Skip to navigation | Skip to content
Thursday saw us at another awards bash, this time the OTC Bulletin Awards. We were delighted to be nominated 6 times for 3 brands across 4 award categories, and chuffed to pick up 2 of them. But the night belonged to alli, one of our founding clients, and a brand that will always hold a special place as a result. 6 brand awards. Congratulations GSK and to the other award winners for the night.
Slightly waylaid by a wardrobe malfunction (badly behaving tights), we entered the Park Lane hotel at 7pm last night. Were instantly papped from all angles by blokes in trenchcoats. It emerged that the theme of the OTCs this year was “Newsflash”, and the organisers carried it off handsomely. Rory Bremner made us laugh and showed us the cream of 2008 consumer branding and pharmacy marketing. We look forward to seeing some of our own work up there next time – our press dates fell outside of the judging window this year.
After the awards, we distributed vodka shots to the masses with the usual indelible stamps. These contained real Manuka honey (good for you).
One small disappointment – we left our complementary box of chocs on the table. Ian is gutted, what with Mothers Day just around the corner…
Hope everyone enjoyed the OTCs last night as much as we did. Well judged, great food, lots of laughs all round. Huge congratulations to those who bagged an award. Very deep thanks to organisers Debbie and Val for letting us sponsor the event with our charming honey vodka-issuing ladies Ebony and Danielle. We trust everyone had a chance to sample our nectar. All together now: 1, 2, 3, 4, Hive!!
Fact: the green stamp WILL fade eventually – don’t panic. (If anything has worked for you please let us know.)
All of us here are getting ready for the OTC Marketing Awards. A few last minute emails to write, one job bag to put to print. Hope to bump into you there, after dinner enjoy a shot on us.
We’ve just returned from saying hello to old and new OTC friends at the delightful SMART awards held in Birmingham last night. An excellent evening wonderfully organized and hosted by the team at CIG.
Congratulations to all the 2008 winners. Judging by this morning’s breakfast attendees an excellent time was had by all.
The PM Awards came round again recently, another superb day in Mayfair. Congratulations to Paling Walters for cleaning up in many of the categories with their usual excellent standard of ads and matching collateral.
This was Hive’s first year at the PMs – our company not yet a month old – so we naturally made use of the opportunity for our unveiling. Our plan to treat guests to honey-vodka body-shots did not quite cut the mustard with the organisers so we were forced into some last minute guerrilla tactics…
And a little something after dinner…
Working the room after lunch, we found that faces old and new seemed interested in our proposition. Indeed, the number of website hits we had over the weekend suggests our message is well and truly getting out there.