Many years ago televisions were called televisions but mysteriously radios were called wirelesses, a term in common use well into the 1960s. The explanation is that a radio receiver and a wireless receiver are the same thing, both being able to receive broadcast signals, by means of electromagnetic signals, without being connected by a wire – a revolutionary idea in olden times!

Even conservative estimates indicate that mobile devices now generate over 50% of internet traffic. At the same time, figures suggest that users will abandon pages that fail to load in less than ten seconds, and that 60% will not return to the site.

Blacksmith began as a design for print consultancy when the internet was nothing more than a twinkle in the eye of Tim Berners Lee. Back in the day, there were any number of specialist agencies, each covering a small sub set of what was then called the “marketing mix”.

Ice Valley Mineral Water, bottled in Yorkshire by Shepley Spring and branded in Lepton by Blacksmith, certainly gets about.