Head New Media
{{Short description|Defunct web design agency}}
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| type = Arm of Lowes Worldwide, an Interpublic company
| industry = Web design
Interactive television
| fate = Liquidated
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1997}} in the United Kingdom
| founders = Felix Velarde
Jason Michael Holland
| defunct = {{End date|2001}}
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Head New Media was an influential[http://www.ippa.org/s1/index.html "Annual Listing of Top Design Shops"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070129192633/http://www.ippa.org/s1/index.html |date=2007-01-29 }} from IPPA web design and interactive television agency set up in the UK in 1997. In 1998 it became[http://www.clickmt.com/public/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=fulldetails&newsuid=5937b2b2-aeda-4a2c-b1e8-bc8475991c31 "Campaign Report on New Media"] from Management Today the UK digital arm of the world's fourth largest advertising group Lowe Worldwide, part of Interpublic. The agency was at one point the most awarded in Europe[http://www.shift.jp.org/IMGSRC100/060/index.html "IMG SRC100"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050205034629/http://www.shift.jp.org/IMGSRC100/060/index.html |date=2005-02-05 }} from SHIFT(JAPAN), 1998 and produced an 'in-house' website Head-Space which won awards including Cannes and in 2011 was listed by Management Today as being one of Ten Websites That Changed the World and a precursor to YouTube.[http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/1102817/ "Management Today"] In 1998 the UK's first specialist interactive television creative agency Head End was set up as a wholly owned subsidiary (later acquired by Underwired[http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?88332 "Underwired acquires Head End Interactive Television"] from Creative Match, December 2002).
Head New Media's clients included the BBC, Sci-Fi Channel, Unilever (for which the agency produced interactive television advertising on cable operator NTL), Tesco (one of the first interactive TV ads[http://www.managingchange.com/mediums/inter-tv/planned.htm "Digital, Interactive and Web TV"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304084727/http://www.managingchange.com/mediums/inter-tv/planned.htm |date=2007-03-04 }} from Managing Change, 2000 on Flextech[http://www.broadbandbananas.com/2005/links.html "iTV Developers & Agencies"] from BroadbandBananas), General Motors, Mars Confectionery's Snickers (whose website Snickers MegaBite[https://web.archive.org/web/19970803001554/http://www.euro.snickers.com/index.html "Snickers MegaBite"] Archive of website won a variety of major global advertising awards between 1997-8) and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Its original founders were Felix Velarde and Jason Holland, previously of HyperInteractive (1994–1997) and, following Head New Media's liquidation[http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/5082/head-closes-after-ad-partnership-crumbles.html "Feature: Head closes after ad partnership crumbles"] from E-consultancy, 2001 in 2001, Underwired.[http://www.underwired.com Underwired's website]
The agency was the subject of a BBC documentary Keeping Creative[http://head-space.com/download/crunch.mpg Keeping Creative], an episode of The Crunch, first broadcast 1999 BBC Two, 2001 MSN TV an episode of The Crunch, made in 1999 by Uden Associates. The documentary is still occasionally broadcast in Europe as part of BBC Worldwide's business education strand.