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When it comes to opinions, we've got plenty! And none so more than our creative director,  Mr. Matthew Jukes :)

Today New Media Age have published his diatribe sorry, whitepaper, on the declining numbers of facebook and the future of the social web. It's a genuinely interesting read and will certainly get you thinking, you can download it here.

Since we launched our new website we have been featured on quite a few portals as an example of good web design and coding standards. Its been great for traffic as well as the ego!

However, today broke boundaries as our global reach stretched as far as China and Japan! That's why I love this medium, things crop up in the most unlikely of places :)

More column inches

This is becoming odd - four bits of press in the last 7 days. This time a double page spread in today's Guardian. Not about 'us' exactly (or at all, really if we're honest), but about the site we designed, built and developed over the last 2 years or so for Meet the Author.

Whilst it's still available, you can check it out on the Guardian Unlimited website here:

Read the article about Meet the Author in the Guardian »

Almost famous

It's been quite a good week for us in terms of press. We were in Marketing magazine for our latest Detox with Evian campaign. Then yesterday we were in New Media Age about the Passport to Music project we won for Youth Music. We also heard something is being written about us in AMO magazine.

"Codegent ... has enjoyed another year of growth and is quietly establishing a strong reputation for itself as an integrated digital agency" 
       - New Media Age, September 2006

Our hard work was acknowledged today when we were included in New Media Age's "Ones to Watch" list from their annual Top 100.

Agencies in the Top 100 are there by virtue of their turnover, but the "Ones to Watch" category has a particular accolade. According to New Media Age, this category is for "agencies that we think you'll be hearing more of in the future".

We really, really agree with them. :)

Read the full article here »

2.7 million copies of the CD Rom deisgned and built by Codegent appeared in the 4th June edition of the Daily Mirror.

For more details read about the site in our portfolio section.

April 12th, 2005 saw one of our sites win the British Book Trade Award for 'Innovation in the Book Industry'. So we're patting ourselves (as well as our fabulous clients from Meet the Author) on the back.

Meet the Author, is a simple, yet brilliant idea. Clips of authors talking about their books are streamed through the site. The site is content managed allowing for easy updating by the Meet the Author Team, and the content is also provided to Amazon.

Even though we say so ourselves, the design is simple, effective and elegant - a bit like the idea itself. We've done some pretty nifty Search Engine Optimisation too which has seen Meet the Author's traffic increase over 2,000% in six months with no additional Pay-Per-Click activity.

Visit Meet the Author »

Codegent pick up industry press interest in New Media Age as our client portfolio and staff headcount grows!

This was swiftly followed by another piece in Media Guardian :)