I know I am late, and that this is barely a blog at the moment due to the absolute lack of new content but I would like to thank Matt and his cronies for the A4U awards.
A great night was had by all and I think it shows how far affiliate marketing has come as an industry that everyone was dressed in black tie rather than the traditional jeans and tshirt combo, or the more recent jacket jeans combo favored by the digital media agencies.
We started with a quick hour with dgm in the met bar, before another hour with TD and Sky on the 28th Floor of the Hilton, and heading into for the obligatory Champaign reception.
Massive congratulations to all the winners, you all know who they are by now. I am gutted I missed the econversions video from Vegas, but I was at the bar. Though I have heard that JJJ didn’t even thank me, can’t be true surely.
Post the awards a few of us shot to the terminally bad Tiger Tiger, then into a casino. Eventually after looking for a 24 hour Chinese without success, 11 of us decided to cram into a lift made for 4 to raid someone’s minibar. I will leave the names of the selected 11 out of this as I don’t want to incriminate anyone, but let’s just say there were some highly influential members of the affiliate community and people who probably shouldn’t be drinking at 5:00 on a Friday morning.
After about 40 minutes stuck in somewhere between the basement and the ground floor, the fire brigade finally managed crowbar the door open and people made their way to the mini bar, via the stairs.
I thankfully, though unusually, knew my limits and stumbled home at about 6 am leaving the rest to it. Though I hear it all got very messy, with a member of agency staff vomiting on a member of their networks bed, and a prominent award winning affiliate manager going through the wire and going straight into the office the next morning.
Bring on the next one!
What am I wearing right now – Shorts, Flip Flops, and a jumper because it was getting a little chilly
P.s. Thanks to Cat for bullying me into updating this pathetic excuse for a blog.
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Paul Wheatley
June 16th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I would like to take this moment to thank Rob for all his hard work in the last year. Having often tried to leave drinking related events at a decent hour, Rob never fails to ensure that I don’t resulting in maximum productivity the next morning!
Next year he shall be thanking me when collecting the blog of the year award… Or at least he should be if he decides to update his blog more regularly than bi-annually.