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Radio Media Buyers For Pall Mall Medical

17.09.22

We are pleased to announce we have been appointed media buyers for Pall Mall Medical (Manchester) generating new MRI scan appointments at their hospital in Newton-le-Willows. Our activity will focus on radio airtime media buying within the hospital’s catchment area. The commercial messaging involves three creative treatments written in the style of TV ‘soaps’ run […]

Press Media Buying For Handy

09.06.22

Our press media buying campaigns for The Handy & Q Garden gardening tools ranges are currently live across gardening press titles. We have worked closely with Handy Distribution for many years as their press media buyers promoting their petrol and electric gardening equipment and look forward to seeing continued successful results in terms of driving […]

Television Airtime Media Buyers For STATSports

08.11.19

Television Airtime Media Buyers For STATSports We are very excited to be involved planning and buying TV and other media campaigns for STATSports. It’s a great product and TV commercial. It’s so easy to be passionate about a brand operating in a Football sector we love. Look out for the advert in live football commercial […]

Media Buying Consultants for Adlington Retirement Living

22.07.19

Adlington Retirement Living has appointed us as their media buying consultants. For the past few months we have been busy planning their media activity. Our media planning is to support their new retirement properties across the North West of England. This includes media planning for their developments in Southport, Macclesfield, Cheadle, Romiley and Ramsbottom. There […]

TV Media Buyers for OK CBD tongue drops

20.12.18

Our TV media buyers are delighted to be media buying television airtime for OK CBD tongue drops. Our DRTV media buying campaign kicked off in November with a strong focus on Direct Response and ROI. It’s been a fantastic journey helping this brand to develop a media strategy and TV commercial which will generate sales […]

Media Buyers For Greenworks

30.04.18

Our media buyers are delighted to be media buying for Greenworks cordless gardening products. Our campaign advertising in National Press and Gardening magazines kicked off in April featuring their cordless lawnmower range. It’s an exciting time to be involved raising awareness for Greenworks, who are new entrants to the UK market and looking to achieve […]

Claims Advertising for Irvings Law

11.10.17

Our media buying campaigns for Irvings Law are currently live in womens’ magazines and local newspapers. Cost effective press media placements have been planned to promote various claims products targeting women aged 40 plus. The campaign is a direct reponse test to generate quality low cost enquiries and claims.

Media Buyers for UAP locks

01.08.17

Our new media buying brand awareness campaign for UAP locks is now well underway on Radio and National TV.. We are delighted to be working with UAP locks on this national media buying activity comprising 30 second and 10 second commercials on radio and television featuring the actor Sean Wilson of ex Coronation Street fame. […]

Media buying for Blackpool Transport Services mobile campaign

02.05.17

Working with Buzz Marketing, we are delighted to be undertaking the media buying for Blackpool Transport Sevices mobile campaign. Our media buyers are running mobile and tablet display banners geo-targeted around the Fylde coast to encourage downloads of the BTS new app, which allows travellers to buy their ticket before they travel and simply show […]

Media Buyers for launch of Pirouette window blinds

10.04.17

As our Luxaflex Powerview media buying campaign comes to an end, our media buyers are delighted to be planning the next launch media schedule for their new to market ‘Pirouette’ brand. The campaign launches soon and will feature a mix of print and digital formats across a range of media targeting homeowners. We look forward […]

Media Buyers for Irvings Law

24.01.17

Our media buyers are excited to be booking several new test campaigns for our client, Irvings Law, testing response for legal claims across a number of new category areas. Our campaigns include media buys across women’s magazines, specialist interest mags, door drops as well as native advertorials in offline and digital environments. All activity is […]

Online Media Buying for Fostering In Devon

08.10.16

Working with Tribe, we are delighted to be media buying for Devon County Council’s Fostering In Devon digital campaign. Our media buyers are running display banners and video content instream on various publisher websites within the Devon County area and early signs are positive in terms of recruiting carers and brochure downloads. We will be […]

Media Buying for Futureworks College

01.08.16

Our media buyers have recently been helping Futureworks target school leavers to fill remaining degree places for this coming September. Media buying placements have included a poster campaign on Metrolink trams in Manchester as well as an online marketing campaign aimed at school leavers interested in degree courses in film, music and game production.

Media Buying for Stoke College

01.06.16

As part of an on-going program of recruitment Thinkmedia have been providing media buying to help Stoke College promote their Part Time Courses. Working closely with the College, we at Thinkmedia selected relevant postcode sectors and organised the Part-Time Course Prospectuses door drop distribution using a mix of team and shared (with free newspaper) methods.

Media Buying for Stafford Railway Building Society

04.04.16

Thinkmedia have been media buying on behalf of Stafford Railway Building Society to promote their exciting new mortgage products. Our media strategy was to run a series of different messages over a 6 week period in the Your Money supplement in The Saturday Telegraph. The client has been delighted with the response to the campaign.

Our media buyers have been helping System One

29.02.16

Our media buyers having been helping System One to communicate smart ticketing has arrived in Greater Manchester! We have been advertising to existing users of their travel cards that it is now possible to buy and load smart versions of some System One travel cards on a new get me there smart card. It’s all […]

Our media buyers are loving Carib Tours media planning

21.02.16

After noticing a decline in enquiries Carib Tours came to Thinkmedia for alternative insert options. By carefully selecting wholesaler regions with the highest incomes, we were able to offer Carib Tours the opportunity of running a full size 36 page brochure in the Sunday Times poly bag straight after Christmas. This was so successful the […]

Media Buyers for Impey Wetroom Specialists

08.02.16

Our media buyers have been running innovative instream audio media campaigns to support Impey’s wetroom installer trainer events. As part of the repositioning of Impey as The Wetroom Specialist, the client is running a series of “We are Wetrooms Installer Trainer Tours” across the country. Our innovative approach to recruiting potential candidates for the localised […]

Media Buyers for James Grace staircases

01.01.16

Our media buyers have been busy planning and buying the January sale campaign for James Grace bespoke staircase renovations. A huge amount of intelligent response analysis has gone into planning what we hope will be an extremely successful sale campaign that delivers a high volume of quality leads for Scott and his team. A mix […]

Media Buyers for new Optima shower launch

26.10.15

Our media buyers have just finished planning for the launch of Coram’s new Optima shower enclosure range. Targeting installers and merchants the B2B print and digital campaign will run throughout November and December to coincide with the launch. Take a look at their recently redesigned website for more information www.coram.co.uk

Media Buyers for System One campaign

10.09.15

Our media buyers are waiting with interest to see how the changes being made to XFM, rebranding as Radio X on 21st September, will affect the System One campaign aimed at students which is running the first two weeks of the rebrand. The campaign also includes radio airtime on Capital Manchester & a heavy presence […]

Media Buyers For Elite Investor Club

20.05.15

Our media buyers are delighted to have been appointed to buy media on behalf of Elite Investor Club across PPC, Digital Display and Press media channels. The campaign is already live within Google Adwords, Programmatic Online Display networks and National Press. It is a Direct Response campaign with a Test, Learn, Refine media planning approach […]

Media Buyers for NHS Oxfordshire

02.03.15

Our media buyers have planned and bought a media buying campaign for NHS Oxford Urgent Care campaign which is live now. The activity is running on a mix of bus rears, bus interior panels, 6 sheets and facebook adverts in March.

Media Buyers For Coram Showers

02.02.15

Our media buyers are just putting the finishing touches to a ‘teaser campaign’ to support the launch of the new brand identity for Coram Showers. Targeting installers and merchants the B2B print and digital campaign will run in March to coincide with the launch. This is the start of an annual campaign and there will […]

Media Buyers for Nuaire

27.01.15

We are delighted to be media buying for Nuaire (manufacturer of air handling and ventilation) for the launch of a new single fan. Our digital media buyers are currently implementing a digital display teaser campaign ahead of the imminent launch. The target audience is contractors and consultants and the objective of the campaign is to […]

Media Buyers – Luxaflex

02.10.14

Our media buyers have been active media buying a home interest magazine campaign nationally for Luxaflex, the window blinds company, which breaks at the beginning of October. We are really looking forward to seeing the campaign which comprises full page and double page adverts in glossy magazines with creative developed and produced by Opening Doors. […]

Media Buyers – Intu Potteries Shopping Centre

15.09.14

Our online media buyers have recently been media buying online display adverts to promote a fashion show and student event at the Intu Potteries Shopping Centre. Online advert placements include data targeted online display advert network buys within proximity to the shopping centre’s catchment across MPUs, Leaderboards, Skyscrapers.

Media Buyers – WorkOutIN

05.08.14

Our media buyers are delighted to be buying media for this new concept in online fitness sessions. Our media buyers have implemented a multi- media test campaign to drive traffic to their website and generate registration sign ups and free personal instructor trial sessions.

Media Buyers – Shay & Blue

05.07.14

Media Buyers for Shay & Blue – winner of the Best New Fragrance House 2014 in The Beauty Shortlist Awards, Shay & Blue asked Thinkmedia to develop a digital campaign to bring new customers to their website & ultimately increase online sales. The online display campaign which is currently running across a network of sites […]

Media Buyers – Ecigwizard

01.04.14

Our media buyers are working on media plans to promote this electronic cigarette brand to consumers. More news to follow on this shortly.

Media Buyers – ClaimMoreMoney

12.03.14

Thinkmedia is delighted to have been awarded the media buying for Claim More Money, a new legal claims brand targeting personal injury claimants who have had their claims mishandled. The media buying activity comprises multi-media channels and more news to follow on this later.

B2B Media buyers for NHS England

19.02.14

Our media buyers have planned and bought an online B2B campaign to support NHS England’s Lead Provider Framework campaign that will launch end of February. NHS England, who have previously used Thinkmedia for media buying services aimed at consumers have this time appointed us to help build awareness of their Lead Provider Framework amongst potential […]

Radio & Press Media Buyers – The Car Finance Company

10.02.14

Thinkmedia have taken on the role of radio, press and online media buyers for The Car Finance Company to support the launch of its new The World Of Cars dealership in the Isle Of Wight. Thinkmedia has been working with this brand to develop media plans for radio, press and online for the next six […]

Media Buyers – Blackburn with Darwen Council Adoption Agency

07.01.14

Our media buyers have been tasked to help encourage prospective adoptive parents to come forward and adopt a child from within the Blackburn with Darwen council boundaries. A media mix of community based Out Of Home poster formats have been planned and negotiated complimented by Rock FM radio over a 4 week period during February/March […]

Media Buyers – James Grace Bespoke Staircase Renovations

04.01.14

We have been appointed media buyers for James Grace Bespoke Staircase Renovations from January 2014. Our brief is to maximise direct response from multi-channel media activity. Our media buyers are planning media buys across the full spectrum of media channels available to reach their highly affluent target audience.

Media Buyers – Moneyway Motor Finance

03.10.13

Our media buyers have been busy with advertising activity now live for Moneyway Motor Finance aimed at motor dealers – a great product to help dealers provide car finance to people with bad credit scores. We certainly wouldn’t want to upset the lady in the trade press advert by not being able to offer her […]

Media Buyers for Posters

17.09.13

We love it when our media buys hit the streets and create engagement with their target markets…Students Do It On The Bus’ is live now in Manchester! Reaching out to students in Manchester with a number of creative media buys in bars and student areas via beer mats, washroom posters and mirror clings as well […]

Media Buyers for Invflow

06.06.13

Media Buyers for Invflow. Our media buying campaign has just kicked off for this new client targeting small businesses nationally. Thinkmedia has been involved right from the outset of this start up brand, helping with creative and communication strategy development in conjunction with nineyards creative agency. Invflow offers an exciting new product within the business […]

Media Buyers for Pannone Solicitors

15.05.13

Media Buyers for Pannone Fixed Fee Divorce Campaign. Our media buying is now live across Poster and Online Display media within Greater Manchester. Creative is by Lake in Hale. The media buying activity has been planned to target professionals working within Manchester utilising a combination of offline and online media channels. http://www.pannone.com

Media Buyers for Reputation.com

15.04.13

Media Buyers for Reputation.com. We have started media buying for this online reputation management brand. We are absolutely delighted to be media buying for this advertiser. Our media buyers have been busy planning a first quarter test media schedule across national press, business press, radio and online display activity primarily focused on the B2B audience […]

Media Buyers for Webb lawnmowers

28.03.13

Media Buyers for Webb Lawnmowers. Media buying activity is currently live in national press gardening classified and gardening magazines. This is the second year we will be media buyers for Webb and we are building on the success of last year’s campaign adding extra activity onto the core media schedule for this great lawnmower brand. […]

Media Buyers for Hays Travel

10.03.13

Media Buyers appointment for Hays Travel Far Away National Press media buying campaign. Our media buyers have planned and bought a national press campaign comprising inserts and space in the quality national press. The objective of the media buying campaign is to extend Hays Travel’s brand awareness beyond its heartland in the North East and […]

Media Buyers for Haven IFA

21.01.13

Our media buyers have plannned a local media buying campaign for Haven IFA , independent financial advisors, in the Altrincham and Manchester area. The media buying campaign seeks to acquire new private clients in the wake of the widescale restructuring and subsequent closure of many financial advisor services within the main high street banks in […]

Media Buyers for NHS Health Visitors Recruitment

14.01.13

Our media buyers have been busy helping the NHS in Southern England to recruit Health Visitors. Thinkmedia’s radio media buyers have been media buying radio campaigns in the South and South East of England as well as project managing radio production. We are delighted to be involved in this media buying activity and to be […]

Media Buyers For Strada & Cafe Rouge

06.11.12

Thinkmedia has been appointed media buying agency for the Tragus Group – working with their two leading restaurant brands Strada & Cafe Rouge. The Strada media buyers brief is to concentrate on restaurants within the M25 communicating information about their new menus with a strapline “Tastes from the streets of Italy”. The Cafe Rouge media […]

Media Buyers for NHS

03.10.12

Our media buyers are busy media buying activity for the NHS to drive awareness of Flu Immunisation . We are delighted to be appointed by the NHS for a second year media planning and media buying a radio campaign and online activity to drive awareness for their Flu Immunisation campaign in the South Central, South […]

Media Buyers Blog

20.09.12

We have created a media buyers blog at www.mediabuyers.info where we will be bringing you media buyers news as it happens, this will include news for tv media buyers, press media buyers, radio media buyers and other media channels, hope you like it! www.mediabuyers.info

Press Media Buyers For Intersport

11.09.12

We are delighted to announce we are now press media buyers for Intersport. Our magazine media buyers have already started media buying for this fantastic sports retailer brand. Media buying activity is already live and running in the specialist health and fitness magazines. The creative is by Lake Creative in Hale. Intersport stores were looking […]

Media Buyers For Webb Lawnmowers

15.06.12

We are now media buyers For Webb Lawnmowers. Our media buyers have started media buying for this great lawnmower brand. Media buying activity is already live and running in the national press and specialist gardening media. Our thanks to Simon Belcher and his team for giving us this opportunity.

Media Buying Agency for Spark

12.06.12

Media Buying Agency appointment by Spark Advertising & Design. Our media buyers have started buying media on behalf of Spark advertising agency with media buying campaigns imminent. We are delighted to be media buyers for Spark, the creative agency based in Hale Barns. Our first media buying campaign is due to start very soon for […]

Media Buying Agency for Lesniak Swann

02.02.12

Media buyer for Lesniak Swann based in Stoke. Thinkmedia are pleased to be working in partnership with this excellent marketing communications agency. Thinkmedia are pleased to be media buying agency for marketing communications agency Lesniak Swann based in Stoke on Trent. Media buying we have placed includes advertising for The Potteries Shopping Centre Valentines & […]

Media Buyer for Text Local

01.01.12

Media buying agency appointment by Textlocal starts January 2012. Thinkmedia is delighted to kick off 2012 with this exciting media buying appointment. Textlocal is a fantastic text messaging platform helping businesses to communicate and market cost effectively to their customers and prospects. Our media buying brief is to raise awareness of Textlocal and generate response […]

Media Buying Agency for Tetra Pak

28.12.11

Media buyer appointment by Tetra Pak, the carton manufacturer. Our media buying starts immediately having succesfully pitched in partnership with Lake Creative in Hale. Our media buying encompasses a targeted B2B media campaign raising awareness of Tetra Pak’s ‘Circle Of Protection’ proposition amongst key customers and opinion leaders. It is a pleasure to be working […]

Media Buying Agency for Meridian Healthcare

28.10.11

Thinkmedia has been appointed media buyer to Meridian Healthcare. Our first media buying activity is to support the launch of Millbrook Care Home. Media buying will ecompass a multi media campaign across press, posters, door drops and online media within the geographic catchment of the care home. We are looking forward to helping Meridian Healthcare […]

Media Buying Agency for NHS South Central

05.10.11

Thinkmedia has been appointed media buying agency for NHS South Central’s radio advertising. We will be media buying radio advertising for their Flu Immunisation and Choose Well campaigns starting in October. Radio advertising will run from the middle of October to January. It is satisfying to know that our media buying agency skills have saved […]

Media Buying Agency for Ripleys Believe It or Not!

03.03.11

The London attraction based in Piccadilly Circus has appointed Thinkmedia its media buying agency to re-launch Ripley’s as a London attraction not to be missed. By using a range of media with a “Wow” Factor, Thinkmedia will help to increase engagement with potential visitors whether from home or abroad and raise awareness of the wide […]

Media Buying Agency campaign for Luxaflex

10.02.11

Media buying agency appointment by Luxaflex. The window blinds company, Luxaflex, have appointed Thinkmedia to plan a national media buying campaign to promote its Ettes range. We are delighted by this appointment and looking foward to working with Chris and the creative team at Luxaflex to raise awareness of their fantastic product range. Activity will […]

Media Buying Agency Partnership with Raw Design Studio

25.11.10

Our media buying agency partnership with Raw Design Studio has kicked off with a media buying campaign for NHS Gloucester involving poster media buying as well as door drops in the area. We are looking forward to extending our media buying relationship with Steve and the team at Raw, who are clearly talented designers! This […]

Media Buying Agency partnership with Opening Doors

28.10.10

We are delighted to announce our media buying agency partnership with Opening Doors has resulted in our Cheshire East Council media buying appointment! Prior to this win we were appointed by Opening Doors to handle media buying for Leek College. We are looking forward to planning and buying even more local media within the Cheshire […]

Media Buying Agency Partnership Studio North

25.10.10

We are working as media buying agency with Studio North to develop media buying campaigns to help rebrand & revitalize Merseyway Shopping Centre to the local Stockport community. Our first media buying campaign is to drive footfall to the Christmas light switch on on 10th November – come on down for a fun night out […]

First quality daily newspaper to launch in 25 Years!

18.10.10

i, the UK’s first quality daily newspaper to launch in almost 25 years, will go on sale nationwide on Tuesday 26 October 2010. Created by The Independent, i is designed for readers who want a concise, quality daily paper for just 20p. The independent say i is specifically targeted at readers and lapsed readers of […]

Media Buying Agency Win

22.09.10

We are delighted to have been appointed as media buyers for Imperium Law, the Macclesfield based personal injury solicitors. We began media buying in July across radio, local press and online media channels. In partnership with our friends at Starfish, we are seeking to test and develop new profitable media routes to market for Imperium […]

Media Buying Agency for Waxwing

21.09.10

Our media buying agency success continues with another media agency partnership agreement! This month we started buying media on behalf of Waxwing Marketing in Cheshire. Our first media buying activity on behalf of Waxwing will be the media buying for Hatfields motor dealership. Thinkmedia will be buying media across local newspapers within the Greater Manchester […]

Media Buying Agency partnership

01.07.10

We have just started media buying on some campaigns with Fresh Group advertising agency. Our first campaign was a world cup tactical campaign featuring a pillow with built in speakers for an ipod! The campaign featured the Sound Asleep pillow used by Wayne Rooney at the World Cup. The media buying idea was to leverage […]

Thinkmedia is now media buying agency for Arighi Bianchi!

05.05.10

This is fantastic news for us as Arighi Bianchi is a great brand to be working with. We are looking forward to working with Ian and the team at Propeller to help Arighi Bianchi drive more sales from their media budget via our intelligent and expertly integrated media planning and buying campaigns. Our media buying […]

Spectus Appoints Thinkmedia its Media Buying Agency

13.04.10

We are delighted to be working with Spectus on their window systems range across trade and consumer media, they have exciting new products to bring to market and we are looking forward to helping to make these launches a huge success!

System One Travel Cards

07.12.09

System Onehave appointed us to handle their travel cards< media buying activity in 2010. In conjunction with GMTL System One, we have devised a media strategy designed to boost overall awareness and sales amongst their various target markets within the Greater Manchester region. Multi-media buying activity has commenced straight away and we are looking forward […]

Blackout in Sierra Leone!

01.12.09

Libra Drinks signs up Thinkmedia to assist with media buying for the launch of a new beer called Blackout in 2010. So we couldn’t resist the opportunity to assist with marketing communications planning and media buying for the launch of a new beer called Blackout in 2010. The stout beer, a micro beer, brewed by […]

Thinkmedia tasked by Twyford Bathrooms

15.11.09

Twyfords have appointed Thinkmedia to formulate an awareness media buying campaign for its bathrooms campaign. Our objective to influence a variety of markets & change perceptions amongst the key specifiers responsible for generating demand for their sanitaryware products. This will be a B2B campaign starting in Spring 2010 & will target a interesting mix of […]