Republic of Media

We've concluded another fantastic internship program! 🎉 Our Career Ready intern, Michelle Elizabeth Thomson, has finished her #internship at Republic of Media as a Digital Media Intern in our Edinburgh office, and her growth has been incredible. We look forward to watching her journey unfold with the ongoing support of her mentor, Eddie T.   Discover more: https://lnkd.in/d3fEQ4Z

On Tuesday night we attended our first Alliance of Independent Agencies awards, which dovetailed with the first day of MAD//FEST 2024. On the festival's main stage and up against some seriously impressive competition, including Weetabix and Asahi, we WON the Best FMCG Campaign award for Menabrea, part of C&C Group, and picked up a highly commended in the media category for Detect Cancer Early with The Scottish Government. It was the perfect start to the three day festival and continues what may be our best awards season haul ever for Republic of Media and The Freethinking Group!! Thanks as always goes to our talented people, clients and Claire Mathieson who gave a great post awards interview, to camera (we'll be sure to post a link to that when it comes out 😉). #awards #gotourwings2024

On Tuesday night we attended our first Alliance of Independent Agencies awards, which dovetailed with the first day of MAD//FEST 2024. On the festival's main stage and up against some seriously impressive competition, including Weetabix and Asahi, we WON the Best FMCG Campaign award for Menabrea, part of C&C Group, and picked up a highly commended in the media category for Detect Cancer Early with The Scottish Government. It was the perfect start to the three day festival and continues what may be our best awards season haul ever for Republic of Media and The Freethinking Group!! Thanks as always goes to our talented people, clients and Claire Mathieson who gave a great post awards interview, to camera (we'll be sure to post a link to that when it comes out 😉). #awards #gotourwings2024

WHAT a time we had at last night’s The Marketing Society Star Awards Dinner. Not only did we let our hair down and share a well-deserved drink or two with a selection of our amazing clients, we ended up with one of our most impressive award hauls in recent history! It was a hat-trick in the media category where we picked up the gold, silver and bronze awards for The Scottish Government and bet365. Our Beaver campaign for Whyte & Mackay (Woodsman) took gold in the Drink category, where we also took silver for C&C Group and Menabrea. It was gold in the Marketing in Society category for our work with Shelter & Shape History, and gold again in the Public Sector category for Cycling Scotland, in conjunction with Bright Signals. Finally, we completed the night with bronze awards in the Marketing Planning & Insights, Advertising and Food categories for ScotRail, Whyte & Mackay and Donald Russell Ltd, respectively. Thanks to The Marketing Society for putting on a brilliant night, our clients without whom award winning work wouldn't be possible and of course our wonderful Republic of Media team for delivering exceptional work day in and day out. On that note, we're all off to toast to the weekend, sure Stuart Feather and Simon Crunden would agree it's very well deserved 😀 . #MarketingSocietyStarAwards #Winning #Advertising

So much good stuff going at Republic of Media and The Freethinking Group this week that I don't even know how to sum it up in one post! We've got clients galore in the all-important Scotland v Germany game on STV/ITV this evening including Tennent's Lager, ScotRail and Scottish Water. Not to mention a healthy team TFG presence on the ground in Germany. We've got national award wins last night with two bronzes at the Clear Channel UK outdoor media awards for bet365 and The Scottish Government. Plus silver and bronze for our clients Tennent's Lager and Scotrail at the Drum Marketing Awards. And we're once again leading the agency pack with 3 nominations in the main categories at the Thinkbox Planning Awards! You can't miss the awesome OOH campaigns for Highland Spring Ltd and bet365 in London and across the country. And our Wellbeing and E&I teams have released a brilliant podcast talking to RoM and Channel 4 Sales staff about their experience with diabetes for Diabetes Awareness Week. Well done Angeline Umba for brilliant hosting. You can listen along here - https://lnkd.in/e-cFCicB One more meeting to go and then it's a cold Tennent's Lager and settle in for the Euros!

We all know gen AI runs on data? Data that’s been building up on the internet for years. But what happens when that data runs out? And why should brands and agencies care?   Ann-Kathrin Pfleging ponders that question in this brilliant opinion piece.   Read and comment with your thoughts   https://lnkd.in/eX6ug9P6

Last week, to coincide with #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we welcomed Celeste Gardner, founder of the Healthy People’s Club, to deliver a cross-office workshop on mental health awareness and the importance of language in ensuring effective conversations on the subject. This morning-long session formed part of our wider, ongoing commitment to making sure our employees have the skills, resources and approaches to best look after themselves and colleagues. Feedback from the wider team has been outstanding. So, if you’re a business owner looking for similar training for your employees than we cannot recommend Celeste Gardner enough (whilst being very happy to introduce if helpful!) #mentalhealthtraining #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters

We end the week with more exciting awards news, as it is confirmed that Republic of Media has been shortlisted for FOUR awards at the Alliance of Independent Agencies Agency Awards: Best FMCG Campaign - Republic of Media for C&C Group - Menabrea Best Use of Media - Republic of Media for C&C Group - Menabrea Best Use of Media - Republic of Media for The Scottish Government - Detect Cancer Early We are also up for the Agency Purpose Award, an incredible accolade for all our staff who have been working tirelessly to provide us with people initiatives that we are frequently reminded, sit up there with the very best in our industry and continue to drive our Freethinking culture. Well done to all our teams and clients involved in getting to shortlist stage, fingers crossed for when awards night rolls around 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽. ##GotYourWings2024 #AgencyAwards #MediaPlanning #MediaBuying

It’s been announced today that Republic of Media has been shortlisted for THREE 2024 Thinkbox TV Planning Awards: Best small budget use of TV - Republic of Media for ScotRail Best TV newcomer - Republic of Media and Mr. President for Whyte & Mackay - The Woodsman Whisky Best TV Ad Planning – Republic of Media for bet365 This also means we're now one of the top three most nominated media agencies in the whole of the UK since 2020 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Huge congrats to our talented AV team, comms planners and of course clients, who all play their part in planning and delivering such outstanding TV campaigns. All eyes now on the awards ceremony itself, which takes place on the 10th July in London 🤞🏽. #ThinkboxTVPlanningAwards #MediaPlanning #MediaBuying

It’s been announced today that Republic of Media has been shortlisted for THREE 2024 Thinkbox TV Planning Awards: Best small budget use of TV - Republic of Media for ScotRail Best TV newcomer - Republic of Media and Mr. President for Whyte & Mackay - The Woodsman Whisky Best TV Ad Planning – Republic of Media for bet365 This also means we're now one of the top three most nominated media agencies in the whole of the UK since 2020 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Huge congrats to our talented AV team, comms planners and of course clients, who all play their part in planning and delivering such outstanding TV campaigns. All eyes now on the awards ceremony itself, which takes place on the 10th July in London 🤞🏽. #ThinkboxTVPlanningAwards #MediaPlanning #MediaBuying