Leeds is known as a hub for digital innovation and content creation with leading broadcasters such as Channel 4 and Sky News calling it home.
Leeds’ digital sector now contributes £1.3 billion to the city’s economy and £6.5 billion to the wider region. Home to an estimated 3,500 technology companies, there are myriad opportunities for anyone looking to pursue a digital career in the city.
In our blog, as we look to launch our new campus in Leeds, we profile some of the leading content agencies in Leeds.
If you’re looking to join a course in Content Creation, get in touch with our team now.
Parallax
Parallax is based out of Leeds and has delivered 350 digital products for scale-ups through to global enterprises.
Known for innovation and digital excellence, Parallax provides a range of services, including content marketing, branding, web development, content design and PR. Clients include notable names like the NHS, British Airways and Citibank.
With the NHS, in 2018, Health Education England commissioned the agency to develop a product called Learning Solution to bring their existing learning products together.
The Parallax team was able to cut hosting costs for the NHS by half with their innovative system design.
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Savvy Marketing
Savvy Marketing is a female-founded creative agency, led by entrepreneur and online marketing expert Catherine Shuttleworth.
The business has grown from ‘three people, a printer, a laptop and big ambitions’ to include more than 50 employees and delivering campaigns for many leading brands around the world. Savvy utilises research and insights to give clients commercial advantages over competitors.
Work has included delivering the Big Moments, Easy Wins campaign for Diago, aimed at boosting consumer engagement across Diageo’s brand portfolio. Another successful campaign was for Old El Paso and their Fresh Mexican concept where the Savvy team worked to enhance customer reach and brand awareness.
Stickyeyes
From search marketing to content and strategy, Stickyeyes was founded in 1999 and has been evolving and expanding ever since.
Work has been across various sectors, including travel, finance, gaming, retail, leisure and fashion while clients include car rental company Hertz where the Stickyeyes team delivered digital and search strategy across each of its key European markets. This involved deploying search, content and digital PR activity in six languages, growing organic search visibility across multiple search markets and ensuring that all of Hertz’s target audience received the best possible digital experience.
The group now employs more than 200 people across offices in Leeds, Peterborough and London. The multi-lingual team currently works with brands in more than 22 territories.
Prohibition PR
Founded by Chris Norton, Prohibition PR is thought to be the biggest PR firm in Yorkshire, offering a range of services from crisis management PR to influencer marketing and media relations.
Clients have included Freeths, a full-service law firm with offices across the UK that fought for years to gain justice for hundreds of postmasters. Prohibition helped launch and manage a LinkedIn Live event to demonstrate the company’s involvement in the case of Mr Bates vs the Post Office.
The firm has also worked with brewer Black Sheep to launch its new beer ‘Burrow’s Blonde’ in support of rugby league legend and Yorkshire-born Rob Burrow, MBE. The ale became the brewery’s fastest selling ever bottled beer.
Enjoy Digital
Since 2008, Enjoy Digital has become a team of trusted online experts with vast experience of growing web presences for multiple businesses.
Led by CEO Chris Jackson, the company specialises in enhancing user experiences, web design, PR, SEO, paid media and more.
Clients have included Northern Trains who hired Enjoy to optimise conversion rates across their website, making user digital journeys as quick and as convenient as possible. Their work led to a 14 percent increase in revenue via the Northern website.
Elsewhere, Enjoy has worked with Hunters estate agents, a York-based business that has expanded into a national presence in the property market.
Work has included developing data dashboards, brand tracking campaigns, digital strategy, activation and more – this added up to a 149 percent increase in revenue generated through digital.
Ascensor
Leading experts in web design, marketing and strategy, Ascensor has been operating since 2007 to help businesses of all sizes increase their online impact.
The team worked with Schofield Sweeney, an award-winning law firm offering full-service legal advice to businesses and individuals that wanted to streamline automations for events. Work included designing email templates, writing content and creating branding.
Other clients included Maritime Capital, a wealth guardian company, that hired Ascensor to create an SEO strategy to attract high-quality traffic, with content creation and optimisation.
The team positioned themselves as thought leaders in content marketing, offering insights on landing page optimisation to launching a successful Black Friday campaign.
Trio Media
From web design to paid media, Trio Media offers what it describes as a ‘full-service’ approach to digital marketing.
Led by CEO Claire Daniels, the company was launched in 2017 with Claire taking over in 2020 and helping grow the business further.
Clients included the Female Advisory Board (FAB), a cross-industry peer advisory group that helps female business leaders come together to learn, grow and share. Trio were responsible for overhauling FAB’s brand, website, and copy, empowering women to invest in themselves and join FAB’s equality movement.
They have also worked with Site Track, specialists in temporary and permanent flooring on improving their online presence and website user experience.
Creode
Launched in 2010 by three founders, Creode provides a wide range of services including website development, creative design, paid search and social media, research and insights strategy and more.
Clients for the business have included Skipton Building Society, where Creode created a campaign to highlight their range of tax-free ISAs. The campaign was optimised through targeted paid social and PPC ad copy.
The team also created an integrated campaign around the headline ‘We live and breathe later life lending’ for Air, a platform helping mortgage intermediaries and financial advisers find the most suitable products for their clients.
This gave additional meaning to the brand name and positioned Air as a leader in the equity release market for advisors and intermediaries.
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