In this talk, Battenhall’s Founder & CEO, Drew Benvie, will present the latest Battenhall forecast for the coming months, in order to help the creative community plan their content.
Attendees can expect to gain an insight into the social media trends shaping brand marketing and communication, just in time for the new financial year.
This talk is aimed at professionals working in marketing, PR, advertising, digital and the creative industries who are looking to gain a deeper understanding of the social media landscape.
Drew Benvie is the Founder and CEO of social media consultancy, Battenhall. He advises brands and figureheads internationally on social media strategies, and manages a team of specialists based in London, The US and Asia. Alongside advising clients on social media for marketing, Drew campaigns for social media safety, and was a speaker on this topic at TEDxBristol in 2019.
> Early bird BCI member tickets are available up until Tuesday 31st December at £25 +VAT
> BCI member tickets from Wednesday 1st January are £35 +VAT.
> Non-member tickets are £60 +VAT.
When purchasing 4 tickets or more, use the code SAVE15 to receive a 15% discount on your booking
All tickets include a buffet lunch and refreshments.
In this Wake Up Call webinar, Agnes Troszt from the award-winning SAND visuals will focus on key advantages of stop motion animation and showcase examples of how it can be utilised best.
Whether your business is product or service based, the online event will explore ways to cut through the noise in today’s content world.
About SAND Visuals
SAND visuals is an award winning animation studio founded by husband and wife duo Denis and Agnes in 2020. Specialising in stop motion animation, they have worked with companies like Equifax, Interpol, Biffa, Canon and many more.
> See SAND visuals’ BCI profile here
> Connect with Agnes on LinkedIn
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Dan if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
Did you know that Bristol has its very own Amazement Park in Wake The Tiger?
This immersive world of adventure combines purpose, storytelling and art in a way never seen before. Since opening in summer 2022, the attraction has gone from strength to strength, more than doubling in size and hosting sell-out events.
Graham MacVoy will share the journey of this latest venture, going from festival builds at Boomtown to creating a world-first attraction, including how funds were raised, balancing resources and creating another world in a warehouse in St Philips Marsh.
Who is it for?
This talk is aimed at anyone who is interested in building a creative business, dreaming big and raising finance. If you want to be inspired about what is possible in the creative industries, or building a better world through immersive experiences, make sure you come along!
About Graham
Co-Founder & MD of Wake The Tiger, Graham has run successful businesses for over 20 years, with extensive experience of strategic planning, stakeholder management and delivering growth. He has experience across the events, hospitality and leisure sectors and latest venture Wake the Tiger brings together his many passions, including immersive experiences, art, storytelling and building towards a sustainable future.
Tickets
> Early bird BCI member tickets are available up until 30th November at £30 +VAT
> BCI member tickets from 1st December are priced at £40 +VAT.
> Non-member tickets are £65 +VAT.
All tickets include a buffet lunch and refreshments.
The event will be hosted in the Guildhall at Wake The Tiger; the world’s first Amazement Park and the UK’s largest immersive art experience.
Please note, whilst the full experience will not be accessible during this event, when you attend you will be gifted a 25% discount code to return and explore at your leisure.
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
Do you find it frustrating that so much of your hard-won website traffic just ‘bounces’ without trace?
Like most SMEs, you probably made a significant investment in web design, branding, even SEO, but you ‘winged it’ when it came to creating that vital message which your website delivers.
No wonder it’s ‘back button’ 1, ‘call-to-action button’ nil.
But don’t worry, help is at hand. Enter ‘the story’.
Your website exists to persuade people to take an action: here in the services sector that action is simply to get in touch.
To succeed, your words must take prospective customers on a narrative journey, a complete transformation of their situation from an unacceptable “now” to a beautiful, sunlit future where their problems have been solved. And all because they clicked the “contact” button on your website…
In this online session, you will learn how to marshal the seven elements of a good story (hero, problem, guide, plan, call to action, jeopardy, resolution) to craft copy which engages and compels readers and brings them excitedly with you to all the places you want to take them.
About Tom Fallowfield
Tom has been a web marketer since more or less the dawn of time (2002) and has recently launched vanillakiller.com, a service designed to help small creative businesses and freelancers get their hands on the type of high-end messaging advice previously available only to those with an agency budget.
These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.
Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.
Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.
Please get in touch with Shonette if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.
As part of our membership network, we have 300 freelancers working within the creative industries. Life can sometimes feel a bit lonely as a freelancer so a networking event like this is an opportunity to meet others in the same position. It’s the perfect chance to catch up with old friends and meet plenty of new faces too!
This event is open to freelancers as well as anyone who regularly engages with freelancers. It will allow you to widen networks, make new connections, discuss common problems, and discover potential opportunities for collaboration going forward. You’ll be sure to head home with a new contact.
The drinks will be held in the lower deck at The Square Club on Berkeley Square. We’ll have a private bar to purchase drinks, plus the food menu will be available if anyone fancies something to eat.
Tickets for BCI members are FREE and include a drinks token for the bar. Tickets for non-members are £5 +VAT.
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
(For the same price of a ticket, you could get a monthly membership to BCI – find out more here)
Click below to register your place!
These sessions have been running over the past year and delivered by Rebecca Steer, an award winning business lawyer, long-time advisor to tech and creative digital businesses and friend of BCI. Rebecca has a supportive and pragmatic style and these private sessions will enable you to ask any business or legal queries, which might relate to contracts, liability, data privacy, employment, IPR or anything in between.
These sessions are available to all BCI members FREE OF CHARGE, and are delivered in collaboration with Charles Russell Speechlys.
If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only opportunity, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.
How can productions and composers in the West of England work together to harness the storytelling power of original music across all genres of TV?
Demystifying the music commissioning process and finding creative models so more productions can easily access established and emerging composing talent. This panel session will showcase how directors and producers work with composers to tell stories, connect audiences with characters and environments, and brand programmes with standout original scores.
Speakers include:
William Goodchild – Composer, Conductor and Lecturer
Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Film Composer and Recording Artist
Karen Spearing – Music Supervisor
Mark Hill – Executive TV Consultant
Simon Bell – Producer / Director, BBC Natural History Unit
Drew Morgan – Composer, Arranger and Orchestrator
Hosted by Matt Loveridge, Composer
Doors open 6pm, session starts at 6.30pm.
Free admission
We are pleased to offer the opportunity to book a free of charge 30 minute 1:2:1 session for people strategy advice, specifically geared towards the needs of creative businesses.
Richard Roberts has over 30 years’ experience of helping organisations establish dynamic people strategies that help to shape culture and build highly productive and engaged teams. Across his career he has supported a number of marketing and creative agencies as an outsourced HR Director and consultant. As creative and marketing business grow, attracting and retaining talent often creates people challenges that benefit from an external perspective.
These sessions are an opportunity to ask Richard any questions about your people strategy. These might relate to culture, employee engagement, talent retention or the establishment of best practice HR policies.
These sessions are available to all BCI members FREE OF CHARGE, and are delivered in collaboration with en:Rich HR.
Join us at The Square Club on Thursday 20th November from 12.30-2pm. BCI’s members’ lunches are the perfect opportunity to catch up with fellow members and the BCI team and, as some of our lunches are now in person again, you can enjoy a delicious Mediterranean buffet lunch too!
That was genuinely the best networking event I’ve ever been to! So many very useful connections made from the moment I walked through the door. Lovely food, relaxed atmosphere and plenty of time and space to get to know people. An all round wonderful experience, thank you BCI team for organising such a fantastic event. ~ Danie Stinchcombe, Marketing Director @ Gather Round
There’ll be plenty of opportunities to catch up with old friends and meet some new faces too. Everyone will have a 3 min slot to introduce themselves and tell the others a little about who they are and what they do and share any news and/or challenges. You don’t need to fill the three minutes but we do set a timer to make sure everyone has time to talk! We usually find some common themes emerge which we can discuss over the course of the session. It’s all very informal with no need to stand up and present slides!
The members’ lunch is much more than just pitching; it’s a shared space for connecting with your peers to discuss challenges and opportunities for collaboration, and generally celebrating the wonderfully eclectic mix of creative businesses in the region.
We see businesses of all shapes and sizes during the session. From the managing director of an established 50+ person agency to founders of innovative startups, each month we encourage a variety of members to attend. You’re more likely to meet potential partners or referrers than competitors.
If you’d like to attend email BCI’s membership manager Alli Nicholas at [email protected]. The members’ lunches tend to fill up quickly so if you miss out on this one, you’ll be top of the list for the next!
Not a member? Sign up today so you can join the lunch!
Please note, our members’ lunches are for active business and freelance members but not for student members.
Join us at The Square Club on Thursday 23rd October from 12.30-2pm. BCI’s members’ lunches are the perfect opportunity to catch up with fellow members and the BCI team and, as some of our lunches are now in person again, you can enjoy a delicious Mediterranean buffet lunch too!
That was genuinely the best networking event I’ve ever been to! So many very useful connections made from the moment I walked through the door. Lovely food, relaxed atmosphere and plenty of time and space to get to know people. An all round wonderful experience, thank you BCI team for organising such a fantastic event. ~ Danie Stinchcombe, Marketing Director @ Gather Round
There’ll be plenty of opportunities to catch up with old friends and meet some new faces too. Everyone will have a 3 min slot to introduce themselves and tell the others a little about who they are and what they do and share any news and/or challenges. You don’t need to fill the three minutes but we do set a timer to make sure everyone has time to talk! We usually find some common themes emerge which we can discuss over the course of the session. It’s all very informal with no need to stand up and present slides!
The members’ lunch is much more than just pitching; it’s a shared space for connecting with your peers to discuss challenges and opportunities for collaboration, and generally celebrating the wonderfully eclectic mix of creative businesses in the region.
We see businesses of all shapes and sizes during the session. From the managing director of an established 50+ person agency to founders of innovative startups, each month we encourage a variety of members to attend. You’re more likely to meet potential partners or referrers than competitors.
If you’d like to attend email BCI’s membership manager Alli Nicholas at [email protected]. The members’ lunches tend to fill up quickly so if you miss out on this one, you’ll be top of the list for the next!
Not a member? Sign up today so you can join the lunch!
Please note, our members’ lunches are for active business and freelance members but not for student members.
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