NatalieScotland’s largest PR and digital marketing agency, BIG Partnership, has boosted its team with the appointment of three experienced marketing specialists.

Natalie Hilton joins BIG as a senior account manager in the Aberdeen office where she is responsible for delivering integrated strategies, with clients including Stewart Milne Group, KPMG, Oil and Gas Innovation Centre and Stronachs LLP. With 15 years’ experience, she has led marketing and PR campaigns for the Walt Disney Company in London, delivered global brand strategies, and worked in Norway providing marketing consultancy to energy and consumer brands.

BIG’s Glasgow office has welcomed SEO and analytics manager Stacy Nelson who brings extensive experience particularly in helping national hotel and banking brands to increase their online rankings.

Completing the hat trick of appointments is marketing manager Darryl Ryznar, who joins BIG’s design studio in Dunfermline where she will be responsible for website maintenance, design and marketing projects with clients including Glasgow Taxis, Mackies and Swagelining. She has four years’ experience of managing design projects in the public and private sectors and has also supported the event management of large scale global conferences and events.

Bryan Garvie, director at BIG Partnership, said: “Our new colleagues bring first-class skills and creative experience, and we’re already seeing the benefits of that in some very exciting results for clients. We’ve had an exceptionally busy period with wins across the business and we’ve got big plans for the year ahead.”

The appointments follow BIG recording one of its best-ever starts to a financial year after securing £600,000 of new business since June.

BIG Partnership, which first launched in 2000, has five offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Fife and Manchester. The multi-disciplinary agency employs more than 100 people covering PR, marketing, digital, design and events.

CJW_4672BIG Partnership has recorded one of its best-ever starts to a financial year after securing over £600,000 of new business.

The PR and digital marketing agency has successfully delivered several high-profile, integrated campaigns since the beginning of its financial year in June.

These include Aberdeen Football Club’s AURORA campaign to demonstrate support for its new stadium plans and the launch of a luxury residential development, Park Quadrant Residences in Glasgow, for Ambassador Group.

In addition, BIG has secured new business across a range of sectors, including food and drink, sport, and energy, including new assignments for First Group, luxury ice cream brand Equi’s, the European Tour during the Aberdeen Asset Scottish Open Golf and decommissioning start-up Well-Safe Solutions.

BIG Director, Zoe Ogilvie, said: “The last few months have been among the strongest in our history, with major wins across all our offices. In Aberdeen, we’re seeing the market gradually recovering and we are picking up some really great PR, digital and design projects.

“Meanwhile, we’ve gained a real foothold in the north-west of England where our Manchester-based teams have been on a winning streak, securing a 12-month contract with architecture and building consultancy AHR and an appointment from the UK division of heating and renewable energy products manufacturer Steibel Eltron, among others.”

“Our digital income is up 65% year-on-year and our integrated approach to digital, design and PR has led to a stream of marketing-led projects which have generated impressive results for clients. We recently embarked on a rebrand of our own to reflect this transition.”

In addition to the new business, BIG has retained and secured expanded remits for clients AREG (Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group), Scottish Rugby, OPITO, Stewart Milne Group, Kelvinside Academy and VIBES (The Scottish Environment Business Awards).

The agency is also building a strong presence in the high-growth start-up and emerging companies arena, working with firms such as Find a Player, Voomfit and Tag Digital.

The agency has made seven new hires in the period from June to October, bringing its total headcount to 102.

Colin McNabScotland’s largest PR and digital marketing agency, BIG Partnership, has boosted its senior team with the appointment of a new client services director.

Colin McNab, who has more than 25 years’ experience working with some of the UK’s largest digital marketing and design organisations, has been appointed to lead BIG’s client services strategy.

In addition to his new role at the agency, Colin will remain a committee member on HM Revenue and Customs’ digital services group and guest lecturer in business at the University of the West of Scotland and Glasgow Caledonian University.

Colin has been behind some of the UK’s most prominent marketing campaigns, including being part of the team which led Digital UK’s ‘Digital AL’ project, dubbed the single biggest marketing campaign in UK history during the switchover from analogue to digital TV.

He will work across the company’s six offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline, Aberdeen, Dundee and Manchester, and will play an integral role in BIG’s business development strategy.

Bryan Garvie, director at BIG Partnership, said: “We have an ambitious UK growth plan and Colin will be a strong influence as we make progress against that. As well as a contact book lots of agencies would kill for, his experience in working with big brands on digital and design strategies will help us continue to grow this side of our business.

“Colin will also support us in identifying how we can enhance the services we currently offer to clients, further integrating our PR, digital marketing and design work. He’s a great guy to have on board and we look forward to working with him in the months and years ahead.”

Colin McNab said: “Joining BIG is a fantastic new challenge for me after three years in consultancy. BIG’s a hugely ambitious business with a great story to tell and the opportunity to have the strength of a renowned agency behind me is a really exciting prospect.”