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For information on sponsoring the 2012 Awards, please contact Itisha Giri, Display Ad Director on +44(0)20 7970 4202 or via email: itisha.giri@centaur.co.uk.
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YouGov is an international, full service online market research agency offering custom research, omnibus, field and tab services, qualitative research, syndicated products and market intelligence reports.
Founded in the UK in 2000, YouGov is considered the pioneer of online market research and our unique fully integrated online model has a well-documented and published track record of accuracy. We operate an online panel of more than 350,000 respondents in the UK and 2.5 million worldwide representing all ages, socio-economic groups and other demographic types. YouGov has offices in the UK, US, Europe and the Middle East.
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Established in 2001, Alchemy Worx is the world’s largest email marketing agency. With over 70 employees and offices in London and Atlanta, it uses hyper-specialization techniques to deliver both simple and highly complex life-cycle based email programmes faster and more cost effectively.
Alchemy Worx provides strategy, design, content, testing, inbox placement and detailed post campaign analysis to many big-name Brands; including Sony, Skype, Getty Images and Hilton Hotels.
Learn more about our hyper-specialized team here. You can also find techniques that generate real value for your email marketing programmes by subscribing to Email Worx here and following us on Twitter.
Antalis McNaughton is Europe’s largest paper merchant and offers a range of Creative Papers, where fashion led colours, metallics and translucents, modern textures and unusual finishes are available to help find the ultimate creative solution to any paper-based communication.
Callcredit Marketing Solutions is the UK's leading marketing services provider of choice. Unlike traditional providers, we design and execute marketing programmes with measurable customer value as the starting point. With marketing services from consumer data and contact centres through to direct, digital and credit marketing, Callcredit Marketing Solutions will help you gain greater knowledge of your customers and prospects, as well as the best ways to engage with them.
By transforming raw consumer data into actionable customer insight, we'll help you maximise your marketing budget while encouraging customers to buy more, do more and stay longer - measurably improving your return on customer.
Ebiquity are marketing performance management specialists. We help brand owners across the world get the best returns from their media and marketing investments. For over 1,000 clients, including 85 of the top 100 global advertisers, we monitor advertising, advise on comms strategy, benchmark their media agency performance, evaluate their digital activity, optimise their sponsorship and their promotions, and enable them to better manage their corporate and brand reputation.
Web: www.ebiquity.com Blog: www.ebiquityopinion.com Twitter: @ebiquityglobal
First Clarity is different breed of consultancy, using innovative technologies to deliver our clients’ digital vision. We work in close partnership with our clients, providing a rare combination of passion, technical knowledge, strategic guidance and IT implementation. We realise our clients’ digital ambitions, creating their competitive advantage and accelerating growth.
Foodity is putting a data standard behind the millions of recipes that get published on the web, broadcast on TV and printed in books and magazines so that the ingredients can get bought with a click of a button at major US and UK supermarkets. Our show case site has been described as one of the best food sites on the web by the Independent, we've been recommended by lots of UK newspapers and the BBC described what we're doing as a glowing opportunity.
To be passionate about brands is not enough, but it is a great starting point. At Hudson RMS our creative proposals are led by business insight and brand knowledge in every single case. We work in true partnership with our clients to ensure that our outstanding designs engage the consumer and achieve tangible results.
Our extensive experience in providing display solutions for the global market, together with our confident and innovative creative approach has helped us build an excellent reputation as well as an extremely loyal client base.
Find out just what Hudson RMS could bring to your business, contact Rob on rob.pj@hudsonrms.com
Jacob Bailey is an award-winning direct response and digital engagement agency. Creativity and a sense of adventure have been at the heart of everything we do for almost 15 years. Generating ideas through our Creativity Clubs enable us to throw the doors of the agency wide open, working together with our clients to create magic with more than a pinch of fun thrown in. All underpinned by our unique i5 approach and proposition builder (the science bit) to ensure we deliver brilliant results again and again. Just ask some of our happy clients: Abellio, BT, Confused.com, Mastercard, Network Rail and RBS.
JDO is a bright, young brand design and packaging agency, borne out of the industry’s biggest and best. We work with the world’s best-known brands around the globe, creating award-winning brand experiences that make meaningful and lasting connections.
At JDO, we seek the emotion at the heart of the brand to create work that has the ability to transform the way a person thinks, feels and behaves. Whilst our heartland is identity, graphics and structural branded packaging design, we have a 360 degree brand centric approach, believing that successful brands live beyond pack, digital and advertising. This, together with our relentless passion to create captivating work, ensures our brand expressions turn big ideas into compelling and commercially successful reality.
LEWIS PR is a global communications agency. LEWIS specialises in traditional media, social media, digital marketing and creative services. LEWIS works with leading and emerging brands across multiple sectors, including consumer, healthcare, technology and telecom. LEWIS has more than 25 offices across the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
LIVE is an independent agency bursting with experiential passion and expertise; put simply, they are the experiential delivery experts bringing ideas to life. With the UKs leading Brand Ambassador Database and a first class head office team; they ensure that perfect interaction between brand and consumer every time.
Founded with simple principles; to deliver excellence across all facets of experiential marketing; with integrity, a pragmatic approach and a sprinkle of panache, simple!
Our core specialities are brand ambassadors, logistics, venue profiling/booking, production, campaign execution and evaluation
Delivering: experiential campaigns, sampling road-shows, product demonstrations, leafleting, events, guerrilla marketing, pop-up retail and sponsorship activation.
MSF have been established for over 36 years and are one of the most experienced Field Marketing companies in the UK.
We really know how to make your brand stand out from the crowd; from driving brand awareness and availability at the point of purchase; to building consumer trial through dynamic, memorable experiences; to influencing purchase; to ensuring promotional compliance in store, MSF enable you to fulfil your brand’s potential.
So, whether it’s sales drives, brand experience, in-store demonstrations, product sampling, mystery shopping, merchandising, store development or compliance & retail auditing you’re interested in, to request more information, or discuss your campaign requirements please get in touch.
Ten years ago, an online route to market was a ‘nice-to-have' for most organisations. It's now essential for businesses who want to remain viable. Those capitalising on multiple digital channels are asserting brand awareness and gaining market share.
Digital success, both strategy and execution, relies on employing the right skills, expertise and track record. That's where we get involved. The candidates we represent are technically and creatively talented, that's a given, but also display thorough commercial awareness and appreciation of the bigger business picture.
As a digital specialist looking to enhance your career, we can offer you access to the best digital jobs and the support of consultants who really understand the market you work in. We work with some impressive brand names, always looking to boost their digital talent. We recruit permanent, temporary and contract opportunities in digital areas including affiliates and aggregators, content, design and development, ecommerce and online marketing management.
Microsoft has been at the cutting edge of technology for 35 years and leading in digital for more than 16 years. We continue to invest in innovative technology year after year, creating new opportunities for advertisers to amplify their brand stories across audiences, channels like MSN, and screens including PC, Slate, Xbox and Mobile in the most creative, engaging and efficient ways possible. Creativity sits at the heart of everything we do – but it’s not just about the ideas behind a campaign, it’s also about the creative application of these ideas across multiple platforms to engage and excite audiences.
The Microsoft Advertising portfolio, including its premium display ad network of the top 300 sites in the UK, reaches over 90% of the UK population. Our breadth of technology acts as a great catalyst for creativity and our variety of ad solutions, including industry award-winning new ad formats, take the guess work and complexity out of the picture for our customers’ campaigns, ensuring they are more efficient and scalable.
We are passionate about research:
People. Markets. Innovation.
We want to make it easier.
We want to find answers.
We are not afraid of new ideas.
We are not afraid to challenge.
We know you’re not all the same.
We are diverse.
We are human.
We are Mintel.
Expert Analysis. Simply Delivered.
Neolane provides the only conversational marketing technology that empowers organisations to build and sustain lifetime one-to-one dialogues, to increase revenue and marketing efficiency. With best-in-class email and inbound-outbound channel fusion capabilities, marketers achieve results in record time. Born digital, Neolane has a track record of enabling its customers to adapt to new communication challenges and exploit opportunities more quickly than their competition. Neolane is used by more than 300 of the world’s leading companies including Sony Music, Debenhams, AXA Banque, Orange, Sears Canada, and Sephora.
Prodir have been international leaders in the manufacture and distribution of promotional pens since the mid-1970’s, with sales offices in seven European countries. Our success is due to a combination of award-winning design, Swiss-made quality and constant investment in innovative technology and eco-sustainability. Prodir’s custom-designed pens, and recently launched Paper Multitasking range of products, offer a vast range of personalisation options and are perfect for creating unique promotional gifts to fit any corporate identity.
PHL have successfully operated in Sales Promotions, Third Party Logistic, Storage and Fulfillment requirements for over 10 years.
Due to our central location on the Wales/England border we are able to offer our customers cost effective solutions for Storage and Fulfilment, without impacting on the service level and delivery of your marketing campaign.
The backbone of the company ultimately lies within the team, who possess a diverse range of disciplines, with expertise in Logistics, Project Management, New Media Marketing services, Data Management and Analysis, Distribution and Customer Service. As well as being educated at a degree level, the account management team has also trained with the IPM.
Quadrangle is an award-winning research and strategy business and one of the fastest-growing companies in the research industry. Our work centres around helping clients use research to grow value and drive performance.
Founded in 1987 as a specialist in customers, brands and strategy, we have made a unique 25-year journey from ‘pure’ strategic consulting to embrace both market research and data analytics. Today, Quadrangle delivers the best of both worlds – a research skillset with a consulting mindset – to a prestigious, blue-chip client base. This includes the likes of Asda, British Gas, the Co-operative Group, HM Revenue & Customs, Honda, JaguarLandRover, Lloyds Banking Group, MasterCard, the Volkswagen Group and O2.
Our aim is to be the reference business for the industry and, in 2012, we celebrate our 25th birthday.
Reckitt Benckiser (RB) is a world leader in household, health and personal care, with operations in over 60 countries and sales in 200.
A FTSE top 25 company, RB is the global No 1 or No 2 in the majority of its fast-growing categories, driven by an exceptional rate of innovation – about a third of net revenue comes from innovations launched in the prior 3 years. It’s strong portfolio is led by 19 global powerbrands: Finish, Lysol, Dettol, Vanish, Woolite, Durex, Calgon, Airwick, Harpic, Bang, Mortein, Veet, Nurofen, Clearasil, Strepsils Gaviscon, Mucinex, Scholl and French’s, which account for 69% of net revenue.
RB people are at the heart of the company’s success - 27,000 of them worldwide – all with an intense drive for progress and action and a desire to outperform wherever they focus.
Skyline Whitespace is an award winning custom modular exhibition and event supplier. From simple banners and pop-ups through to multi-level structural exhibition display systems, Skyline is the custom modular display solution of choice for the world’s leading organisations. Current clients include Activision, Amazon, Bayer and Timberland. We have designed and installed many projects in the UK and around the World for a wide variety of businesses across all industry sectors. If you are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking, creative, service lead company look no further!
Truth is a strategic insight consultancy.
We believe in the power of truth as a driver of change: recognising it, understanding it, and creating it. We help our clients build profitable brand and business strategies, based on insight into the way people think, feel and behave. The deep and distinctive truths our clients need to know to help their brands succeed.
Our eclectic mix of expertise includes business strategy, brand and category development, innovation, product development, service design and communications planning.
