Kojo Interactive Newsletter #001

Kojo Interactive is heading into the new financial year at full steam with great ideas, great projects and a great new office space at 81 Osmond Tce in Norwood. We've evolved in the last six months into a well-oiled machine and are looking forward to further success in 2008/2009.

We've had some big wins in the last few months with further work with Mitsubishi, Ansell and the SA Museum, launched our seventh RACS Virtual Congress site [with the 2009 site seeing a beginning of a new era], completed a website and 13 episodes of illustrations and animations for the kids' show Simon Eliot, and launched the Marcellina website. We also relaunched four Kojo sites recently with Tracks Adelaide, Kojo Productions, Kojo Pictures and the Amazing Kojo Group site added to our portfolio.

We're moving

Kojo Interactive is moving from 43 Fullarton Rd to 81 Osmond Tce in Norwood. We move on 21st July with Kojo Productions, Kojo Pictures, Spirit Films, Spark Ventures and Kojo Management and Finance into a fantastic mansion that has just been renovated to suit the needs of Kojo.

This exciting space promotes more collaboration between our divisions and provides us with a greater environment to get those creative juices pumping.

Please update all of your records to reflect the move:
Kojo Interactive
81 Osmond Terrace
Norwood
SA 5067
Australia

Always Amazing - the new Kojo Group site

The new Kojo Group site, which Kojo Interactive designed and built, was given a nice little write-up in AdTown. Here is the review:

Like most businesses who had to start somewhere, The Kojo Group may have started off from relatively humble beginnings, but these days they’ve evolved into an all seeing, all knowing, production deity. Seriously, these guys have their fingers in more pies than Villi. And they have a brand spanking new website to prove it.

We admit, we can be pretty uninformed (ie dumb) sometimes, so when we quite ignorantly asked who did the site for them, we were pretty quickly told they did it themselves with Nick Greenslade, Senior Producer of their Interactive division, championing the process. Hey, we didn’t know they did that kind of thing. Now we do. And now we’ve checked out that fancy website of theirs we know about all the other things they do as well. FYI it includes Spirit Films, Touché, Oasis Post, Tracks Adelaide, Kojo Interactive, Kojo Pictures, Kojo Events, Kojo Productions and Kojo Kitchen Sinks. OK, we made that last one up, but the rest are the real deal.

As you can imagine, they didn’t exactly throw a site like this together over the weekend, but rather it took a few months, working on it between jobs for clients. Now it’s finished, it brings together "a more cohesive, public face" of the group according to Marketing & Sales Manager, James Beney. It’s a great tool for marketing the business beyond their home turf and "it demonstrates our capabilities and diversity" he added. As much as we looked for something to take the mickey out of, even we have to agree it certainly does that. OK, so maybe their 'Always Amazing' positioning is a pretty big call, but it’s certainly way catchier than 'Almost Always Amazing' or 'Amazing A Lot of the Time' so we’ll let them go this time.

From TVCs to big budget features like Wolf Creek and Rogue, these guys have done it all, and as James was eager to point out, they can "leverage off their feature film experience and bring the same production values to TVCs and corporate video work". With that in mind, we’re kind of hoping the people behind the Haggle Boy ads go to Kojo for their next TVCs so we can see a giant, rogue croc tear his annoying bloody bonce off. Until then, feel free to check out the work they have done on their schmick new site now.

This site is a real showcase for what Kojo Interactive can do on the online platform and the amazing work that the Kojo Group currently does. This is just the first iteration so it pays to frequent the site for more amazing Kojo content.

New and returning staff

Kojo Interactive has been expanding in the last few months with a new Producer coming onboard and a friendly face returning.

Joseph Cassar joined Kojo Interactive in early April as a Producer and has brought his exceptional design and user experience skills to help compliment the division.

Early June has seen our favourite developer Meena Kasi return from maternity leave. Meena has just jumped back into the fray and is delivering superb work to our clients all over again.

New services available

This very email newsletter is the next service that Kojo Interactive wants to offer you to help promote your business. We now can offer a simple [and very affordable!] way to send out branded emails to your clients which can be formatted to your liking with links and images. We create the initial template, you add the content, pick your list of recipients and off it goes.

This service has been requested by a number of our clients and we're excited about the opportunities that can be offered. Along with a great looking email and simple creation system you also get subscription list import options [easy to import all of your contacts into this system], live reporting functionality of who opened the email and who clicked the links and all of your bounce backs, duplicates and unsubscriptions which are dealt with automatically by the system so your communications are hassle-free. We can also integrate a subscription form into your website to make the flow even easier.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, then contact either Nick or Joe to discuss what we can do to help promote your business.

Kojo Interactive

Kojo Interactive is passionate when it comes to interactive rich media, with an excellent standing in the production of high quality content for online platforms. User-centric in design and approach, the focus is to create a user experience that is unique and evokes positive awareness of the client through interaction.
  
Visit us online at http://www.kojointeractive.com.au.