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Our Campaigns

Whether you’re looking to increase footfall to your event, drive traffic to your website or reach a specific audience with your messages, as media channel and online pay-per-click experts, Forward & Thinking expertly plan your campaign.

Take a look at a small sample of our work as a media agency.

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Everton

Everton Football Club’s marketing team were tasked with creating a high-impact campaign around the globe to mark the high-profile arrival of James Rodriguez. Apart from extensive social media, digital marketing…

Bradford College

Following a turbulent year, the College needed to show signs of progress and a pivotal summer recruitment drive had to hit ambitious targets. Based on audience insight from the targeted…

HANSON ELECTRICAL

Hanson Electrical Autumn kitchens campaign. Created, produced and successfully delivered on ITVX, Channel4, SkyTV

OUR SECTORS

We work in a wide range of industries, giving us a huge opportunity to work with different audiences and challenges. We understand the need for clients to work with a media agency that has a proven record within specific sectors.

EDUCATION INSTITUTES

Forward & Thinking are an experienced team of education marketing and media experts, working with over 50 higher and further education clients across the UK. We understand the education landscape and pressures colleges and universities face, particularly around funding, allocation of resources and recruitment targets. Forward & Thinking works hard to ease these burdens by offering more than the standalone campaign development and delivery.

Forward & Thinking adds value to campaigns by deploying our sector knowledge accrued by long-term client and supplier relationships, involvement with the College Marketing Network and Higher Education conference, together with our ongoing Gen Z and influencers research to benefit clients.

We’ve worked with F&T for a number of years, and are always very impressed with the service. The whole team is very supportive and we receive professional service every time. Our AM Jo, is an absolute pleasure. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend F&T to others.

Barnsley College

Forward & Thinking have impressed us with a substantial tender proposal. Their data-led campaigns and expert team deliver impressive results. Their client service is outstanding. We’re excited to be working with them again

Active Learning

PUBLIC SECTOR: COUNCILS AND NHS

Agility and responsiveness within campaign management is a critical offering to effectively work with the NHS and Councils to provide flexible campaigns, adjusting messaging and creative to reflect changing public needs and perceptions.

We bring together our knowledge to deliver strategic campaign executions that deliver successful results, whether that be to boost community engagement, deliver public messages or support local growth.

Forward & Thinking are a great company to work with, you're clearly really passionate about what you do, you're proactive, and you were a pleasure to work with.

WAKEFIELD COUNCIL

Forward & Thinking help promote the Borough as a great place to live and visit. Not only through local and regional advertising but also through video creation and editing. The team are friendly, professional and always goes the extra mile to ensure a fantastic end product.

SOUTH TYNESIDE COUNCIL

We approached Forward & Thinking to manage two public awareness campaigns for us. From the initial meeting we felt they clearly understood the brief and what we wanted to achieve from the campaigns. Each process went smoothly, from planning to evaluation.

NHS LINCOLNSHIRE CLINICAL COMMISSION GROUP

SPORTS AND DESTINATION CAMPAIGNS

We strive to drive engagement with global audiences for the sports sector. Whether it is to drive ticket sales, retail purchases, or public announcements, we pull on our ability as a media agency to effectively media plan within the UK and internationally. We deliver unforgettable sporting campaigns that target audiences cannot miss. Driving footfall is what we do best.

As a club we wanted to engage our supporters with high impact, unique and creative campaigns around our heritage, which formed the initial paid media. The reveal of a new crest is an important and delicate step for any club so launching it in the right way was crucial.

HULL CITY

‘We’re delighted to be working with Forward & Thinking to deliver a sophisticated and targeted flight plan for our upcoming campaign. Their tender submission was the pick of a busy field, and we can’t wait to see what the results of the campaign will be. They are a great team to work with and help make actions easy to plan, manage and execute’.

NY Moors National Park

Forward & Thinking have helped us throughout our Supported Housing Campaign to greatly improve traffic to our website and make our schemes visible. Through a targeted campaign, we have managed to increase applications to the specific schemes and have increased awareness of them within the localised community.

Together Homes

"Having worked with various OOH companies over the years, I can safely say Forward And Thinking are now always my top choice!

Andrew in particular has always been nothing short of a pleasure to work with, professional, accommodating and knowledgeable.

Thank you for all you do to ensure successful & engaging Crimestoppers campaigns!"

Crimestoppers

"Here at Shipley College we have to find ways to punch above our weight, and having a fantastic media agency in our corner really helps!
We work with Forward & Thinking on both OOH and Digital campaigns, and really value the always-available service they provide, from planning right through to post-campaign evaluation. Great to have them on our team!"

Shipley College

"We’ve been working with ForwardandThinking for a number of years now and the service they provide is outstanding. Darren and the team are really responsive in terms of queries, adapting, and monitoring of campaigns. They work with us to provide the best strategic output and drive to conversions with sometimes quite tight budgets. They have gone the extra mile too in terms of supplying a level of detail with the data reported to enable us to be more proactive in our approach, which supports our ability to demonstrate ROI and key metrics at board level for each campaign.
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Wirrel Met

"Thanks to Forward & Thinking for continued support to the Council on key campaigns and advertising. The company help promote the Borough as a great place to live and visit. Not only through local and regional advertising but also through video creation and editing. The team are friendly, professional and always goes the extra mile to ensure a fantastic end product.

The company recently produced a range of videos to help support South Tyneside residents during Covid. The videos were produced very quickly to help address vaccine and restriction concerns. Thanks to the quality and the voices of local people, the videos were extremely well received. Cannot thank the team enough for their fantastic work."

South Tyneside Council

Collaborating with Forward & Thinking for our summer campaign was a delight! The client portal (Hub) offered swift access to artwork specs, deadlines, and campaign communications. Their efficient system ensured we stayed organised and focused, resulting in a successful campaign. Highly recommended for their effective tools and professional support!

Our Work