REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL No.29

We’re all dizzy with anticipation as to what the weekend might have in store for us but this Friday is special. We’ve got a couple of extra reasons to be cheerful.

Campaign magazine released their 100 Top Agencies report yesterday.

Not only were Uber ranked 29th out of the Top 100 advertising agencies in the country…we were ALSO ranked No.2 regionally.

We’re not show ponies. We won’t gloat. We’ll keep this short and sweet. Just take a moment if you will team Uber, to give yourself a pat on the back.



Don’t pat anyone else. That could be misconstrued as gross misconduct and lead to your eventual dismissal.

There’s a lot of hard work gone into the agency recently so you deserve all the plaudits and production company cold callers you will get over the coming weeks having appeared in Campaign’s Top 100 list.

Well done Uber and enjoy your weekend.

CARMAGEDDON!

Some of our older readers may remember we once ran a feature on art director Rob passing his driving test.

Ten days ago in fact.

This is Rob's car yesterday...



...Not so much as a broken bone.

Someone, somewhere is watching over our lucky inuit.

Get well soon 'Nine Lives' Sandom.

HOT NEW TALENT

Every now and again, we will use the Ublog to promote the work of the latest cutting edge promo directors. Achingly cool talent that simply can't be ignored...

This isn't one of those times.

A LOGO IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS.

The Sheffield branch of the RSPCA are building themselves a new state of the art rescue centre.

They came to UBER to see if we could do anything to help raise funds and awareness.

Fond of all things fluffy, we set about the task.

First things first. Martin has designed them a new identity.

The client loves it and Martin is as happy as a dog with two bones.

Uber are working on a number of exciting projects with Sheffield Animal Centre which we will reveal over the coming weeks.

In the meantime if you can donate anything to help their very worthy cause simply phone 0114 2727542 Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm and they will be happy to take a donation over the phone.

AD OF THE DAY.

STUFF AND NONSENSE.

Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re good, good. Sometimes they’re good, bad. And sometimes they’re just bad, bad, bad.

Some websites get passed around the office like a biscuit at a Marc Almond coffee morning.

This is one of them.

http://www.lookalikes.info/

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK.

We’d like to welcome a shiny new recruit to the non-ferrous metal capital of Yorkshire. Nick Andrews is Uber's new designer and joins us from Whitespace in Barnsley.

We would like to wish him all the best in his new job.

THERE ARE TIMES WHEN ONLY VASELINE WILL DO.

This wasn’t one of them.

“Caked in Vaseline they tried to slip him back out but to no avail.
Tom was stuck fast. The only alternative was to gas him until unconscious and then tease him out very gently and slowly.”

Tom, aged 2, is our Tina’s pet Chinchilla and he’d gone and got his nose stuck in the hole of her pet carrier mesh door at the weekend.

This unique service cost Tina £60 which she wasn’t too pleased about.













We did point out that the ‘CHINCHILLA AND LOCAL ANAESTHETIC SERVICE’ would have cost her a lot more had she gone looking for it in some of the seedier clubs on Attercliffe Road.

Readers will be pleased to know Tom is now back home, safe, sound and as nosey as ever.

INTERNET STUFF THAT ISN’T OURS BUT IS STILL BRILLIANT SHOCK!

It takes a lot to detract from features such as ‘The Masterchef Top Ten’ or ‘Guess what Ricky did on his day off?’.

However sometimes, just sometimes, we will quite rightly doff our caps to those websites that go the extra digital mile and deserve to be passed around.

Here’s the first of what will no doubt be many.

Chosen by freelancer Rob ‘Some dates still available’ Wilson.

http://ffffound.com

WELL DONE ROBERT.

What a start to the year for Art Director Rob.
Not only has he become the DFS pin up boy in the Winter sale campaign.










He has ALSO finally passed his driving test.
So far he hasn’t maimed a single pedestrian, which can only be a good thing.
Congratulations from all of us at here at Uber Rob.

YOU CAN FIND US IN DA CLUB.

Or you could find us in VTR North for the past three weeks buffing up our trailer for SEGA’s brand new first person shooter, THE CLUB.

Not normally a guns ’n’ ammo type of agency we stocked up on tinned peaches and went into survival mode.

After one too many late nights we emerged into the light like Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid with our gun toting new trailer complete.

Erm…but not to be shot down in a hail of bullets.

The finished product looks fantastic thanks to the hard work and dedication of the guys at VTR of whom we can’t speak highly enough and of course our trusting client who gave us the green light to do more than just edit some clips of the game together.

FEBRUARY. THE MOTHER OF ALL MONTHS.

Yep. It’s that time of year again.

The second week in February.

Blockbuster premiere’s…major fashion shows…royal weddings…the cup final…you name it, it happens in the second week of February.

What you SHOULD be asking is, ‘What DOESN’T happen in the second week of February?’

You may think we’re reckless, wild eyed loners standing at the gates of oblivion to launch at such a competitive time…

You may think we’ll crumble under the intense media scrutiny that accompanies a launch in such a pivotal month…

You would be wrong.

Our reckless guts have told us to go for it.

The second week in February it is.

Ladies and Gentleman, we give you, The UBLOG.