A Taster Evening with ht media

Making the Most of YouTube.

Bring your social media to life with video and make the web stickier for your business. Supported by Northern Net and hosted by Northern Film & Media,  ht media are running a taster evening where you’ll get an overview of the value you can add to your business by making the most of YouTube.

Taking place in The Kiln on Thursday 25 Nov, this is a great chance to gain valuable insights into how to bring your social media to life with video. The brief presentation will be followed by an opportunity to network and make some great new contacts in a relaxed and informal environment.

It’s becoming increasingly important to get your brand out on the web. YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine after Google, with over 2 billion hits per day! The presentation will show you how to get the most out of video, either by using services like ht media’s or learning how to create effective video with affordable technology – without damaging your brand.

Open to anyone working for a limited company, a public body, a partnership or HMRC registered as self-employed or a sole trader, the evening will give you a quick overview of ht media’s weekly workshops and an insight into best social media and video production practices from the perspective of TV and media professionals.

Wine and food will be provided and all they ask is that you attend and enjoy your evening.

When: Thursday 25 November

Presentation: 6.00pm – 7.00pm

Networking: 7.00pm – 8.00pm

Thanks to the support of Northern Net there is no charge for this event. To register click here

Northern Film & Media, Studio 2, The Kiln, Hoults Estate, Walker Road, Newcastle NE6 1AB.

Hoults Yard – design hub launches

As tracked in this week’s Design Week:  http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/142099/Article.htm

Hoult’s Yard, the Newcastle office complex family business co-run by former Loewy Group chief executive Charlie Hoult, is launching its new building, The Kiln.

Hoult, who founded the Loewy Group, which has a design line-up including Williams Murray Hamm, Seymour Powell and The Team, is helping his father run the family business after stepping down from the top Loewy post last year.Hoult’s Yard, formerly the Malings Pottery, has been in the Hoult family for four generations. Hoult describes the space, which features 20 000m2 of buildings across 3.6ha, as ‘Newcastle’s answer to the Truman Brewery [in East London]‘.

The Kiln, the latest addition to Hoult’s Yard, was designed by Durham architect Howarth Litchfield, and the space’s anchor client will be Northern Film and Media, with design and marketing consultancy One Best Way also signed up to the space. The wider Hoult’s Yard development houses digital agencies, games developers and photographers.

Hoult describes the creative industries in Newcastle as ‘vibrant’, due both to the presence of Northumbria University (whose graduates include Apple designer Jonathan Ive) and the fact that ‘Newcastle is a hub for quite a wide area – from the Scottish Borders to Yorkshire’.

As well as working with Hoult’s Yard, Hoult says he is ‘busy being plural’, working as a mentor with digital publishing agency Velo and running blog Opencast, as well as networking event Castaway.

He adds that he has a couple of ‘secret special projects’ in the pipeline, and refuses to rule out a return to the design world.

He says, ‘It would be an interesting time to get back into the design and media market, but there’s still a lot of pain out there, so I’m biding my time.’

Hoult stood down as chief executive of the Loewy Group in May 2008, becoming vice-president, development, and was replaced by chief executive Iain Johnston last October.

Charlie Hoult 

1993 - Sets up brand communications group Wilson Harvey 

2004 - Forms Loewy Group with Bryan Wilsher through a merger between Raymond Loewy International, Wilson Harvey, Prescient, Loewy3 and RiteAngl 

2006 - Loewy acquires The Team and Williams Murray Hamm 

2007 - Loewy acquires Epoch Design and Seymour Powell 

2008 - Hoult steps down as chief executive, becoming vice-president, development 

2009 - The Kiln launches in the Hoult’s Yard development 

 

Mere Mortals – Steve Walmsley podcast

If you are interested in Mere Mortals, you could listen in to this Bridge Club podcast of Mere Mortals MD Steve Walmsley.

Mere Mortals is one of several highly successful businesses that are clients at Hoults Yard – the North East’s premier digital media hub. (Check out the website for the latest flexible studio space that Hoults are developing in the former pottery in Byker – The Kiln website here)

 

The Bridge Club is the North East’s premier entrepreneur network, run by Caroline Theobald.