Incredible. Gobsmacked. Global Campaign of the Year. International Agency of the Year. Product Brand Development of the Year at the
@PRWeekGlobal
Awards. Congrats all at
@ManifestGRP
@RoseStokes
My son has ASD so a lot of the time he doesn’t feel comfortable in social situations. When I gave him a hug this week he said, “Daddy when you cuddle me, I am myself”. There are moments like that every single day.
What do you do when your 4-years old says he’s been talking to a ghost called Albert Shepherd who is 52 and wears a big coat? Our house was built in 1808 and is called Shepherd House.
@BrewDogJames
@ManifestLDN
@BrewDog
Hey James: 1) you had a brief for zero abv beer last yr 2) no we were not retained for any brand work 3) we named our response Punk AF 4) you said no: ‘going a different direction’ 5) you tweeted Punk AF in jan & I emailed you to no reply 6) the left looks ace IMO
The brass bollocks on
@EdelmanPR
: banging on about purpose, sustainability and Gen Z before scrabbling around in the sand for the coins thrown at them by Saudi Arabia
I mentioned I was burning out with homeschooling pressure on
@ManifestGRP
Slack this week. Today our happiness team sent a comprehensive and bespoke home schooling kit. I nearly cried. Remember: kindness is the ultimate motivator.
It's about 11 years since we started
@ManifestGRP
- and there have been many moments of pride since then. None more so than today, as the amazing
@helen_kenny
and
@JulianObubo
become partners in the business. It's been an honour and privilege to work with these two ❤️✊🏼🎉
Dear brands, if you’re briefing agencies on a launch/expansion that might not actually happen, it’s good form to tell them. ‘Thanks, the proposal is ace, but we’re now not sure if we’re launching in X now’ isn’t cool, unless you’re planning on reimbursing everyone for their time
Feeling humbled and amazed in equal measure at picking up the Global Professional of the Year award at the
@PRWeekGlobal
Awards just now. Thanks to the
@ManifestGRP
team for making me look good 🎉
Today marks 10 years (!) of the inimitable
@AliMaynard
working with me at
@ManifestLDN
. When she joined, we were four inexperienced misfits in a tiny office. Now we are 70+ folks spread across 5 studios & 4 time zones. Ali has been a driving force behind that. A Thread…
Actually, Daniel, I have decided to give up on replying to repeated, automated and unsolicited emails. Thanks for your passive aggression providing welcome reassurance that I’ve missed out on nothing. “Have a lovely day :)”
Shoutout to
@AliMaynard
who has worked at
@ManifestLDN
for 8 years today. In that time she’s progressed from junior account manager to Managing Partner and made this place more fun, more successful and more Manifest in the process. Thank you mate ✊🏼
So today marks
@JulianObubo
’s 10th (!) Maniversary at
@ManifestGRP
. When he joined, there were only 4 of us huddled in a tiny office. I knew right away we had someone special, but I had no idea I would be lucky enough to work with, and learn from, Julian for a decade. A thread…
Dear
@officialbantams
I would hereby like to throw my hat into the ring to offer the gaffer & chairman some media training. It’ll be on the house. Not having to watch this comms car crash any more would be payment enough 😬
#BCAFC
#ctid
Just because you write copy it doesn’t make you a copywriter. Just because you use Portrait mode it doesn’t make you a photographer. Just because you got headlines it doesn’t mean you ran a campaign. And just because you’re more senior it doesn’t make you right.
It’s not news that a couple have faced this tragedy. Unfortunately it’s all too common. What’s not common is that this has led to a transparency and openness that has evidently resonated with a huge number of people across the globe. That’s news. That’s what the BBC is reporting.
I'm sorry but what is this story doing prominently positioned on the BBC news (world news and UK news) home page? Don't understand the BBC's news editing sometimes.
“The elephant in the room is that none of the UK’s 20 biggest agencies by revenue submitted figures to PRWeek’s study into gender and ethnic pay gaps.” Great to see the big guns flying the flag for progress as usual 🤦🏻♂️
Ok so I might get in to trouble for this one. But here are my thoughts on
@EdelmanPR
’s new ‘ZEO’ and ‘Get Z Lab’. Pioneering, or patronising? Worse still, hypocrisy? Discuss.
#Sustainability
#opinion
#slant
#pr
Today is the tenth anniversary of my first day running
@ManifestGRP
. Thanks to everyone who has been part of the Manifest story so far - it’s been a wild ride. Can’t wait for the next ten.
It’s so hard to know how to articulate how affected I am by the Sarah Everard murder trial. But I know people are asking if men are, because the silence is deafening. There are men that see the issues and feel the pain. That want to be part of the change. We can’t go on like this
It’s scary how fast ‘entrepreneurs’ claim expert status. You’re not a life coach with the world hanging on every word. You run a small business. You don’t deserve a medal.
Dear UK media, your treatment of the Coronavirus will not stand you on the right side of history. From irresponsible data visualisations to headlines where ‘worst case contingencies’ are presented as ‘plans’ to deliberately mislead, it’s been embarrassing so far. Do better.
I mean, I have no chance of winning this but it’s amazing to be on the shortlist. It feels a long way from opening my laptop in my kitchen ten years ago wondering what the hell to do. Thanks to all at
@ManifestGRP
, on the coattails of whom I continue to ride ❤️
At
@ManifestLDN
we didn’t apply for the
#blueprinted
kite mark to recognise how great we are at D&I, we did it because we want to get better, and to bake D&I into our corporate governance even further. For me it isn’t a reward, it’s a call to arms.
#provokeemea
David Copperfield is an extraordinary achievement from
@Aiannucci
. The cadence is breathtaking, the timing faultless and it drops a giant Dickens bomb smack in the middle of now. Go see it.
My daughter has named her toy cat meow-meow. Walking through Camden market this morning she was singing ‘I have meow-meow’ like Britain’s youngest drug dealer.
There are a lot of people calling themselves ‘Digital PRs’ with the potential to work wonders if they moved into strategic brand comms work. Lots of raw talent maybe unaware of the ‘wider world’ of dropping the digital prefix
Boris said it was fine to boo the England team in an attempt to win favour. He condemned yesterday’s racism in an attempt to win favour. We don’t have a Prime Minister. We have a man who’s plastic values fall on any side of history that profits him in the short term.
Insanely proud to be a cofounder of
@OffsetEarth
(and a customer). We’re now planting 200k trees per month and
@ManifestGRP
has a climate positive workforce and it’s very own forest:
This has, I think, been the most exciting week at
@ManifestGRP
in a long long time. Being listed in
@Campaignmag
Best Places to Work (for the third year running) and up for
@PRWeekGlobal
International Agency of the Year has rounded it off perfectly
The Friday feels kicking in with some exciting news…
@Campaignmag
selected us as one of the 'Best Places to Work' and we've been nominated 6 times for
#PRWeekGlobalAwards
@prweek
. 🎉
Well done to our brilliant team and to all the nominees.🤞
The bad rep of marketing agencies is largely down to them agreeing to work for clients that don’t deserve their representation. Who you would turn down says more about you than your dream client list.
Proud that
@ManifestLDN
partner
@JulianObubo
is helping drive real change and taking the editorial reins at PR Week to ‘make PR anti-racist’. Couldn't support this
@prweekuknews
project and ‘The Man That Is'
@julianobubo
more ✊🏼.
The reason people aren’t treating this lockdown as they did the one in spring is because it’s not ‘lockdown’ but ‘tier 4 with some tighter measures’ and gov comms has been a shambles since March.
#marr
I am writing the business plan for
@ManifestGRP
for the next year. I think lockdown has finally sent me over the edge. Reading back where I got to yesterday, I’m like 😳 riiiiiiight. F*ck it. This will either be our best year or our last year. Wallflowers we ain’t.
Pretty incredible shortlist, so we’re very proud to be taking home the Boutique Agency of the Year award as well as Integrated Agency of the Year. Well done team
@ManifestLDN
✊🏼🍾🎉
#PRmomentAwards
Pitching a dream client today. Another game changing pitch before the end of the week too. Pitch season arrived a little later this year but crikey has it arrived.
@RebeccaCNReid
I have a son and a daughter and I kiss them both on the lips. I don’t think we’re weird. I think it’s a bit sad to think anyone else does.
We joke, but
#NFTs
are a key bridge between the real world & the
#metaverse
. It’s easy to scoff at all this as Tomorrow’s World BS, but I’m old enough to remember people saying they didn’t need an email address. Don’t ask ‘if’ you should get your head around it all; decide ‘when’
I’m not criticising this per se, but why not just make your offering ‘green’ and inclusive of ESG frameworks? Creating a separate ‘offer’ is kind of suggesting your mainstay services don’t consider people or planet. Am I missing something?
I have two pitches tomorrow. I could be rehearsing, prepping, refining – but instead I am playing with Keynote transitions. Because it’s the TRANSITIONS that will win it.
It's hard to describe how proud I am that
@ManifestLDN
is the first agency to receive Blueprint mark for diversity. But this is our baseline. Over the next yr we will be doing more than ever to both improve our business, and inspire & empower our industry to step up
#Blueprinted
We're proud to be the first agency to have secured The Blueprint status. We consider the Blueprint diversity mark as a stepping stone to motivate us to work harder to be more accountable to ourselves and our industry.
#Blueprinted
I get asked ‘What school did you go to’ all the time at work events. When I answered ‘North Halifax Grammar’ once, the person asking said ‘Oh. We’ll done’ 🤦🏻♂️
@ParkerTandA
@Bradford_TandA
I live in Kent - making it practically impossible to take my family up north to see games in one day. For too long fans like me have been out in the cold. iFollow transformed my ability to follow my club, watch matches and get my kids involved. And I’m happy to pay for that.
People who give out twelve-tweet threads on how to ‘succeed’ without ever having done so themselves. Give it a fucking rest, yeah? Everyone’s just making this shit up as they go and you’re no exception. Getting some likes on your banal advice isn’t validation, it’s pity.
Back in the UK after 4+ weeks out of the country, first visiting
@ManifestMEL
then 3 weeks with the fam in Thailand. It’s so easy to forget how rejuvenating a break is. And how lucky you are to be excited to return home. Take more breaks folks.