Real Time should have been a contender

I read your recent “e-players” Top 40 with interest. In particular because Clare Dowdy’s trawl appears to have missed Real Time completely.

Given a 1999 income of £6m (on sales of £8m), £2m of which was purely new media fee-income, we would have been placed fourth (alongside AMXstudio) and third in your efficiency table with £80 000 fee-income per head.

We have taken the BIMA and Design Effectiveness awards for e-commerce, and gold at the Revolution awards for CD-ROM. To strike one of my regular footballing analogies, it’s like taking Manchester United out of the Premier League and allowing everyone else to lift one place.

Phil Jones

Managing director

Real Time Studio

London W1

Real Time Studio did not complete the survey form, despite prompting by e-mail – Ed