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We are an independent agency creating immersive brand experiences. Our experiential activations are powered by human interaction, driven by people with the skills to make lasting connections with your audience. With two decades in live events, we have the expertise to deliver stunning on-site results. From concept to campaign strategy, to production, staffing, logistics and food & drink, we execute sensory brand experiences that trigger positive engagement.
We are HIGHJAM. An award-winning, independent Brand Experience and Promotional Marketing agency. We are committed to creating the most effective online and offline Brand Experiences for our clients. We do not believe in “off the shelf” solutions. We analyse the audience and opportunity, then design experiences specifically to engage audiences in a meaningful and valued way. Our services include Experiential Marketing, Promotional Staffing, Events & Exhibitions, Shopper Experiences, Product Sampling and Demonstrations, Design Services, Branded Content and Social Engagement. Some of our clients include: The Guardian Medical Protection Society Dott e-scooters Grazia Bavaria itsu Nakd Wholefoods Berghaus Pepsi co
When you step back, you see more. That’s what we do with our clients. We’re a brand consultancy, with a difference. We are an unusual hybrid of strategic consultancy and creative agency. We create all the usual outputs of a branding agency – design identities, advertising, print literature, websites, e-newsletters, films, etc – but we do so in the context of the bigger picture of what the brand is, and even more importantly, what it could be. Our clients make a social impact – these include charities, not-for-profits, NGOs, educational and arts bodies, social enterprises and for-profit businesses who want to do more good. We help people to fall in love with you. We get to the heart of who you are and find the ways of telling your story which connect and resonate with people. We are very committed to each client’s success. Often that is fundraising success, and we have helped clients raise close to £500 million. But we don’t have a templated approach – the wide-ranging skills and experience of our Collective ensure we always have fresh thinking. We’re here to help you do good, better.
Extraordinary audience engagement Hub clients partner with us for our team of analytical, strategic, and creative talent that works to replace run-of-the-mill content that’s never seen, shared, or talked about, with insight-based multi-channel campaigns that command extraordinary audience engagement. Delivering on time and on target for brands in noisy markets, Hub focuses on meticulous research and strategy to create content and events that soar above the din to supercharge engagement, boost brand awareness, expand audiences, drive traffic and more. Some of our clients include: Janus Henderson Klarna New Scientist RBS Klarna Volvo MG The Climate Group
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We're an independent creative agency with a passion for insight. Our approach starts with a little data science and a lot of collaboration to produce a beautiful, unique brand idea. This core thought has the power to connect everyone and everything; activating and inspiring a community that grows and grows. Whether you require just one service area or a full mix, our experienced team will always focus on delivering a compelling impact that results in an inspirational response for a brand
We are Ignis: an independent, integrated agency, with a counter-conventional approach to solving the brand, category and consumer challenges of today and tomorrow. Are you sitting uncomfortably? Good. Uncomfortable is where the magic happens. We are Ignis: an independent, integrated agency, with a counter-conventional approach to solving the brand, category and consumer challenges of today and tomorrow. We call this “Upstart”. It’s what we do, and it’s who we are. A little bit scrappy. A lot creative. And really into creating brands and businesses that people actually want in their lives. Some of our clients include: AUK JTI Marriott
Initials CX - We're a total customer experience agency created for today's world. With expertise spanning Brand, Content, Commerce and Technology, we take all we’ve learnt about offline behaviour and fuse these insights with the tech-led reality of now. The result? Purposed, tailored, effective work – built on decades of experience – that helps brands engage people in the right way and ultimately get chosen. London-based and proudly independent. Some of our clients include: Harley Davidson Nature's Bounty The Glenrothes Walkers Dulux
The media agency that backs the underdog. We deliver bite by thinking smarter and moving faster. We take on category big dogs. We launch start ups and brands with limited resources. We take creative risks and are always there in your time of need.
Jackanory - Creators of brand experiences and immersive events, engaging your audiences through stories. Whether you’re a brand or an agency looking to activate an experiential campaign or consumer experience, we can help at any stage of your planning and implementation – all with a little less waffle and a little more magic. At Jackanory, who you see is who you get. Our founders, Lucy and Jo, have worked together in experiential marketing for over a decade, creating brilliant events and experiences for a wide variety of clients and agencies. Our agency model, of a small senior team and a trusted network of freelancers, means you get the highest level of expertise, without paying through the nose. We’re proud to have created success stories for many including Brown-Forman, Elizabeth Arden, Canon, Dr.Oetker, Swatch, Google, Mitie and Heineken. Our ‘Whole Story’ TM approach ensures we use insights, creativity and a sprinkling of fun to challenge the norms and create conversations through unique events and experiences; helping brands and businesses become the next bestsellers.
jellybean - We are the food and drink marketing agency for you. If you’re looking for a multi award-winning integrated specialist food and drink agency to help you grow your food and drink business, you’ve come to the right place. Whether it’s foodservice marketing, foodservice pr, convenience retail trade marketing, convenience retail trade pr, consumer marketing or consumer pr – we know our stuff when it comes to food and drink and we’re here to help. With 36-year track record, a client list that reads like a who’s who of foodie brands (from market leaders to challenger start-ups) and a trophy cabinet fit to burst, we’re the proudly independent full-service foodie agency that lives and breathes food and drink. Big enough to matter, but small enough to really care, we put ourselves in your shoes and those of your customers, to pull-out that killer insight to help your food and drink brand hit the sweet spot.
KHWS is the Insight Driven Brand Activation Agency. Our Behavioural Science tools identify & define buying behaviours. Working in partnership with Durham University Business School we have developed a set of very agile proprietary behavioural science based tools - Sales Trigger Insight - that for the first time provide a unique insight into the purchase behaviour of our client’s customers. By understanding the unconscious short cuts that consumers use when making a purchase decision - in any given category – we can deliver messaging and marketing activity that solves the most pressing challenges facing brands:
Based in North Lincolnshire, building relationships across the world. Knapton Wright are an ambitious creative marketing agency with a passion for generating amazing results for the fantastic people with whom we work. From a former Facebook employee to a globetrotting content expert, every member of our team has a different story to tell. We put people and positive experiences at the heart of marketing to deliver long-term results. Our creative marketing services include: - Social Media Management - Content Marketing - SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) - PPC (Pay Per Click Advertising) - Strategy - Websites Some of our clients include: Braun Qudos Homes Land Rover Jaguar I-Pace University of Lincoln Myenergi Macmillan Cancer Support Caistor Arts & Heritage Centre
Kyan. Technology powered by people. At Kyan, we love to build the platforms, apps and digital products that will take your concept from an initial idea to a living, breathing reality. Maybe you're a startup, maybe you're an enterprise business. Either way, we provide the technical and creative expertise that underpins a successful product launch, digital transformation project or platform creation. Today, technology fuels business like never before. It turns a late night click into a next day parcel. It empowers employees by connecting them with a career coach. It ensures customers can engage with a brand, service or product, anytime, anywhere. It’s how we make sure our clients are ready for what’s next. Technology is helping companies solve today’s greatest problems. But whatever the journey, we believe teamwork should always be the start. From the moment a client walks through the door, it’s our mission to design, develop and deploy an innovative, custom solution that’s right for them. So we work as one team with our clients, finding the answer together. It’s why we’ve designed our processes around collaboration. It’s why we believe in inclusivity, not ‘them and us’. It’s why we believe professional also means personal. Because technology…
We’re on a mission to be the happiest performance agency in the world. Powered by data but delivered by humans, our work delivers excellent results every time. That’s because our people can flourish personally and professionally while they craft industry-leading PPC, data and optimisation solutions.
Experience more. The world is changing. Faster than ever. Our teams deliver world-class strategy, technology and creative campaigns for some of the world’s best known brands and brightest challengers. It’s our aim to be our clients’ most trusted partner. Creating value. Solving problems. Getting things done. Fast. And because we’re independent, we have a the kind of energy and drive that makes life simple; as we help our clients tackle their biggest marketing challenges every single day. Low&Behold is a group of experts with offices across the UK and Ireland, united under one name in the shared belief that brand experience is everything. Advertising, Video, Digital Marketing, PR, Social Media, Web, User Experience, Live Events, Internal Comms, Training, they should all create a positive and ownable experience. Some of our clients include: Churchill b&m Papa Johns Pets at Home Offices in Birmingham, Carlisle & Belfast.
We’re Mesh, an independent integrated agency that creates disruptive ideas to build brands and drive sales. We’re an integrated marketing agency, delivering ideas that sell across multiple touchpoints, channels and disciplines – from shopper and digital to retail and experiential to account handling, planning and creative –we believe in the power of commercially creative thinking. And it’s this combination of real-world insights, category-leading ideas and inspiring creative delivery that many of the world’s biggest brands and retailers come to us for. Some of our clients include: Heineken UK Coca Cola Bacardi McVities Costa Nestle Purina Durex Pladis
As a small-but-mighty team of scientists, linguists, event-pros, policy-buffs and creatives, we use our broad experience and personal values to tell a new story of sustainability.
Mostly Media is an independent media buying agency based in Bath and Edinburgh. Our job is to get your message in front of as many potential customers as possible, as cost effectively as possible and generate response. We have a proud track record of growing clients businesses through our innovative approach and thorough knowledge of all media platforms - TV, Digital, Press, Out of Home, Cinema and Radio.
Network is an independent creative production agency that specialises in creating volume content for national and international brands. We are dedicated to building collaborative, long-standing relationships with our clients and are proud that many have chosen us to be their creative production partner for more than 10 years. From creation to management and implementation, our experienced team provides high quality print, press, digital, and motion work. We deliver on time, on budget and on brief whilst ensuring we follow all ISO accredited protocols. Some of our clients include: Morrisons Fidelity Kindred
onepointfive - We're a creative agency that specialises in concepting and delivering unforgettable brand experiences. We know how to make brands stand out and stay relevant. Online, offline, or a blurring of the two – we put our clients in front of the people that matter. Some of our clients include: Microsoft Shopify Bumble Netflix Google Kelloggs Pringles Beavertown Amber Beverage Group St Austell Brewery Manchester City FC Puma Gym+Coffee London Eye Jaguar Land Rover
Market Research Society (MRS), Agency of the Year 2021. Opinium - We help our clients harness the power of insight to build, grow, promote and make strategic business decisions. Focused on our clients and our people, Opinium is an award winning strategic insight agency built on the belief that in a world of uncertainty and complexity, success depends on the ability to stay on the pulse of what people think, feel and do. Creative and inquisitive, we are passionate about empowering our clients to make the decisions that matter. Some of our clients include: Deliveroo Direct Line Group Kraft Heinz
We are creative communications specialists across PR, Influencer Marketing, Social & Experiential who create meaningful connections between brands and audiences to drive commercial impact
Your new journey starts here The world is changing. So are we. After 10 fantastic years the time is right for a new name, look and vision. Welcome to Program - the new name for Astley Media. We put the human story into your brand, to power true positive change and impact. Clients: Jurassic Fibre Heart of SW LEP Timewade Stagecoach University of Exeter Exeter Science Park Belfield Developments Cornwall Council Dorset Council Devon County Council Somerset County Council
PromoVeritas are the power behind some of the world's favourite promotions. We have been helping brands and agencies to run their promotions right since 2002. From prize draws to competitions, in-store to online we have run thousands of promotions to the letter of the law all around the world. We run them fairly, independently, and transparently. We bridge the gap between imaginative marketing concepts and compliant legal execution to ensure that big and beautiful ideas for promotions don’t end up in disaster. PromoVeritas provides the ‘independence’ that every promotion requires to remain compliant in the eyes of the law. It is built into every aspect of the terms & conditions we draft, the prize draws we run, the competitions we judge, the microsites we build and even the votes we count for events like the National Television Awards. Our expertise is truly global, and we consider the risks and feasibility of running campaigns across multiple countries with different legal regimes from China, to Chile, Austria to Australia. We have run over 16,000 promotions and given away over £50 million of prizes for some of the world’s biggest brands. We have proudly worked with brands such as Amazon, ASOS, Cadbury, Kellogg’s,…
Using a combination of Earned PR, Owned Content, Business Development and Planned Events we help clients grow their business by reaching and engaging with the people who matter.
We're a brand experience marketing agency. We ignite exciting engagements between consumers & brands, in-store & online. Quantum is a leading independent, integrated marketing agency based on the south coast in Bournemouth. Working across a wide range of sectors, Quantum delivers brilliantly creative campaigns, building brands, selling products and services and developing winning strategies.
The UK's #1 radio creative agency. Experts in effective #audio campaigns for big and small brands. #AwardWinning #Radio Based in the heart of London’s Soho, Radioville is a leading creative agency that specialises in delivering highly effective and targeted radio advertising and digital audio campaigns for brands, large and small. The business was founded in 1998. Since then our team of award-winning account directors, writers, producers and studio directors have helped brands such as Autoglass, PizzaExpress, Clinique, audible.co.uk, Screwfix, TalkTalk, Harrods, Lexus, Kellogg’s, wagamama, Carphone Warehouse, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Nationwide Building Society (and many more!) maximise the impact of their #marketing spend by producing insightful and engaging audio campaigns that deliver results. Listen to some of our work here: https://radioville.co.uk/work/
Rankin Creative is a unique one-stop shop for any brand challenge. From luxury to tech to tech luxury, from automakers to changemakers, we have partnered with them all. Our strategy-led creative polymaths have a stunning record of shaping brands and people. Using the power of editorial, advertising and entertainment, we question everything until we find the human story. We take taboos into the mainstream. Celebrate high and low culture. Reveal, promote and partner with talent everywhere. Don’t come to us for comfort. Come to question and be questioned. Come to be provoked, excited, pushed forward - and to push the world forward.
Making brands memorable for the right reasons. With us, your clients’ always end up with something meaningful to Rant + Rave about. Rant + Rave is a digital storytelling company that works with content and visual design to create memorable brand experiences. We work with the powerful combination of creativity, technology and data to help brands and organisations better serve their consumers and society, as a whole. Our services range from digital engineering and visual storytelling to creative marketing and advertising. Our Why - We believe that creativity knows no bounds and so neither do we. We are not limited by location, industry or organisation size but rather, work with companies that want to influence behaviour and inspire change through creative solutions.
We're the outsider agency creating stories your customers won't forget. With good people and great ideas at our heart, re:act is a digital agency born out of a passion to do things a little differently. Here, a happy culture and a collaborative nature don’t just produce some of the best strategy, content and media, but create happy relationships that are truly built to last. Together, let’s spark conversation and drive conversion with innovative communications that inspire consumers to really engage with you and your business. View some of our work here: https://reactmarketing.agency/work/ Some of our clients include: Batiste Loreal Roald Dahl Childs Farm Eau Thermale Avene Dove Charles Worthington
The Freethinking, commercial growth and behaviour change specialists.
We’ve been helping dynamic businesses launch and grow since 2007. We are small & SME business champions with the integrated strategic, design, and technical skills needed to help your business flourish.
Ride Shotgun is one of the UK’s fastest growing independent marketing agencies for a reason - more and more brands are recognising the value our ‘joined-up brand journeys’ proposition delivers for them. We think big strategically, go big creatively, deliver big in production and activate everywhere. It’s all under one roof with experts at every step to make sure we never lose the integrity of your brand when it comes delivering results.
