Partners
“Some businesses collect partners like Facebook friends. It’s all about quantity rather than quality.”
We believe quality is much more important. All our partners are highly experienced in their fields and our relationships are forged from working together on complex projects.
We won’t work with partners unless we know the MD well enough to call them in the middle of the night if something needs to be resolved urgently. That’s why we trust the people listed below to deliver to the the same exacting standards that we aim for.
Editorial – Kathryn Corrick
Ex-editor of the New Statesman on-line, Kathryn has over ten years experience in digital content. Her clients include McCann Erickson, Handbag.com, the University of Westminster and the Technology Strategy Board.
Kathryn is UK Chair for the Online News Association, a member of Women in Journalism and an Affiliate Professional member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Technical – Squiz
Squiz are a Supported Open Source solutions company with over ten years of experience in delivering successful open source content management solutions from their global network of sales and support centres.
Their flagship product is the Enterprise Open Source CMS, MySource Matrix. This is designed, developed and maintained by Squiz but distributed freely as an open source product, with no licensing costs.
Commercial – Yoke Digital
Founded by Matt Davies, Yoke Digital consults with publishers helping them monetise their websites through digital sales, marketing, product & business development.
Matt has over 10 years experience working in a range of commercially focussed roles at CNET, United Business Media and Reed Business International.
Design and brand management – Intendance
Intendance are an independent digital communications agency with over 10 years experience of both print and digital branding.
They provide a full service from web and print design through to social media monitoring to brand and reputation management.
Ad serving – Thrive/Paragon
Both companies are founded by Andrew Fawcett-Wolf who has over 20 years experience in traditional and digital media.
Thrive Digital provides consultancy to help businesses monetise their web properties through ad serving.
Complementing the consultancy business, Paragon Digital provides outsourced ad operations for global clients such as Yahoo, LinkedIn, Metro and Microsoft.
Video – Foxwell Films
Will Foxwell is a freelance filmmaker with over 7 years experience in the Film, TV and web video production industries.
Clients include Channel 4, Boots, Royal Mail and BT.
Foxwell Films provides a full service video production service from filming through to editing and post production work.
Analytics – Trovus
Trovus specialises in helping B2B organisations maximise marketing investment from their websites.
They do this by tracking user activity via the user’s IP address which allows businesses to report on who visits their site and when. Trovus also provide consultancy to help businesses understand how to act on this intelligence.
Moderation – Tempero
Tempero is Europe’s leading interactive community management company providing 24/7 specialist moderation for message boards, blogs, commenting, social networking sites and user generated content (UGC) projects.
Clients include Marks and Spencer, NSPCC, ASOS, BBC and Tempero is a member of the Home office Task Force for Child Protection on the Internet. Every member of the team is police checked.
