EssenceMediacom
About EssenceMediacom
At EssenceMediaCom, we believe in People First, Better Results.
EssenceMediaCom is the UK’s largest planning and buying agency, with over 1,400 employees based in five offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh.
As a business, we champion individuality and diversity in our people. Through a plethora of initiatives, we ensure that we attract and retain the greatest talent in the industry, all working together to create powerful, ground-breaking work through our unique, connected Systems Thinking approach. Our teams use data, technology and creativity to design communications strategies that build brands and generate sales, and we do it at scale. We believe that putting people first produces better results.
We aim to ensure that that our employees’ skills are constantly evolving, and so provide all EssenceMediaCom staff with training, development plans and regular appraisals to enhance their performances and guarantee great results for them and the company.
EssenceMediaCom represents some of the greatest brands in the UK and beyond, both big and small. These include Sky, British Gas, Sony, Vauxhall, DFS, TUI, The Coca-Cola Company and Tesco.
EssenceMediaCom is Campaign’s Agency of the Decade (2009 and 2019), and WARC’s most effective agency in the world.
EssenceMediaCom is a member of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and part of GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm.
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Working at EssenceMediacom
Inclusion is at the heart of our culture. It is EssenceMediaCom’s collective responsibility to foster a culture where people feel they belong and can be themselves and diversity of thought is valued. We continue to challenge ourselves and hold ourselves to account to ensure that our culture is upheld internally and in the work we produce throughout all of our offices.
Our employee resource groups based around Faith, Ethnicity, Age, LGBTQ+, Gender, Mental Health, Disability and sustainability are at the heart of our commitment to diversity, equity and Inclusion. The collective voice of our ERGS ensures we understand the needs of our employees in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Edinburgh.
We want everyone to have a career that grows with them. We also want to ensure that all our people have the chance to succeed, and so we focus on equitable opportunities and programmes so that all are able to flourish and progress. We’ve developed multiple ways to help connect our network as strongly as possible and we make sure every person in it gets exactly what they need to make the most of their potential.
EssenceMediaCom’s 500 strong team of digital experts (the largest of any agency in the UK) work across our clients’ entire marketing ecosystems to drive better returns and more profitable outcomes. They don’t work in silos, but deploy their expertise in cross-channel systems thinking, planning and activation. This breadth of expertise allows us to see the bigger picture for our clients, providing best-in-class digital planning solutions that combine real-time activation with integrated above the line activation and consumer insights using market-leading machine learning. We also launched the UK’s largest ‘Google Practice’, a dedicated team of 250 experts that deliver a more comprehensive and specialist service across the Google ecosystem to its clients.
Seeing the Bigger Picture means that our network of 1,400 people helps our clients look beyond the boundaries of traditional media to uncover new ideas and unlock growth. Our teams in London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh challenge conventional thinking to build, optimise and drive our clients’ businesses forward at scale. As well as leading our industry in critical areas such as diversity, inclusion and sustainability.
Diversity & Inclusion
At EssenceMediaCom we want to eradicate inequality. We don't tolerate it and when we see it, we act. We attract, support and develop our talent without bias and strive to foster the empathy, creativity and diversity of thought needed to drive meaningful change for our people, our clients and our industry and society.
We commit to offering equitable opportunities for each and every employee. Everyone at EssenceMediaCom has the collective responsibility of fostering an inclusive culture and to be active allies for those who need it. We commit to building teams which reflect the diversity of our country and the cities in which we operate. We will always put the collective voice of our Employee Resource Groups at the heart of our inclusion work to ensure we understand the needs of our employees. We have launched a senior sponsorship scheme and will continue with our cultural accelerator programme to provide our people with access to the support that they need to thrive and flourish. We will continue to tackle microaggressions and have launched an awareness project on the subject; a key part of this is an allyship training programme designed to help people become active allies. We will ensure that everyone at EssenceMediaCom is held accountable to our commitment by setting diversity and inclusion focussed targets.
We use our Inclusive Planning approach in response to all client briefs to ensure that marginalised groups feel represented in campaigns and the messaging is authentic. We aim to build a workforce that truly represents the country in which our clients advertise and sell products.
And we pledge to be open and honest about our inclusion journey. We will try new things and share the results and learnings with our clients and our media partners. We also want to learn from others and believe that transparency is the only way we will transform our industry.
EssenceMediacom Unite
EssenceMediaCom Unite's aim is to continue to foster the growth of out diverse and Inclusive culture and to empower LGBTQ+ colleagues to feel like they can celebrate who they are, unapologetically, 365 days a year.
EssenceMediaCom Unite are also part of a larger group , WPP Unite. The cross agency group has grown across 25 WPP agencies and they proudly celebrate and championing LGBTQ+ voices across WPP in four regions: North America, India, AUNZ, and – of course – the UK. Unite won “Outstanding Employee Network” at the 2022 Burberry British Diversity Awards. In the space of one year, we’re showing the power of uniting under one banner, from thought-provoking talks and social get-togethers, to combining all our creative industry talent to concept, create and implement this year’s Pride in London campaign to mark 50 years of Pride in the UK.”