Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Content Marketing space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Marc Thomas
Managing Director – UK & Emerging EMEA Markets of Taboola
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
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Alexandre Fannius
EMEA Director of Publisher Account Management of Taboola
Alexandre Fannius is EMEA Director of Publisher Account Management at [Taboola](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/taboola), the content discovery platform that connects people with content they may like but never knew existed. Fannius holds a master’s degree in business and management from Audencia Business School.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Tatjana Biallas
Director Media Sales DACH of Taboola
Tatjana Biallas is heading up the growth of the German market at Taboola, by helping brands distribute their marketing content and reach new audiences through native advertising campaigns. Over the past 10 years, she has built up her considerable expertise in the German media industry at CNBC International, RTL Group and IP Deutschland.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Jacques Lopes
Director, Media Sales – France of Taboola
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Lindsey Clarke
Managing Director of Nativo
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About Nativo: Nativo is an advertising technology platform for brand advertisers and publishers to scale, automate, and measure native ads.
Ahmed Abou Hussein
Regional Director of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Lee Buchanan
Co-founder & Operations Director of Miappi
Lee Buchanan joined Miappi as Co-founder and Operations Director in 2012.
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About Appismo, Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Paul Archer
Founder and Managing Director of Duel
World Record-breaking Adventurer, Best-selling Author and founder of Duel. Aside from his expeditions and writing, he has spent his career building technology, including the Daredevil Project app development studio, and consulting for advertising agencies and tech companies. He founded Duel to democratise and decentralise marketing for brands. Duel is solving the lack of emotional connection and social proof in often clinical looking online stores by rewarding customers for creating visual testimonials and advocating among their friends, rather than wasting millions on advertising to drive sales. Before this Paul conceived and implemented the It’s on the Meter Expedition to drive to London taxi around the World. The expedition broke two Guinness World Records, raised over £20,000 and passed through 50 countries after driving 80,000 miles from London to London in Hannah, a 1992 London Taxi bought of eBay. Paul is also an experienced speaker, moderator and a conference host. Including TEDx, SXSW, Festival of Media, Cannes Lions, Social Media Week, GenerationE, the Content Marketing Institute and Retail.Tech, as well as guest lecturing at the British School of Fashion.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
Bengu Atamer
Co-Founder & Director of BuzzMyVideos
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About BuzzMyVideos: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Amy Ashton
Managing Director of NeoMam Studios
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About NeoMam Studios: NeoMam Studios is a visual content marketing agency based in Manchester, UK.
Chris Liversidge
Director, CEO & Founder of QueryClick
Chris Liversidge is a Founder, CEO, and Director of QueryClick. With over 12 years of web development experience, Chris delivered his first web build projects on floppy disk. A big supporter of web standards and accessibility, search marketing was a natural fit, complementary to his skill set. Chris founded QueryClick in 2008 with a focus on harnessing data, to deliver actionable insights for clients that drive strong performance in-line with business objectives. With a focus on using R&D to deliver insights, backed up by tailored multichannel strategies tied to business metrics. QueryClick challenge assumptions and focus on transforming clients digital marketing to better find & connect with customers.
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About QueryClick: Independent digital marketing agency QueryClick uses unique technology to maximise ROI across brands’ multi-channel marketing campaigns
Kevin Gibbons
Managing Director of BlueGlass Interactive
A leading light in the search industry, SEOptimise founder Kevin Gibbons is a web expert with over 10 years’ experience. He has specialised in the field of search engine marketing since 2003, advising a wide range of industry sectors on increasing their online visibility by using the latest search engine marketing techniques. A highly respected expert blogger on the latest developments in search engine marketing, Kevin writes regularly for SEOptimise, Econsultancy and Search Engine Land, plus he is highly followed on Twitter. At SEOptimise Kevin oversees the search marketing team, the strategy of online marketing projects, client account management and promotes the business within the search industry.
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About BlueGlass Interactive, Re:signal, WeLoveDates: BlueGlass Interactive is a digital marketing agency providing integrated SEO, content marketing, and paid search services.
Ella Roche
Group Account Director of Distillery
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About Distillery: Distillery is a content studio that offers content strategy and social strategy and delivery that helps the company to amplify its brands.
Jennifer Hoffman
Marketing Director of DeepCrawl
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About DeepCrawl: The #1 technical SEO SaaS platform for enterprise businesses
Matt Garbutt
Creative Director of Greenlight Digital
Matt has been a digital creative his entire career, starting out in full service agencies in the late nineties through to in-house roles in the 2000s. In 2010, he co-founded a digital agency, followed by a creative production agency in 2013. Matt has extensive experience in a great many areas of digital creative and build, as well as video and film, motion graphics and above-the-line creative. In 2017, Matt’s digital agency and Greenlight joined forces, with Matt being appointed as the agency’s Creative Director.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Hannah Kimuyu
Director of Paid Media & Data Insights of Greenlight Digital
Hannah has been working in digital for over sixteen years, thirteen of which have been at Greenlight. A major element in Hannah’s success as a search professional is her historical knowledge and understanding of the way that search has grown over the years, coupled with her extremely specific hands-on experience. Hannah has been a key innovator in diversifying Greenlight’s paid media and data offering, moving the agency towards retargeting, audience insights, display, and paid social advertising, at a time when other agencies saw those innovations as a fad. As Greenlight’s Paid Media & Data Insights Director, Hannah is responsible for managing and delivering the agency’s paid media strategy for all clients. Through this role, she consults for some of Greenlight’s largest international clients, including New Balance, Superdry, ghd, and Victoria Beckham. In 2016, Hannah launched a second department; Data Science & Audience Insights. Partnering with Lotame, a data management platform, the service combines interaction, attitudinal, descriptive, and behavioural data to help brands understand who their customers are and what they’re buying with a cross-channel and cross-device focus.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Ben Cook-Northrop
Account Director of Greenlight Digital
Ben Cook-Northrop is an account director at Greenlight.
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About Greenlight Digital: Full service digital marketing agency
Matt Berry
Client Services Director of Hallam
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Ben Wood
Director of Strategy and Transformation of Hallam
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Jake Third
Managing Director of Hallam
Jake is Hallam’s Client Services Director, where he introduces clients to Hallam’s team of experts and strives to deliver an outstanding client experience. Jake’s strengths are in consultative business development, analytical thinking, and digital marketing strategy. Jake believes that being truly customer-centric results in increased client-satisfaction, better relationships, and superior performance for both parties. Long-term success is rooted in sustainable and ethical business. As such, it is Jake’s aim that Hallam only enters into partnerships that are mutually beneficial, leading to the shared success of both parties. In 2018, Jake was made a Director of Hallam following 4 years of driving business growth. In the same year, he was Commended as Young Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors (IoD). In his spare time, Jake’s interests include meditation, charity-work, exercise, and a belief in life-long learning. He holds a BSc in Mathematics and Business.
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Jon Martin
Technical Director of Hallam
Jon is Hallam’s Technical Director and is the primary source of technical leadership and innovation for Hallam web team. Jon has a wide range of knowledge covering the entire cycle of development, from project management, specification, development, hosting architecture and after site support. He is also a certified Scrum Master. Having operated within the IT industry for 15 years and specifically within web and development for over 10, Jon has a wide range of experience within many areas of the technical industries. Jon setup BigSpring with Julio in 2008 and after merging with Hallam in 2017, continues to lead the development and technical side of our operations. Previously Jon worked with DSGi PLC in a variety of technical roles, most recently within Business Intelligence. Prior to that, he was a graduate of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham. Jon is a lover of music (particularly all things Rock & Metal), plays guitar, is extremely tall, and practices Bushido Martial Arts.
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About BigSpring, Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Jon Martin
Technical Director of Hallam
Jon is Hallam’s Technical Director and is the primary source of technical leadership and innovation for Hallam web team. Jon has a wide range of knowledge covering the entire cycle of development, from project management, specification, development, hosting architecture and after site support. He is also a certified Scrum Master. Having operated within the IT industry for 15 years and specifically within web and development for over 10, Jon has a wide range of experience within many areas of the technical industries. Jon setup BigSpring with Julio in 2008 and after merging with Hallam in 2017, continues to lead the development and technical side of our operations. Previously Jon worked with DSGi PLC in a variety of technical roles, most recently within Business Intelligence. Prior to that, he was a graduate of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham. Jon is a lover of music (particularly all things Rock & Metal), plays guitar, is extremely tall, and practices Bushido Martial Arts.
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About BigSpring, Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Anna Moss
Director of FireCask
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About FireCask: FireCask is an online marketing agency provides content marketing, SEO and social media marketing.
Anna Moss
Director of FireCask
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About FireCask: FireCask is an online marketing agency provides content marketing, SEO and social media marketing.
Robert Stoubos
Owner & Managing Director of Odyssey New Media Ltd
With over 16+ years of experience in Digital Marketing I have become a results-driven marketer with the skills required to successfully implement cross-channel digital marketing campaigns that generate increased brand awareness, sales and ROI. In 2010 I founded Odyssey New Media – a leading full service Digital Marketing in Birmingham, UK. Specialising in SEO, PPC, Social Media, Inbound Marketing, Conversion Enhancement and more. If you want to improve your sales, increase sales leads and grow your customer base then contact us today and see what we can do to help your company acheive your goals. Call us now on 0844 500 6911.
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About Odyssey New Media Ltd: Leading full service Digital Marketing Agency, based in Birmingham, UK.
Jon Leighton
Director at Land Digital of Land Digital
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About iResources, Land Digital: Land Digital is a tech, web design, web creation, content marketing, digital marketing, SEO, and mobile application agency.
