Mantis and HdE form digital comms partnership
Bristol based comms agencies collaborate to help build early stage tech brands.
Bristol, 30th September 2019, Mantis, the agency specialising in PR and communication strategies for technology companies that target the public sector, is partnering with HdE, the growth performance agency for digital and tech businesses, to offer extended services to clients. Working with HdE, Mantis’ clients now have access to leading performance marketing and brand expertise.
The partnership means that the combined agency client base, both strongly rooted in technology, will benefit from a wider consultative approach to both digital brand marketing and traditional media and stakeholder communications strategies.
Mantis and HdE both have bases in Bristol, at the heart of the city’s technology and digital start-up culture. Eleanor Willock, client services director at Mantis, and Ashley Wheeler, Co-founder & CEO at HdE, will manage the partnership’s progress, working with current clients to introduce the increased agency capabilities on both sides and seek new opportunities to work together.
Eleanor Willock, client services director at Mantis comments, “After working together on a recent project, I thought about the difference the alternative perspective and possibilities that Ashley and Dale at HdE made to the impact of what we created, and realised a partnership would be a natural next step. Our clients come to us for help reaching their audiences. Mantis is proud of its PR heritage and we excel at media and stakeholder relations, which is where we’ll always focus. This partnership will bring access to fresh thinking over new digital mediums directly to our clients from HdE, inextricably linked with the service and intelligence they expect from us at Mantis.
Eleanor adds: “HdE and Mantis both have flourishing and growing operations in Bristol, supporting some of the really exciting tech and digital business here in the region, and our attitudes to change and innovation are very well matched.”
Ashley Wheeler, founder at HdE commented, “We’re delighted to partner with the team at Mantis PR, from the first project we worked on together, we quickly realised Mantis PR’s attitude and approach to helping the tech industry reflected what we are about at HdE. Together, our combined skillsets take us to another level in being able to offer a full service that will accelerate client success, joining the dots between strategy, marketing, creative and expert communications from our friends at Mantis”
About Mantis
Mantis PR is a public relations (PR agency) specialising in strategic communications for technology companies which target the public sector with their services. With offices in London and Bristol, Mantis creates media and stakeholder relations campaigns. Mantis clients operate in the healthcare, government, police, defence, education and local government sectors, and include start-ups, SMEs, and multinational technology businesses.
About HdE
HdE is a Bristol-based growth agency, working across a range of leading and emerging digital channels to help digital and tech businesses grow their brand, their audience and their profits. Delivering inbound marketing and creative campaigns, marketplace integration, commercial strategies, website design and expert sales consultancy.
With a proven roster of clients across the West of England and Wales, we create winning strategies whilst managing all aspects of delivery, at its core HdE is a performance-led growth agency. We work closely in collaboration and in-house with clients to provide them with a clear return on investment and achieve truly impressive results.
We're so happy about this MantisPR, it'll be great to see what the next few months holds