jason cook

After 10 years experience as a Mac designer in Leeds and Yorkshire, I started Deepblue-digital 1999. I set about building Deepblue-digital as an advertising, marketing and graphic design agency. Using the then very new internet web design as a way into business' with an existing advertising agency. On a trip to LA in early 2000 I saw the future potential of the internet as more and more business were creating websites and web design was coming of age. Finally a tramp with a card saying 'Buy me a beer.com' made me realise the future potential of the web. On returning to Leeds I decided to focus more on Web Design in Leeds as a business and not just as a way to attract clients to do graphic design and print. In 2005 I took over DTH Advertising a more traditional Design, Print, Radio and Television agency. Both companies work out of the same offices in Roundhay Leeds and compliment each other very well. After 10 years in business I am still learning, still interested and what went before is purely a learning curve to the next stage. Hopefully this will never change, and with the relatively recent popularity of SEO and Online marketing we are forging into exciting new areas for the web design, SEO and marketing industries. In retrospect we have seen powerful changes over the last 20 years. When Apple Macs arrived en masse about 20 years ago we saw the way we created advertising and design, change forever. Fundamentally though marketing remained the same for the next 10 years until the release of Google Adwords in 2000. Thereafter marketing started to subtely alter as Adwords proved that you could work out which 50% of your advertising worked through the use of metrics and analytics. This has progressed in recent times to a multi billion pound industry from which Deepblue-digital grabs a few small crumbs from time to time.