Auto Assembly Makes Biggest Ever Announcement - Ma

[Andy Turnbull]

Many of you will have seen our teaser video released on Youtube last week hinting at some major news coming from us here at Auto Assembly that was going to change the shape of the convention forever. Well, we can now reveal some exciting new developments that we have been working on behind the scenes for the last few months that are going to affect Auto Assembly in ways that not even we can begin to imagine!

Want to know more? Well, watch the full announcement video here:-



If you want to contact us to talk about this more or interview any of our team for your podcast or website, we would be only too happy to arrange this so feel free to drop us a line at the address below.

Don't forget that Auto Assembly 2011 tickets are still available from our website. The convention is taking place over the weekend of 12th - 14th August 2011 at the Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre, Birmingham, England. Tickets for Auto Assembly 2012 will go on sale later this year.

For more details on the convention, to see a full list of all the guests and activities taking place over the weekend, or to book your tickets, visit the website at www.autoassembly.org.uk

The Auto Assembly 2011 Team

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[blueshift]

I have tried to find out what this announcement was, but can't sit through a 25 minute video to find out.

Andy can you please tell the AA crew to stop exclusively announcing things via the audio-visual medium? If you write things down I can instantly see what something is about rather than have to wait 25 minutes

[The Doctor]

I'll be honest, I'm really not interested in wading through 25 min videos.

Visual announcements are cool and all, but I would constructivey suggest making them 2-3 min bursts. I think more folk would pay attention that way? I know I've stopped watching these long announcement videos. Sorry!

-Ralph

[Deleted]

I watched it, but had to skip the history of Auto Assembly montage

Basically Nordcon has become Auto Assembly Europe, and this means that the AA brand has grown, and could mean more exclusives in the future

[panderson]

I may have been naughty and tweeted it in excitement....

[jameso]

I also don't like the youtube video announcements.

[Philip Ayres]

I'm with everyone else: more text announcements please.

[Dave]

I agree just stick up a text announcement on the site.

Anyway, cool that they're helping Nordcon out and having heard how this benefits the original (at the 19 friggin' minute mark) I'd say it was a good decision.

Name is odd though unless its going to move out of the Nordic regions.

[Deleted]

We tend to make our announcements in a mix of ways - video and text / video combined but it depends on the significance of the news in question and whether we want the press announcements to act as a teaser for the announcement itself.

As you will see from any of the videos we've produced, they all feature some of sponsors for the convention (and in many cases have segments dedicated to them). Sponsorship income is now vital for Auto Assembly to ensure that we can offer everything that we want to as a convention and all of those featured in the video have injected a significant sum of money into the event for varying sponsorship packages including being featured on our youtube videos.

With views on the videos ranging from a few hundred to a couple of thousand, this is good for them and ultimately good for the convention and I don't even want to contemplate what impact the lack of sponsorship would have on Auto Assembly but it could ultimately lead to ticket price rises or a cut-back on guests or other things.

[grahamthomson]

Simon, that reply really should have been in the form of a 20 minute Youtube video.

[Deleted]

25 min for an announcement!
(I didnt watch it funnily enough)

Sounds good it being bigger though.