London’s Best Advertising Companies – To Work For and Buy From

April 14, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best London based Advertising companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Advertising industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top London Advertising Companies

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Blippar

Blippar

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Blippar is a technology company specializing in Augmented Reality and Computer Vision (AI). Blippar’s vision is to enhance everyday life with Augmented Reality and give you more from the world you see – more entertainment, more information, more value.

Since 2011, Blippar has been pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AR and has helped thousands of brands, retailers and agencies use AR /AI across the consumer journey to deepen customer engagement, drive footfall and increase sales. Blippar gives access to an AR ecosystem with products and professional services to meet specific business needs – from consultancy to AR creation tools that publish AR content within a client’s own app or rich media banners (no app required).

Blippar’s technology has been used by world-leading brands such as PepsiCo, Porsche, Nestlé, L’Oréal, GSK, General Mills and Procter & Gamble to create exciting and award-winning experiences. Blippar has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies by CNN, Forbes, etc.

and listed 3 years in a row on CNBC’s list of most disruptive companies as well as named top Business Innovator by Bloomberg and most innovative AR/VR company by Fast Company. Determined to steer the growth of the AR industry and champion this new consumer behavior, Blippar acquired Layar in June 2014, a pioneering AR company founded in the late 2000s.

In June 2015, Blippar invested in smart specs company WaveOptics. WaveOptics is developing low-energy lenses that provide a live display for the wearer but can be fitted into ordinary spectacles frames..

Fetch

Fetch

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Fetch, part of Dentsu Aegis Network, is a global mobile-first agency with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Manchester and Hong Kong. Fetch has been delivering mobile-first advertising and digital media services since 2009, and its role is to understand the mobile consumer better than any other.

Fetch works with some of the world’s most pioneering brands including Uber, Facebook, Hulu, HSBC, Expedia, eBay and Hotels.com, and has won numerous awards for its campaigns for clients including Hotels.com, Expedia and eBay in disciplines which include mobile video, paid social, experiential and mobile marketing. As well as being listed as top 50 digital agency by Econsultancy in 2016, Fetch has also been named mobile agency of the year in three consecutive years, and was voted fastest growing mobile marketing agency in Europe by Media Momentum Awards..

Last November, Prime Minister Theresa May and the Chancellor Philip Hammond announced the launch of Tech Nation, consolidating Tech City UK and Tech North’s impact. Now as Tech Nation, we’re expanding our network of growth programmes, events, skills and data resources to reach all corners and clusters of the UK.

What we do continues to be shaped by your voices. We just finished a listening tour to meet representatives from the UK’s vibrant tech landscape and understand how best to shape our national network to meet your challenges..

Influencer

Influencer

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Influencer connects brands with famous individuals on social media, working with these Content Creators to generate a buzz organically for brands through producing creative content to advertise their products. Brands are able to seamlessly connect with Content Creators via our platform and be able to access in-depth analytics of both the Content Creator and the campaign data..

Peak is brain training redesigned for the mobile you. Improve your cognitive skills and build healthy training habits with fun but challenging games, goals and workouts.

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Permutive

Permutive

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Permutive is a publisher-focused data management platform. Permutive provides a SaaS data management platform that allows publishers to increase their targetable advertising and deliver ROI..

Uniquely, the platform encourages collaborative learning by offering users the unique opportunity to learn the language and practice their listening, writing, reading and speaking with assistance from a rapidly growing community of native speakers. In this way, every busuu user is both student of a foreign language and tutor of their own ‘mother tongue’.

busuu was founded by Bernhard Niesner and Adrian Hilti in early 2008, with a vision to enable everyone in the world to learn a second language. Based in London, busuu offers an integrated, cross-channel platform which is constantly evolving to meet the demands of an increasingly mobile world population.

Winner of ‘Best Education Start‐up’ at The Europas TechCrunch Awards in 2011 and CeBIT Innovation Award in 2010. The company now also offers corporate language training solutions for large international companies around the world.

The company is named after the busuu language of Cameroon. According to an ethnological study from the 1980s, Busuu is spoken by only 8 people..

Minute Media

Minute Media

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Minute Media is a leading media and technology brand focused on two main pillars—platform and content. Minute Media’s platform serves as the company’s foundation, powering its content as well as enabling the evolution of other market-leading digital media brands.

To date, Minute Media’s owned and operated destinations include The Players’ Tribune, 90min, DBLTAP, Mental Floss, The Big Lead and FanSided.. Graduway’s SaaS platform will be ready to use within minutes, available on all devices, easy to manage and will offer alumni exclusive benefits, mentoring tools and unique career opportunities..

Tailify

Tailify

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The easiest way for Influencers to monetise their social media accounts. Tailify provides a “one-stop-shop” for Influencers & Brands by offfering high technological solutions such as tracking system, distribution technology and effective pricing.

The vision is to create a global ad-exchange, loved by influencers and brands.. These loans are collectively funded by a community of alumni, institutional investors, and qualified private investors.

Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.. .

LoopMe

LoopMe

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LoopMe closes the loop on brand advertising. We solve attribution in real time, use AI to optimize media delivery and create measurable, incremental uplift against sales and other marketing goals.

Our 1st party data is sourced from proprietary brand surveys and mobile data, including GPS location. This is enhanced by third party data partnerships, which enable LoopMe to access data including credit card purchases, car registrations, loyalty card and TV viewership in-flight.

Real-time AI optimization uses this data to optimize media performance to users delivering on brand outcomes, while transparent analytics provides clients with deep insights into their active audience.. .

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WPP

WPP

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WPP is a creative transformation company. WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology.

WPP was awarded Holding Company of the Year consecutively from 2011 to 2017 at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and was consistently named the Most Effective Agency Holding Group from 2012 to 2019 by the Effie Index. WPP has also won the Best FTSE 100 Website at Communicate magazine’s 2019 Corporate & Financial Awards and was also recognized for its 2018 Annual Report by the publication..

Qubit

Qubit

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Qubit is the leader in highly persuasive personalization at scale. Leading ecommerce companies work with Qubit to transform the way they understand and influence their customers in order to increase revenue, build loyalty and improve marketing efficiency.

By combining rich customer data, deep learning technology and advanced segmentation capabilities, the Qubit Customer Influence Engine can precisely match customers with the widest range of personal, online experiences to influence behavior at scale. Qubit is trusted to deliver real impact to the bottom line for the biggest brands in ecommerce including Ubisoft, CafePress, Topshop, Shiseido, and Emirates.

Across the global Qubit customer base, $600 million worth of online sales are influenced over a typical week. To date, we have received over $76 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, Balderton Capital and Salesforce Ventures..

Social Chain

Social Chain

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The Social Chain, they don’t believe in traditional marketing, they believe in disruptive, internet – breaking influencer marketing. They pride theirselves on telling a brand’s story through creating dynamic, thought provoking and engaging content which is hastened through their 200+ million strong internal network of social media influencers, pages and communities.

With an average age of just 21 across the whole company, Social Chain know exactly how millennials think, listen, engage and share across social media.. The company’s mission is to unlock children’s full potential by igniting a passion for discovery and imagination through inspiring videos and games.

Through its mobile apps, TV apps, and TV channels, the Azoomee and Da Vinci content is watched by an audience of 60 million families & kids in over 190 countries and in 19 languages. Our team members, investors and advisors come from the Media & Entertainment industry and together we are executing an ambitious plan to scale globally.

This is a great opportunity to join our team of 85 employees at a key stage in the company’s life as we expand internationally.. .

SuperAwesome

SuperAwesome

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SuperAwesome’s technology powers the children’s digital media ecosystem. SuperAwesome’s products are used by hundreds of kids content companies and brands to provide kid-safe (COPPA/GDPR compliant) digital functionality ranging from authentication (Kids Web Services) to safe-social (PopJam) to kid-safe advertising/monetization (AwesomeAds).

SuperAwesome was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London.. .

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GWI

GWI

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GWI (formerly GlobalWebIndex) is a target audience company that provides consumer insight across 46 countries to the world’s leading brands, communication agencies and media organizations. The company runs a global survey representing more than 2 billion connected consumers, which offers up over 40,000 data points on the behaviors and perceptions of internet users around the world.

Using the subscription-based platform, clients including Twitter, Google, Spotify, WPP, IPG and Omnicom Group can gather in-depth insights into audience behaviors, attitudes and interests through a combination of survey data and analytics. Among a range of leading data products available alongside its flagship survey are its B2B data set, GWI Work, which analyzes professionals across 10 global markets, and its TV reach and frequency solution, which enables advertisers to target previously untapped audiences.

Its newest data set launched in July 2020, GWI USA, responded to the increasing demand for more relevant and timely insight into the modern American consumer. Representing over 240 million people across all 50 states, the study tracks new and emerging trends not typically covered by traditional market research providers, including key questions around cultural identity, race and ethnicity..

At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed. MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant..

Blis

Blis

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Blis is the global leader in real-world intelligence. We specialise in understanding real, human behaviour by analysing vast quantities of mobile location data.

This gives businesses a uniquely powerful tool: the truth about what people actually do, to improve consumer engagement and deliver measurable sales uplift. Our Smart Platform provides unmatched transparency, accuracy and scale through three proprietary technologies: SmartPin, Smart Scale and Smart Places.

This enables more effective planning, activation and measurement for marketers and business decision makers alike, fuelling the next generation of insight-driven marketing. With 33 offices across five continents, Blis works with the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies across all verticals including Unilever, Samsung, McDonald’s, HSBC, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot, as well as every major media agency to reach over a billion mobile devices a year..

Trackonomics

Trackonomics

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Trackonomics is a technology that provides publishers with the arsenal to capitalize on their affiliate links. Trackonomics empowers leading publishers with a suite of tools designed to create, analyze, and optimize affiliate content at scale, supporting revenue diversification..

Uptime is a free app featuring 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries. All Hacks are available in text, audio and our unique visual story format, distilling the key ideas and insights from thousands of sources to keep users informed and save them time and effort.

And the best thing is, you can share Hacks in just a tap with anyone via socials and text. It’s time to know more in no time.

It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London, England.. .

HH Global

HH Global

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HH Global is the trusted marketing execution partner of the world’s leading brands. They apply the expertise of their people, proven processes, and industry-leading technology to developing innovative solutions that drive down the cost of clients’ print, packaging, and creative production, while improving quality, sustainability, and speed to market..

Nominated for a 2019 Emmy Award, Winner Kidscreen Best Learning App Award, Winner of multiple Parents’ Choice awards, Apple Best of Awards, and 2019 Rockie Award.. .

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Realeyes

Realeyes

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Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI

Zephr

Zephr

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Zephr (formerly known as Blaize) helps leading media businesses and brands gear-up for the subscription economy. Our identity, access management and customer experience platform makes the swift deployment of personalized trial, sell and upsell journeys easy – all at unprecedented speed and scale.

Using the Zephr dynamic paywall technology, non-technical teams can design, test and deploy new reader registration, trial, subscription and retention journeys instantly using intuitive, code-free drag-and-drop tools.. We created Twin with the passion that we could spark children’s innate power of curiosity and introduce ongoing fun learning experience given the right tools and platforms.

Twin introduces science and technology concepts to children, then allows them to question, to be creative, to experiment, to learn & unlearn, and to be resilient. We provide 2 platforms: Robotics Kits and Digital Application.

Different concepts of Twin robotics kits consist of electronic modules that could easily be attached with magnets. The pieces are also LEGO-compatible.

Every kit has a set of readily available experiments to spark curiosity. The number of experiments is only limited by one’s creativity! Twin digital application consists of interdisciplinary courses that expose the kids to scientific concepts.

This platform also provides a community, where Twinners can share and celebrate their experiments and learn together. In the advanced stages, using patterns of the children from their digital journey, Twin will offer a customized learning path for each child.

Ad-Lib.io

Ad-Lib.io

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Ad-Lib is a digital creative tech and service business. The only UK based Double Click Creative Marketing Partner, We are a tech business that can help transform your online creative ability! We work with both Doubleclick and Facebook to improve the deployment of digital creative.

We dont buy media, we just deliver excellent, optimised creative. – Dynamic Video offering – Integration with Facebook and Doubleclcick – A/B testing – Optimisation algorythem – Full preview solution – No double ad serving – Time savings of up to 46% – Performance uplift of up to 80% – Full service offering provided.

Bidstack

Bidstack

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Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.

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Admix

Admix

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Admix is a monetisation platform for game developers enabling non-intrusive, programmatic product placements within their content. Admix is the first fully programmatic platform for everything from immersive technologies to mobile games, selling their inventory to popular demand side platforms and giving millions of advertisers the ability to buy game media in a couple of clicks..

Launched in 2016 in London, Mrs Wordsmith is one of the fastest-growing, VC backed startups in the UK. They help young people learn efficiently through engaging content from the Hollywood artists behind Madagascar.

Their words are carefully selected and curated by Cambridge University data scientists to ensure that children learn the words they will come across at school and in the books they read. Loved by teachers, parents and students..

Captify

Captify

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Captify is one of the fastest growing digital media businesses in the UK and the only company in Europe to specialize in Search Retargeting. Global brands and media planning agencies use Captify’s Search Retargeting to pin point target users online based on their recent searches.

This innovative product gives advertisers the ability to harness the accuracy of search and combine it with the high impact and scalable nature of display advertising. Captify are currently the largest holders of Keyword Search Data in Europe, providing in depth granularity for campaign optimization and reporting..

They have sparked the imaginations of kids in over 87 countries around the world. They work closely with children to design their kits, engaging in large scale research projects before beginning on design & manufacture..

UENI

UENI

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UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the services and tools they need to succeed. We don’t just build unique websites that businesses can be proud of — we’re there for each step of the journey, from choosing a logo provider to setting up a professional email address and curating a dynamic digital presence to get noticed on search engines.

For all the advances of technology, it’s also meant that the vast majority of small businesses have been getting left behind. Founded in 2014 by Harvard graduates set on building something amazing and worthwhile, UENI is now made up of over 60 people working to shift the balance between independent businesses and larger franchises.

We believe that customers should have more choice and transparency, and we’re helping small businesses to provide it. From service providers like dentists and plumbers to photographers or restaurant owners, our mission is to make all businesses visible online.

UENI now builds thousands of new sites every day, across 9 countries and 70 cities – and we’re just getting started.. .

Vidsy

Vidsy

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Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for the world’s leading brands. Our technology, global community of 6,000+ vetted creators and fully managed services are empowering brands to intelligently transform their digital advertising for an ever-evolving world of mobile video..

Pi-top is the only STEM platform to be endorsed by a national exam awarding body (OCR) for use in the Computer Science curriculum in the UK. Through delivering the best of the maker world in an easy to deploy solution pi-top aims to be the future of STEM learning in the classroom.

Pi-Top is operated from London, United Kingdom and distributed to over 60 countries world wide with 30+ distributors including Best Buy, RS Components, BT and Adafruit.. .

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Mirriad

Mirriad

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Mirriad’s award-winning solution unleashes new revenue for content producers and distributors by creating new advertising inventory in content. Our patented, AI and computer vision technology dynamically inserts products and innovative signage formats after content is produced.

Mirriad’s market-first solution seamlessly integrates with existing subscription and advertising models, and dramatically improves the viewer experience by limiting commercial interruptions. Mirriad currently operates in the US, Europe and China..

They believe that enabling schools to provide smart, modern university and careers guidance is a matter of huge importance. Partnering with schools in over 60 countries, BridgeU empowers schools to prepare the students of today for the world of tomorrow..

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Supponor

Supponor

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Supponor is an innovative sports media and technology company whose DBRLive technology is revolutionizing perimeter advertising in sports. We replace traditional perimeter advertising in sports broadcasts with virtual, digital content.

Fans across the world watching a live sporting event see live TV feeds identical in every way – but with pitch-side advertisements relevant to them. There are three core elements to what Supponor does: • We manage and operate DBRLive, a technically innovative and operationally robust media platform which integrates with live broadcasts • We create new value for rights holders by enhancing and acquiring packages of their perimeter billboard inventory • We deliver marketing opportunities to brands around the world looking to engage specific sports audiences with relevant marketing Supponor’s headquarters are in the UK, and our operations teams are continually on the road, working with local partners as specialists at live sporting events across the globe.

Supponor’s highly skilled software engineers in the research and development team in Espoo, Finland, work constantly to refine and further develop the technology underpinning DBRLive, pushing boundaries to create new value for our clients and partners. Supponor is a privately-held company, owned by management, private investors and VC funds – Sports Investment Partners, Northzone, and Conor..

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Adbrain

Adbrain

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Adbrain is a global leader in resolving customer identity for marketers and their partners across people, places and devices.. Their platform helps developers create, distribute and monetise and helps teachers discover, use and buy, curriculum mapped education apps that have a real impact on student learning.

At the heart of their platform are their real-time teacher dashboards, a “virtual teaching assistant” that gives teachers instant insight into student strengths and weaknesses using any app. More than 60,000 teachers (70% in the USA) from over 100 different countries have signed up to use Zzish already.

With their first paying schools in the UK, US, Holland and Israel and Ministries of Education around the world starting to recommend their products, Zzish is now scaling up to become a global technology leader providing the key data and intelligence layer underpinning the new generation of education applications. Zzish has one numerous awards over the last few years.

EdSurge ranked Quizalize as the “No.1 new app for schools” in 2015 and Zzish was selected as one of the “Future 30” at the Bett Show (Europe’s leading EdTech trade show) and one of the “EdTech 20” at EdTechXEurope (Europe’s leading EdTech investor summit). Moreover the Zzish Teacher Dashboards was the runner up for Teach Secondary’s “Technology Innovation of the Year” and a finalist for selection in the Education Resource Awards..

A Million Ads

A Million Ads

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A Million Ads personalises digital audio advertising. Think Spotify ads that know your name, or Classic FM ads on your Sonos that know if its raining outside.

Their ads are more context aware and relevant to the listener, and so perform a lot better. They have delivered over 100 campaigns across Europe for brands including Audible, Deliveroo, Carphone Warehouse, Asda and Nissan, are working with four of the six major advertising agencies and have partnerships with Global Radio’s DAX and Pandora (the world’s largest ad-funded music streaming service)..

Glimpse Protocol

Glimpse Protocol

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Glimpse Protocol delivers accurate digital ads with zero data disclosed.. Our platform enables finance companies to discover machine learning solutions to their problems without needing an inhouse team.

We translate financial language into the language of a data scientist so we can crowd-source machine learning models quickly from a community of 10,000+ data scientists who come from some of most prestigious universities and tech companies around the world. We’re a Techstars company and have the backing of world-class VC investors, including those behind Shazam, Carwow and LoveFilm to name just a few.

We have secured client relationships from some of the biggest asset management firms globally, are currently a team of 7 with exciting plans to grow to 16 people across both our HQs in India and London by the end of next year.. .

FanCircles

FanCircles

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Fan Engagement Begins With Your Own Platform. Reach your followers and fans through your own fan engagement platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities and designed to grow & generate revenue and fandom.

Get full reach without the need to pay for ads, share your fan data or be concerned with privacy issues. These tools enable true multi-channel engagement and monetisation through premium content aimed at fans.

The app allows fans to purchase digital fan club subscription packages on a recurring monthly or yearly basis. This in turn gives access to exclusive content, communication and feedback from artists; video blogs, pre-sale tickets and allows sale of merchandise during events for collection after the show..

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Realife Tech

Realife Tech

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Realife Tech (formerly known as LiveStyled) is an automation platform that provides IT solutions in the fields of live concert and lives event retailer. The platform automates personalized experiences for each individual using machine learning and configurable workflows.

It serves content that makes people feel as well as think, it elevates every interaction to be more responsive, more human, and more real. Realife Tech is helping events around the world return to action, to assist in kick-starting the economy, and providing a safe environment for fans and customers.

The platform aggregates data from multiple systems including apps, ticketing systems, Wi-Fi, point-of-sale, digital advertising screens, and access control points within real-world destinations to create a single view of the customer across their journey.. Up Learn is a scalable, personalised, learning experience that is so effective they guarantee A*-A results..

LAB

LAB

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LAB is a digital agency that offers a full suite of digital services.

KF Beauty

KF Beauty

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We identify, develop and market innovative products in the Health & Beauty sector.

Scoota

Scoota

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Scoota is an online advertising technology company that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale. We offer a single programmatic platform for the creation and delivery of rich, high-impact formats via open real-time bidding and private marketplaces, without compromising creative execution or brand safety.

Our technology includes a unique campaign delivery system that pre-reads an ad space in real-time so that the right creative is delivered into the right ad unit without the need for pre-testing and independent site integration. We care about and invest in an open and long-term approach, enabling partners to work with us through integration with their own systems of choice, or via our platform whether as a self-serve solution, or a fully managed service.

Scoota was founded in London in 2008 and employs more than 40 people. In 2015, we won best overall programmatic technology at The Drum Digital Trading Awards and Silver for Best Ad Tech Provider at the 2015 British Media Awards..

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Nozzle.ai

Nozzle.ai

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Nozzle.ai is an eCommerce and advertising optimization platform for Amazon.. We achieve this by integrating human mentorship and code review into the world’s leading tech education brands.

CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product – HyperionDev – which supports learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in 2018.

We’re growing fast and always on the lookout for talent – visit www.cogrammar.com and apply to make real impact in your career and to #closethegap.. .

Smartzer

Smartzer

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Smartzer makes online videos interactive & shoppable allowing brands to monetise video content on-site, in out-stream video ads and social.

Commanders Act

Commanders Act

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Since 2010 Commanders Act helps companies from all industries to do data driven marketing optimization. Customer data can be collected and integrated cross-device and cross channel and is available in real-time for all online and offline measures to optimize campaigns, do personalization and trigger marketing solutions.

The control over customer and prospect data remains in the hands of our customers. The exhaustive cookie/consent management to be EU-GDPR compliant is combined with Tag Management, a CDP/DMP as well as an Attribution Management Solution to Optimize each step of the customer journey..

Odore

Odore

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We provide unique sampling solutions for beauty brands to target customers through our online platform and our devices. We develop curated experiences to engage with customers, and through powerful recommendation tools, the most relevant product is suggested.

The customer receives the sample and is invited to share their feedback, allowing brands to gain insights into the preferences of their customers.. It also publishes educational materials in local languages; English language teaching materials for children and adults; and online learning products as well as offers testing, assessment, and qualification services.

In addition, Pearson Education is involved in publishing, training, testing, and certification for professionals; publishes computer, information technology, and business titles; and offers electronic testing for regulatory and certification boards providing a suite of services from test development to test delivery and data management. It also offers a range of data, analysis, and services through various print, digital, and mobile channels to business people and financial institutions.

The company publishes [The Financial Times](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-financial-times), an international daily business newspaper with five editions in the U.K., Continental Europe, the U.S., Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East; and operates FT.com which sells content and advertising online as well as publishes information about the retail, personal, and institutional finance industries. Pearson Education was founded in 1844 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom..

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Threedium

Threedium

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Threedium specialises in providing the most engaging and interactive online brand experiences through lightweight and lightning-fast 3D/AR formats, which can be applied to eCommerce, digital advertising and social media. Using a cloud-based platform, Threedium enables brands to turn static images into fully interactive 3D/AR models that work seamlessly across any digital channel and device.

Today, businesses of all sizes and industries use Threedium, to bridge the gap between online and in-store experiences.. .

AudienceRate Ltd

AudienceRate Ltd

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AudienceRate Ltd provides online advertising platform products and services.

Good-Loop

Good-Loop

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Good-Loop converts advertising money into funding for social causes in a way that makes online advertising more effective, more rewarding and more ethical. We distribute video ads across our network of quality online publishers.

The Good-Loop ad player will never auto-play or interrupt but if you choose to, you can opt-in to watch an advert and then donate 50% of the advertisers’ money to your chosen social cause. But Good-Loop isn’t just good for the world, it’s also good for the advertisers’ bottom line.

The average completed view rate on YouTube is 30% and on Good-Loop it’s 61% – over double the engagement, for the same price. Good-Loop was part of the Collider Startup Accelerator Program 2017, and winner for their 2017 Demo Day – http://collider.io/.

Pixoneye

Pixoneye

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Pixoneye is a data analytics SaaS company, which analyses and provides consumer insights via platform dashboard by using machine learning on mobile users’ photo-galleries to create advanced user segmentations. They harness the full potential of image understanding on mobile devices to provide the ultimate key to capture the consumer’s ever-changing needs.

They redefine personalized marketing by offering unparalleled predictive accuracy and actionable clustering and can be integrated with client’s CRM system, marketing automation, and/or ad-serving platform, etc. Pixoneye’s picture-perfect solutions ensure you’ll never be left out of the consumer’s picture..

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Tapdaq

Tapdaq

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Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximize their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users through powerful cross-promotion campaigns. It also monetizes on autopilot, or take advantage of direct network deals and provides a powerful set of server-side features that are trusted by thousands of the world’s top publishers.

Tapdaq provides app developers with the easiest and efficient way of mediating premium demand partners. Tapdaq was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom..

Kindred

Kindred

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Kindred is a platform that digitizes word-of-mouth recommendations on social media.

MSQ Partners

MSQ Partners

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MSQ Partners is a joined-up community of agencies, helping businesses build High EQ brands. It provides advertising, public relations, brand strategy, direct and digital marketing, and research services.

Its agencies span advertising (The Gate), public relations (Smarts), direct and digital marketing (Stack, twentysix), design, brand strategy (Holmes & Marchant), and B2B (Stein IAS). They believe that flexibility encourages innovation, and senior involvement ensures quality.

The company was founded in 2011 and is based in London, England.. The content that their tutors create on Scoodle lives forever.

This will continue to benefit other students, long after the classes have ended.. .

Convertr

Convertr

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Convertr is an API-first data optimization platform that acts as a firewall. We protect companies against expensive, bloated marketing databases overwhelmed by bad data.

As a true SaaS platform, Convertr is not a lead or data provider. We are an unbiased tool, used to filter, enhance, normalize and automatically route compliant, accurate & actionable data to any number of endpoints..

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Programmai

Programmai

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Programmai is a predictive marketing technology that radically improves the incrementality of acquiring new and repeat customers.

Moovshack

Moovshack

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Moovshack is disrupting the 20 year old web based property portal market which charges agents to list and offers zero interactivity. We have turned this model on its head with our mobile-first fully interactive & transaction enabled property app.

Consumers can find property, create & save content, chat to agents, book viewings and store all home related information in one dedicated app for instant access & retrieval. Agents can brand Moovshack as their own agency app and engage fully with all their applicants & customers from the start to the end of their journey.

Packed with unique tools to get valuations, compare agents & navigate the sales completion process, Moovshack is the ultimate property app for buyers. sellers, renters & agents..

Monterosa Productions

Monterosa Productions

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Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce, providing the platform powering the world’s biggest entertainment and sports properties. We work with BBC, ITV, Sky, CBS, IMG Arena, EA Sports & The English Premier League, World Rugby, Viacom, and many others to provide audiences with better ways to participate in their favourite TV shows and sports.

TV hits include Love Island, X Factor, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent, where Monterosa tech lies at the heart of the official show apps and interactive experiences across all screens. We help our clients provide game-changing real-time interactivity that grows active, loyal audiences directly.

We monetise their attention with commerce and first party data. Our technology is trusted by the world’s biggest media organisations and brands to deliver at extreme volumes and securely.

Audience experiences include mobile apps, web apps, social media, messaging, and augmented reality. Our creative and delivery teams are award-winning experts in interactivity with TV and sport, and we provide round the clock support to ensure creativity and innovation is matched with reliability and peace of mind..

Fenestra

Fenestra

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Fenestra is a computer software company that specializes in booking, billing, payments, and audit transactions.

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Admedo

Admedo

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Admedo is a self-serve online advertising platform. The admedo platform saves you time and improves the performance of your campaigns, with all the transparency that you need to make clear decisions Admedo was independently founded in the UK, in 2013, by online advertising experts Nick Moutter and Laura Bowen.

Now a global company, with offices in the US and Europe, and a multinational team based at their HQ in London, they are all working towards the same goal: a simple, honest, and inclusive future for programmatic advertising. Admedo is the only fully transparent Programmatic Marketing Platform on the market with all the tools needed in one UI at one cost..

Exit Bee

Exit Bee

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Re-imagine display advertising. Exit Bee uses pattern recognition and machine learning to detect or predict the moments users disengage from the website content and are more likely to interact with an ad campaign.

The world’s biggest brands at the most trusted publishers. Exit Bee works directly with the biggest brands and agencies to run unique, high-impact campaigns the moment users are most receptive.

Exit Bee creates new ad real estate at an exclusive network of publishers and provides advertisers the most premium and safe placement to reach their audience.. .

Localistico

Localistico

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Localistico pioneered local marketing by helping chains and brands with physical locations or agencies take more clients from search to store. The growing B2B customer base choose Localistico as a smart local marketing tool in order to optimize the organic and paid presence in local channels, from Google to Apple Maps, gather all the analytics about online-to-offline interactions and better assess marketing spend and evolution, all in the simplest and least time-consuming way possible.

The company’s local customer support teams in both London and Madrid feel privileged to already handle an early client list, that includes some amazing businesses such as Starbucks, Morrisons, and Foxtons. Localistico was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in London..

PubX

PubX

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PubX empowers Publishers to make more money from their programmatic advertising via an AI-powered dynamic floor pricing tool.

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PowerLinks Media

PowerLinks Media

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PowerLinks is an open native advertising platform powering marketplaces and technology services for native ads across all devices, globally. Our platform enables innovation and accelerates revenue generation through open technology and global scale.

The PowerLinks Personal Relevance Platform enables advertisers, agencies and demand-partners to deliver personalized experiences through a range of high-impact and native ad formats across all devices. The company was founded in Manchester, England in 2012, with additional offices opening in London in 2012, and New York in 2013..

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records

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Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is one of the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe.

Guinness World Records celebrated its 50th anniversary edition in 2004, a year after the sale of its 100 millionth copy. Guinness World Records also annually publishes the Gamer’s Edition; a records book devoted solely to the world of computer gaming and high score record achievements.

The Guinness World Records website receives more than 11 million visitors a year. Guinness World Records is part of the Jim Pattison Group, one of Canada’s largest privately owned companies which is a conglomerate of interests, including entertainment, advertising, broadcasting, grocery stores and automotive retailing..

Ksubaka

Ksubaka

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Bring the benefits of cutting-edge technology into your retail store. Our solutions help you engage customers, facilitate offline-to-online (O2O) ordering and harvest rich insights into customer behaviour and attitudes.

Using gamified experiences, playful surveys and our product discovery platform (Cloudshelf), you can give customers new reasons to visit your retail stores. Ksubaka combines the power of personalisation, the magic of play and the possibilities of technology to transform your retail store.

We transform the way brands and retailers research and monetise their shoppers, while enhancing their overall journey. We help brands engage with shoppers at point of sales thanks to delightful experiences provided on interactive screens.

By combining the power of play and strong platform analytics, we are able to influence purchases while collecting valuable live shopper insights and linking offline behaviours with online profiles. To date, Ksubaka has helped retailers and brands deploy more than 10,000 playSpots touch screens in 150 cities and 1500+ store locations.

Our platform records nearly 2 billion data points each month, delivering real-time customer insights to our clients. Ksubaka works with some of the world’s leading retailers, including Tesco, FairPrice, Coles, Auchan, CR Vanguard, WuMart, Evergrande Group and many others, and major brands including Topshop, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Dove, Head and Shoulders, Johnson & Johnson, Heineken, GSK, Kellogg’s, Lifebuoy, L’Oreal, Paris, Nescafe, Nestle, Oreos and Sunsilk.

We are headquartered in London and have an office in Singapore serving clients across the region. “Ksubaka creates the ideal confluence of the power of retail, the power of data and the magic of gamified experiences.” – Rahul Welde, EVP Digital Transformation, Unilever.

Avocarrot

Avocarrot

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Avocarrot is a native mobile advertising platform which provides real rewards on mobile apps. Avocarrot is a technology platform to build a sustainable app business by making more money in a less intrusive way.

You can choose from a range of native ad-units to create a seemless user experience that results in higher engagement and more revenue. Avocarrot is the leading programmatic native ad exchange for mobile publishers.

By combining real-time bidding technology and premium advertisers from around the world, Avocarrot is an all-in-one platform for optimizing and monitoring native ad revenue.. .

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Viral Loops

Viral Loops

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Viral Loops is an all-in-one viral and referral marketing platform helping companies leverage word of mouth sales from their existing customers or users. It allows people to build pre-launch campaigns, sweepstakes, and competitions, as well as referral programs, which can be integrated in their website or mobile app in minutes.

Companies like AirBnB and Dropbox leverage this marketing channel for increasing their customer base with an affordable, yet effective way. Viral Loops was founded on February 1, 2016, and is headquartered in London, England..

Easyclass sets out to disrupt the LMS industry by creating an EASY TO USE, yet powerful software system that will be the new standard for open technology in education. Different from the traditional LMS providers, Easyclass also has online discussion forums as part of its core features, which are instrumental in enhanced learning experience.

Online discussions promote collaborative exploration and critical thinking and hence foster deeper understanding among students towards the subject matter. Easyclass is also a social network for teachers and professors.

Educators can create groups with their colleagues and can share educational content with each other and discuss about new trends. We aim to democratize education among the learning community by giving FREE access to the platform.

WHAT IS THE REVENUE MODEL OF EASYCLASS? Our business model is very different from other LMS providers as our platform is completely free of charge. It boils down to the idea that a platform with millions of students and instructors is very valuable, because it could be leveraged for distributing content such as educational applications, videos and digital books.

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Shopitize

Shopitize

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Shopitize is a mobile marketing platform that drives shoppers to store to purchase, validates the purchase via a photo of a receipt and delivers a range of rewards, all without a Point-of Sale integration. Shopitize activates offers directly on shoppers’ smartphones across Shopitize powered apps and mobile websites, including a unique network of channel and media partners, bringing large-scale reach and network effects to both brands and retailers.

It validates the purchase in real time based on a photo of the receipt submitted by shoppers. Shopitize directly rewards the shopper with either cash transmitted to bank account or via PayPal, or through cost effective non-monetary rewards such as vouchers, points or other reward types via reward partners.

Shopitize automatically collects and analyses all data on receipts across multiple retailers and dynamically segments and targets shoppers by their behavioural profiles so that it may structure personally relevant deals to them. Shopitize provides brands and retailers a smarter and a more cost-efficient way of delivering traditional and proven marketing tactics and mechanics such as supporting product launches, product promotions, sampling campaigns, sweepstakes, ‘Buy 1, Get 1 For Free’, competitions, customer surveys and loyalty programmes.

The products and solutions are either supporting short-term one-off campaigns, or are based on a long-term integrated partnership with the customer.. .

Jellyfish

Jellyfish

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Jellyfish works as a digital platform, supporting and drives digital transformation by providing strategy, technology, and training. It works in partnership with brands to help achieve business success through their marketing strategies.

It also works closely with innovators to create and deliver innovation that makes a genuine difference to a business. Jellyfish has offices spanning EMEA, the US, and APAC.

It was founded by Brian Wiegand, Mark Mcguire, and Rob Pierre in 2005.. .

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Lineup Systems

Lineup Systems

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Lineup Systems provides CRM tools for multi-channel media companies. Lineup Systems develops advertising management and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to the media industry..

With regional bases in Boston, Cape Town, London and Salt Lake City – Construct delivers to learners in over 165 countries globally.. .

KidsKnowBest

KidsKnowBest

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How your audience finds and engages with your brand has shifted. Gone are the days of ratings and industry-led metrics: kids and families can access a myriad of touch points via digital, social and traditional media enabling them to decide how, when and why they consume content.

They are the commissioners, their peers and family the influencers. We’re immersed in how these audiences consume content and products: they form part of our company, and by listening to them we help brands build meaningful relationships.

As a full-service agency we do this by: • Using innovative, compliant research techniques that involve your audience in every recommendation we make • Providing strong brand solutions to satisfy a hyper-connected, tech-savvy generation with bold campaigns that shout above the noise • Going beyond the term ‘digital native’ by harmonising the objective, the audience, the platform and the creative, creating only quality authentic engagement. Our tailored social-first strategies and services will reinvent the way you connect with your audience and keep your brand ahead.

The only constant in this fast-moving landscape is change – make sure you’re ready. Get in touch with us: contact@kidsknowbest.co.uk.

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