WE’RE OOK
A new breed of purpose-driven freelance brand agency because busting today’s fast-moving and colliding challenges demands more creativity, agility, and brand expertise than ever.
Because life’s too short for ordinary agencies
OUR PEOPLE
Our people are our difference, an independent, diverse modern workforce. We embrace different perspectives from cherry-picked specialist freelance experts to inter-collaboration with other agencies. When the right people are involved for the right reasons, it delivers uplifting results illuminating the big picture for our client’s commercially, socially, and environmentally. Check Why OOK.
Working with us
You’re not only sustaining OOK but an indie workforce, we call it Creative Collaboration with Goodness.
Our Services
We provide the whole kit and kaboodle, basically using the principals of logic, reason & magic because knowledge informs ideation, it inspires creativity which improves strategy for any sector.
From fierce start-up and legacy brands, we work across hr, health and highstreets. Tech to construction, charity and not-for-profits to deliver more insightful and meaningful brand culture and marketing to improve internal employee brand experience right the way through to external customer and stakeholder brand experience.
If don’t have the time and energy to assemble a crack team of specialists without having to research, correspond, negotiate & interview? Leave it to OOK.
Our PM style is agile, things change. We manage everything from ideas, brand, creative, design. Right the way through to strategic planning and tactical marketing execution. We set out expectations and outcomes, manage roadblocks, budgets to measurable results.
Brand is an emotional thread that connects your audience’s head and heart to believe in what you do, and what you stand for. We create brands to believe in, otherwise we don’t do the project. Check our mission for why we’re your brand empowered.
“Everything begins with an idea” said Earl Nightingale.
Our ideas are built on logic, reason and magic because our ideas have to become sound commercial solutions.
Words have meaning.
They transmit, communicate, inform, educate, explain, empower, tell stories and sell products. We know the power of copy for brand tone of voice or to deliver an impactful statement and we have a variety of specialist copywriters for consumer, business, lifestyle, education, sports and more.
Design performs a function otherwise it’s just decoration. We’ve all types of designers to do all types of design work.
Multi-channel marketing is essential. Social Media, Digital, Emails, SMS, Push Notifications, Direct Mail are tactical tools to drive your marketing purpose. Fast-changing environments means parameters are moving at breakneck speed so getting your marketing strategy nailed for the modern age that optimises ROI is critical.
We set clear PR goals with attention, purpose and meaning behind it all delivered by expert people. Because companies with strong positive reputations attract better people, are perceived as providing more value and customers are more loyal.
We’ll keep you pace of trends, movements and attitudes.
Because you need to know local to global trends and data informs decisions. We partner the best research people to deliver everything from simple data collection to in-depth analysis of result. Research can form the backbone of a project to set objectives and get closer to the audience.
Our Process
KIND BY DESIGN WORKSHOP
Kind is in our name and Kind by Design is our bespoke co-creation program that works for all kinds of clients to invite all kinds of people to open up innovation processes to a variety of voices. Employees, customers, senior management, partners and stakeholders, Kind by Design builds marketing solutions together. Because we know the best results happen through people not to people.
Delve.
You’re ready to act and we’re ready to nail the challenge. We’ll delve into the issue using logic & reason to break the problem down.
Dare.
We’re co-creating together shared ideas are brought to the table, aspirations and ambition cherished. Magic and plans start to take shape.
Do.
Marketing Strategy is rolled-out. Short or long-term goals. We can manage everything from ideas, project management, implementation, budgeting to end results.
How We Do It
SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS
Sustainability is an issue where you can get very jaded very quickly. Let us make you a Green Leader, so that everything you do matters, little actions make a big impact.
Every day, critical business decisions are made with little thought for the gap between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s needs. So, how does a business demonstrate greater responsibility, integrity and accountability while succeeding commercially?
We are a registered B1G1 company and we’re working towards B-Corp Certification as a further commitment to our social and environmental responsibility. If you’re not adopting practices now, it’s time to get on board.
Our Story
Indie Talent, Specialist Toolkit, Strong Conscience.
Our creative conscience took root in 2018 by founder Max Freer. Following ten successful years of running her first award-winning agency she set about creating an agency where purpose and profit would make good partners.
OOK is short for One of a Kind and is one of the UK’s first award-winning purpose-driven freelance brand agency. Here our clients and independent specialists from the creative industries come together to devise, design and deliver holistic solutions to today’s conundrums that engender optimism in society.
We employ and sustain a workforce of designers, artists, copywriters, creatives, digital activators to build brands, products, places, spaces and experiences happily creating harmony between social mission and the bottom line.
We are a disability confident employer, a registered B1G1 company and we’re working towards B-Corp Certification as a further commitment to our social and environmental responsibility. We love what we do.
Who we work with
