Forward Role is the North’s largest marketing and digital recruiter. Working with many of the largest and fastest growing brands in the UK, we help employers to attract the brightest talent and empower candidates to build exciting careers.

We’re the people who helped AO.com build their senior marketing team pre-IPO. We’re the agency who recruited the digital, tech and marketing talent that enabled Boohoo and Missguided to achieve hypergrowth.

Now we’re supporting the next generation of pioneering companies across the UK, to acquire the cutting-edge talent they need to create their own success stories. No matter what the specialism, we have experts on hand, across marketing, digital, analytics, technology, design & UX – including dedicated teams for agency, interim and executive level positions. Forward Role is the Official Headline Sponsor of the Digital Content Leaders Masterclass

 

Zazzle Media, a Stickyeyes Group Agency, has been championing data-led content marketing for the last ten years. Putting content at the heart of digital strategy, Zazzle Media drives engagement, awareness and sales via PR, Search, Social, Voice Search, Email and Influencer channels.

Digital content is our currency, and results are our raison d’etre. Content can be created by anyone, but when it is being crafted for multiple devices, platforms and audiences you need an expert hand – and you can find our mark on some of the biggest brands in the world to prove it, with the likes Superdry, Mulberry and Travel Republic under our belt.

 

Our ultimate goal is to unlock the maximum performance of our client’s business, whether this be across their content marketing, creative or technology requirements.

We are marketers first and channel specialists second and have experience across both major international markets as well as smaller, more localised requirements. Our service offering is built on the three key pillars:

We first CONSULT – which is where we ask the ‘whys’; we believe that at least 80% of the route to achieving a successful outcome is about accurately defining the problem.

We then CREATE – our creativity doesn’t begin or end in content. With a full understanding of a business problem, we are fully equipped to craft strategic content solutions that achieve sales and marketing objectives.

And then we DELIVER – with a clear strategic solution created, we then have a great foundation to deliver exceptional work for our clients, across content and social, design, UX, technology and digital marketing including PPC, SEO, Display and Social.

We partner with a range of B2C and B2B companies across Financial Services, Technology, Ecommerce, Hospitality & Leisure, Travel, FMCG, Logistics & Professional Services organisations.  Example clients include Northern Rail, Gordon Ramsay Group, EE, DHL, Royal Caribbean, Investec, Vodafone, DAS Insurance, Angostura, Poetry, Autosport, 7IM Investment, Arriva Trains, The Health Lottery, Lords/MCC, Insight Investment and the Musicians Union

 

connective3 is a digital performance agency with specialisms in SEO, content marketing, PPC, display & CRO. All underpinned by data & insights.

Founded by the team behind Branded3, connective3 connects expertise to deliver performance and growth for brands. With over 50 years of collective experience we understand that businesses only reach their full potential when they have a transparent, connected strategy that places value on all specialisms and business areas. Our goal is to deliver maximum growth for our clients, and we know the best results are delivered through connected strategies.

 

Woven is a creatively-led brand engagement agency. We provide creatively-led engagement solutions for luxury & aspirational brands by combining insights-driven digital strategy with killer creative. We make brands work beautifully.

We make sure every interaction with your brand engages, excites and stays long in the memory. We’re experts in creative strategy, inbound marketing, HubSpot and growth-driven design web development. Our vision is to be the go-to brand engagement agency for aspirational, ambitious and best-in-class brands around the world.

 

At Smoking Gun our ethos is “Create Ingenious”. It’s an aspiration we strive for in all that we do, both internally and externally. Ingenious is being original, clever, and inventive.

We aim to be the PR & social media agency of choice for those businesses and organisations who seek growth. If you’re serious about growth too, then engage with us. We’re an agency partner who not only believes in demonstrating the true value of the work that we do, but also believes in creating an environment for its team to become the best that they can be.

 

Bind is a biddable media cooperative. Biddable media = media that is traded in an auction. Mainly paid search and paid social. Cooperative = employee owned. Every Bind employee is a partner in the business.

Bind is not differentiated by what it does, more by how it’s organised. Employee ownership is the starting point. This, coupled with paying at the top end of the market for talent, allows Bind to attract and retain the best humans.

The BindPulse is the second part of the equation. It creates a powerful monthly incentive to ensure clients get maximum effort at all times (not just when their business is being pitched). Bind’s mission is to move the agency industry on a few steps by showing that its evolved model better serves both clients and employees. Bind accidentally won Small Digital Agency of the Year a few months ago at the Prolific North Awards. A nice surprise!

 

Epiphany was founded as a search specialist in 2005. Over the years it has helped to set a benchmark for search excellence in the UK, specialising in SEO, PPC, Display, CRO, Content and Web Development.

It has supported a broad range of clients to help them benefit from new technologies in consumer search, expand into international markets and to outcompete their peers online.  Epiphany is a Jaywing agency. Together the business draws on a shared heritage of innovation, creativity, measurement and data-led communications. It’s full of creative, talented individuals who connect powerful ideas, rich data and new technologies to engage with brands and their audiences.

 

Digitaloft is a multi-award-winning digital PR and content-first search marketing agency that place a results-driven focus upon delivering innovative strategies that have a long-lasting impact on the growth of clients’ brands. The agency’s ethos and approach are backed by the acknowledgment that search marketing is changing at a rapid pace yet remains a key channel of growth across all sectors.

Earning links and coverage from the world’s biggest publishers isn’t easy, yet with the right agency partner, brands can scale link building to support their wider search marketing strategies through a digital PR-led approach, telling stories that get people talking.

Digitaloft works with brands who aren’t afraid to adapt, evolve and push boundaries with content marketing and digital PR and have a wealth of proven successes with clients in competitive industries including travel, finance and fashion.