Numiko, an award winning Leeds based digital creative agency

Well, what a great result last Thursday night at the Revolution Awards.  Numiko Won two awards, the first for our work with ITV on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and the second for Edinburgh Festivals.

I always have seen the Revolution Awards as some of the toughest in the industry, so winning them feels like a real achievement and it’s lovely for our work to have been recognised.

Well done Team Numiko!

Numiko is in the running for two prizes at this year’s Revolution Awards, having left a lasting impression on the judges, made up by an expert panel of the most influential people in digital marketing.

The site we built for Edinburgh Festivals has been voted a finalist in the ‘Leisure & Travel’ category and the online channel we built for ITVs I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here 2009, has been voted a finalist in the ‘Media & Entertainment’ category.

The Awards will take place at a glitzy ceremony on the 8th April 2010 at Grosvenor House in London.

Suited and booted, Numiko took to the Royal Armouries on Friday night for the prestigious DADI Awards where we mixed with the creme de la creme of the North’s digital industry to celebrate the wealth of talent and excellence existing outside of London’s M25.

We were thrilled to receive a commendation on the night for our nomination in the Best Public Sector Website or Campaign category with Britain From Above for Lion TV/BBC. Britain From Above took the idea of multiplatform production to new heights: the series was created as a multi-platform project from the ground up. The site supports the TV broadcast but is also a destination in itself that lives on after transmission.

Thanks to everyone involved in helping make Britain From Above such a success.

To view Britain From Above visit www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove

A selection of Numikons dusted off their smartest suits and made our way to the Yorkshire Digital Awards last Thursday and had a great night.  There was a great atmosphere at the event and some great conversations were had.  Surprisingly nice food too!   Numiko were really happy to win an award for our work on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! with ITV.  Darren Bristow from Quba even got out his ’special shoes’ which hopefully only happens once a year  Well done to all the agencies in Yorkshire who are consistently producing some really good, effective work.

Apologies for the complete lack of blogging while we were away, due to a combination of hard work, hard play and a shortage of working net connections.  But, aside from that, MIP was great fun again.

In a whirlwind summary: we met some great people and saw some really weird stuff, pitched, many times, won and lost, ate croissants and got food poisoning from some dodgy chinese buffet, drank champagne and ate the smallest ravioli ever, met people to discuss TV, web and virtual worlds, typed, talked and argued late into the night, then danced like idiots even later into the night,winced as the bill for one G&T came to 17 Euros, cheered as other people bought rounds, networked and went to talks, fretted, commiserated and congratulated, veered between the VIP lounge and our insect-infested hotel and nearly went to the Emmeys. Went to parties on the beach, fought with wireless connections and a lack of French vocab, gave and received advice, travelled by plane, train, autobus, taxi, foot, was nearly run over by a rickshaw and was tempted to borrow a cool motor trike thing, saw the most French man ever (playing an accordian on the beach in a crumpled suit, like a Gallic Mick Jagger).

Oh, and Dave lost my umbrella.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/ is awarded the 2009 Non-fiction Digital Emmy, presented at MIPTV in Cannes! It’s fantastic that this flagship multiplatform project has received such acclaim; congratulations to the BBC and Lion Television, and go Team Numiko! Photos to follow soon, our very own Dave and Tom will be blogging shortly as part of their MIP coverage.