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Brand Experience Agency
Bearded Kitten
Bearded Kitten can’t be described in 200 words. But if it could, it might look like this…12 new clients in 2022. 75% pitch conversion rate. 0% of project waste to landfill. 11 recruits, with a 97% employee retention rate.But we’re more than just stats. We set up an ‘Underground of Sounds’ in a disused tube carriage for Beefeater Gin, p...
Amplify
Amplify is an independent global creative agency, specialising in experience and culture.2022 was Amplify’s most successful year, creatively, culturally and commercially… We remain an excited and positive force in this fast-moving and ever-changing world, choosing to see opportunities where others see challenges. >>> Creatively With ...
Imagination
Imagination was founded 50 years ago by Gary Withers around a simple idea...Independent Creativity.From day one he believed unique combinations of strategic, creative and practical people given the freedom to challenge each other, to invent and to defy conventions, could create experiences that had never been imagined before.Experience...
Creative Agency
Leo Burnett UK
When setting Leo Burnett’s ambitions for 2022, we realised that our North Star had the potential to unlock more than just business success. Amid the harsh realities of the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, it’s more important than ever for brands to understand and serve their customers. But this can’t be truthfully achieved if our in...
Mother London
To help us face the political, economic and environmental headwinds that came our way, we pioneered three antidotes to 2022: integrity, positive action and great entertainment. Integrity: We continued to make Mother’s values more tangible with our D&I consulting panel Kindred Council, an offering of 400 free meals to our local communit...
adam&eveDDB
2022 was a pretty good year. We upheld the highest creative standard in the industry, launching a depth and breadth of work across a range of channels and audiences, at scale, notching up 7 Picks of Week. We were the most creatively recognised agency in the UK: named Campaign BIGs Agency of the Year, eurobest UK Agency of the UK, Shots...
Digital Innovation Agency
R/GA London
Last year we were proud to pick up Silver in this category, but as Campaign’s former ‘Digital Agency of the Decade’, we always strive for better. And so, we asked ourselves in January ‘what do we need to achieve to get back on top?’. Innovation with impact was our answer. And we’ve had our most impactful year yet. A year when the new l...
Gravity Road
Being 3x winners of the Digital Innovation Agency of the Year only serves to keep us hungry to maintain the standard, and the momentum. We hope we’ve done so across 2022! We continue to be the innovator’s innovator, adding Minecraft to our growing number of tech platform clients alongside TikTok and Niantic. And we are routinely appoin...
Media.Monks
Powered by digital innovation across content, data, tech and media, we grew by more than 30% over the past year.2022 was the year that we became known for our unrivalled metaverse expertise.We believe that virtualisation is the future of everything. Virtualisation, which we consider the new frontier of business growth, focuses on the p...
Independent Agency - Creative
Pablo London
We continue to keep building a fresh agency model without waiting for permission. Our creativity and entrepreneurial spirit once again led to us growing faster than any other agency in the UK, and our Active Brand Platform approach gained traction and landed us 17 new clients totalling more than £100m in media billings. To service thes...
Uncommon Creative Studio
Almost every sector in the last decade has been disrupted and 2022 brought even more challenges. At Uncommon, we’ve been fuelled by this disarray and believed there’s never been a more urgent time to put our philosophy to work. We believe in building brands that people in the real world are glad exist. We’ve shown there is a better way...
Mother London
To help us face the political, economic and environmental headwinds that came our way, we pioneered three antidotes to 2022: integrity, positive action and great entertainment. Integrity: We continued to make Mother’s values more tangible with our D&I consulting panel Kindred Council, an offering of 400 free meals to our local communit...
Integrated Marketing Agency
VMLY&R
VMLY&R has experienced yet another incredible year of growth. Our momentum has once again gathered speed and we are on our way to becoming a truly formidable powerhouse in the UK. Our integrated offering is proving more popular than ever as clients look for connected solutions to their business problems. It has seen us welcoming exciti...
VCCP
Every passing year, the complexity and range of what clients need to consider and what they need from their agencies grows. They need to be on TikTok, Fortnite and in the metaverse. They need to appeal to Gen Z and the new generation of baby boomers… They need to make people laugh and cry - ideally both. They need fame and reach-again ...
Ogilvy UK
2022 was a pivotal year in Ogilvy’s long history, in which Ogilvy UK became a dominant force by making work that cut across discplines through its ‘Borderless Creativity’ approach. Creative highlights include the multi-award-winning “Have A Word” campaign for the Mayor of London, Dove’s pioneering “Toxic Influence” campaign and the “Ho...
Media Agency
Zenith Media
Following a knockout 2021, we decided not to pitch until July to protect our people. But that didn’t stop us having one of our biggest ever years for growth. Billings increased 17%, double the industry average, and like-for-like revenue increased by 9%; pure organic growth from existing clients.When pitching again, we converted 65% of ...
MG OMD
With £550million in pitch wins, a 100% pitch conversion rate, 100% client retention rate, a 0% gender pay gap, multicultural hires of 40% and 44 industry awards for work across every media channel, the agency described by Campaign as being ‘on a hot streak’ continues to go from strength to strength. In November 2021, MG OMD faced the r...
OMD UK
2022 was the best year in OMD UK’s history, a year in which core values, shared culture and a clear vision produced a revitalised and hugely relevant client offering, enabled an unprecedented new business hot streak and resulted in record level of billings, revenue, income and profit. We won, consistently and collectively, for our clie...
Performance Marketing Agency
Impression
We are Digital Growth Specialists helping ambitious global brands push boundaries and drive impact. We define and deliver integrated digital strategies that transform our clients from market players to market leaders.We’re driven by technology and innovation. We build proprietary platforms and leverage extensive technology partner rela...
Journey Further
Journey Further is the Clarity at Speed performance marketing agency.Founded in 2017, the agency has grown from its three founders to over 180 performance specialists across three locations, Leeds (HQ), London, Manchester, and as of 2022, New York City.We built our Clarity at Speed proposition on guaranteed transparency and direct acce...
The SEO Works
We are the Digital Growth Experts. As an award-winning provider of digital marketing and websites to leading brands, we’ve worked for more than a decade with one key goal in mind - to get businesses more customers online.As a growing business, we have developed a culture that embraces change and iterative improvements to continually ev...
PR Agency
Taylor Herring
We’re known for eye-catching, fame-driving campaigns that capture the imagination of the press and public alike - seizing column inches, news airtime and social trending topics. We’re always looking to sharpen our offering, never resting on our laurels - as proven by showing up in more shortlists than any other agency in the 2022 PR We...
Hope&Glory
Our greatest challenge has been laurels. And not resting on them.We’ve adorned the shelves of Hope&Glory with many of them over the years – we’ve been Best New Agency, Best Small Agency, Best Mid-sized Agency, Best Large Agency and Best Place to Work. We’ve been shortlisted 900 times in awards shows. We’ve won 347 of those. In 2022 PR ...
Tin Man
Vodafone. Virgin Atlantic. Amazon Alexa. Magnet Kitchens. Gumtree. Warner Bros Studios. Luton Airport. These are just a few of the big, blue-chip brands that chose Tin Man as their agency partner in 2022. Hands down, this has been the best 12 months in the 9-year history of Tin Man. We’ve strategically worked to build arguably the most...
Start-up Agency
Fluency, M&C Saatchi
Fluency is a data & technology consultancy, born of a creative solutions network. We believe when data & creativity come together it is unbeatable. So, how is a small start-up helping the world’s largest retailer improve data fluency in a way that's critical to its brand and comms development? And how did a small start-up help a major ...
Motel
2022 has been a year when it felt like we had to relentlessly adjust TV aerials, change light bulbs and repeatedly fix the waffle machine.Here's our quick check-out: - We created some great, memorable work for Klarna, Fever-Tree, Busuu, Antigua & Barbuda, Tonies, Campari and Metaking Studios. - This led to us picking up some major awa...
Weirdo
In late 2020, sparked by a feeling that the industry was dragging behind society, we decided to launch an agency specialising in inclusion-led creativity. Our goal ever since has been to use inclusion as a creative tool to drive social and business impact. By embedding this thinking in all we do we’ve strived to unlock the most origina...
Account Person
Josh Harris
Finding the agency super suit, that will take you from relying on the vibrant momentum of a start-up, to a fully-fledged, proper business with happy, retained, and solid clients, is arguably one of the most important moves an agency such as ours can make. So we didn’t take it lightly. We plucked Josh out of Ogilvy where he’d been runni...
Agency Producer or Team
neverland production team
neverland
For a start-up to win producer of the year was a testament not just to Amy’s hard work, but also the talented team she had hand-picked. This was fairy dust that helped our production team fly even further in 2022, producing some the industry’s most challenging and large-scale creative feats of the year.Now a incredibly talented gang of...
Creative Leader
Chaka Sobhani
For Chaka, populist creativity is a philosophy that defines her work and her life: always in service of the nation at large, never the industry. Over the last four years, she has successfully embedded this philosophy at the heart of Leo Burnett with ‘Populist Creativity’. But this year, under Chaka’s creative leadership, the philosophy...
Creative Team
Nicola Wood and Andy Forrest
Nicola Wood and Andy Forrest are among the most awarded creatives in the world, listed in the 2022 D&AD Top 100 Copywriters Worldwide and the top 2 UK Creative Directors at the 2022 One Show Awards. In 2022, Nicola and Andy won 72 awards. Notable among their award-winning work was the “Have a Word” campaign for the Mayor of London, whi...
Head of Agency - creative/advertising
Sam Hawkey
2022 was Sam Hawkey’s first full year as CEO of AMV BBDO, having joined from Saatchi & Saatchi. Uniquely, at the age of 35, one of the industry’s youngest major agency CEOs, he combines an understanding of advertising’s power with a vision of what needs to change and evolve. And he didn't disappoint, hitting the ground running in his ...
Head of Agency - digital/integrated marketing/media
Chris Freeland
Chris’ drive for inclusivity and diversity at RAPP has been influential across the industry, pioneering a culture where talk and intentions are turned into action and change. New policies on flexibility, childcare and fertility support have contributed to staff satisfaction, with 82% saying they are happy in their roles. Everyone has t...
Natalie Cummins
Natalie Cummins has been CEO of Zenith for her fourth full year in 2022, after a knockout 2021 when Zenith won more new business than anyone else. Last year’s winner of Head of Agency, this year Nat grew Zenith at double the rate of the average agency, with a full 9% organic revenue growth. But this has been a year of ‘more seats at th...
Rebecca Bezzina
With almost three years since Rebecca Bezzina took over the reins, we’ve had our most impactful year yet. A year when under her leadership, the new look R/GA London came of age and returned to the global stage. ‘Becs’ has led the agency to our most successful awards in 6 years. The pinnacle winning the Cannes GrandPrix for NikeSync: ...
Strategic Leader
Josh Bullmore
This year, Josh has made strategy more effective by making it more inclusive. Josh believes that strategy is all too often a career choice for the few, leading to creativity that doesn’t connect with the full diversity of a brand’s audiences, and campaigns that don’t deliver to their full commercial potential. In 2022 Josh has taken st...
Strategist
Emily Brydon
AMVBBDO
During her tenure as the lead global strategist on Mar's owned brands Sheba and Maltesers, Emily Brydon's disruptive thinking has helped Sheba to achieve results that have set it apart from the pack and helped Maltesers to achieve a three year high rate of sale and become the #1 favourite confectionery brand in the UK (YouGov). In 2022...
Media Planner
Richard Kirk
After leading the agencies best-ever new business year in 2021 (winning Nestle, Uswitch, Confused, Zoopla, Lloyds, Halifax and Scottish Widows) “Kirky” spent 2022 bedding in these new clients, and he led our planning effort as we won Nando’s media account. Here, you’ll read how Rich has developed and implemented two ground-breaking new...
Corporate Communications/Marketing Team of the Year
Wunderman Thompson UK
One year, seven people, four marketing pillars, and one unique marketing-led growth story. Considering the whole funnel from awareness, to engagement, to conversion, we one) focus on driving reputation; two) embed a growth mindset; three) inspire our clients & prospects through proprietary events; and four) create targeted & personalis...
New Business Development Team/Person of the Year
Publicis Media Business Development Team
A small team of nine is responsible for all new business across Publicis Media’s agency brands. And what a year they’ve had!Publicis Media is #1 for net new business for the second year in a row (Q1-Q3 2022, COMvergence). They’ve had huge wins this year including Meta, ALDI, LVMH, Mondelez, AB InBev, and Nando’s, delivering over £335m ...
Talent Management Person/Team of the Year
VCCP
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is our strategy to talent management at VCCP and the DE&I Collective are at the heart of driving this.We believe that DE&I is about creating a strong culture of inclusion within our agency, where everyone can thrive and be their authentic self. We want the agency to live & breathe DE&I in everything we d...
