Husband-and-wife team Marguerite and Tim Pople have launched a business creating visually-stunning walk-through tours for websites – the result of the frustration they experienced when trying to book a holiday online. The firm, 36TY (www.36ty.co.uk), produces 360-degree panoramic and virtual tours that allow businesses to create a real experience...
Bristol is home to the UK’s most prolific WiFi workers and biggest users of social media, easily beating London to the take top slot in the both tables, according to new research. Three in 10 people in Bristol (31%) use WiFi for work away from the office – a...
Bristol-based digital and social media advertising agency Virtuoso Advertising has sold 51% of its shares to US firm XL Marketing for an undisclosed sum The firm is one of the UK’s leading advertising agencies specialising in database analysis and creative marketing utilising social and digital media. New York-based XL...
From Bristol 24-7 Bristol’s Watershed celebrated its 30th birthday yesterday with a free open day including 30 hours of the highlights in film, television and creative work directed, produced, or filmed in the city. The iconic media centre, in the Grade-II* listed building at the entrance to Bristol’s Harbourside,...
The London-based producers of new feature film The Fold have praised Bristol for its first-class filming infrastructure and accommodating approach, describing it as “a breath of fresh air”. Despite filming 65% of the film in the city during the wettest April on record, they also said working in Bristol...
An app that brings random artworks from Damien Hirst, Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet and others to mobiles has been developed by Bristol digital agency Thought Den and London’s world-renowned Tate Gallery. Magic Tate Ball takes its inspiration from the iconic Magic 8 Ball app. Users simply shake their...
The South West Design Forum has re-launched itself as Design South West with a new identity, website and the mission of ‘Design, Better Connected’. The organisation, which is run by the industry for the industry, continues in its role as the regional body bringing together seven locally-based design forums....
Bristol’s Oscar-winning animation stars Wallace and Gromit are hoping for a grand day out as probably the unlikeliest performers ever to grace the BBC Proms. Organisers of the renown classical music concert series today announced the Claymation couple’s Concerto in Ee, Lad will feature in this year’s programme. They...
Two of Bristol longest-established, family-owned print businesses are to merge, creating a new design, print and digital communications business that combines 153 years of trading experience with the latest digital expertise and technology. Portishead Press, founded 43 years ago, will return to its home town from Bristol to join...
Ujima Radio’s youth programme development adviser Caroline Oldland and chair Roger Griffiths joined the Lord Mayor and Mayoress of Bristol at their official residence the Mansion House, Clifton, for an official thank-you to the local media. St Pauls-based Ujima, which broadcasts on 98fm, is Bristol’s urban music station....
From Bristol 24-7 A protest against swinging job cuts at the Bristol Evening Post took place in the city centre this week as staff at the paper marked the paper’s 80th anniversary at an exhibition. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) were outside the Galleries shopping centre...
Journalists will this evening stage a demonstration in Bristol city centre against swingeing job cuts at the Bristol Evening Post, the closure of its Saturday edition and the end of Venue magazine The protest, staged by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and supported by other trade unionists, coincides...
Bristol’s animation pioneers Aardman have turned Reggae Reggae Sauce founder Levi Roots into an animated character for his first TV ad, which launches on May 3. The ad features Levi cooking a barbeque in the back garden of a house in Brixton, singing the “It’s so nice I had...
