The Fantastic Tavern is a meeting of minds online and at welcoming hostelries; a community of brand and agency digital planners & creatives who share insights, expertise, experience and beer. The TFT was founded in 2008 with the objective of creating a forum for sharing without any other intent (sales) and to bring an eclectic audience to bear on the content we discuss. Since then we have hosted events in London, New York and Las Vegas.

For each gathering, a theme is selected that we believe is relevant (to the digital zeitgeist) and will inspire both contributions and debate. The format of each gathering is dependent on the content but is always interactive (and often irreverent). Every theme could broadly fall into a broad category from Innovation, Effectiveness and Craft.

There are no real rules for inclusion in the Fantastic Tavern community as we’ve never needed to have any. However, there is a truth that we hold on to; this is a community for learning and sharing not selling. If attendees and members (we call them Taverners) want to get more specific or have a more opportunistic conversation, that can be arranged – for example, we have run one very intense ‘VIP’ dinner about Multi-variate Testing as a consequence of a more general ‘optimisation’ debate.

Who should does The Fantastic Tavern appeal to?

Digital creatives and practitioners including animators, designers, UX, copywriters etc
Planners – both agency and client side
Ebusiness Managers
Ecommerce managers
ECRM managers
Multi-channel managers
Specialist agency-types
Interactive agency-types
Start ups and entrepreneurs
Anyone who is interested in what is hot and what is not in the digital space.

Sounds like fun? I can guarantee it is.

If you would like to become part of The Fantastic Tavern please email michelle@thefantastictavern.co.uk and we will add you to our special list which means you are officially a taverner,

You can also follow our chats on twitter @TFTLondonNYC.

Don’t just take our word for it, here is what some of the taverners have to say:

“The Fantastic Tavern was so inclusive and welcoming I felt at home the moment I walked in. It showed the world runs on ideas and there’s still no shortage of people creating new ones and it made me realise what I don’t know but now want to know about creativity”

“Thanks for the opportunity to be inducted into the tavern Michelle. I found the whole thing really interesting and insightful. Matt and Anthony were both very good and I have been busy goggling trends this morning! Great people….great day”

“Thanks for a great day and thanks for the award. The day was both fun and interesting, and was a good chance to meet some like-minded people.“

“Just to say thanks and congratulations on yesterday’s event – awesome as always”