One Minute Brief of the Day in collaboration with @_Bands_FC: Create posters to help share our #LoveMusicLoveFootballHateRacism message to football fans across the world.
Today we’ve teamed up with our friends at @_Bands_FC for today’s brief. We’ve got great prizes to be won and an important message to send out to football fans across the world.
We have seen even more incidents of racism within football grounds recently and we want to get a message out there that it has no place in football in our own creative way, which we hope will reach as many people as possible.
Our message today in proper Bands FC style is Love Music. Love Football. Hate Racism.
And we want you to bring that to life in the form of posters. Whether it’s a scribble, sketch, note, photoshop design or something else, we want to see your ideas and spread a message of positivity and zero tolerance to racism in any stadium and beyond.
Inspiration for your entries:
Love Music:
Introducing song lyrics, band names, singers or classic music artwork.
Love Football:
Introducing football chants, team badges, player names, the teams you support.
Hate Racism:
Delivering a powerful message combining music and football to tell the world that racism is completely unacceptable and that we must not let it start to creep back into the game.
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @_Bands_FC with the hashtag #LoveMusicLoveFootballHateRacism
Prize:
Winner receives a £150 cash prize and we’ll print a run of 100 of the winning design
(don’t worry if your entry isn’t fully designed…we’ll work with you to bring it to life!)
About Bands FC:
Bands FC mix football and music to come up with some fantastic designs - they’ve raised over £100,000 for charities and good causes as well as sponsoring some grass roots football teams. Their exhibition has stopped off at The Royal Albert Hall and The National Football Museum as well as travelling to New York and Dublin and all round the UK
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to share the quotes, advice & inspiration from @JamalEdwards' talk at the #MAXCreativityTour with @AdobeUK
In the third of our #MAXCreativityTour briefs, we are focussing on the amazing interview on stage with SBTV founder Jamal Edwards last week. This was one of the highlights of an incredible line-up and great event, which a few of the OMBLES were lucky enough to attend. We know some of the OMBLES were watching the Live Stream as it happened…but if you missed this inspirational talk, don’t worry… it’s been made available to watch online right here: https://bit.ly/2RE2GWs You can see the other great talks on the playlist too.
Brief: We want you to bring to life some of the inspirational quotes, advice and inspiration from the talk and encourage people to watch this exclusive interview.
One of the key parts of today’s brief was about Jamal’s work in helping under-privileged communities. He said it would be great if one of Adobe’s products could be made more accessible for young people to help them get more opportunities and help them into the creative industry at a young age. But the response from the host was that there already is!!!. Adobe Spark is actually free for every schoolchild in the world!!! This was great news to us and we now want to spread the word about this incredible program, what it does and how it is absolutely free for schoolchildren to help them start their journey into the creative industry early.
We’re looking for scribbles, notes, designs, sketches and more to help share some of the great advice and inspiration from the Q&A. Perhaps you could even use some of Jamal’s quotes in your entries. Give his Q&A a watch here https://bit.ly/2RE2GWs
Please include the following sentence in your tweets for the chance to win the great cash prize on offer:
‘Watch the inspirational talk from @JamalEdwards at the #MAXCreativityTour at https://bit.ly/2RE2GWs’
Remember to tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs & @AdobeUK with the hashtag #MAXCreativityTour
Prize:
Winner receives a £100 cash prize.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters that unite everyone in their love for nature & encourage the public to #FightForYourWorld with @WWF_UK
Following our incredible #Connect2Earth collaboration with WWF, we’re teaming up once again to share an important message and encourage everyone to realise just how important nature is to us.
We’ve got brilliant prizes to be won and your work could feature on WWF social channels to over a million followers!!
At a time when we are in a world of political uncertainty, we know one thing for certain… that whoever forms the next government needs to take urgent action. We’re not about taking sides, we just want what’s best for the planet and we want everyone to be together, whoever they are and whoever they are supporting, it’s important we unite as one when it comes to the planet.
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs @WWF_UK with the hashtag #FightForYourWorld
The brief:
This is bigger than party politics. We’re in a climate and nature crisis, and things are only getting worse. Our forests are burning, our icecaps are melting and our wildlife is being wiped out around the world.
In what can feel like divided times, we are united as a nation in our love of nature, our latest poll showed 81% of the UK population are concerned about the environment. The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world, and our new government must take urgent action to fight for our world. Nature is not just a nice to have, it’s our life support system, vital to our food, water, air and even our economy.
We’d love to see your poster that shows:
• How vital nature is to us
• How nature is a love that unites us all
• How urgent action is needed and being called for across society
For more info click here: https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/general-election-2019
Please make sure that your poster is not biased to any political party.
As a charity WWF must be neutral to all parties and work with all parties to stop the destruction of nature and help it recover.
Prizes:
1 winner will win
£100 vouchers from WWF.
WWF tee from https://wwf.teemill.com/
Our Planet book
Kids Our Planet book
1 runner-up will win a WWF tee from https://wwf.teemill.com/
Web link: https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/general-election-2019
Twitter: @WWF_UK
We’re excited to see what the OMBLES come up with!
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to say #HappyBirthdayMOMBLE to @LynneMWhite1
Today we’ve got a very special brief to celebrate the birthday of my mum!
Most of you will know my mum as the most supportive OMBLE in our community. Retweeting and liking all of your great ideas every day, offering encouragement to newcomers, providing support to those who have had a bad day or felt down about their work and she even created a map to show all of the OMBLES who are participating in the daily briefs across the world. She won OMBASSADOR of the Year last year too and she has become a hugely important part of our community.
So I’d like all of the OMBLES to help me wish my mum a happy birthday in all sorts of different creative ways, whether it’s a poster or birthday card style.
Tweet them to @OneMinuteBriefs and @LynneMWhite1 with the hashtag #HappyBirthdayMOMBLE
I will, of course, be entering a few myself.
She likes motorbikes, cars, Mercedes SLKs. She’s Scottish but doesn’t like Celtic (or football) despite my Mother’s Day card that I designed for her many years ago in the image below. Random concepts and crazy art direction. No change there. Disappointed in myself with the your instead of you’re though. She does however follow the results of my team Man City and also sometimes goes by the name ‘Mumguero’.
From a personal perspective, my mum has helped OMB become what it is today by giving me support since it was created whilst I was at university in 2010. As OMB has grown, so has the responsibility and pressure it puts on my shoulders. Every single weekday, I receive hundreds of notifications and this has become a way of life rather than a job or a hobby. I had to deal with OMB growing whilst in full time jobs as a Creative Director, whilst giving talks and organising OMB events. And the person who was always there to tell me to not overdo it and take on too much was my mum.
In 2015, I did overdo it and the stress could well have been the cause of my heart attack. And the first person I called when it happened was my mum. Since then I tried to put that to the back of my mind but it is always there and can be demotivating when you want to grow and push forward. However, the first job I had when I went back to work was to do a music video for the NHS and me and my mum were both sat in tears watching it on TV on Christmas Day as it beat Justin Bieber to Number 1.
And, when you do grow, there are obstacles along the way that you do have to overcome. My mum has been there to speak to and help overcome those things. At times, when you just want to walk away from it, she has reassured me that we are doing great things and making people’s lives better with what we do. And she’s right. Mums always are aren’t they.
At #OMBLIVE6, I spoke of the last year being the worst of my life due to suffering agonising pain every day from a slipped disc, neighbours from hell and family issues that have really got me down, whilst trying to put on a brave face and keep OMB going. My mum was there to help me through it all.
In fact, I wouldn’t be in the creative industry at all if it weren’t for my mum. She’s creative herself, a qualified interior designer, works in the fashion industry currently and was fully behind my decision to do graphic design at college when my teachers were heavily pushing me to do English, History and Law. The fact I could write better than I design found it’s own way when I became a copywriter within a creative team.
Going back to when I was even younger, I used to draw cars and products when I was young and learnt to read and write by watching Countdown with my mum! I also started my first business aged 16 with my 12 year old brother, holding our first meeting with a big engineering client at the dining room table of our house whilst my mum waited in the kitchen for us!!!
So there’s been plenty of ups and downs but there has been another person behind the growth of this incredible OMB community. And that person is my mum.
I hope you’ll all join me in saying #HappyBirthdayMOMBLE
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters for tonight's LIVE STREAM of the #MAXCreativityTour with @AdobeUK
Last week we ran a great brief with Adobe to promote the Adobe MAX Creativity Tour as it comes to the UK with around 100 entries!! We will be at the event this evening which is being live streamed on the Adobe YouTube Channel at 7:30pm.
The previous OMB was based on the event itself and today’s brief is focussed on the LIVE STREAMING of the event and how this opens up the event to the entire world. How can we spread the word of the live stream and get every creative tuned in at the same time to experience this great event as it’s happening?
We’re hoping all the OMBLES will be tuning in tonight and getting involved to communicate all things LIVE!!!
Logo on transparent background to be used on entries.
Logo on black background to be used on entries.
Please include the following sentence in your tweets for the chance to win the great prize on offer:
‘Watch the MAX Creativity Tour London live online at http://bit.ly/34DAkzk tonight and get inspired to the MAX!!’
Remember to tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs & @AdobeUK with the hashtag #MAXCreativityTour
Prize:
Winner receives a £100 cash prize!!!
About the MAX Creativity Tour London 2019 Live Stream
Save your place for creative inspiration.
Join us LIVE tonight to catch the MAX Creativity Tour. Get inspired by top creatives and experience first-hand the best of Adobe MAX – The Creativity Conference, where we announced the latest innovations and updates to your favourite Creative Cloud apps.
On the night, you’ll see in action a selection of the best new releases to Adobe Creative Cloud that will empower the way you create. For example, take your creativity to new places with Photoshop on the iPad, discover a completely natural painting and drawing experience with Adobe Fresco and hear all about Adobe Aero, the most intuitive way to view, build and share immersive AR experiences.
You will also hear inspiring stories from our amazing guest speakers to spark your creativity.
These include:
Octavia Bromell
Illustrator & Adobe Creative Resident
Rufus Deuchler
Principal Manager of Creative Cloud Evangelism at Adobe
Jamal Edwards MBE
Founder of SB.TV
Leo Burnett & Passion Animations
The creative team behind this year’s McDonald’s Christmas ad ‘Ellie and Archie’.
When and where?
Date: TONIGHT!! 3 December 2019
Time: 7:30pm to 9pm
Place: Adobe UK YouTube channel
To make sure you don’t miss out… click on the Live Stream Link now http://bit.ly/34DAkzk where you can also set a reminder to tune in at 7:30 this evening!!
#MAXCreativityTour
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage people to make a pledge to improve the lives of others in their own unique way with @1mlives #1mLives
Today we’ve got a very special One Minute Brief to help encourage people to make a pledge to improve theirs or the lives of others in their own unique way with @1mlives #1mLives
Patient engagement agency, COUCH Health, has recently launched an epic initiative to improve the lives of one million people by 2022. They’re currently working on a number of campaigns, events and creative ideas to help improve peoples’ lives. And they’re also encouraging others - absolutely anyone who would like to get involved - to make a pledge to do something that will improve others or their own lives.
It can be as simple as giving your time to having a conversation with someone, and truly hearing what they have to say. It can be sharing something on social media to help raise awareness. It can be pledging to do something for charity or a good cause. Baking a cake for someone, a simple phone call or helping someone in need in any way you can think of.
Your job is to create something that inspires people to make a personal pledge for the #1mLives campaign. (Why not make your own pledge while you’re at it!)
Remember to tweet your ideas to @OneMinuteBriefs and @1mlives with the hashtag #1mLives
Share your pledges with us too in your tweets!! Feel free to share at @COUCHhealth_co too!!
Prize: £125 cash prize for the winner. Which we will match with the same amount with a donation to your chosen charity. £250 in total!
About the 1mLives Campaign:
It’s a campaign that will help keep the team at COUCH Health focussed on improving the lives of others in everything they do. The goal is to improve the lives of at least 1million people by 2022. It will be approached through a combination of personal pledges, creative awareness campaigns, support events, social change initiatives and innovative advertising projects. COUCH Health is working to improve health information, education and accessibility and the 1mLives campaign is one way to push for better in the healthcare industry and beyond. Absolutely anyone can benefit from the mission. The hope is for it to become a movement that inspires others to both improve their own lives, and the lives of others.
Web link: https://www.1m-lives.com/pledge
Agency website: couchhealth.co
Twitter: @1mlives @COUCHhealth_co
Instagram: @1mlives
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters for the #MAXCreativityTour with @AdobeUK
Following our previous creative collaborations with Adobe, we’re back with more to coincide with the incredible Adobe MAX Creativity Tour as it comes to the UK. We’re hoping all the OMBLES will be checking it out, registering and getting involved in today’s and upcoming creative Adobe OMBs!!
Logo on transparent background to be used on entries.
Logo on black background to be used on entries.
Today’s brief is all about spreading the word of this great event with your fun, creative posters and getting as many people as we can involved to enjoy the great speakers etc.
Please include the following sentence in your tweets for the chance to win the great cash prize on offer:
‘Register to watch the MAX Creativity Tour London live online and get inspired to the MAX!! https://bit.ly/2OEsFdv’
Remember to tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs & @AdobeUK with the hashtag #MAXCreativityTour
Prize:
Winner receives a £100 cash prize & a pair of exclusive tickets to the MAX Creativity Tour event in one of London’s most iconic venues.
Runner-Up also receives a pair of exclusive tickets to the MAX Creativity Tour event.
About the MAX Creativity Tour London 2019 Live Stream
Save your place for creative inspiration.
Join us live online on 3 December to catch the MAX Creativity Tour. Get inspired by top creatives and experience first-hand the best of Adobe MAX – The Creativity Conference, where we announced the latest innovations and updates to your favourite Creative Cloud apps.
On the night, you’ll see in action a selection of the best new releases to Adobe Creative Cloud that will empower the way you create. For example, take your creativity to new places with Photoshop on the iPad, discover a completely natural painting and drawing experience with Adobe Fresco and hear all about Adobe Aero, the most intuitive way to view, build and share immersive AR experiences.
You will also hear inspiring stories from our amazing guest speakers to spark your creativity.
These include:
Octavia Bromell
Illustrator & Adobe Creative Resident
Rufus Deuchler
Principal Manager of Creative Cloud Evangelism at Adobe
Jamal Edwards MBE
Founder of SB.TV
Leo Burnett & Passion Animations
The creative team behind this year’s McDonald’s Christmas ad ‘Ellie and Archie’.
When and where?
Date: 3 December 2019
Time: 7:30pm to 9pm
Place: Adobe UK YouTube channel
To make sure you don’t miss out, sign up for a reminder to watch the MAX Creativity Tour London live online and get inspired to the max.
#MAXCreativityTour
Details and registration here:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage people to #GoSolo with @TucanTravel
Tucan Travel are an adventure travel tour operator where over 60% of their travellers are solo passengers! We are looking for some brilliant, creative posters to promote the theme of solo travel! Tucan Travel's tours go to Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. We’re excited to see how the OMBLES tackle this very different brief!
Remember to tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs and @TucanTravel with the hashtags #GoSolo & #TucanTravel
Prize - £150 Amazon Vouchers
About Tucan Travel:
Operating small group tours since 1987, Tucan Travel are passionate about helping travellers experience the world in an exciting and authentic way. Our purpose is to provide adventures with passion, that open people's eyes to the diversity of people, cultures and habitats across the world.
Tucan Travel tours are for anyone who is open to the idea of adventure. Whether it is hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu or spotting lions stalking the Savannah, our tours aim to provide an experience which will stay with you for life.
Over 60% of our travellers are solo passengers - and on the majority of the tours there is not a compulsory single supplement meaning you can share with another fellow traveller of the same gender. Travelling solo doesn’t have to be lonely! While many people travel as a couple or with friends, over half of Tucan Travellers travel solo as they know they will meet friendly, like minded people along the way.
That’s why we are hoping you can help us spread the word today!!
Regions visited: South America, Central America, Africa, Asia, Europe
Web link - www.tucantravel.com
Twitter @TucanTravel
Facebook - @tucantraveladventures
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to show how @EUAutomation help save money and the planet with reconditioned parts for businesses #ReconditionedNotReplaced
Brief
Today we’re collaborating on a brief with EU Automation with a great prize to be won. It’s a tricky brief as not everyone knows a lot about the world of automation!! However, we’re sure the OMBLES are up to the challenge and can bring this subject to life in lots of fun ways!!!
EU Automation supply obsolete and reconditioned automation parts to their customers, which helps save money and also the planet. This keeps businesses running as they don’t have to buy new machines or have to deal with the upheaval of replacing them.
We’d ultimately like to create a film to show how ourselves and the manufacturing world are taking climate change seriously and how our products help business owners do their bit to help the environment by changing their mentality from automatically replacing machines to fixing them instead. So we’re looking for OMBLES to help us spread the word and help communicate that with posters, headlines and more.
Because we don’t want it to look all doom and gloom, something with a comedic twist would be amazing in true OMB style.
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @EUAutomation with the hashtag #ReconditionedNotReplaced
Prize: £100 cash prize for today’s winner!!
About EU Automation
EU Automation was established in 2009 and has customers in over 154 countries worldwide. Essentially, we are an automation parts supplier, providing a service to customers in breakdown situations. So, anyone anywhere in the world that has a manufacturing facility will require our services at some point. Our USP as a business would be our service and ability to source obsolete or reconditioned parts through a strong international network of suppliers.
Why EU Automation
If it wasn’t for us supplying the manufacturing world with hard to find obsolete parts the alternative would be for manufacturers to rip out entire production lines and start from scratch, as the parts required to keep their production lines running are no longer being manufactured. We are able to scour the globe to find these parts and usually get them to our customers (who are sometimes in critical breakdown situations losing a lot of money) next day.
WHO WE ARE
Machines break and downtime can cost companies millions in lost revenue. Our multi-lingual team scour the globe to find quality obsolete, new and reconditioned parts to get industrial machines back up and running at the best price. Whether it's service, speed or delivery, we always deliver more.
Social and Web Links:
twitter: https://twitter.com/euautomation
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EUAutomation
linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eu-automation
web: www.euautomation.com
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote saving water this Winter with @SESWater #WinterWater
In our second great brief with SES Water, we are looking for some brilliant creative ideas and headlines to get across the importance of saving water this winter, whatever the weather!!
With everyone used to water saving messages during Summer, we’re excited to see what the OMBLES come up with!!
Remember to tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs and @SESWater with the hashtag #WinterWater
Prize: £200 high street voucher and a wealth of water saving goodies!
About:
Yes, it does rain a lot in England. But the south east receives 50% less rainfall than the rest of the UK, meaning there is actually less rain per person than Morocco which classifies the region as ‘water-stressed’. In our area each person uses around 160 litres a day which is much higher than the national average of 140 litres. Despite some very wet days recently, it may surprise you that over the last two years we’ve had less rain than normal. Combined with last summer’s heatwave which significantly increased demand for water, this means that our groundwater reserves are now well below average.
Like all water companies, we depend on winter rainfall for the water we supply to our customers as underground aquifers – rocks which act like a giant sponge – only usually fill up between October and March when there is less plant growth and evaporation. We are concerned that another relatively dry winter will not sufficiently replenish our groundwater stores. That means we need to let our customers know how important it is to use water wisely this winter, whatever the weather. But it’s easier said than done - all life depends on water but the average person thinks about their water service for less than ten minutes a year. That’s a big problem for the world’s most consumed resource.
There are lots of little things that people can do that will make a big difference such as having a shorter shower, fixing dripping taps or fitting a meter. But the water industry has been sharing water-saving tips for years so we now need to do something more creative to capture attention:
Every drop counts – done.
Save water and save money – done.
Save water and shower together – done.
Web link: www.seswater.co.uk
Twitter: @SESWater
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote how @YunoJunoHQ unlock the #TruePotential of freelance.
Today we’ve got a great brief with one of our #OMBLIVE6 sponsors YunoJuno. With a great prize to be won, we’re hoping for loads of fun, creative ideas!
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @YunoJunoHQ with the hashtag #TruePotential for the chance to win.
Brief
We want to tell the creative & tech world about YunoJunoHQ and their brilliant offering that helps Creative & Tefh freelancers unlock their #TruPotential to find work and help clients find people who can deliver that work.
This isn’t just for any freelance jobs… it’s for the creative and tech industry. So we’re looking forward to see how this can be brought to life.
Prize
The overall winner wins a £100 cash prize!!
What is YunoJuno?
YunoJuno is revolutionising the future of work. What started out as a curated marketplace for the creative industries has grown into the leading platform for London's elite freelance creative network. Our platform supports the entire engagement lifecycle, from finding the perfect freelancer for your brief, through transparent and direct communication (no intermediary), to contract and time management, billing, and analytics.
We have a single bold mission: Unlock the true potential of freelance.
Why is YunoJuno a city-based marketplace?
We see tangible benefits in hiring freelancers to augment an existing team. A person who can appreciate — and build on — the dynamic of other people working on the same problem, in the same room. So for us, that happens when both parties are physically accessible to each other. London and New York were the most logical launchpads to streamline our service for the ever-increasing creative workforce. But every day sees more incredible creative professionals, from designers to developers, strategists to project managers, from all over the world register on YunoJuno to influence where we go next.
Shib Mathew is the CEO and Co-Founder of YunoJuno. Starting his career in advertising in the early '90s, he dove head first into the internet in 1996, founding two internet companies in his hometown of Sydney, Australia. After relocating to London, he continued in the creative and tech sector when in 2012 he teamed up with two ex-colleagues to launch YunoJuno.
Why creative & tech? Why not all kinds of freelancers?
We believe creative & tech people own the future of work. YunoJuno stands for these unique individuals who think, design and build that future from a position of independence and tactical engagement.
Our team
There's no point saying you have an answer for the global shift in freelancing if the people building that solution don't have first-hand experience of what's going on. Just about everyone working at YunoJuno has experience as a freelancer or in working with them.
Every iteration of YunoJuno has not only been heavily influenced by the freelancer community — the platform has been built by freelancers from the YunoJuno Network. From design to development to communications, we've wanted to practise what we preach.
When we started YunoJuno in 2012, we selfishly wanted to build a company that we ourselves wanted to work for. We had each been in companies that not only made the day-to-day experience enjoyable, but also empowered people to collectively achieve a common goal. We thought that was a pretty decent place to start in recreating that same environment for YunoJuno.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Campaign to celebrate the relaunch of on-air, online and in print with @WeAreQuestMedia #WeAreTameside #WeAreOldham #WeAreGlossop
Today we’ve got a great brief for something we have been involved with through the Bank of Creativity for a little while now with the creation of re-brand messaging and 11 films featuring some amazing people in Tameside, Oldham and Glossop!
Below is the film that shares a message about the refreshed offering delivered through the voices of local people and the services that they provide.
There is also a film featuring staff telling the story about the rebrand here:
We’re looking for you to help bring this relaunch to life in typical OMB style and the best ones will be featured in an online article and potentially in the paper!
Quest Media are also sponsoring the #OMBLIVE6 event and will be doing interviews with OMBLES on the night to feature on the website too!
Remember to tweet your ads to @OneMinuteBriefs and @WeAreQuestMedia with the hashtags #WeAreTameside #WeAreOldham #WeAreGlossop
Prize: £100 cash prize for the winner.
About the relaunch:
The Tameside Reporter, Oldham Reporter, Glossop Chronicle and Tameside Radio are now working collaboratively to provide a seamless offering across on-air, online and in print for the local community. We are much stronger together and that will benefit local businesses and people.
Last night we hosted an event featuring a unique celebration of our rich heritage as we look forward to an exciting new beginning for our publications, radio station and website...
We are looking to widen our appeal and attract a new, younger audience with a fresh new look for our newspaper while continuing to appeal to our traditional readers. We are also committed to 10 pages of local sport per week!
We’ve introduced new features & columns including holiday / countryside / nostalgia and veteran, as well as new columns for the radio presenters & promoting our podcasts
We also have a Weekended section featuring what's on, reviews / views / lifestyle columns - in an eight page supplement.
Having been previously paid for, we will be delivering the paper completely free to 21,000+ homes and the paper will also be free to view online every week.
The radio station now has even more entertainment, content, info, games and, of course, brilliant music. Being as one with the newspaper, they will be able to share news as and when it happens and help celebrate local people with interviews and podcasts.
Now we want to spread the word!!
Our manifesto is:
We are hungry for that front page story,
the deliverers of that back page glory.
We are the producers of the best day in, day out,
Celebrating our people is what we are about.
We are the go-getters,
We are the do-betters.
We help local businesses thrive,
every time we go Live.
We are free for everyone to enjoy,
Yet worth so much to every woman, man, girl or boy.
We are the writers of meticulous reports,
The sharers of inspiring thoughts.
We are the glue that connects our community,
providing our local heroes with support & opportunity.
We are…
Designers
Presenters
Editors
Volunteers…
And we’ve been here for 164 years
We are here, there, everywhere
On air, on line, in print.
We are Quest.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote the #IndoorPlantRange from @Tree2MyDoor
Today we’ve got a brilliant brief that is sure to inspire loads of fun ideas with a subject we’ve not covered before. Excited to see what the OMBLES come up with on this one with a great prize to be won!
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @Tree2MyDoor with the hashtag #IndoorPlantRange for the chance to win.
Brief
With their new Indoor Plant Range, Tree2mydoor want the world to know that they now have gifts for everyone: from the city-dwelling student to the rural grandparent and everyone in-between. Let’s help celebrate the new and improved Tree2mydoor gift service by creating a poster to spread brand awareness.
Prize
The overall winner wins a £100 gift voucher to spend at Tree2mydoor and an afternoon with the Tree2mydoor team.
Background
Tree2mydoor is a gift company with roots! In 16 years, they have delighted thousands of customers with thousands of trees. And why not? Trees are everything a gift should be: living, lasting, and full of meaning.
Foliage, fruits, and flowers have grown across the UK and Ireland for all manner of people and occasions. But many of their trees and shrubs are for people with gardens in suburbia, so flat-dwelling students, graduates, young professionals, and pensioners are missing out.
Now, Tree2mydoor is proud to launch its brand new Indoor Plants Range - a wonderful collection of exotic plants perfect for growing indoors in the UK and Ireland. These indoor plants are grown by expert nurseries in the UK and Europe and supplied in taller sizes and larger pots than other online competitors.
Psstt. If you love what Tree2mydoor do and want to get involved, email your CV to jobs@tree2ydoor.com (Tree2mydoor are looking for someone to be their new Business Development Manager.)
LINKS:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote #PaperStraws with @IntrinsicPaper
Today we’ve got a great brief with the guys at Intrinsic Paper to promote the use of a product that is extremely important in protecting our environment. We are looking forward to seeing the amazing creativity that the OMBLES come up with for this and there is a great prize on offer to the winner.
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @IntrinsicPaper with the hashtag #PaperStraws
The brief…
Campaign to spread the word that the paper straws are a sustainable, eco-friendly alternative to single-use plastic straws, which are due to be banned in the UK from April 2020.
About Intrinsic Paper Straws
Intrinsic are a UK manufacturer and supplier of high quality paper straws. Our journey into paper straws was very much influenced by the documentary ‘Blue Planet II’ which was broadcast in 2018. To see the damaging impact that plastic waste (especially plastic straws) is having on our oceans and wildlife is quite heart-breaking viewing. To help with the global initiative to reduce plastic pollution, Intrinsic has been setup to focus on developing plastic alternatives starting with paper straws.
We believe paper straws are a sustainable, eco-friendly alternative to plastic straws. The paper straws we provide are made from sustainably sourced papers which are biodegradable, and only contain inks and adhesives that are both food safe and environmentally friendly. Also, our straws have been designed to deliver outstanding durability during use, so consumers can enjoy that all important beverage without worrying about issues such as sogginess.
However, there is a perception with paper that it has a negative impact on the environment, but in truth it is a sustainable product. Paper is based on wood, a natural and renewable material. As trees grow they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. Furthermore, as a wood product, paper also continues to store carbon throughout its lifetime.
Website: intrinsicpaperstraws.com
Twitter: @IntrinsicPaper
Facebook:@IntrinsicPaperStraws
Instagram: @intrinsicpaperstraws
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create a campaign to promote the launch of #Space1999 - a reimagining of the 1970s Gerry Anderson TV series as a @BigFinish audio drama.
We’re excited to be running another amazing brief with Big Finish today with great prizes to be won. With such an exciting subject we cannot wait to see what the OMBLES come up with!
Tweet entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @BigFinish using the hashtag #Space1999.
You might want to share with some of the cast and crew: @mark_bonnar, @mtcreasey, @timbentinck, @ImJamieAnderson, @GerryAndersonTV, @BriggsNicholas, @RichardsonBF, @julesvoices, @MccreadyGlen, @SusanMHingley, @sallyamaka,
Prizes:
5 winners will receive:
A copy of Space: 1999 - Breakaway! This 3 CD box set audio drama stars Mark Bonnar (Line of Duty, Catastrophe, Guilt) as Commander John Koenig. The release date of 13 September 2019 has been chosen because it is 20 years to the day after the Moon was blown out of Earth’s orbit (according to the original series’ opening titles)! This feature-length first story is split over two CDs, with a further hour of behind-the-scenes interviews and extras on a bonus disc.
About Space: 1999
Space: 1999 was originally an international TV production, debuting in September 1975. It was lavish, it was expensive, it was thrilling, and it was packed with stunning effects and exotic alien worlds. It told the story of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, forced to journey into the unknown when a freak nuclear accident blasts the Moon out of Earth’s orbit and into deep space.
Now the much-loved series is back. This brand-new audio drama combines re-imagined versions of classic episodes together with all-new scripts. Joining Mark Bonnar is Maria Teresa Creasey as Dr Helena Russell, with additional cast members Glen McCready (Commander Gorsky/Paul Morrow/Alan Carter), Clive Hayward (Professor Victor Bergman), Susan Hingley (Sandra Benes/Alpha Computer/Sian Springer), Timothy Bentinck (Commissioner Simmons), Amaka Okafor (Dashka Kano) and Jules de Jongh (Petra Nordstrom).
What we are looking for
Celebrate the launch of the new audio drama series, and the commemoration of "Breakaway Day" (the 13 September 1999 anniversary celebrated by Gerry Anderson fans around the globe), in a way which will convince new audiences to download and listen to this blockbuster sci-fi audio drama.
We are keen to see ideas illustrated for print, outdoor or even, experiential.
The sky's the limit! (But remember: the Moon has gone!)
Key facts
Space: 1999 is only available on CD or download from www.bigfinish.com - it is not listed on podcast, audiobook or streaming platforms.
Running time: 180 minutes.
Age: 8+.
Space: 1999 was a British and Italian science-fiction TV show which aired on ITV and ran from 1975-1977. It was the last production from prolific producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.
The original TV series starred Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
This thrilling feature-length audio movie is an enhanced re-telling of the TV show’s very first episode. It follows the assignment of John Koenig (Mark Bonnar) to Moonbase Alpha, where Dr Helena Russell (Maria Teresa Creasey) is investigating the outbreak of a deadly illness among the crew, while Professor Victor Bergman (Clive Hayward) discovers that a signal from the distant planet of Meta could herald disaster for humanity.
About Big Finish
For more than 20 years, Big Finish has been producing high-quality, innovative and award-winning audio dramas. There are now literally hundreds of releases to choose from, with new titles added to our catalogue every month. The majority of Big Finish releases are based on TV series, including genre favourites like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Survivors, Dark Shadows, The Prisoner, Adam Adamant Lives! and The Avengers.
Our stories feature familiar and much-loved characters in all-new audio adventures, and many of the actors who appeared in the original shows have returned to recreate their roles for us. The majority of our productions are either full-cast dramas or dramatic readings using just one or two voices, and feature dynamic sound design and original music.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote Great British Creativity with @DMA_UK
Today we’ve got a great brief with #OMBLIVE6 sponsors, the Data & Marketing Association.
With great prizes to be won and a very creative brief, we’re excited to see what the OMBLES come up with!
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @DMA_UK with the hashtag #GBC
Prizes:
£100 Amazon Vouchers
Work featured in the DMA Zine.
Work exhibited in DMA House & turned into stickers.
Background
The Direct Marketing Association has rebranded.
We are now the Data & Marketing Association (DMA).
As the driving force of intelligent marketing, we set the standards the UK’s data and marketing industry must meet to thrive.
We advocate for a rich fusion of technology, diversity of talent, creativity, insight – underpinned always by customer-first principles.
Our new, expanded mission now incorporates world-renowned training from the Institute of Data & Marketing or IDM (formerly the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing).
And through DMA Talent we build pathways for and bring inspiration and opportunity to the next generation of creative thinkers, doers and makers.
Brief
The DMA runs campaign activity in five key areas.
One of those areas is the Campaign for Great British Creativity.
The campaign mission is to champion the people who make the work we love: work that changes lives, and changes the world.
We bang the craft drum for copywriters, for designers, content makers and creatives of all shapes and all sizes.
And in the process prove the true value of great British creativity to UK business; to government; and to society today.
How do we bring the campaign to life? We offer a packed calendar of DMA events, workshops, creative catch-ups and hang outs.
We have an IDM online and offline learning portfolio that caters to creatives, and DMA Talent offers initiatives like Big Book Crits support aspiring creatives, and mentorship programmes pair up rising talent with established stalwarts.
So now we need YOU.
We want the OMBLES community to issue a colourful, fire-in-the-belly, be-here-now call to arms to the UK creative industries.
Let them know the Campaign for Great British Creativity is here.
This is an awareness mission.
Our call to action must be for people to learn more, to get involved.
Tweet your posters to @DMA_UK and @OneMinuteBriefs, with the hashtag #GBC.
Outcome
We will create a quarterly digital and print zine to help support our Campaign for Great British Creativity.
In our first issue we will hero the best OMBLES work - and tell the story of your efforts to be bring the campaign to the world.
And we’ll print out and place the best posters around DMA House here in London, and develop stickers to be distributed at DMA events, workshops, learning sessions: in fact, anywhere and everywhere.
Here’s some key links:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Campaign to spread the word that 100% of the homes @eonenergyuk supply now get 100% renewable electricity as standard.
Very pleased to introduce today’s great brief with another brilliant brand. Looking forward to see how the OMBLES respond to spread the word of this important initiative by E.ON. With a great prize to be won, we hope everyone will be getting involved!!
Tweet entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @eonenergyuk with the hashtag #eonrenewable
Prize: £250 cash to the winning idea!!
About #eonrenewable
We want to help our customers take steps towards living in a more sustainable way so that we can all do our part when it comes to tackling the climate crisis.
Nowadays, there are many things you can do to support a more sustainable world. Some things are so simple, such as recycling or using a reusable coffee cup, that they may have become second nature to you. And now, we’re providing all our customers’ homes with an electricity supply backed by 100% renewable sources as standard.
So the brief is straightforward… help us spread the word that 100% of the homes we supply (3.3m households in the UK) now get 100% renewable electricity as standard.
What we mean by renewable: Electricity from renewable sources means it’s been produced from sources including the sun, wind, organic matter like plants, the sea, rivers or even energy stored within the earth.
More info: https://www.eonenergy.com/renewable.html
The winning design/s will encapsulate E.ON’s tone of voice: authentic, simple, collaborative, creative. Above all they should have a feeling of optimism and ultimately a sense we’re creating a better tomorrow.
Links:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Advertise the #WingingIt Guide brought to you by @ResponseTap
Today we’ve got a fun brief with our friends at ResponseTap. They’ve created a handy toolkit for digital marketers. And, we want the OMBLES to help us spread the word about it.
We want your brilliant ideas, examples, experiences, funny posters and anything else that comes to mind when it comes to #WingingIt.
Tweet your posters to @OneMinuteBriefs and @ResponseTap with the hashtag #WingingIt
Please include the howtowingit.com link in your tweets.
Prize: £100 cash prize for the winner!!
About the campaign:
IF YOU'VE EVER SAID "LET ME GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT ONE" AND THEN HID BEHIND THE PHOTOCOPIER FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK, THIS IS FOR YOU.
The #WingingIt toolkit launches today and is built with the insight in mind that marketers are overwhelmed, they are expected to know everything from digital to creative to analytics and tech. It’s an impossible task. And, if they’re honest, sometimes they are left sweaty palmed, stumbling over their words and making their best attempt at an answer. So, we wanted to offer a solution – just wing it. We hired a comedian (Alistair Green) and filmed some satirical videos on how to wing it. It’s a bit of fun that we want to share to marketers across social media whilst delivering an ‘anti-winging it with ResponseTap’ message.
About Response Tap:
Leaders in Call Intelligence
Connecting and powering calls, from campaign to conversion. Call Intelligence provides real-time, actionable insight into what makes the phone ring, for marketers to optimise campaigns and call centres to maximise the value of sales. If the phone is an integral part of your customer's buying journey, make every call count.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote #SuperchargerSauce brought to you by @KFC_UKI
We are back for another amazing brief with our friends at KFC! This time it’s for a product of theirs that has already achieved iconic status and we want the OMBLES to help spread the word even further!
Tweet entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @KFC_UKI with the hashtag #SuperchargerSauce
Brief
Our spicy mayo Supercharger Sauce has a true cult following.
For years, desperate fans have cried out for us to sell bottles of the sauce and boy have we delivered with our 1L bottles. Available at all participating stores until 11th August.
Your task is to win over the less devoted; those who may not have tried or perhaps had never even heard of Supercharger. It’s a shock, I know, but those people are out there and they need converting.
The winning design/s will encapsulate KFC’s tone of voice, distinctive style all while preaching the good word of Supercharger!
Prize
Get a months worth of free buckets of finger lickin’ chicken courtesy of the Colonel and of course, a litre bottle of our delicious Supercharger Sauce.
Social Link:
@KFC_UKI - twitter.com/KFC_UKI
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote the launch of the #Transference audio drama from @BigFinish
Today we’ve got a brilliant OMB for a subject we’ve never covered before!! With some brilliant prizes to be won, we can’t wait to see what the OMBLES come up with!!
We'd like you to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @BigFinish using the hashtag #Transference
You might even want to share your ideas with some of the cast too @warrenisbrown @ingridoliver100 or the Director @kenbentley and Producer @RichardsonBF
Prizes
3 winners will receive:
A Big Finish Originals full cast audio drama serial of their choice (perfect for listening to on the beach, stuck in traffic, or while you wait for a client to pay your invoice).
Choose from:
ATA Girl: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/ata-girl-up-in-the-air-1816
Cicero: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/cicero-series-01-1777
Jeremiah Bourne in Time: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/jeremiah-bourne-in-time-1769
Shilling & Sixpence Investigate: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/shilling-sixpence-investigate-1778
Blind Terror: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/blind-terror-the-gods-of-frost-1812
Transference: https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/transference-1779
Human Frontier (not yet released): https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-human-frontier-1780
About Transference
Sam Ross is a psychotherapist - she spends her days helping people, but she can barely help herself. She’s still grieving over the recent death of her sister; her mother Barbara offers little support and she’s professionally challenged. One of her clients is Keith, a man whose life story changes with every session. And Keith has a secret – one that will rock Sam’s world to the core and place her in the most terrible danger.
This eight-hour intricate psychological thriller is twice the length of a regular Big Finish Originals series; it is available only as a download from the web site: www.bigfinish.com and has been released today!!! August 01, 2019.
Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, Arrow, ER) leads an all-star cast, alongside Warren Brown (Luther, Strike Back, X Company), Wendy Craig (The Worst Witch, Unforgotten, Nanny, Butterflies), Ingrid Oliver (Doctor Who) and Robert Whitelock (Marcella, Informer, Military Wives).
What we're looking for
We are looking for some fantastically creative and imaginative ways to convince people to download and listen to this blockbuster of an audio drama.
Pretend we have no limit on our budget; we're keen to see ideas illustrated for experiential, out of home, print, design, product, whatever...
That said, we'd really like to see some nice ideas for ad spreads in magazines or on billboards.
Feel free to use (but not abuse) images of the cast.
Key facts
Transference is not currently available on podcast, audiobook or streaming platforms. It is only available to download from www.bigfinish.com.
The running time of Transference is 480 minutes.
About Big Finish
For more than 20 years, Big Finish has been producing high-quality, innovative and award-winning audio dramas. There are now literally hundreds of releases to choose from, with new titles added to our catalogue every month. The majority of Big Finish releases are based on TV series, including genre favourites like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Survivors, Dark Shadows, The Prisoner, Adam Adamant Lives! and The Avengers.
Our stories feature familiar and much-loved characters in all-new audio adventures, and many of the actors who appeared in the original shows have returned to recreate their roles for us. The majority of our productions are either full-cast dramas or dramatic readings using just one or two voices, and feature dynamic sound design and original music.
The Big Finish Originals are brand new full-cast original releases from some of the talented people at Big Finish. Stars include Eve Myles, David Warner, Nigel Planer, Celia Imrie and Samuel Barnett.
