Jan 17, 2020
Campaign Magazine covers our work for Pernod Ricard
Our work for Pernod Ricard has been featured in Campaign Magazine. The campaign highlights the power of social connection by bringing strangers together to "break the ice".
Jan 07, 2020
Our interview with Dean-Charles Chapman & George McKay is covered by Female First
The Hook's interview with Dean-Charles Chapman and George McKay to promote the release of 1917 is featured in Female First, The List, Zap Gossip and more.
Dec 06, 2019
Andy & Gordon take on the Social Day Podcast
Stuart Hall spoke to our co-founders Andy Fidler & Gordon Bennell for the Social Day Podcast. The guys covered the evolution of The Hook, how our social marketing agency, The Hook Labs, is helping to drive tangible results for brands, and where the business is headed in 2020. Follow the link below to listen.
Nov 21, 2019
Elliot Willis Promoted to Managing Director of The Hook Labs
Commercial Director Elliot Willis has been promoted to Managing Director at The Hook Labs, our multi-award-winning social marketing agency that scales brands through content, influencers and paid social. Elliot's appointment was covered in The Drum.
Oct 15, 2019
Social Marketing Agency of the Year 2019
We WON 🏆 the big one! The Hook Labs were crowned Social Marketing Agency of the Year at the Social Media Marketing Awards by SocialDay last night. See our very own Felicity Joyce and Gracie Mills representing in the featured pic 🙌
Sep 26, 2019
The Drum Feature Interview - The Hook Labs Launch Performance Marketing Model
The Drum's John McCarthy caught up with our Co-Founder Andy Fidler to talk about the launch of The Hook Labs performance marketing model and the strategies we develop to drive tangible results for brands.
Jun 28, 2019
Our interview with the stars of Spiderman: Far From Home is covered by MSN News
A Spider-Man / Love Island Special? 😂. We sat down with the stars of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon, ahead of the movie’s release on 2nd July. Coverage of our interview appeared in MSN News and Female First among others.
Jun 25, 2019
The Drum Editors Choice - The Hook for Lionsgate's Jigsaw
We've been featured in The Drum's Editors Choice after picking up Campaign Of The Year for our work with Lionsgate at The Drum Advertising Awards 2018.
Mar 05, 2019
3x Winners at The Brand Film Festival by Campaign
What a week! Mushy's Story, the lead video from our campaign for Currys PC World, JBL and Blue 449 picked up GOLD 🥇 for Most Emotional Film, and SILVER 🥈🥈 for both Consumer Goods and Brand Documentary at Campaign Magazine UK's Brand Film Festival.
May 02, 2019
Best Influencer Marketing at the Performance Marketing Awards 2019
Huge result. We won the Best Influencer Marketing award for our campaign for VOXI by Vodafone and Awin Global at the Performance Marketing Awards 2019! Judges said "We have scored this campaign highly due to the complexity of the execution and the targeted audience; they are social experts and the ability to gain such engagement is quite a feat"
Feb 05, 2019
Best Use of Social Media at The Drum Online Media Awards 2019
Brilliant night at The Drum Online Media Awards. Our campaign for Currys PC World, JBL and Blue 449 picked up Best Use of Social Media edging out some top work from Joe Media, Trinity Mirror, The Sun, Bloomberg and more.
Apr 23, 2019
The Shorty Awards People's Choice Award 2019
Our campaign for Currys PC World, JBL and Blue 449 has won The Shorty Awards People's Choice Award for Best Influencer & Celebrity Brand Partnership on Facebook! Big congrats to AT&T and Fullscreen for taking home the win in our category and well done to all of the other Shorty winners and honourees.
Mar 25, 2019
City AM Feature interview with our co-founders Andy & Gordon
City AM sat down with our co-founders Andy Fidler and Gordon Bennell to talk through our approach to social video and branded content. The feature interview appeared in print and online at the link below.
Nov 30, 2018
Campaign of the year Winners at The Drum Advertising Awards 2018
We went on to win 'Campaign of the Year' at The Drum Advertising Awards with our Jigsaw campaign for Lionsgate & Carat UK. We edged out some amazing brands and campaigns to take the prize from the likes of Hyundai, Ovo Energy, Vimto and the Wall Street Journal.
Nov 28, 2018
Social Media Agency of the year Winners at The Drum Agency Awards 2018
We won the big one – Social Media Agency of the year at The Drum Agency Awards with some tough competition from Impero, Influence Digital, Media Bounty and ROAS Media.
Nov 16, 2018
Social Excellence - Best Use of Video - The Lovie Awards 2018
Huge win at The Lovie Awards for Social Excellence - Best Use of Video.
Nov 15, 2018
Best Use of Facebook/Instagram Winners at The UK Social Media Communications Awards 2018
Great win for us at The UK Social Media Communications Awards. Our Jigsaw campaign for Lionsgate & Carat UK was named Best Use of Facebook/Instagram 2018.
Oct 25, 2018
The Hook Content Creation Workshop for IGTV makes The Daily Telegraph
We made The Daily Telegraph today! The piece, written by Tanith Carey, follows her and daughter Lily's experience of the IGTV Academy LDN with mentions for our 'The Hook Content Creation workshop' from the week.
Oct 12, 2018
Highly Commended at The Drum DADI Awards 2018
We were 'Highly Commended' at The Drum DADI Awards on Wednesday night in both the 'Agency of The Year' & 'Creative/Digital Team of The Year' categories. Our work was highlighted above some huge names like M&C Saatchi among others so it was great to be recognised. Big congratulations to all of the winners at the awards too.
Sep 18, 2018
Cision Meets: The Hook
Our Chief Content Officer Michael Burton & Head of Production Jessica Lever helped launch the very first Cision Meets Webinar. Mike & Jess spoke all about our original content strategy as well as identifying the best ways for PR's to work with us.
Aug 22, 2018
Karl Marsden joins The Hook as Chairman
Delighted to welcome former Shortlist Media Ltd COO, and current Contagious CEO Karl Marsden as our new Chairman. Karl will work closely with us to help further scale our editorial offering and commercial streams. The move is mentioned in Campaign: UK's Movers & Shakers column today.
Aug 16, 2018
The Drum Feature interview with Andy Fidler & Gordon Bennell
The Drum spoke to our Co-Founders Andy Fidler & Gordon Bennell about the evolution of The Hook. From our original content strategy to our brand work and beyond.
May 16, 2018
Content Studio of the Year at British Media Awards with Campaign 2018
An incredible night. We were named the UK’s #1 Content Studio at the British Media Awards, beating Disney amongst other massive names.
May 01, 2018
Cision Feature interview with Mike Burton
Our Chief Content Officer Michael Burton spoke to Cision for their 'Meet the Journalist' feature, shedding some light on a few up and coming projects and how PRs can work with us.
Apr 27, 2018
We’ve been featured in The Evening Standard’s Top 5 Celebrity Pranks!
Here's a throwback to when the brilliant Jahannah James and a certain Mr Hugh Jackman managed to fool a wide-eyed Taron Egerton. It's just made Evening Standard's top 5 'Epic Celebrity Pranks
Apr 19, 2018
The Oxford Times features The Rock vs The Kids
5 years ago, SpecialEffect, the only UK charity dedicated to video gaming & supporting people with disabilities, helped with Oxford local Chloe Streeter's first gaming set up. Last week, the now 10 year old Chloe joined us along with 7 year old Trevon Obih to take on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson at the video game Rampage.
Apr 05, 2019
The British Comedy Guide features our Comedy and Entertainment Strategist Jonathan Davenport
Jonathan Davenport spoke to The British Comedy Guide about his role at The Hook. Formerly head of digital at Hat Trick Productions and consultant for BBC Studios Comedy, the interview looks at Jon’s career thus far and how he is helping to shape our comedy and entertainment output.
Mar 24, 2018
John Cena interview featured in The Daily Express, Daily Star and Irish Sun
We caught up with John Cena on the press day for his new movie Blockers where John revealed to us that he'd be up for the possibility of getting in the ring with a certain Connor McGregor. The Daily Star, Daily Express & The Irish Sun were amongst a number of publications to feature the video and quotes.
Mar 16, 2018
Campaign Magazine Featured Case Study: The Hook for Lionsgate's Jigsaw
In October 2017, we were tasked with helping Lionsgate and the Saw Franchise ‘take back’ Halloween with their first film in 7 years and the 8th�?movie in the series – Jigsaw. Our work was included in Campaign Magazine's featured ‘Case Study’ section.
Mar 14, 2018
No Laugh Challenge with James Corden & Daisy Ridley makes the Evening Standard
James Corden and Daisy Ridley took on our No Laugh Challenge to promote the animated feature film re-imagining of Peter Rabbit. Our interview made the Evening Standard, Yahoo News, Celebretainment and more.
Mar 07, 2018
Campaign Magazine mention for our Commercial Director Elliot Willis
Campaign's Movers and Shakers feature our appointed of Commercial Director Elliot Willis. He has worked at ITV, ChannelFlip and most recently Endemol Shine as sales director.
Mar 02, 2018
Jonny Silver joins as Head of Communications
We're delighted to welcome Jonny Silver as our new Head of Communications. His move from Bauer Media is featured in PR Week's 'In Brief' feature this week.