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Since its 1963 launch, Kurt Geiger London has led the way for designer footwear and accessories, firmly establishing itself as a world-class fashion house.
www.kurtgeiger.comKFC (also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken) is an American fast food restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky that specializes in fried chicken. It is the world’s second-largest restaurant chain (as measured by sales) after McDonald’s, with 22,621 locations globally in 150 countries as of December 2019.
www.kfc.co.ukRapha exists to make the world’s finest cycling apparel, POC to reduce the consequences of accidents for athletes and anyone inspired to be one.
www.rapha.ccPart of the Associated British Foods group, established in 1988, Westmill has grown to become one of the largest flour, rice, spices, sauces, edible oils, and noodles suppliers to the UK and European ethnic wholesaler market, food service, industrial sectors and the grocery multiples. With sales in most major EU countries, we have the capability to supply across Europe.
www.westmill.co.ukMerlin Entertainments is a global leader in location-based, family entertainment. As one of the world’s largest attraction operators, we create and deliver memorable, immersive brand experiences for our millions of guests.
www.merlinentertainments.biz/Interbrand has been the world’s leading brand consultancy, for over 40 years – having pioneered iconic work and forged many of the brand building tools that are now commonplace.
interbrand.com/about/A destination for timeless design. Every piece is made to last beyond the season. With a focus on craftmanship, we bring you essentials for the modern wardrobe. Buy better, keep forever.
www.cosstores.com/The ‘Don’t Tell Me, Show Me’ creative agency, we’re designed differently. Mixing old heads with young minds, strategic thinkers with creative dreamers, physical with digital, and 3D experience with 2D design. Showing brands how to show up, show off, and steal the show.
You see, for us, all business is show business. So that’s what we do. Making show-stopping, brand-building work for global businesses like Carlsberg Group, Pernod Ricard, LVMH, Honda, TUI Group, and more.
But don’t take our word for it. Let us show you…”
www.missouri-creative.comWe are a global brand transformation company, here to make an extraordinary difference: for our clients, our employees and the world around us.
We mix left and right brain people, working together, to go beyond what’s expected. Essential intelligence and dramatic design. Business strategy and brand purpose. Expression and experience. Expertise and empathy. 1,200 curious minds. 19 countries. 1 team. We transform brands and businesses, to drive growth.
We see ourselves as valuable additions to our client’s teams and are proud of our relationships with them. Local and global. Corporate and consumer. Emerging and established sectors. We work with clients that include Apple, Bang & Olufsen, bp, Kellogg’s, LEGO, Microsoft, Nike, Procter & Gamble and Singtel, to name a few.
www.landorandfitch.comWE STAND UP FOR INDIVIDUALITY. We speak up against bland, broad-brush generalizations. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individual’s needs, beliefs, behaviors and aspirations. We commit to doing this in every aspect of our work, for our clients and our clients’ consumers. We empower our employees to have no fear in expressing their own individuality.
www.rapp.com/As part of one of the world’s most admired healthcare advertising agencies, CDM London brings people, brands, ideas and innovation together to change real lives in extraordinary ways.
www.cdmlondon.com/Saatchi & Saatchi is a leading global communications and advertising network known for its impactful creative ideas that generate powerful emotional connections between consumers and brands. Present in over 67 countries, Saatchi & Saatchi employs 6,500 professionals over 114 offices.
www.saatchi.co.uk/We are a global brand experience agency with offices in London, Los Angeles + Sydney. We join the dots between people, brands + culture. We solve problems. At the heart of any problem is a person. A real person. What they think, believe, want or need. We help brands to connect with them and the things they love…
www.weareamplify.com/Anomaly is definitely not an “Ad Agency.” The company sets store by developing its own intellectual property, which it can license to clients in return for share in revenues. Their aspiration is to be a product developing IP company, marketing their own portfolio of IP as well as doing that for major brands.
www.anomaly.com/We are a purposeful growth consultancy operating out of San Francisco and London, with global reach. The founding team, led by Jonathan Mildenhall and Neil Barrie, came together while building Airbnb into the most influential travel brand in the world and realized that the leading brands of the 21st century needed a new playbook.
Today, the firm has carved out a reputation as the go-to-partner for building the most influential brands in the world such as Pinterest, Peloton, LinkedIn, Zalando, Wal-Mart, Mars, and many more.
www.twentyfirstcenturybrand.com/R/GA is a company of reinvention. As technology changes the world, we embrace it and change. We help our clients do the same. Today we’re a global creative network, working across communications, brand design, customer experience, and customer relationships.
www.rga.com/We’re the world’s first and only company to exclusively design, build, and run bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. Since we first opened our doors 17 years ago – or, more accurately, stepped through the doors of our first client – we’ve partnered with hundreds of brands across every sector. And we’ve helped them realise average savings of 30% on their marketing spend through more efficient ways of working, and more effective creative work. Ready to bring this fresh thinking to your business?
www.oliver.agency/We know safe is dangerous.
We work with ambitious clients to create a bold way forward out of change, challenge and disruption. We combine commercial + creative expertise without bias to create a single product. We fire up your brand and business so it’s fit to fight in the Participation Age.
www.iris-worldwide.com/Mother is an independent creative company with over 500 like-minded people in our family, with offices across London, New York, Los Angeles and Shanghai. All with kitchen tables in them. And all with people sitting around them that come to work every day to make the best work they possibly can. Everybody who is passionate about great work is always welcome at our table.
www.motherlondon.com/Momentum is an agency of doers.
We make the industry’s most disruptive, entertaining, shareable, unforgettable experiences for our clients and their fans.
We do it by bringing people closer to what they love, in original and unexpected ways.
Whether it’s a physical activation, a virtual experience, or a piece of unique branded content, it’s all part of what we call the Total Brand Experience — ideas that solve business challenges, through best-in-class Consulting, Strategy, Analytics, Experience Design and Production. Momentum Worldwide works with category-leading brands to create category-leading work for American Express, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, SAP, Verizon and Walmart.
www.momentumww.com/Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing and advertising services company connecting the dots across content, data&digital media and technology services. From creative campaigns and content to bespoke development and design, MediaMonks works above the line and below the fold at the intersection of creativity and technology. Operating across teams, time zones, and technologies with an incredible in-house team of more than 1500 Monks.
www.media.monks.com/Capturing hearts and minds
We believe that ideas should work everywhere and that brilliant results are what really matter. We combine deep digital, advertising and experiential expertise, a strong heritage in CRM and award-winning creativity to make it all happen.
www.tmwunlimited.com/We help create transformative brands that move businesses, people and the world forward. Wolff Olins is a brand consultancy, based in London, New York City and San Francisco. Founded in 1965, it now employs 150 designers, strategists, technologists, programme managers and educators, and has been part of the Omnicom Group since 2001.
www.wolffolins.com/Critical Mass is an award-winning digital experience design agency with a relentless focus on the customer. Founded in Calgary in 1996, we have steadily expanded into a group of over 950 people working in 12 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and South America. Our expertise spans Strategy Consulting, Experience Design, Marketing Communications, Implementation, and Marketing Science. We have been recognized as a leader in digital experience design with agency rankings from Advertising Age, Warc 100 and Gartner, among others. Critical Mass is a part of the DAS Group of Companies
www.criticalmass.com/Driving performance through fearless creativity. We are the creative agency that breaks the rules – because someone has to and it might as well be us.
www.whowotwhy.com/VCCP is an international integrated communications agency, founded in 2002 on the principles of simplicity, collaboration, un-preciousness and integration around ideas rather than channels. We are the challenger agency for challenger brands and transform the fortunes of our clients by challenging and disrupting the categories they operate in.
www.vccp.com/Flamingo is a cultural strategy agency · We help shape and build powerful brands by crafting their cultural fluency.We believe the world’s best brands are those that manage to be both highly relatable and truly distinctive, and that they do this by being culturally fluent. When brands have cultural fluency, they can play with the boundaries of culture and find new expressions for it. We help our clients achieve this by harnessing the emergent and unseen patterns of culture to shape and build powerful strategy.
Since we began, we’ve worked on an incredibly diverse range of brand and innovation challenges, for many of the most visionary brands and organisations on the planet.
Based in London, Flamingo is a team of over 70 polymaths, with backgrounds include architecture, photography, sculpture, journalism, music and anthropology.
www.flamingogroup.com/St Luke’s is an independent creative agency, and the fastest growing in the top 25. The ability to define powerful new agendas for brands is what sets us apart. We’ve always believed in the importance of the big brand idea to drive commercial success. In a world of complex media decisions and fast-moving conversations, the need for a clear brand agenda has never been stronger. People do their best work when they are properly looked after. That’s why everyone here has a share in the profits and a training budget to learn the skills they want. Any good agency will give you a campaign idea. We will help you set a new agenda
www.stlukes.co.uk/Incubeta is a team of over 600 creators, thinkers, makers and doers working across 18 offices globally to unlock business growth for clients including Google, Hyundai, Netflix, HBO and L’Oréal. Incubeta combines capabilities across the full spectrum of digital disciplines to deliver standout outcomes at every brand touchpoint, from awareness to fulfilment. Incubeta’s ‘Upgrade your Growth’ narrative emphasizes how the business will grow alongside its clients focusing on expanding our services and products across the entire customer journey, giving clients back control over their data, customers, and actions. The Incubeta group has grown 20 fold over the past 7 years, offering fantastic growth opportunities for staff and helping its rising number of clients grow in a complex digital environment. The unification of its specialisms will ensure Incubeta remains at the forefront of innovation to help businesses unlock the power of digital and amplify growth.
www.incubeta.com/Wasserman is a culture-centric agency, serving the best athletes, artists, brands & properties in the world.
Founded in 2002 with roots in sports and entertainment, Wasserman has evolved beyond those categories. They are an agency not just of advisors, but creators, developers, influencers and innovators who work across music, art, entertainment, social, tech, content and beyond.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman also operates in Carlsbad, Doha, Dubai, London, Miami, The Netherlands, New York, Portland, Raleigh, São Paulo, Singapore and Toronto.
www.teamwass.com/WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities.
www.wpp.com/Dentsu International is one of the largest global marketing and advertising agency networks in the world.We partner with brands to achieve meaningful progress as a force for growth and good. We create world-class solutions and services that unlock new opportunities for growth and business transformation across the entire customer journey
www.dentsu.com/Welcome to PHD, the global media and marketing communications agency. We use the power of imagination to deliver disproportionate growth for brands.Today, with over 100 offices in 74 countries, we continue to create remarkable campaigns that lead to remarkable growth – using the extending canvas of data and technology.
www.phdmedia.com/1000HEADS IS A SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION™ COMPANY We combine expertise in data & analytics, strategy, technology and creativity to help the world’s best businesses build social age brands.
www.1000heads.com/uk/PlatformGSK is a bespoke agency proposition for GSK and is one of Publicis Media’s three dedicated global client groups, designed to drive the future model of Publicis through transformation in technology and ways of working. We blend Media with Data and Technology to create stronger Consumer connections. It is composed of more than 600 media, data and technology experts around the world and is centered around driving client growth by blending media, data and technology to create most relevant and powerful consumer experiences. GSK is one of Publicis Media’s biggest clients globally.
www.platformgsk.com/We’re the free-thinking media agency for brands with big plans. We enhance reach, reputation and revenue by giving every client the best in heart, art and science; which means going the extra mile to understand their world and collaborating to create market-leading strategies, anchored in intelligent data. As an independent agency, we enjoy the freedom to work with clients we love, in ways that work best for both of us. It’s about getting involved, staying informed and being invested in your success. Because great relationships drive better results.
www.thekitefactorymedia.com/As the global performance marketing agency of IPG Mediabrands, we are obsessed with Customer Flow, the continuous movement of your customers along the path to purchase. Our purpose is to help you build and accelerate Customer Flow, and we offer deep expertise in digital crafts required to move customers along that journey. We do this by unifying our craft experts which include search, social media, SEO, eCommerce, content creation and strategy under a single operating system. Our expert team of specialists deliver integrated initiatives that help the world’s leading brands connect to the people who drive their business forward – efficiently and effectively.
www.reprisedigital.com/Social can be chaos. We’re not afraid to admit it.
But this is where we thrive, right in the eye of the storm, bringing method to the madness.
We are Born Social, we harness the chaos.
We are a global social media agency that brings social-first thinking to the brands of tomorrow. Brands that are future-focused and want to be a part of building a better world.
www.bornsocial.com/As Digital Natives, our marketing campaigns start with social. We know algorithms. We know cross-channel creative. And we know audiences.
www.digitalnativescontent.com/News UK is at the heart of the national conversation. Reaching almost 40 million people each month across the UK and beyond, our brands provide news, analysis, opinion – and some fun – to loyal and engaged audiences. Online, on the air, in print and beyond, our world-class journalists and broadcasters tell the stories that matter.
www.news.co.ukHome of the UK’s most engaged newsbrands – Mail, Metro and i, as well as Telegraph print products – together we reach 1 in 5 UK adults every single day! Established in April 2018, the Mail Metro Media team is equipped to improve service to advertisers and support seamless cross-platform delivery across all of its brands, including Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Metro newspaper, Metro.co.uk and the newly-acquired i newspaper. With ten different brands, communicating in ten different tones of voice to ten unique audiences, Mail Metro Media offers an unrivaled marketplace for brands to advertise.
www.mailmetromedia.co.uk/Creating the Future of Media, Out of Home. Clear Channel is one of the UK’s leading Out of Home media owners. With over 35,0000 outdoor advertising sites nationwide, we find relevant, innovative ways for brands to meet people.
www.clearchannel.co.uk/Launched in 1982, Channel 4 is a government-owned TV broadcasting company, which now consists of 12 channels including Film4, E4, and its own streaming service, All 4.
www.channel4.com/Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. We want to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
www.metacareers.com/Immediate Media Co is the special interest content and platform company, home to over 1,000 people across eight divisions. We own and operate some of the best-loved brands in the UK. And we only focus on special interest markets, engaging over 74 million global passionate consumers each month, offering them world-class content and innovative new products and services – including ecommerce, and live events.Immediate was named the UK’s Best Place to Work by Glassdoor in 2022, Digital Consumer Publisher of the Year at the AOP Awards 2021, Tech Provider of the year at the British Media Awards in 2020, and won over 20 industry awards in 2021
www.immediate.co.uk/Hearst is a leading global, diversified information, services and media company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; Hearst Transportation, which includes CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 33 television stations; 24 daily and 52 weekly newspapers; digital services businesses; and nearly 250 magazines around the world.
www.hearst.co.uk/The Economist is one of the most widely recognised and well-read current affairs publications, with a growing global circulation and a reputation for incisive analysis and opinion on every aspect of world events.
www.economist.com/PrettyGreen is an award-winning Creative Communications agency. Delivering Less Ordinary PR. Advocacy. Experience. Content. Social for Less Ordinary Returns. For Brands wanting out of their comfort zone. Snap, Nando’s, Pantene, Hasbro, Audible to name a few.
www.itsprettygreen.com/Making brands culturally relevant since 1993 Exposure is an independent creative communications agency with offices in London, New York, and Tokyo. Founded in 1993, Exposure today provides some of the world’s biggest brands with integral services including PR, social media, brand events and experiences, film, and content marketing. Our purpose is to make brands culturally relevant. We do this by connecting great brands (our clients) to their consumers. From word of mouth to digital media, we are the original social network. What unites our communications expertise is our connections. They are as diverse as our client list. Globally, the Exposure group now consists of a team of over 200 PR and Marketing professionals, strategists, digital specialists, producers, and creatives working for a wide variety of clients, including Nike, Converse, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Heineken and Unilever.
www.exposure.net/At INVNT we believe that every encounter between a brand and a brain is a live event in need of a heart and a soul. Live brand storytelling is our craft. Our battle cry is: challenge everything. Our aspirational vision is to be the best live brand storytelling agency in the world. Aiming for ‘best’ keeps us humble, hungry, and means we get better every day. LIVE IS WHERE WE LIVE® INVNT CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE THINK FEEL BEHAVE AND PEFORM®
www.invnt.com/Milk & Honey PR is a small, energetic London and Sydney based PR agency. Managing and nurturing reputations for passionate and ambitious growth companies across corporate, consumer, charity and b2b.
We may be small but we think big. We work with senior decision makers to change the way businesses talk. We don’t start with numbers, we start with people. We specialise in enriching messaging. Making your story more beautiful, colourful, inspiring or simply less complicated. We bring the buzz of creative ideas and challenge you to step outside of your comfort zone.
www.milkandhoneypr.com/A media buying platform built for what matters. Trusted journalism. Premium streaming TV. One-click commerce. All these amazing online experiences thrive on an open internet. And they’re all fueled by relevant advertising. That’s why we created an independent media buying platform designed for the open internet. One that helps marketers reach more customers in more places, with more transparency and choice at every stage — from planning to pricing to performance. At its best, the internet is an open marketplace of ideas, content, and commerce. And we intend on keeping it that way. Because the open internet matters.
www.thetradedesk.com/Blis helps the world’s largest brands and media agencies drive key business outcomes through personalised and high-performing digital advertising across all verticals. We’re the leading privacy-first, location-powered programmatic advertising partner – delivering accurate targeting at scale without reliance on personal data and delivering ads to 1/5th of the world’s population.
www.blis.com/We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The world’s leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. In April 2021 we acquired SpotX to further enhance our CTV business and better help our clients in this rapidly growing market. Anchored in sunny Los Angeles, bustling New York City, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
www.magnite.com/The Mix is a global market research agency for people who want to create something they’ve never seen before. Since 2012, The Mix has been combining the best of quantitive, qualitative, strategy, and creative to create market research campaigns that answer what, why, how, and who in equal measure. Based in London, but operating globally, the team is a bunch of diverse, committed, enthusiastic, and hardworking people. Together, they work with some of the world’s biggest brands including Diageo, Microsoft and Mozilla.
www.themixglobal.com/We’re MiQ, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our better connected approach to programmatic advertising means we can connect data, discover insights and activate them in high-performance campaigns to deliver real business outcomes for our clients in an increasingly divided world.
We connect the right people, industry partnerships, and technology in a complete programmatic stack so we can solve your precise business challenges by maximising the value of your data.
www.wearemiq.com/Captify is the leading Search Intelligence Platform for the open web and the largest independent holder of first-party search data outside of Google, connecting the real-time searches from over 2 billion devices globally. Its Search Intelligence technology powers omnichannel programmatic advertising and real-time insights for the world’s biggest brands, such as Disney, Unilever, eBay, Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, Nestlé, GSK, Uber, Mars, P&G, Sony and Toyota—without reliance on third-party cookies. Captify brings brands more customers, publishers greater yield and consumers the most relevant digital experiences.
www.captifytechnologies.com/ADYOULIKE is a technology platform reinventing digital advertising. > A technology leader in Media monetization for Native, Display, Social & Video > A global advertising Sales house Largest independent SSP in the World
www.adyoulike.com/Quantcast is an advertising technology company and the creator of an innovative intelligent audience platform that empowers brands, agencies and publishers to know and grow their audiences online. The Quantcast Platform, powered by Ara™, a patented AI and machine learning engine, delivers automated insights, marketing performance, and results at scale to drive business growth. Our solutions are leveling the playing field for our customers when it comes to effectively reaching audiences online and helping them power a thriving free and open internet for everyone. Headquartered in San Francisco, Quantcast has been serving customers around the world since 2006.
www.quantcast.com/homeRegital are a programmatic marketing specialist. They’ve worked with agencies and advertisers for ten years to deliver great programmatic campaigns. With all screens now bought programmatically, they deliver multi-channel campaigns, informed by mobile network data from Skyrise Intelligence Our clients are ambitious high performing companies that want to use modern marketing to get in front, and stay in front. By taking a data-driven, audience first view of marketing, we help you stay ahead of the competition.
www.regital.com/Ozone powers the premium digital display marketplace, delivering high attention ad solutions to 99% of the nation’s online adults. We are a platform built for brands by the UK’s leading premium publishers. We bring advertisers and publishers closer together in a fully transparent and trusted digital environment. We deliver campaigns across 250+ leading online publisher brands, with highly engaging standard display and rich media formats.
www.ozoneproject.com/Find out more about how we can work together to tackle the industry’s diversity challenges and drive positive change.
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