Strategy
We read the first page of your brief, then improve the rest.
£48,000 / day
Established whenever we say it was
Bring your ego to the door.
Then step aside. Ours needs the room, the floor, and most of the second floor.
1987
Established, roughly
5
Senior people, Tuesdays only
1
Idea per brief, defended
0
Pitches lost, by our count
Our vision
To help brands build meaningful connections with the people who matter most.
To know better than everyone at how to do their job.
Yes, the grammar is wrong. Three people flagged it. Two of them no longer work here.
What we do
You came to us with a problem. We have replaced it with a better one.
Every engagement opens with a full audit of what you have been getting wrong, delivered in a room you have paid for.
Creative
One idea, presented four times, louder each time.
£62,000 / idea
Insight
We ask some old friends what they reckon, then set it in a serif.
£31,500 / reckon
Post-rationalisation
Making the idea we already had fit the brief you sent.
Bundled
Door policy
Every ego is measured on arrival.
Below the line, you wait outside with procurement. Above it, you are shown straight to the good meeting room. Bighead accepts no liability for doorframes.
Your reading
062
Admit one ego
Our men, and Dilla
Senior. Extremely senior. Available Tuesdays.
You will meet all six at the pitch. You will then work with a twenty-four year old called Ellie, who does the actual work and is not on this page.
Perry
Co-founder, Chairman (self-appointed)
The ultimate Bighead. We had bespoke doors fitted to get his ego into the building. Lives in Lycra, cycles two hundred kilometres before breakfast so he can mention it at breakfast, and has road rage that is off the scale, in the car and on the bike.
Dilla
Co-founder, Managing Partner
Totally unhinged, beautifully organised. A perfectionist and a control freak, in that order. Does not suffer fools, and keeps a list. Will raise something you said in 2014. Has never let anything go, and does not intend to start.
DJ Dan
Executive Creative Director
Not a DJ. The oldest of the lot, and still behaves like a child. Has one idea for every brief, and every one is epic. Still epic. Did we mention epic?
Marty
Director of Communications, Mostly Outbound
The protector. Permanently on high alert, defending the agency's latest antics. Twenty a day, never without a drink, and cannot finish a sentence without swearing in it. Loves crisis comms, mostly of his own making.
Malcom
Global Head of Strategy, Innovation and Being Right
A pioneer of pioneering. Has predicted the death of every channel at least twice. Never eats, never sleeps, never blinks. We are fairly sure he is a robot. He calls this an early-adopter mindset.
Barry*
IT
Runs the agency. Paid the least. Not invited to the away day. Holds the only working password.
*Barry missed photo day. He wasn't invited.
Our team represents a broad and vibrant spectrum of men aged forty-eight to fifty-six. We take representation seriously and have a slide about it, near the back, which we skip for time. Dilla has asked us to remove this paragraph. It is on the list.
Our clients
What they said. What they meant.
Client feedback is a first draft. We have taken the liberty of finishing it.
"This is not what we asked for."
"This is not what we asked for, and that is precisely the point."
Global CMO, a brand you would recognise
"We ended up redoing the whole campaign in-house."
"They inspired us to carry the work forward ourselves."
Marketing Director, household FMCG
"Nobody here can explain what we paid for."
"Value of this kind rarely reveals itself in year one."
Procurement, name withheld by us
Our process
Five stages. Non-negotiable. Invoiced at each.
Stage 01
The brief arrives
We skim it on a phone, in a car, on the way to something better.
Stage 02
The chemistry meeting
We talk about ourselves for eighty-six minutes, then ask what keeps you up at night.
Stage 03
The reveal
Lights down. Music up. One idea, on a black slide, in ninety-point type. No second option, because we are not cowards.
Stage 04
The pushback
Yours, not ours. We hear you, we understand you, and we present the same idea again with a new name.
Stage 05
The awards entry
Written before the work runs, judged by people we had dinner with, collected in Cannes on your media budget.
Our awards
The Bigheads
An awards scheme we founded, host, sponsor, judge, enter and win. Entry is four thousand pounds per category. There are forty categories. We encourage you to enter your own work through us.
Best agency, self-nominatedMost confident, unopposedGrand Prix for effortBoldest reveal, fourteenth yearOutstanding contribution to us