Newcastle marketing agency celebrates double digit growth and new hires

Newcastle based O.agency, whose client portfolio includes Husqvarna, Fentimans, Womble Bond Dickinson and Fenwick, celebrates a year of double digit growth in the last 12 months and a string of new client wins across both its consumer and corporate teams.

To accommodate continued growth the creative communications agency has welcomed several new people to its team so far this year and made multiple promotions, with further hires planned for the rest of 2023.

Ten new roles include a newly appointed head of people and a marketing and business development manager, PR account managers, account execs and graduate interns, who will be joining its in-house Ocademy grad programme in the autumn.

The agency will also be recruiting further hires into its social media team over the coming months, with a head of social role currently advertised.

O was awarded regional ‘Agency of the Year’ 2022 at December’s North East Marketing Awards, in recognition of its strong, sustainable growth, its future leadership programme and its inclusive and thriving agency culture that has recently been awarded an advanced ‘North of Tyne Good Work Pledge’.

Kirsty Ostell, who was appointed managing director in 2022, commented: “Creating even more opportunities for our team and new roles for the creative sector in the North East is something we’re extremely passionate about.

“Our mission is to help as many young people as possible have a great start to working life and build ambitious careers in the region and so we’re investing even more in our training and development programmes over the coming year led by our new Head of People.

“We’ve had a busy and exciting start to 2023 and we’re ambitious for the continued growth and great client wins we’ve seen over the last three years. Our client list includes some of the North’s most ambitious brands and a growing list of global tech businesses, so we are delighted to keep adding to our community of ambitious client partners.”

By Matthew Neville – Senior Correspondent, Bdaily