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Aquamarine Media Launch New Website

Aquamarine Media are pleased to announce the launch of their new and improved website.

The search and social agency’s updated site provides users with information on their range of media services, simplified navigation and a fresh, streamlined look.

After an extremely successful year, the new website is a result of an increasing demand for the agency’s services and a rapidly expanding client base.

As they continue to grow, the agency has many exciting developments planned for 2017, including a move to a bigger office space at Exeter Quay.

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Lloyds to axe 3,000 jobs

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 07/28/2016 - 8:09am

Lloyds Bank today announced it is axing a further 3,000 roles and closing 200 more branches by the end of 2017.

The cuts are in addition to the 9,000 job and 200 branch closures Lloyds announced in 2014.

Lloyds reported a £2.5bn pre-tax profit for the half year to the end of June, double what it made last year.

However, chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio warned that he expects a "deceleration of growth" following the UK's decision to leave the EU.

The Group said the increased cost-cutting was as a result of the change in how people do their banking, and...

Teignmouth media agency sees rapid growth

A Teignmouth-based media agency has seen rapid growth in both its staff numbers and client base in recent months.

Aquamarine Media Ltd, who specialise in paid search and social media marketing, have expanded from one staff member to four and moved to a bigger office, as they continue to increase their UK-wide client base.

The agency, who provide full set up and management of paid search and paid social campaigns to a variety of clients, have employed a PPC Executive (Bradley Jordan) and a Paid Social Executive (Sophie Hancox) to manage the growing demand for their services...

Art goes digital for young people in Devon

Young people in Devon will be working with professional artists to explore new innovations in digital media. Daisi is celebrating its success in receiving an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award for the project, Art Machina. With the £47,582 award, the research and development project will develop digital arts practice using innovative digital media. Art Machina involves a group of professional Devon and Torbay artists, young people, youth leaders and teachers. Partners include i-DAT, Spacex, Exeter Phoenix and Coombeshead Academy. The project will enable young people across...

Effective Marketing

Event Date: 
14/09/2016 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Devon Communities Together, Unit 3 - 4 Cranmere Court Lustleigh Close Exeter EX2 8PW

This course will help you understand why marketing is so important for your success, exploring traditional and digital methods.

Aims

This course will explore what marketing means to you and what it looks like in your everyday business life. We will share tools and tricks of the trade that will help you improve systems and efficiency and elevate your business to the next level.

Objectives

By the end of this session participants should be able to:

  • Understand what marketing means to you?
  • Plan your marketing using traditional and digital tools
  • ...

Exeter Raspberry Jam

Event Date: 
04/06/2016 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Library, Exeter City Centre

The next Exeter Raspberry Jam will take place on Saturday 4th June in the Rougemont Room at Exeter Library between 10:00 – 12:00.

As usual there will be lots to do, plenty of help and advice and pis to play with, we’ll also have some BBC Micro:bits and Arduinos.

As part of the this we are offering a quick 30 minute workshop that will show you how to connect a DS18B20 Digital Temperature Sensor on the Raspberry Pi and take measurements.

This session will cover protocols, modifying the configuration of your Pi to load drivers, reading data from files and using a code...

The Tech Driving Exeter’s Emergence into eCommerce and Digital Marketing

Exeter was recently named as an ambitious ‘cluster’ in the annual Tech City report.

The report deconstructs and analyses the landscape of the UK’s digital and technological industries - with the South West performing extremely well. It even goes as far as to highlight the region’s success within the digital marketing and ecommerce industries. In fact, the report has stated that 5.2% within the region are in the digital tech economy. So, what is driving Exeter’s success within this area - and why is it proving so popular? The digital industry is booming - but why? Between 2011 and...

Publisher crafts a new chapter in Exeter

An international craft media company, with offices across America and its headquarters in New York, has relocated its UK team to Exeter.

Founded in Newton Abbot in 1961, F+W International, part of American company F+W Media, is a specialist publisher and distributer of art and craft books. The company also boasts a range of successful art and craft based ecommerce companies and distributes David & Charles and Dover Publications.

In its 54 years of operation, F+W Media has witnessed significant changes in the publishing industry. With the rise of eBook sales, increased...

Major digital radio retune for Plymouth

This morning all digital radio listeners in the Plymouth area were urged to retune their DAB digital radios - at a special retune event at the Lord Mayor’s Dining Room, the Council House, Plymouth - in order to expand and improve DAB digital radio coverage for over a hundred thousand listeners in the area.

Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor Dr John Mahony, pressed the big green retune switch at 8.30am, marking the moment for listeners to retune their DAB digital radios and starting the process of turning on the new digital transmitters, which will bring local BBC and commercial...

Digital investment by UK SMEs set to increase by £53bn

UK SMEs1 are collectively planning to increase investment in their digital capabilities by £53 billion over the next two years, prioritising their websites over mobile technologies, according to new research2 from Santander Corporate & Commercial.

The survey of UK SMEs reveals the average firm has committed £33,212 to digital investment in the past year, and intends to increase this by £28,224 in the next two years. However, many firms are looking to invest significantly more: 8% of the companies surveyed estimated they had spent more than £100,000 on digital capabilities in...

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