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    — The latest news, talks, awards & opinion from MANIFEST 📖

    — News

    Manifest picks up 'Global Branding Agency of the Year' and 'Global Consultancy of the Year' at Campaign Global Agency of the Year awards.

    Campaign

    Polestar hands the Keys to Manifest as agency of record

    B&T

    First diners, now drops: Manifest becomes Jellycat’s US comms agency

    LinkedIn

    Manifest appointed as Eager Drinks' creative agency of record.

    Mediashotz

    Manifest named Consultancy of the Year at Campaign's Global Agency of the Year Awards

    Campaign

    Manifest expands leadership team in response to ‘explosive growth’ in branding work

    Roast Brief

    Manifest appoints new UK Managing Director, Rowena Vithlani as it plots ‘next chapter’ of growth

    Campaign

    Manifest promotes Helen Kenny to Chief Operating Officer

    Campaign

    Omio selects Manifest as its Global PR Agency

    Roast Brief

    Manifest appoints Dentsu Creative EMEA COO Ete Davies and Sarah Waddington CBE as Non-Executive Directors

    Campaign

    Manifest Group appointed as creative agency of record for ethical accessory brand TRIWA

    Media Week

    Manifest expands U.S. presence to LA

    Campaign

    Manifest, Freuds and Grayling among agencies backing launch of PR Mums

    PR Week

    Manifest announces B-Corp status and urges brands to ditch fossil fuel agencies

    B&T

    Jameson selects Manifest UK for Creative Campaign brief

    Roast Brief

    Eastern Standard Times appoints Manifest Group as its global creative agency of record

    Media Week

    Manifest has become the first agency to retain full Blueprint status in the industry diversity mark scheme

    PR Week

    Manifest wins 3rd International Agency of the Year award in 4 years

    PR Week

    Manifest has announced two senior appointments and revealed that revenue at the consumer comms agency increased by 50 percent in 2021.

    PR Week

    Manifest has announced its partnership with the global non-profit tech community Techfugees as the agency continues to focus its growth on purpose-led work.

    Media Week

    Meta Senior Creative, Katie Harrison, joins Manifest as creative director

    PR Week

    WPP creative Kosatas Karanikolas has been hired to lead the Unified Creative Agency’s global creative team

    Campaign

    Manifest is the first agency to secure Blueprint status - a kitemark to promote racial diversity in the communications industry.

    PRovoke

    Manifest has opened its second UK office in Manchester and appointed Bec Chelin as Manchester managing director.

    PR Week

    Manifest has opened an office in Melbourne – the group's fifth after London, Manchester, Stockholm and New York.

    PR Week

    Manifest has been named in the top 5 of Campaign's Best Places to Work

    Campaign

    Manifest has promoted Ali Maynard James and Jessica Becker to the new roles of managing partner at the agency's London and New York offices respectively

    PR Week

    — Awards

    Campaign Agency of the Year - Global

    Branding Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Consultancy of the Year (Silver)

    Manifest

    Prolific North Creative Awards

    Rebrand (Professional Services)

    Sonocea®

    Smiley Charity Film Awards

    Judges’ Award 2025 (Bronze)

    Whizz Kidz

    The Drum Awards for Agency Business

    Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    CEO of the Year (Highly Commended)

    Alex Myers

    Global SABRE Awards

    Consumer Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Prolific North Creative Awards

    Rebrand of the Year

    Eko Brewery

    Campaign Agency of the Year Global

    Consultancy of the Year

    Manifest

    If You Could TCC

    Top Creative Company 2024

    Manifest

    EMEA SABRE Awards

    Consumer Consultancy of the Year

    Manifest

    PR Week Global Awards

    International Agency of the Year (Highly Commended)

    Manifest

    Prolific North Champions

    Independent Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    B2C PR Campaign of the Year

    Tommee Tippee — The Social Feed

    Innovation SABRE Awards

    Purpose-Driven Agency

    Manifest

    Most Disruptive Campaign

    Babyganics — Pootraits

    NYX Awards

    Creative Individual (Silver)

    Keerthy Dakshinamurthy

    Campaign Agency of the Year

    Silver

    Manifest

    Muse Creative Awards

    Best Small Agency

    Manifest

    Best PR Agency

    Manifest

    Best Advertising Agency

    Manifest

    Prolific North Marketing Awards

    Best Social Purpose Campaign

    Girlguiding — What Girls are Made of

    Prolific North Champions

    Independent Agency of Year: Large

    Manifest

    PR Week Global Awards

    Global Professional of the Year

    Alex Myers

    International Agency of the Year

    Manifest (Highly Commended)

    Ad Age Best Place to Work

    Best Place to Work

    Manifest

    The Drum Agency Business Awards

    Most Innovative Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Best Global Development Strategy

    Manifest

    Creative Moment Awards

    Creative Independent Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    SABRE Awards EMEA

    Consumer Products Winner

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Marketing to Women Winner

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    In2SABRE Awards

    Innovator of the Year (Agency)

    Alex Myers

    PR Week Global Awards

    Campaign of the Year

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Brand Product Development

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    International Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Campaign Global Agency of the Year Awards

    Agency Leader (Creative) of the Year

    Alex Myers

    Webby Awards

    Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign

    ecoATM — A Good Call

    PR Moment (South)

    Independent Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Brand Film Awards

    Best Branded Programme

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    The Drum Awards for Content

    Most Innovative or Creative Use of Content

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Best Creative Content Idea Using Video

    Grand Prix

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Creative Moment Awards

    Creative Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Rebrand of the Year

    Hans & René

    Branded Content of the Year

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Creative Film of the Year

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    The Drum Agency Business Awards

    Independent Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    CEO of the Year (Highly Commended)

    Alex Myers

    Prolific North Champions

    Advert of the Year

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Large Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    The Drum Marketing Awards

    Best Branded Content

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    Chair Award

    Tommee Tippee — The Boob Life

    PR Moment Awards (South)

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    PR Moment Awards (North)

    Boutique Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Independent Agency of the Year (Silver)

    Manifest

    Campaign Best Places to Work

    Top 5 Global Agencies

    Manifest

    PR Week Best Places to Work Awards

    Diversity & Inclusion Champion

    Manifest

    Global Social Media Awards

    Best Low Budget Campaign

    Hotels.com — Room 101

    Global Sabre Awards

    Campaigns of the Year

    Show Stigma the Finger — Hot Octopuss

    PR Week Global Awards

    International Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Global Professional of the Year

    Alex Myers

    Creative Moment Awards

    Social Influencer Campaign of the Year

    The Co—Lab series — Samsung KX

    PR Moment Awards

    Boutique Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Independent Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Campaign Best Places to Work

    Top 3

    Manifest

    PRmoment Awards

    Stunt of the Year

    WWF — Stop Animal Trafficking

    PR Week Global Awards

    International Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Drum PR Awards

    PR & Comms Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Best Event, Stunt or Promotional Activation

    WWF Stop Animal Trafficking

    Not for Profit

    WWF Stop Animal Trafficking (Highly Commended)

    Creative Moment Awards

    Creative Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    PR Week Awards

    Not-for-profit

    WWF — Stop Animal Trafficking (Highly Commended)

    Small Consultancy of the Year

    Manifest (Highly Commended)

    The Drum Agency Awards

    Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    PR Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Best Agency to Work for (Highly Commended)

    Manifest

    Global Sabre Award

    Campaigns of the Year

    BrewDog — Bar on the Edge

    The Drum marketing awards

    Marketing Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    PR Week USA Awards

    Consumer Launch of the Year

    Bring Your O Game for Hot Octopuss

    PRmoment Awards

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Emerging agency of the year

    Manifest

    Community engagement campaign of the year

    Rize up

    Integrated communications campaign of the year

    Rize up

    PR Week Best Places to Work

    Gold

    Manifest

    PR Week Awards

    Small Consultancy of the Year

    Manifest

    Sabre Awards EMEA

    Publicity Stunt of the Year

    Innis & Gunn — Sky.P.A.

    Holmes Report

    Best Agencies to Work For

    Manifest

    PRmoment Awards

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    Sabre North America

    Best Guerilla Campaign

    Hot Octopuss

    Sabre EMEA

    Best Pan-European Campaign

    Uniplaces

    PRmoment Awards

    Consumer PR Campaign of the Year

    BrewDog

    Integrated Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    The Sabre Awards

    Food & Beverage

    BrewDog

    The Best Awards

    Writing

    BrewDog — #sorrynotsorry

    Digi CorpComms Awards

    Best Use of Video: Consumer

    Les Mills — Lesley Miller –  reject the fitness myth

    The Drum Dream Awards

    PR Campaign of the Year

    Manifest X BrewDog

    CorpComms Awards

    Best Campaign (Consumer)

    BrewDog — Hello, my name is Vladimir

    PRmoment Awards

    Best Use of Video

    Morphsuits — Fright Mob

    Digi CorpComms Awards

    Monsterati Trophy

    Manifest

    The Drum Network Awards

    PR Consultancy of the Year

    Manifest

    The Grocer Marketing Advertising PR Awards

    Consumer PR Campaign of the Year

    BrewDog — Hello, my name is Vladimir

    PR Week Awards

    Small Consultancy of the year

    Manifest

    The Golden Hedgehog PR Awards

    Communications Professional of the year

    Alex Myers

    New Agency of the Year

    Manifest

    The Drum Marketing Awards

    Grand Prix

    BrewDog— Equity for Punks

    Digi CorpComms Awards

    Best Integrated Campaign

    BrewDog— Equity for Punks

    Grand Prix

    Manifest X BrewDog

    Marketing Week Engage Awards

    PR sponsored by How to TV

    BrewDog— Equity for Punks

    Digi CorpComms Awards

    Best Agency with Integrated Digital Expertise

    Manifest

    — Articles & Talks

    Manifest’s Alex Myers: ‘Strategy Eating Creativity For Lunch’, ‘Aussies Bubbling With Creativity & Ambition’ & ‘Telstra's Work Shits Over Other Telcos’

    B&T

    ‘AI agents can be creative sparring partners’ – Our AI Plan: Manifest Group

    PR Week

    Mia Rocco asks 'When Did Chaos Get Safe?'

    Ad Week

    15 Years of Manifest, Alex Myers on the PRmoment Podcast

    Spotify

    CUT THE BS: How to build a better benefits package with Alex Myers

    Spotify

    "If you're not screwing up, you're not trying hard enough" - Alex Myers talks business on the DesignRush Podcast

    DesignRush

    'Deliberately stark and shocking' - Creative Hits of the Week with Emma Seddon

    PR Week

    ‘Are they serious with this one?’ – Creative Hits and Misses of the Week with Martin Farrar-Smith

    PR Week

    To celebrate National Inclusion Week, Daisy Phillips shares her favourite inclusive work

    Creative Brief

    Tope Onanuga shares five key ways the industry can move toward greater inclusion

    Creative Brief

    'It goes to show the power of beautiful creative' - Creative Hits and Misses with Myfanwy Kramer

    PR Week

    How do you solve creative writer's block? Beg, borrow and steal!' - Creative Q&A with Myfanwy Kramer

    PR Week

    The “honeymoon phase is over” for Threads — Lee Benecke on the features that could bring brands back

    Campaign

    Son Pham & other LGBTQ+ PR pros offer 23 words of advice to the industry from Pride Month 2023

    PR Week

    PRWeek 30 Under 30: Son Pham, Manifest

    PR Week

    'A Little Bit Rubbish' — Creative Hits & Misses with Daisy Phillips

    PR Week

    Are female targeted campaigns hitting the mark? by Katie Harrison

    PR Week

    How I Became: Lee Benecke, Digital Strategy Director, Manifest Group

    Prolific North

    Manifest founder Alex Myers on breaking down creative barriers

    Creative Moment

    Dynamic Duos: Manifest Melbourne’s Isabel Thomson-Officer and Jessie Bowers

    Mumbrella

    ‘The great resignation could easily become the great redundancy’ – Alex Myers on the Beyond the Noise podcast

    PR Week

    Influencer strategy 2023: brands need to leverage creator direction over creative direction

    Corq

    'I could drown in my cutting room floor' – Creative Q&A with Daisy Phillips

    PR Week

    The next big thing for 2023: Senior industry experts give their predictions

    Prolific North

    ‘Forget labels and focus on ideas’ – Creative Q&A with Katie Harrison

    PR Week

    Manifest achieves Blueprint diversity mark first

    PR Week

    Alex Myers, founder and global CEO of Manifest on the PRmoment Podcast

    PR Moment

    Top PR tips for using TikTok

    PR Moment

    ‘The aim is to shift culture’ – Creative Q&A with Kostas Karanikolas

    PR Week

    IWD Twitbot furore shows brands must practice what they preach on gender equality

    PR Week

    ‘We don’t hire for a cultural fit, we hire for a cultural add’ - how to be an ethnically diverse PR employer

    PR Week

    Is it OK to recycle old PR ideas? Tom Winterton discusses.

    PR Moment

    Ali Maynard James: Is the four-day working week a pipe dream or reality?

    The Drum

    Honey, I Blew Up The Business Podcast — A problem shared... with Alex Myers

    Spotify

    Martha Moore: Specialist agencies are dead - and that’s a good thing for creatives

    Prolific North

    Lee Benecke: I was lucky - but the creative industries are still far too elitist

    Prolific North

    Career Confessions with Isabel Thomson-Officer, Manifest Melbourne

    Mavens

    Bec Chelin on The PRWeekly podcast: Euro campaigns and take the knee

    PR Week

    Digital City Festival Keynote Session: Solving Bias in the Digital World

    YouTube

    'She presents her endlessly twisted view of the world' - What Inspires Me, with Manifest's Helen Kenny

    PR Week

    Balancing the Grind with Isabel Thomson-Officer, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Manifest Melbourne

    Balance the Grind

    Digital Download Podcast: Trolling & Online Abuse w/ Julian Obubo

    Spotify

    What I've Learnt: Bec Chelin, Managing Director of Manifest Manchester

    Prolific North

    Why it's time for a new brief — Alex Myers on the Uncensored CMO Podcast

    Spotify

    Alex Myers on How to get your start-up off the ground

    Evening Standard

    'Their curiosity is untarnished by prejudice or fear' - What Inspires Me with Manifest's Julian Obubo

    PR Week

    PR Hub Podcast — Becoming the world’s first global small agency

    Spotify

    New York's Annie Gordon on 'What Does an Agency Happiness Officer Do?'

    Adweek

    Martin Farrar-Smith @ Glug Leeds #19 - “What I’ve learned after (almost) 15 years working in (kinda, sorta) one agency.”

    YouTube

    Podcast — The PR Show: The diversity problem

    Audio Boom

    Agency leaders: 'Climate strike is a starting pistol, PR must become a catalyst for change'

    PR Week

    Balancing the Grind With Jessica Becker, Managing Partner at Manifest New York

    Balance the Grind

    Stop drinking one's own Kool-Aid' - Julian Obubo on what sector must do for growth

    PR Week

    Jessica Becker on the Valuable Traits To Look For In New Team Members

    Forbes

    The website looks like a GCSE project': PR pros' take on launch of The Independent Group

    PR Week

    How Manifest are tackling Mental Health & staff wellbeing in the workplace

    PR Week

    On the dangers of nostalgia. Martin Farrar-Smith on why nostalgia shouldn’t be looked at through rose-tinted spectacles.

    Creative Review

    — Fresh Meet

    EP01

    Room for More: Black Women in Comms

    EP02

    Lost Talent: Missing Women ft. Manifest x PR Mums

    EP03

    Artificial Imagination: What's next for AI?

    EP04

    Snap, Crackle, Pop-Up: Crafting Human-First Brand Experiences

    EP05

    Real Talk: Getting comfortable with uncomfortable conversations about diversity

    EP06

    Has Purpose served its purpose? What next for purpose-led marketing?

    EP07

    DEI at a Crossroads: How Brands Can Navigate the Backlash

    EP01

    Trends in Creativity: How trends are shaping the way we develop great campaigns and projects

    EP02

    Once Upon a Time: What brand storytelling looks like in 2022

    EP03

    The Next Ten: How creative will evolve in the next decade.

    EP04

    Safe sex, risky business: How an intimacy-focused brand thrived in a world of distance and isolation.

    EP05

    Game Changers: Inspiring understanding through football.

    EP06

    The Power of a Voice: Understanding it and how to make our voices heard.

    EP07

    Search & Deploy: How share of search is changing global culture

    EP08

    B Here Now: How positive impact brands thrive during economic downturns

    EP09

    Breaking Bad: Challenging beauty biases

    EP10

    Green is the New Black: Going beyond greenwashing

    EP01

    Sorry seems to be the hardest word: A discussion on the purpose & art of saying sorry.

    EP02

    Under the influence: What’s the state of influencer relations and what does the future hold?

    EP03

    Same same but different: A comparative analysis on the practice of PR in the US & UK.

    EP04

    The 'D' Word: Assessing the status quo of diversity in the PR industry.

    EP05

    Hard Work & Hustle: How to get started in the PR industry.

    EP06

    From Success to Significance: The evolving role of brands in the digital age.

    EP07

    Power to the People: How are brands harnessing community to build for the future?

    EP08

    Ground by the Grind: A conversation on finding purpose in work

    EP09

    Anatomy of an idea: Breaking down the DNA of creativity

    EP10

    The Brand as Activist: A model for the future or a flash in the pan?

    EP11

    So that was an interesting week... How the comms industry is coping during a global pandemic