." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall getting emotional over his stuffed crispy pancakes in Episode 2.
Beardstrokable infogram
This week’s data makeover
Most strokable beard? Best socks in show? It’s not all about winning, but if it were, the team at Zone would clean up at our specially tailored awards list…
Zone hero of the week
Our strategy director, Ric Marshall-Nicholls, has been awarded gold in the IPA Effectiveness Awards for his report on the Ovaltine marketing campaign. Well done!
Tea or coffee? "Coffee - black and one, please."
Movember moustaches
This month good-natured and hirsute Zoners are growing facial hair for charity. We chart their progress…
Approaching the half-way mark, our determined Zoners are still going strong with their 'taches. We’ve long passed the "Is it? Isn’t it?" stage (looking at you, Dom) and taken Movember to the next level, with a catwalk of carefully cultivated styles and shapes strutting through the office doors every morning. This week, here’s Chris, our designer, sporting The Hogan.
In other moustache news, Ben Gomori is now in the top 0.5% of earners for Movember UK. Good work!
‘I made this’
Zone staff share their creative moments
This week: Following on from his success at the BIMAs last night, Ben Gomori, our Relentless editor and IMT regular, was also crowned winner of the We Love…Space’s Fresh Blood DJ competition. Have a listen to his winning down-tempo mix.
NEWSFLASH!
Hooray! The Relentless team were highly commended at last night's BIMA awards. Plus, our sister company Public Zone won the charity category for MyFarm!
Three things we like
Eating pudding
In the name of fair and accurate research, the Zone staffers *had to* taste test 16 different Christmas puddings for our Channel 4 Food team. Browse through the photos of our hardship...
This guy
Incredibly, at just 12 years old, Thomas Suarez has already created two successful iPhone apps and gave this speech at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). A potential Steve Jobs in the making?
A nomination
Amanda Nicholas has been nominated for the prestigious Editor of the Year at the International Content Awards - congratulations!
