QUIET STORM WELCOME LOOK MAGAZINE ON BOARD
15th May, 2012
It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Quiet Storm are now working with publisher IPC on Look Magazine. We have been courting for some while, and are very excited to be tying the knot as some amazing opportunities lie ahead — our best frocks are being dusted down accordingly!
DARREN IS A SUPERJUDGE
5th March, 2012
Ever wonder how your common or garden brands are crowned Superbrands. Well, at QS we now know, as our Darren Thomas was on the judging panel for the 2012 awards. Superbrands need Superjudges after all.
A QUIET STORM POINT OF VIEW IN MARKETING’S ADWATCH
22nd February, 2012
Luck may not be the thing to trust in when it comes to job hunting, but TotalJobs maybe needed a little more when developing their advertising.
NEW BUSINESS SUCCESS FOR QUIET STORM
19th February, 2012
Another good year on the new biz front for Quiet Storm. Number 2 in terms of pitch conversion in the AAR’s end of year review. Give us a call if you want to find out why people are liking what we’re selling.
OUR NEW TV COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN FOR HARIBO
7th February, 2012
It’s always with great excitement that we announce a new TV commercial for Haribo. And that’s just what we have here.
Everyone knows Haribo’s Starmix are impossible to resist, and now there is scientific evidence to prove this fact!
OUR NEW PRINT CAMPAIGN FOR YOUGOV
2nd February, 2012
We have great pleasure in welcoming YouGov to the list of Quiet Storm clients. Our first work for the cutting edge research company is a print campaign promoting its various innovative tools to the marketing community. Click here to see in full.
THE QUIET STORM JANUARY RETOX PARTY
12th December, 2011
Rather than have a same old same old Christmas party like everyone else, we are going for a January retox. Invites to follow (if you think you’ve been missed off the list, let us know).
OUR NEW CAMPAIGN FOR RED LETTER DAYS
28th November, 2011
We are very excited to announce our first work for for the experience gifting pioneers at Red Letter Days.
Rather than simply do generic shots of people enjoying themselves, we wanted to build on the emotional truth of gift giving: that we are desperate to do the right thing, something we can only be sure of when people say ‘thank you’…and mean it.
RECORDING THE MUSIC FOR BLACKSTICKS BLUE
21st November, 2011
Our recent and, if we say so ourselves, rather wonderful commercial for Butlers Blacksticks Blue was really brought to life by the music of Louis Barabbas. We thought you might be interested in a little insight into the recording process.
AN AWARD FOR QUIET STORM
17th November, 2011
Quiet Storm picked up an award last week at the 2011 DADI digital excellence awards in the not-for-profit catagory, for our work on Practical Action. Far left below, you can see our Neal taking the walk of glory.
OUR NEW CAMPAIGN FOR BUTLERS BLACKSTICKS BLUE
6th October, 2011
Firstly, another win to announce: We have just started work with Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses: a family business, based in Inglewhite, Lancashire, who make premium, hand-made cheese from all-local ingredients.
And secondly, the work we’ve been doing for them: bring their flagship Blacksticks Blue brand to the attention of people who buy blue cheese, getting them to think beyond boring old Stilton and consider instead something easier on both the palate and on the eye: Blacksticks is surprisingly creamy and surprising orange, compared with other British blues, making it the perfect ‘oh what’s that’ centrepiece of any cheese board.
To help deliver the impact needed (on a very limited budget), and a quirkiness that reflects both product and company, we enlisted the help of musician Louis Barabbas, who whipped up some musical excitement around this taste of the unexpected…
QUIET STORM WINS RED LETTER DAYS BUSINESS
22nd September, 2011
And it’s time to announce another new business win for Quiet Storm: we have just started with experience gifting pioneers Red Letter Days. A new client is always exciting, but one that comes with fast cars as standard particularly so! Watch this space for new work breaking soon.
QUIET STORM APPOINTED TO NEAL’S YARD ACCOUNT
30th August, 2011
We take great pleasure in announcing that QS have just started working with Neal’s Yard Remedies, the natural health and beauty brand. It’s an exciting, inspiring business and we will be looking at all aspects of their marketing mix: positioning, design, comms and activation.
PS and we also rather liked the amusing juxtaposition with the photo from the next story: natural health and beauty can even help Zombies!
SOME ADWATCH WORDS OF WISDOM FROM NEAL
22nd June, 2011
QUIET STORM CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF IPA MEMBERSHIP
13th May, 2011
Which for an agency of our size, and given the changing requirements of being a member, is pretty good going we think.
And we get a nice turquoise perspex award for reception as well!!
OUR NEW PRINT CAMPAIGN FOR MATTESSONS
9th May, 2011
Out this week, first in magazines and with posters to follow, our new campaign promoting Mattessons’ snacking range is one you can really sink your teeth into: ‘tasty, meaty snacks’, perfect for when those primal munchies strike.
CAMPAIGN’S SCHOOL REPORT
17th March, 2011
Always a highlight of the year, for agencies if no one else, Campaign’s School Reports were out today. And we were pleased to find ourselves featured.
We felt 2010 was a good year for us, despite difficult conditions, and we are pleased with the write-up. Now it’s full ahead for 2011.
QUIET STORM SPARKS ‘WHAT IS TRUTH’ DEBATE
14th March, 2011
We had a very nice meeting with David Wethey of Agency Assessments International last week. And one of the things we always say clients should do (celebrate the truth of who you are) sparked something of a debate around the nature of that ‘truth’, and the time that can be spent/wasted navel gazing in an attempt to find some absolute version of this.
David followed our session up with a post on his blog which is well worth reading. As are all the comments — we’re in the somewhere, making the point that, for us, it’s the celebrating that’s more important than the specifics of the truth in question.
QUIET STORM MAKES THE 2010 NEW BUSINESS TOP 20 AGAIN
10th February, 2011
Which when you’re a smaller agency playing with the big boys is always something of an achievement…
OUR CHANNEL MOVE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN FOR MTV
1st February, 2011
Main station MTV has long been an entertainment-only proposition. But despite this, has remained mired in the depths of the Sky EPG, as part of its music package, at channel 350.
But no longer.
MTV has now moved front and centre, becoming part of the EPG’s entertainment section, rising more than 200 places to channel 126 in the process (10 spots higher than the likes of E4 and More4).
Our task was to help promote this move, grabbing people’s attention and clearly communicating not just that something had changed, but that the whole world of MTV had been turned on its head.
WTF indeed: Welcome To Fun!
OUR NEW COMMERCIAL FOR PRACTICAL ACTION
25th January, 2011
We have just started working with the charity Practical Action who, as their name suggests, offer practical, empowering solutions to Third World poverty.
With our first work for them (Fat Of The Land), we wanted to create a bit of a stir, challenging people to think about our indulgent (and vain) lifestyles here in the West, compared to those in need elsewhere, and how just giving random handouts to salve our conscience isn’t the answer.
To do this we formed The Klaxon Institute, pioneers in a new form of cosmetic aid: a process of reverse liposuction allowing people to donate their unwanted fat to the undernourished of the world – they get fat, we get thin, everyone wins.
Although, as the reveal says (which we left off initially), this model of aid doesn’t work: you need practical action on the ground, enabling those in need of help to develop their own long term, sustainable solutions…
And if getting people thinking (and talking) was one of our objectives, we have done just that, if debates on the Global Development section of the Guardian website (amongst others) are anything to go by.
NEAL CASTS HIS EYE OVER NESPRESSO IN ADWATCH
19th January, 2011
Called upon to review the ads for the first Marketing Adwatch of 2011, Neal kicks things off with a strong coffee…
Click for news from previous years: 2010.