Shay Boyd is Managing Director of Clay London. We first noticed Clay when they were featured in a recent Marketing magazine supplement on Experiential agencies. He stood out from the crowd. We introduced ourselves and got chatting… the result is below. Did you get any business from the supplement? No – we did a piece [...]
Former client, Carol Alanye and her Tailoring for Women service just got a great press feature published. Although delighted by the news, I was challenged by her statement that “We have to dress the body and the mind.” And that got me thinking – when you go out to meet clients, suppliers and prospects – [...]
I founded an agency called Agency Republic in 2001 for Omnicom during digital boom times when clients were spending a lot on digital. we were smarter than the average – we had both really good digital and really good creative strategists so we could talk business. I left in 2007 with Andy Sandoz and Paddy [...]
I was a speaker at the Cambridge University Careers Advertising and Marketing Communications event last week. It was a nice format of three talks with a concurrent exhibition by agencies with graduate recruitment schemes. I was asked to speak about the ‘family tree’ of the sector and what the job titles really mean. Thanks to [...]






