Overview
As the agency for ballsy brands with brains, we welcome the creatively courageous who want to stand up and be counted.
Smoking Gun helps organisations to achieve their business goals by increasing visibility, likeability and memorability through ingenious marketing communications.
Our creative storytelling approach, unpinned by data, insight and rigorous measurement, has the ability to shift the big metrics - and it’s this that makes us the trusted partner for brands looking for tangible impact.
Our social media, influencer and media relations campaigns shift behaviour, build trust, and change perceptions. We move audiences to action.
We work with major organisations including Philips, Alton Towers Resort, American Golf, Brother and Best Western Hotels to solve their business challenges.
Our pioneering 6i process is a proven, replicable strategic model to achieving the most effective results from an earned media approach. It has been globally recognised with nine AMEC Awards for effectiveness.
Our well established team of strategists, digital experts and former national news editors will challenge you to think differently and strive to exceed your expectations.
We’re as ambitious as we are nurturing - a kind and collaborative bunch working hand-in-hand with our clients to deliver on their biggest brand moments.
Smoking Gun helps organisations to achieve their business goals by increasing visibility, likeability and memorability through ingenious marketing communications.
Our creative storytelling approach, unpinned by data, insight and rigorous measurement, has the ability to shift the big metrics - and it’s this that makes us the trusted partner for brands looking for tangible impact.
Our social media, influencer and media relations campaigns shift behaviour, build trust, and change perceptions. We move audiences to action.
We work with major organisations including Philips, Alton Towers Resort, American Golf, Brother and Best Western Hotels to solve their business challenges.
Our pioneering 6i process is a proven, replicable strategic model to achieving the most effective results from an earned media approach. It has been globally recognised with nine AMEC Awards for effectiveness.
Our well established team of strategists, digital experts and former national news editors will challenge you to think differently and strive to exceed your expectations.
We’re as ambitious as we are nurturing - a kind and collaborative bunch working hand-in-hand with our clients to deliver on their biggest brand moments.
Company details
Staff
20-50
Founded
2009
Location
Manchester
Services
Brand Strategy
Content
Digital
Influencer
Integrated and Full Service
PR and Communications
Social Media
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Fortune favours the bold.
Every PR agency can come up with creative ideas. Few agencies match superb strategy with cutting-edge storytelling and channel mastery. This is Smoking Gun’s point of difference.
Our planning division, The Intention Unit - which features the industry’s first Chief Storyteller - has a proven process to ensure commercial impact. Success is not marked by spikes in reach or engagement, but by business outcomes - preference, trust, mental availability, penetration, market share.
Anybody with a bold vision and a desire to form a genuine, open and lasting partnership with their communications agency is welcome at Smoking Gun. Speak to us today.
Your integrated communications agency
Specialising in PR, social media and influencer marketing campaigns that move audiences to action.
Brand Strategy
Content
Digital
Influencer
Integrated and Full Service
PR and Communications
Social Media
A down to earth, extremely competent and enthusiastic team who are able to adapt and move quickly - they feel like a natural extension to our own team.
PZ Cussons - Alice Plimmer
Senior Brand Manager
What started off as a one-off strategic planning project has quickly blossomed into a much wider partnership. We were very clear on what we needed from our agency partner to help support us through arguably the busiest couple of years in the Resort’s history. The Smoking Gun team has ticked all the boxes, marrying expertise with commercial nous and a genuine knowledge and passion for the Resort. The agency has shown fantastic integration with other partners and has delivered outstanding results.
Alton Towers Resort - Larry Roles
Head of Marketing
We’re delighted with the job that Smoking Gun has done over the last year in not only continuing momentum of the Dee Set Group amongst media but also introducing a new brand to the market in Reapp, securing some seriously impressive coverage amongst our most sought after media publications. Smoking Gun’s drive and commitment to deliver the highest level is evident through everything they do, making the agency a real pleasure to work with.
Dee Set and Reapp - James Lamplugh
Commercial Director
Smoking Gun's integrated campaign has been a major stake in the ground in the business. When you have the global leads coming to ask how we have built this level of profile in such a short space of time in the UK, you know you are doing something right. The team demonstrated the perfect blend of strategic prowess and creative storytelling to bring us back to the fore - and the commercial results are undeniable.
Phillips - Tailang Bu
Consumer Marketing Lead UK & IRE