In 1998 it became[2] the UK digital arm of the world's fourth largest advertising group Lowe Worldwide, part of Interpublic.
[4] 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[5]).
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[6] on Flextech[7]), General Motors, Mars Confectionery's Snickers (whose website Snickers MegaBite[8] 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[9] in 2001, Underwired.
[10] The agency was the subject of a BBC documentary Keeping Creative[11] an episode of The Crunch, made in 1999 by Uden Associates.