More exciting news! The Spider Social Media and Digital team will be expanding their remit with Peperami with the additional management of the brand’s Irish social media channels. As an existing Spider client over the last five years, the team have worked alongside the brand’s mascot Animal to spread the word about his delicious snacks […]

Adding yet another household name to its food & drink portfolio, the Spider Social Media and Digital team are delighted to welcome Le Creuset to its growing list of clients. The Spider team will be assisting the world-renowned brand’s marketing with strategic influencer campaigns throughout the rest of the year. While the phrase ‘two Belgians […]

As we continue to move closer to normality, our understanding of how we can best keep employees and clients safe has evolved. In PR, we have and will always thrive off human interaction. Hosting clients at our offices in the Spider Hub is second nature and asking them to stay away throughout the pandemic was […]

Spider is delighted to welcome MedicAir on board as a new Corporate and Digital client. Launched in 2019 by co-founders Dr Connor Bryant and Dr Priyam Patel, MedicAir has grown exponentially in the past twelve months, and is now at the forefront of the in-demand and ever-growing air purification industry. Spider is now working with […]

The only topic in business conversations now seems to be about plans for returning to the office.  The much vaunted ‘hybrid’ model is being hotly debated whilst several of the big banks, notably Goldman Sachs and Barclays have decreed all staff be back at their desks full time. Certainly, there seems to have been a […]

Spider is thrilled to announce that we’ve picked back up the brief for BFree, the innovative gluten and wheat free baked goods brand. Having supported the brands original launch into the UK market, the consumer PR and digital team have been appointed once again to drive awareness for BFree’s latest product launches – BFree Avocado […]

Spider has been recognised as the 4th fastest growing agency in the UK with income above £3m in the latest PR Week Top 150 Agency League Table with a 26% annual growth. Spider has also risen 16 places to rank at 62 in the 2021 list. We see this as terrific justification in our strategy […]

Spider is thrilled to announce it has been appointed to manage the Social Media and Consumer & Trade PR programme for Wheyhey, the natural sugar-free ice cream and brownie brand. Founded in 2013 in a flat in Brixton, Wheyhey is on a mission to take on the FMCG giants and revolutionise healthy snacking in a crowded market. Their key point of […]

Spider PR won the digital brief to launch Schulstad’s Bake at Home range to develop its market-specific brand proposition, promote its initial listings and drive awareness and trial of products amongst consumers. Since soft launching the social channels last October, Schulstad Bake at Home has already seen engagement and interest in their products driven through […]

Spider is delighted to once again welcome a long standing client, Brickendon, the transformational consultancy to its corporate fold. After initially working with the consultancy for over 3 years to help raise brand awareness, challenge views of the ‘Big Four’ and influence key decision makers, Brickendon has once again challenged Spider’s corporate team to communicate […]

Recently Spider worked alongside GTR to plan, deliver and manage a poignant multi-channel campaign that marks National Suicide Prevention Day and raises awareness of GTR’s work around suicide prevention.  GTR challenged Spider to create a meaningful, longer-term activation with multiple strands of activity, and people at its core while keeping in mind the sensitivities surrounding the theme of suicide. After some deliberation, the campaign was coined “Affirmation Art”.   The […]

With the end of 2020 fast approaching there is a temptation to focus solely on all that has changed, been missed, and lost in this extraordinary year. But I prefer to think about those things that were previously hidden yet in full view and only in 2020 did they emerge, rather like an ancient shipwreck […]

PR and digital agency, Spider, is thrilled to announce that not just one, but three of our property clients have been honoured with prizes at the 40th year of the What House? Awards. Vertus, Canary Wharf Group and Pentland Homes were all recognised for their achievements in the first ever digital ceremony, hosted by comedian […]

SPIDER IS RECRUITING FOR ITS B2B/CORPORATE TEAM We are looking for an exceptional Junior Account Executive to join our fast paced and growing agency in our growing B2B/Corporate team.  The successful candidate will work with prestigious brands across a wide range of sectors. This is a role for those who don’t want to be pigeon-holed into one discipline […]

Spider is delighted to announce a new client win with CLIMAX, a pioneering and innovative online sex-ed series. Spider has been appointed to supercharge CLIMAX’s UK launch with a PR and Influencer brief, which will help to educate the UK audience on female pleasure and to raise awareness of a new phenomenon, called the ‘pleasure […]

Spider is delighted to announce their Social Media & Digital team has gained an additional brief from the Irish Food Board, Bord Bia, to help build awareness of Irish Trout in the UK to get the public to try high quality and sustainable Irish trout products. The agency is already working with Bord Bia to […]

Spider is delighted to announce a new client win, Keogh’s award-winning potatoes & crisps. The team have been appointed to manage their Influence Outreach and Digital Advertising programme in the UK to support their new crisp listing in selected Waitrose stores and on Waitrose.com Keogh’s have over 200 years of potato farming experience in Dublin, working […]

Spider PR has won another charity PR brief – this time to launch a pioneering climate finance initiative from the Climate Crisis Foundation. The Climate Crisis Foundation is a charity founded in 2019 by ex-financiers Yan Swiderski and Jasper Judd, when they realised that there was a huge untapped opportunity for people with savings and […]

Expleo, the technology and engineering consultancy for innovative companies, sees the world as a playground that’s full of possibility.  Their aim is to help clients accelerate digital change by making the right impact when and where it matters most.  Spider created a unique showcase to demonstrate the incredible, cross-sector work Expleo does, through the launch of […]

Our consumer PR, food PR and social media teams are delighted with our latest awards shortlists at the hotly contested Creative Moment awards. The shortlists recognise our guaranteed, creative and commercially savvy approach to work with our consumer PR team recognised for their sales-boosting campaigning for Modibodi and our social and food PR teams for […]

Spider is delighted to announce it has been appointed to manage the Social Media, Digital Advertising and PR programme for Willy’s Apple Cider Vinegar. William Chase, the man behind the Willy’s brand, has already launched two outstandingly successful consumer businesses in the UK:  Tyrrell’s Crisps, the premium snack range and Chase Distillery with the acclaimed […]

Where others stop, Yonder begins. We are thrilled to be appointed as the agency to launch Yonder Consulting, a new consultancy that blends insight, strategy and imagination to help clients unlock opportunity and deliver business impact. Following a successful merger, Yonder brings together the expertise of four specialist businesses; the award-winning research and consultancy of […]

Tonic water and mixer brand appoints Spider for trade and influencer brief ahead of rebrand This month, Spider PR has won a brief to amplify the rebrand of Lixir Drinks as it enters the next milestone of its journey. The brief spans both trade PR to announce the rebrand, as well as influencer marketing to […]

For the last 3 months Spider has been practising what it’s been preaching, which is the need for companies who were randomly blessed with businesses able to survive and thrive in the time of Covid, to do something to ‘give back’ to those not so lucky. We decided to use our talent and skills to […]

Spider PR has won another corporate PR brief to launch a pioneering MedTech business, Sonovia in the UK. Backed by Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, Professor Sidney Altman, Sonovia is responsible for the development and launch of ground-breaking products designed with technology and science in mind. Sonovia’s UK launch via their distributor GlobalNPD signifies a […]

 Spider PR has won another international corporate PR and thought leadership brief to support cutting-edge medical autonomous AI pioneers Digital Diagnostics. Digital Diagnostics, (previously known as IDx-DR) are the creators of IDx-DR, the first ever autonomous AI system cleared by the FDA to provide a diagnostic decision. With ambitions to create the largest platform in Autonomous […]

I walked to the office on Tuesday (doing the hard yards with Annie ahead of our 26 miles for Glass Door, the homeless charity on 3rd October)* The weather forecaster on the radio told me it was probably the last day of the glorious Indian summer we have been enjoying at the tail end of […]

Following last year’s successful campaign in promoting Guinness World Records 2020, Spider is delighted to share the news that we have been reappointed as their paid media agency for the launch of the 2021 edition. For the second year running, Spider is on a mission to bring this essential gift to households nationwide. Guinness World […]

Italian wellness drink appoints Spider to launch the brand in the UK, across both PR and digital This month, Spider PR has won an integrated consumer PR and social media brief to launch HOLY – the Wellness Drink in the UK, as well as developing its market-specific brand proposition. HOLY – The Wellness Drink is […]

Tailored Living Solutions, a Southwark-based boutique mixed-use developer, has appointed Spider to handle its residential consumer PR, corporate brand PR and social media accounts to help position it as one of London’s leading property companies. Specialising in building multi-unit residential and mixed-use schemes, as well as modern commercial units, Tailored Living Solutions has a growing […]

After the first week of a very limited return to the office – one team per day per week – there has been a revelation! When lockdown happened, it was particularly seismic for the senior team who had spent an entire working life being office based. For the younger team members, the change in venue […]

Lockdown has done many things, many things we could not have conceived at any previous time in our lives. We have all experienced a collective leap off a cliff with no knowing how we would land. Most of us were terrified at the unknown consequences. We have had to deal with the unfamiliar concept of […]

Spider is delighted to announce that their Social Media & Digital team has gained an additional brief from the Irish Food Board, Bord Bia, in the UAE to help support the food service industry during lock down.   The agency had already been working with Bord Bia to raise brand awareness, support listings and increase […]

When I first blogged at the start of the lockdown, along with everyone, I longed to be free to hit the high street and shop till I dropped. But that is not how I feel today now that I can. In trying to analyse where the urgency has gone, I think there are a several […]

As the human equivalent of a hamster who has been (happily) turning her wheel for a very long time, one of the worst prospects when lockdown was announced was wondering what I would do with all the inevitable spare time. Who was I kidding! All those household jobs I had mentally lined up, remain undone. […]

Dawn is breaking over our new world.  Soon we will see who has survived the lockdown winter and who has adapted to the new order of things.  For those privileged enough to have survived (and thrived) it is a very exciting prospect. But for many it is still a time of fear for the outcome […]

Spider have been appointed by Sons, an exciting new online men’s healthcare brand, to help launch their new range of men’s hair loss products.  Healthcare is one of the many areas Spider specialise in, with knowledge of the media, the consumer and practitioners.   ‘Hair loss affects 6.5 million men in the UK and there is often still a taboo associated with talking openly […]

What we’ve learnt in 7 short weeks We’ve learnt to live at home and make it our social hub We’ve learnt to cope without cars, buses, and tubes We’ve found our feet and walked, cycled, and scooted We’ve noticed the blossom, the birdsong, and the silence We’ve learnt new etiquettes of waiting in line, of […]

A strong year for Team Spider has seen us climb 11 places to 78th place from 89th in PRWeek’s Top 150 PR Consultancies for 2020. The announcement serves as another milestone for Spider’s upwards trajectory after several high-profile new business wins this year including clients such as itsu, British Apples And Pears and The Mushroom Bureau.  Reading […]

Survey shows we all just want to go down the pub In this odd world of lockdown latest figures show that time spent on Instagram is up 32% and 53% on Facebook, as we post nostalgic images of past freedom and pine for those we miss. However, a survey* from PR and digital marketing agency Spider, has […]

Luxury low-cal ice cream brand, Oppo Brothers, appoints Spider to handle summer campaign Spider is delighted to announce that it has been appointed to deliver a summer campaign and European toolkit for luxury low calorie ice cream brand, Oppo Brothers. The agency will handle consumer and trade PR as well as influencer engagement to help […]

I wrote a blog four weeks ago at the start of the lockdown. My main observation – more gut reaction than fact – was that we should expect, and prepare for, a new ‘normal’ when we were free to make choices again. It was my view that the world would change and adapt in unforeseen […]

In common with most people, it is hard to recall a more extraordinary period in my life. 3 weeks ago, we were packing up the office and closing the door for an indeterminate time. Something that was unthinkable a month or even a week earlier. The uncertainty of how to run the business at distance, […]

Eeeek! I’ve shrunk… One week in from starting WFH and I realise I am only a quarter of the person I once was.  I get up in the morning, shower and I do my make-up. I tease my hair as best I can. I get dressed and with the dog, my incomparable friend, head off […]

Post lockdown what sort of world awaits? For sure it is never going to be the same again. We will all carry the scar of this extraordinary time in our lives and we will have to learn to live a new ‘normal’. Critically, crisis-buying patterns during the outbreak will inevitably speed adoption of new, permanent […]

It’s exactly a year to the day since I took the plunge and moved to the ‘dark side’ – otherwise known as agency life.  For many years I’ve been working with PR and digital agencies, struggling to truly understand the return on investment; what my budget was buying and what tangible difference, if any, it […]

Spider appointed PR and Influencer Agency for launch of PharmaCare Europe’s CBD product, Naturopathica. There’s a buzzword being muttered about the place recently and for good reason. You may think CBD is the latest trend (recently likened to ‘Avo on Toast’ by the NY Times) but no! There’s more to this product than you may realise. Only […]

PR Week, the industry’s leading trade title, has just published its annual PR Week Top 150 UK agencies list. Based on trading figures for 2018, Spider is a new entrant at number 85. This follows an exceptional year for the agency – 17% year on year growth – and was achieved by a combination of significant new business wins and organic […]

Spider, the PR and Digital agency, has announced the new appointment of a Chief Operating Officer. Michelle Butler, who has spent the last seven years as General Manager of the UK office of Bord Bia (Irish Food Board), brings to Spider considerable experience working directly with FMCG businesses, specialism in sustainability having led the acclaimed Origin Green […]

We’ve been walking up a sweat this morning. In support of National Walk to Work Day, 22 of Spider’s finest swapped London trains, tubes and buses for comfortable trainers on the commute into the office today. With alarms set a little earlier than usual, the team covered over 75 miles by foot and walked from […]

Carnoustie… Royal Birkdale… St. Andrews… some of the most famous – and famously difficult – golf courses in the UK, but nothing (ish…) compared to the ‘One Shot Challenge’. This summer, we were tasked by Topgolf UK with promoting a fiendishly difficult hole-in-one competition carefully crafted to catch out even the most experienced golfers…… but let’s rewind […]

The ‘peregrinos’ have returned from doing the last leg of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela – the famous pilgrim walk through northern Spain. It has been a terrific adventure and the pilgrim dog, Annie, was magnificent. We walked through snowstorms, hail, wind and rain into the most glorious spring and summer sunshine. I have […]