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We share the latest news, industry insights and more from the team as well as news and views on all things ecommerce & digital marketing.

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January 24, 2020

2020 No-Nonsense Social Media Predictions

Marketing, About Us, News

It’s the beginning of a new decade, which means the inevitable predictions for the forthcoming year are upon us… and we are jumping on the bandwagon, without all of the jargon, but with some useful tips.  By now, the majority of businesses have grasped the prevalence and significance that social media has in shaping the […]

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December 18, 2019

Venture Stream’s Black Friday Success

About Us, Marketing

This year, Black Friday was one of the busiest weeks for us at Venture Stream HQ. For our ecommerce clients, it was an important time to capitalise on the fast growing trend of ‘Black Friday’, provide some fantastic deals for customers and increase brand awareness. At our end, we are proud to say that we […]

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December 12, 2019

Venture Stream Shortlisted at This Year’s Northern Digital Awards

About Us

Following our last win at the UK Search Awards in London, we are delighted to announce we have been shortlisted for the third year running, at the 2020 Northern Digital Awards for Best Integrated Agency.

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November 26, 2019

Mobile responsive vs. mobile optimised

Ecommerce

In the past, websites were all about plain text and basic images. They weren’t necessarily designed to be visually appealing for desktop computers let alone mobile devices. Their main purpose was to deliver their data in an effective manner. Those days are mostly gone and now web design has become something of a fashion trend […]

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November 21, 2019

Venture Stream Won Best Small Integrated Search Agency

About Us

On Tuesday night, our team celebrated at the UK Search Awards 2019 where we were delighted to be crowned the winner of the ‘Best Small Integrated Search Agency’. The awards are regarded as the premiere celebration of SEO, PPC and content marketing in the UK and took place at The Brewery in London, hosted by […]

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October 14, 2019

Venture Stream Shortlisted for Two Awards at the UK Search Awards

About Us

Having had a number of successes at regional awards, including wins at the Northern eCommerce Awards and Northern Digital Awards over the last three years, this year, for the first time ever, we decided to enter Venture Stream into the UK Search Awards – and we were over the moon to find out that we […]

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October 8, 2019

A Day in the Life of a Developer: Meet Venture Stream’s Head of Development, Andrew Surrey

About Us, Website Design & Development

There is no hiding from the fact that the role of a website developer is a very specialist yet demanding job, and with the ecommerce market growing at a rapid rate, here at Venture Stream our developers are busier than ever. Although we specialise in building ecommerce sites on either Magento or Shopify, we’re pretty […]

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September 19, 2019

5 Things to Think About Before Starting Your Ecommerce Website Development Process

About Us, Ecommerce

The ecommerce landscape is a quickly evolving one, and has changed significantly over the last 5 years. Recent figures show that over half of traffic to retail websites is now coming via smartphones and tablets and mobile commerce now accounts for the majority of UK e-retail sales. The potential for your brand to get in […]

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September 12, 2019

Venture Stream Listed as One of The Top 10 Digital Marketing Agencies in Newcastle

About Us

We are delighted to have been named one of the best digital marketing agencies in Newcastle in a recent digital marketing graduate guide published by Hallam. The guide has been created in a bid to provide graduates across the country with the resources needed to find the best digital marketing career opportunities that the UK […]

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September 9, 2019

Venture Stream Shortlisted for Three Awards at The North East Marketing Awards

About Us

We are delighted to announce we have been shortlisted for three awards; Best Digital Marketing Agency of the Year, Rising Star of the Year & Best Digital Marketing Campaign, at this years North East Marketing Awards.  The North East Marketing Awards are held in the heart of Newcastle City Centre and after an incredibly successful […]

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May 22, 2019

How Huawei is leveraging digital marketing in the face of controversy

Marketing

Great crisis management is all about controlling the narrative. If you don’t speak up then people will either speak for you or make far worse assumptions about your silence, with the belief that ‘there’s no smoke without fire’. I wanted to write a quick post today off the back of all the ‘trade war’ chat […]

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May 16, 2019

5 Ways Venture Stream is Working to Support Employee Wellbeing

About Us

To mark mental health awareness week in the UK, we thought we’d take stock of what it’s like to work at Venture Stream and share with the wider world some of the employee wellbeing initiatives we have in place to achieve two things; firstly, to create a pleasant working environment and secondly, to help employees […]

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