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Friday (26th Feb ‘10) saw the official launch night for Leith Records. Held on the spectacular floating arena that is the Mary of Guise, Leith’s barge, it was packed to the rafters with journalists, staff members and three great acts. A great effort by the Leith Records team - Claire, Kenny, Chris, Jim, Kirsty and Mikey (not pictured).

DJ Monterey Jack got the music flowing down the Water of Leith with a great soundtrack to the night.

While, Over The Wall kicked the live music off with a great set. Gav Pretice and Ben Hillman best describe their work as euphoric pop. And it was anything but watery.

And Epic 26 headlined the event with their fast paced indie dance beats, which really got the boat rocking.

It was a great night had by all, a great start for our side project. Hopefully there will be many more nights like this to enjoy.

Kudos goes to Chris Scott for the party pics on Facebook

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Nice link on The Drum website this morning.

In 1993 the whole creative department went on a training weekend. The idea was to re-learn The Lost Art Of The Press Ad and learn to fly fish.

I thought the picture was worth sharing.

Who’s Who & Where Are They Now

1. Dougal Wilson - director, Blink Productions, London

2. Pete Armstrong - creative director, Iris, Manchester

3. Gareth Howells - co-founder and joint creative director, Newhaven, Edinburgh

4. Graham Doran - founder, Graham Doran Ltd, Leeds

5. Chris Landy - freelance creative, Amsterdam (ex 180 and Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam)

6. Paul Moran - freelance creative, London

7. Lee Hempstock - freelance creative, Amsterdam (ex 180 and Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam)

8. Pete Mill - co-founder, 60 Watt, Edinburgh

9. Gerry Farrell - creative director, The Leith

10. Alex Flint - creative, Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, San Francisco

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Our latest work for Diet IRN-BRU. Can you spot the difference?

See more of our print work filed in our Flickr sets.

In pitch perfect timing to coincide with recent questions over John Terry’s captaincy, his publicity team’s search for brand ambassador opportunities washed up at the Dock this morning.

To “KICK around any thoughts” on why this particular Dad of the Year would be ideal for your campaign, feel free to contact Riviera Entertainment.

EConsultancy recently published following mind-boggling statistics on their blog – Here is a peek at the numbers:

Social Media Statistics Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours.

Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis.

LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide..Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis.Six months ago, this was 250m…This means over 40% growth in less than 6 months.

Flickr now hosts more than 4 billion images.

More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day.

Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles, meaning that it’s 85,000 contributors have written nearly a million new posts in six months.

Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Currently, there are around 2.5bn uploads to the site each month.

Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.

Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices. In six months, this is over 100% increase.

There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.

There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.

Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million. The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.

15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging, according to Technorati’s new State of the Blogosphere.

At the current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in a single year. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the USA.

India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.

More than 250 Facebook applications have over a million combined users each month.

70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog. 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews.

More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60m Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month.

Wow…

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