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SETTING BRANDS
FREE WITH
CREATIVE, MEDIA &
TECHNOLOGY

VIA THE BEYOND WAY*

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BEYOND is an award-winning independent agency, on a mission to accelerate the growth of tomorrow’s leading brands.

*The Beyond Way is our blueprint for creatively-led growth and is centred around three core growth-focused programmes, tailored to our clients’ brand and business needs.

We remove the collaboration-tax of inter-agency working and ensure your investments make the biggest strategic, creative, media and commercial impact possible.

Our client consultants will get under the skin of your business, act as your single point of contact and strategically choreograph teams to include the right mix of specialists & technology.

AND IT WORKS

From growing income by 35% in 2 years for Alzheimer’s Research UK, to helping multiple start-ups achieve scale & sale, we’re committed to, and most proud when our work works.

Beyond is 1 of only 44 agencies in the UK who are accredited by The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, for committing to effectiveness best-practice and the best possible business outcomes for our clients.

Beyond’s Capabilities

Strategic Consultancy

Effectiveness Frameworks
Brand Positioning
Audience Growth Analysis
Investment & Media Mix Modeling
Media & Creative Strategy
Measurement, Data & Analytics

Audience Experience Planning

Audience Profiling
Media Planning
Integrated Comms Design
Social + Influencer Strategy

Media Buying

Brand & Performance
Media Buying & Activation
Ai Powered Media
Creative Media Solutions

Creative Solutions

Platforms & Ideas
Brand Identity
Design
Broadcast Advertising
Social + Influencer
Live Experiences
Multi-Media Production

Clients we’ve partnered with

Meet the team

Zaid Al-Zaidy

Founder and CEO
Adventurer

Zaid is a brand and communications expert with nearly three decades’ experience working across some of the world’s most iconic brands. A firm believer in the transformative, business power of brands, he co-founded Beyond, to give clients easy access to the brightest minds in strategy, media, creative, production, technology and innovation, to realise their maximum potential.

Zaid pushes boundaries and is up for most things, including horse-riding in bear-ridden Wyoming, even though he can’t ride and belongs in a paddock

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Emily Paterson

Head of Experience Planning
Explorer & chef

Emily leads the media planning output at Beyond and loves to get under the skin of clients’ businesses to truly understand their challenges, and deliver exciting and innovative solutions that stretch across the entire audience experience.

To become excellent in the culinary arts, as she is, Emily needs plenty of worldwide travel and food sampling.

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Jonny Ray

Partner - Client Growth & Innovation
Wannabe celeb

Jonny is responsible for both overseeing as well as driving growth and innovation for our clients. He partners with brands to deeply understand their business challenges and in turn strategically choreographs our team of specialists to unlock opportunity in both the short and long term.

Jonny has that rockstar look and probably an aspiration to be one, which is perhaps why he won’t allow any photos of his two boys to appear in social media.

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Kim Lawrie

Head of Technology
Real world enthusiast

Kim leads and brings together the latest in AI, technology and breakout innovations to enhance our capabilities and ways of working, and also supports our clients looking to integrate technology solutions into their marketing.

Kimbo spends her personal time in reality, enjoying physical objects like her stunning Caterham.

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Ed Cox

Partner - Media, Data & Effectiveness
Oval head

Ed leads Beyond’s Media, Data and Effectiveness programmes. He is responsible for driving our agency capabilities in these areas, ensuring we remain best in class. He works closely with clients to embed media thinking into all our work, create measurement frameworks, and drive the use of data across insight, strategy, creative and media.

When you begin to appreciate Ed’s evangelical love for cricket, you begin to see things about him you didn’t see before.

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Nicholas Ost

Founder
M&M

Nicholas co-founded Beyond. He is an accomplished commercial leader with a proven track record of transforming commercial strategies into measurable results. Passionate about the intersection of creativity, innovation and client value, Nicholas excels at aligning businesses to achieve shared outcomes.

Nic loves Money & Muna above all else. Money for our clients of course, and Muna the labradoodle to accompany him on hikes.

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Ready to accelerate your growth?

Three tailored programmes for three types of growth:

1) FAST-IMPACT

Streamlined, agile solutions for near-term gain.

2) POWER-UP

Joined-up media and creative thinking for maximum impact.

3) STEP-CHANGE

New foundations for transformative growth.

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