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14th August '09
STORY WINS EDEN PROJECT PROJECT
As part of the ‘Real Cool Futures’ project, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Eden Project has commissioned Story Worldwide to design a website for launch in September. The site will act as a resource bank of real-life case studies of people who are already contributing to the fight against climate change – and earning a living while they’re doing it.

Read more about it on the Marketing Direct website.


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24th June '09
STORY OPENS OFFICE IN DUBLIN
After our success working together on the Magners Irish Sessions social media programme, Young Euro RSCG and Story Worldwide have teamed up to launch an exciting new digital division in the Irish market.

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7th May '09
BREAKING NEWS: JOURNALIST GETS JOB!
Story Worldwide, The Only Advertising Agency With A Full Editorial Department, Hires Former Maxim/Rolling Stone Heavyweight To Lead Creative Team

▬Keith Blanchard joins Story Worldwide as North American Executive Creative Director▬

New York, NY (May 07, 2009)—While traditional media cast about for direction in the brave new world of merging media and brands,  what’s a heavily-qualified creative director to do for work?  For Keith Blanchard—former Wenner Media online editorial director and ex-Maxim Editor in Chief—the answer was easy:  join the storytelling revolution.  This coming Monday, Blanchard will take the creative helm at Story Worldwide as North American Executive Creative Director, where he will oversee the development of all brand storytelling initiatives.  He will report directly to Story Worldwide’s COO Simon Kelly and indirectly to Story’s Global Creative Officer Lars Hemming Jorgensen.

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6th April '09
THE HAIR BOOK: REGIS SALONS LAUNCHES NATIONAL MAGAZINE AND BLOGSITE TO TALK HAIR TIPS, TRICKS AND TRENDS

─Global Salon Operator Pairs with Story Worldwide to Launch New Media─

Regis Salons, flagship brand of parent company Regis Corporation (www.regiscorp.com), today announced the launch of The Hair Book, a quarterly magazine to be distributed exclusively at the approximately 1,100 North American Regis Salons, as well as an associated blog site at www.TheHairBookOnline.com. The magazine has a circulation of nearly 400,000.

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18th March '09
Simon Kelly, COO, and Kirk Cheyfitz, CEO of Story Worldwide to speak at Digital Hollywood Spring
On Monday, May 4th Kirk Cheyfitz will speak about storytelling’s place in the social networks, user generated video, blogs, IMs, podcasts, broadband and mobile. This session will take place at 2:30 and will be party of Track II, “Reinventing Advertising.”

On Wednesday, May 6th, Simon Kelly will talk about how a good story platform can be applied to several media platforms, including TV, Film, Broadband, Mobile, Virtual Worlds, Music and Games. This session will take place at 12:30 as part of Track I, "The Video Advertising & Next Wave Advertising Track"
http://digitalhollywood.com/LASpring09Agenda.html

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4th February '09
Kirk Cheyfitz, CEO of Story Worldwide, to speak at this year’s Media Summit hosted by Digital Hollywood
Cheyfitz will discuss where storytelling tactics fit into the battle of the media channels: Broadcast and Cable vs. the New Platforms (Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile, VOD & PVR). This session will take place at 10:45 a.m. on Thursday, March 19^th and will be a part of the “Future of Advertising Track.”
Details are available at: http://www.digitalhollywood.com/MediaSummit.html

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29th January '09
Atomic Floyd
We've just launched this.
www.atomicfloyd.com

5th January '09
Chartered Insitute of Marketing
The next two Online Marketing Masterclasses are in the diary, 12th-13th March 2009
and 18th-19th June 2009 - book now while you still can!

2nd January '09
Postadvertising.com
Martin Harrison becomes the editor of Story Worldwide's thought-provoking media channel, www.postadvertising.com.