YEEEHAAAAW!!!

What a great week...A pitch win AND an award.

Congratulations go to Rob 'Do you want scraps with that?' Sandom who won a ‘vinegar’ for his American Red Cross ad at this year's Chip Shop awards.



Go on Rob….Push your chest out like a confident budgie.

BOOTHS GLORIOUS BOOTHS.

A lot of hard work and a late night or two have paid off splendidly.
We’ve won the Booths account in a shoot out against some top opposition.

Sarah Burns, marketing manager at Booths said, "The quality of work from all the agencies was high, however we felt Uber’s approach to the pitch was both innovative and creative.”

Mark Robinson, Creative Director at Uber said, “Get in! Back of the net! Bananarama!”

http://www.booths-supermarkets.co.uk/

IT'S A TWISTER AUNT EM !!!!!

You know how it is...

...You come into work and someone says, 'We'd like you to design a website about a cat from outer space who uses a tornado machine to save our planet from an alien prince who controls a black hole which is sucking the living daylights out of the Earth.'

Happens all the time.

Our lovely Ignition client comes up trumps yet again with a brief for the new Nintendo DS game Tornado. Well done Mark and Mark and Al 'Toto' Baker for making this happen.

http://www.ignitionent.com/tornado/

EVIE DOES LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE...

ARE YOU GOING TO INVITE ME IN OR WHAT?

Ignition took delivery of their latest Uber designed website this week. Vampire Rain is the name...and...erm...vampires and rain is what you get. Our very own Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker, Mark and Mark have done another top job recreating the atmosphere of the Vampire Rain title throughout the website. Handled by our very own dearly departed Jonty, our interactive website allows you to explore the city featured in the game and bump off a pointy toothed fiend or two. The children of the night...what sweet websites they make.

99 PROBLEMS BUT A PITCH AIN'T ONE.

Hip, Hip, Midway! We've won another pitch! This time it's a heavy hitting title for the guys at Midway. We're not strictly speaking supposed to talk about this one but lets just say some famous super heroes are going to beat the living be-jesus out of a bunch of equally famous franchise fighters and vice versa. Well done Rob and Rich for pulling on the lycra body suits and winning this one in the name of justice and world peace.

IT IS WITH HEAVY HEARTS...

It is with heavy hearts we announce the departure of Jonty. The Uber stalwart is moving to pastures new. In a complete change of career, he is leaving us to do something thoroughly worthwhile for the people of Sheffield, working as a mentor to new businesses in the community. For all his hard work on Ignition, Setanta and Consort amongst others we salute you Jonty. Come back and see us with Jonty Jnr when the nipper arrives.

MOORES! MOORES! MOORES! HOW WE DO LIKE IT! HOW WE DO LIKE IT!

Hoorah! We've won a project pitch for Moores Kitchens. Aimed at the house building market, our stylish brochure and range identifier was designed by our very Martin 'Barry Scott' Davis. The brochure has gone to print this week and should be in stores very soon indeed. BANG! AND IT'S GONE!

OUR NEW HR HIRING....

....hasn't settled into the Uber way of working quite as easily as we would have liked. So, Alexandra will be leaving us at the end of this week to pursue a career in counselling.

We wish her all the best.

YOU'RE HIRED!

Another day. Another newb. Alan Baker is our latest hiring and joins us from Think in Leeds. Our smart new suit will be working on Ignition and Secantor whilst chasing new business with Amy. 

FRIENDS REUNITED.

A big Uber welcome to Amy Elton who joins us as Brand Co-ordinator. Many of us already know Amy for the sterling work she did at top production house VTR North. She'll be out and about scouting for new clients over the coming months so if you see her please say, 'Hello'.

Actually please say, 'Hello, would you like a brand spanking new £7million pound account to work on?'

DRUMMING GORILLA. FAT ORANGE MAN. BOZ EYED SURFER.

Once in a while, an advert comes along that redefines the way we look at TV advertising. Cadbury, Tango, Guinness...and now Rainham Sheds can be added to that list. A dead cert shoe-in for a digital pencil if ever there was one. Make sure you have the sound turned up to experience this in all its glory.

www.rainhamsheds.co.uk

I SAY WHAT I LIKE AND I LIKE WHAT I BLOODY WELL SAY.

Our Creative Director has been nattering with anyone who will listen this week.

First up an article in The Drum about ad folk moving North from London.

And secondly a feeble attempt to blag free games in MCV magazine.

The interview with Caravanning Monthly will have to wait until next month's issue as it got bumped down the editorial priority list due to a late news story entitled ‘The Future of Awnings.’

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

Never let it be said that planners don't deserve the wages they command.

BEST IN SHOW

We’ve welcomed a new member of staff this week to Royds Mill. She’s 45cm tall, sleeps curled up in the corner of the office and snuffles around under your desk looking for biscuits.

Meet Evie the agency dog.

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

Hideously disfigured, shuffling and moaning his way into the studio this week came the reanimated corpse that is Jonty to announce the birth of his new baby.

‘Teenage Zombies launches today!’ came the garbled cry.

Jonty and our evil web genius Crooksy have worked their backsides, arms and ears off this month for our new client, Ignition. The website is being launched to coincide with the release of their new game, ‘Teenage Zombies. Attack of the Alien Brain Thingys’.

Lets crack open a brain or two to celebrate.

http://www.teenagezombiesgame.com/

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.