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Fast growing digital agency Stone’s Throw Media named finalist for prestigious business award

Leading video, animation and livestreaming agency Stone’s Throw Media has been named as finalist for a prestigious business award.

Wolverhampton-based Stone’s Throw Media, whose clients include leading brands Redrow, JLR and Wolverhampton Wanderers, is up for the Black Country Chamber of Commerce 2022 award for Small Business of the Year.

The Chamber is staging the awards to celebrate the achievements of the region’s business community. The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Friday 16th September at Wolverhampton Racecourse.

Stone’s Throw Media was launched in 2011 by founders Mike Chinn and Matt Weston after they met on a University of Wolverhampton media course. The founders bill Stone’s Throw Media as being for clients “looking to grow” through video, animation and livestreaming events, with staffing growing to eight last year as revenues and profits grew to new highs.

Matt Weston said: “Everyone at Stone’s Throw Media is delighted to be named among the finalists for the Black Country Chamber of Commerce Awards. We are proud to fly the flag for the region with our work for leading international brands and organisations so it means a great deal to be placed among the best businesses in our community.”

The agency’s highlights of 2022 so far include a captivating video on the history of the easyGroup family of brands, delivered in one of the leading digital agency’s most high profile projects to date.

The video, published on the easyHistory website, covers the expansion of easyGroup, the private investment vehicle of easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, from its early days through to its modern status as home to brands like vehicle hire business easyCar and storage firm easyStorage.

The management team attribute recent success to the acquisition of several new clients, as well as the agency’s successful diversification into a range of digital services to meet market needs during the recovery from the Covid-19 lockdowns.

The new client work to be delivered was staff training videos for Greene King, as well as a project for Wolverhampton-based leading brownfield remediation and enabling works contractor McAuliffe, for whom the team shot drone footage of their sites to show progress. Other highlights included working with Birmingham Royal Ballet for the first time and broadcasting a four-day conference for the International Association for Hydrogen Safety (IA HySafe) and the Scottish Government.

Stone’s Throw are also among the founders of not-for-profit business group Creative Chain, which has enlisted 60 agencies and businesses from Wolverhampton and the Black Country since its launch last year to raise the profile of local talent in the creative industries.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Chris Leggett .