We grow meaningful brands
We’re a marketing agency of strategists, advertising creatives and communications experts. Together, we come up with ideas, powered by behavioural science, that grow your business and improve the lives of your consumers.
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From digital marketing strategy to advertising campaigns, it starts and ends with people.
Instinctive ideas are the ones that understand the quirks of human nature; that know why we think, feel and behave a certain way – even when we don’t.
We create and plan marketing programmes that inspire and influence people: consumers and business audiences.
Advertising campaigns that make people laugh, see something differently or think twice.
Then it reasons people into action. To buy. To visit. To change.
If you’re in and out of meetings, only surrounded by the black-and-white of marketing and sales data, performance analysis and advertising efficiency metrics, how can you find the ideas that stir people’s instincts?
We’ve got you.
For more than 20 years, we’ve drawn on human nature and turned it into powerful marketing communications that get people to buy, care, think, feel and do stuff for all kinds of brands.
We know what makes people tick and we can help you get them ticking.
We call this behavioural science Instinct in Action.
We apply it to all your marketing, advertising, digital marketing, social media marketing, creative and PR.
Send us your briefPlanning, and production of a video shoot for IcleTest on location, using Keval Patel, Consultant Urologist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow. The edits are being rolled across various social platforms.
We created a new website for category-leading fresh produce business, MWW. The website was designed in Figma and developed on the Umbraco platform. The new site reflected our previous rebrand work and its fresh and colourful brand personality
We created a behaviour change campaign rooted in a culturally relevant insight to increase the booster rates amongst Pakistanis in Luton through OOH, paid social and local radio.
Planning a fitness influencer event in Toronto, Canada, using guerilla marketing techniques. To support Grenade's global, Fuel Your Summer campaign we activated through sampling and a fitness influencer via our local network and market knowledge.
Multi-channel marketing campaign encouraging people to get on their bike. The goal was to encourage more people in the West Midlands from deprived communities, ethnic minorities, and vulnerable groups to take up cycling.
National PR campaign for an instant at-home urine test that detects invisible blood in urine. PR is brilliant for building trust, credibility & brand awareness to drive consumers to the website for purchase. Dr Hillary Jones MBE onboard helped too!!
Talking about sexual health openly is a key part in reducing the spread of STIs. Our cheeky creative advertising campaign got people talking to their mates about sex without feeling embarrassed, and persuaded them to spread the message. Win-win!
Building good brands and empowering women to choose wire-free bras. When paid search advertising hits a ceiling, and CPA & CPC gains plateau, it's time for some brand-building, Big Cat style. Time for a bit of that brahhhhh! feeling?
"MAC has worked with Big Cat on a number of successful campaigns over the last few years, and with each project, we are strengthening our brand and messaging through their smart and creative ideas. We’re continuously impressed with the team's professionalism, fresh thinking, and witty approach when working in collaboration. Let’s big up Big Cat!"
Deborah Kermode, MAC CEO & Artistic Director
Our processHeadline news.
This National Mental Health Awareness Week, we have provided some ideas to support and prioritse employees’ mental wellbeing in the workplace.
Find out why we're taking on the AJ Bell Great Birmingham Run 2023 and raising funds for Birmingham Dogs Home in our latest blog.
We discuss Lemon8, the new social media app that people are calling a cross between Tik Tok, Instagram, and Pinterest, launched in the US and the UK in February 2023.
Humour can help your brand break through the clutter and make an ad more attention-grabbing, which is particularly important in today's fast-paced world where people are bombarded with ads everywhere they turn.