July 27, 2017

Our unique digital marketing agency process means we Brand, Build and grow your Business

Our unique Brand, Build, Business™ process sets the foundation that The Island stands on and it’s our way of life. In the years when The Island was first starting out as a digital marketing agency, our Director, Marcel Cowan decided to unite these building blocks into a working philosophy based on the simple idea that strengthening one is effective, growing two is better, but by integrating all three – anything can be achieved. That’s why The Island will always take a holistic approach to working with you in offering you our expertise as a full service digital marketing agency to ensure your story is told to the fullest. Welcome to Brand, Build, Business™. Brand We start by focusing on your brand, your voice and how you want it to be heard. Our creatives have years of experience in identifying what audiences look for in a brand and more importantly how to integrate this with a brand strategy tailored to you. Whether you want to start from the ground up or just redefine how customers engage with you, we’ll work with you to shape an identity and personality that can be used as a foundation on which to build your company, product or service. Build Once your brand has been established we get to work on building a digital presence that will serve as a responsive, visual touchpoint from which to invite engagement. Expertly designed websites and campaigns spanning everything between print, to web design and development, SEO and social media is what you can expect from us when we build for you, all fully managed and tracked to ensure the growth of your business from utilising your newly created assets. Business This is what makes us a full service digital marketing agency and what makes our process so effective. Drawing on over ten years of experience, we […]
July 22, 2017

As an expert sports marketing agency we will enhance your clubs asset values through branding and marketing

Sporting clubs who have catapulted themselves into similar arenas as the marketing giants of today are those who time and time again deliver meaningful brand messages and those who make prolific use of every relevant asset at their disposal. But in our noisy digital landscape how can you activate your brand and retain club members? How can you encourage your fans to engage with your products and assets? That’s where we come in. The Island Agency takes a holistic approach to brand management and has proven its success in working as a sports marketing agency to measurably improve digital channels by a minimum of 25%, guaranteed. Brand, Build, Business We pride ourselves on a simple but very special way of solving problems that provides you with everything from your strategy to your social, your identity to your implementation. This takes us through three steps, Brand, Build and Business to ensure that every aspect of your enterprise has been addressed and tailored for maximum impact on both fans and sponsorship partners alike. Brand Here at The Island we thrive on bringing brands to life. The untapped potential for many sports brands can be a game-changer and realising that potential is what we do best. We’ll deliver brand strategy that’s in line with your club’s personality, provide design expertise to give an unparalleled visual experience to your fans and streamline how you present your assets. But with all the different assets a sports club can have; merchandise, player engagement, package offers, school camps and clubs and so on, what’s the best way to brand these? We think – why not brand all of them? With our proven steps applied to each asset, sports clubs can identify and create value for their most popular assets and grow those that need more attention. We make it […]
January 18, 2016

Sports Marketing Agency: The Island lead the campaign for Tie Break Tens Tennis Tournament

A new tennis season and a new opportunity for The Island to prove itself as a sports marketing agency. The 2016 tennis season begins today as the Australian Open in Melbourne throws open its gates to fans. The runner up in the men’s event in 2015 was Andy Murray. This was the fourth time he had lost in the Australian Open Final – an open era record. It may be the first tennis Grand Slam of the season, but Andy Murray has kept himself very busy over the winter months, and so have we. Here at The Island, we had yet another chance to flex our muscles in a sports marketing agency capacity. While Andy Murray was the runner up in the first ever Tie Break Tens tournament – a new short format for tennis – at the Royal Albert Hall in December, The Island took the lead on all web, print and marketing. The hugely successful event saw us implement a full media campaign including a fully responsive SEO optimised website and design advertising for print, billboards and social – featuring tennis stars Andy Murray, John McEnroe and Tim Henman. Click here to read more about our design, digital and sports marketing agency work for tennis.      
December 10, 2015

Tie Break Tens – exciting new concept in tennis

Tie Break Tens is an exciting new concept in tennis, think 20/20 for cricket, and The Island were lucky enough to be asked to design and build the website as well as all the marketing and promotional collateral. It was a hectic few months as anything brand new tends to grow organically so we had to be totally adaptable to changing formats and requests from all stakeholders in the event. The night itself was a massive success with Andy Murray, John McEnroe, David Ferrer, Tim Henman and, eventual winner, Kyle Edmund gracing the TBT court. With any new concept there are tweaks and changes that can be made but it was amazing to be part of a revolution in a sport. Click here to read more about all the work The Island created for Tie Break Tens tennis.
June 23, 2015

A sports mascot is for kids and for brand

The new Partick Thistle mascot is causing some controversy throughout sport and social media. Kingsly, designed by Turner Prize nominated artist David Shrigly, was created to launch the relationship between the club and US investment firm Kingsford Capital. It has to be said that it is unusual for a mascot as it in a line up of other mascots it is probably the last one you would want to cuddle. However, it has achieved massive PR for the club and is line with their motto for next season, “Not so cuddly anymore”. I remember when The Island re-designed Digger, the mascot for London Irish, and how careful we had to be to ensure kids could still associate with him and carry on their idolisation. The new real-life Digger was leaner, and much less dog eared, than the previous one. We unveiled him on the first game of the season at the new Digger’s Pound – a kids’ play area in one of the main concourses. Most kids were pleased to see him, but others thought he had changed a lot. But we were ready. We explained to all the doubters that it was Digger, but he had been in pre-season training with the team and was no much fitter and leaner. That seemed to work. Plus, we had a new cartoon version and a club that the kids could join to feel even more a part of the London Irish family. The bond kids have with the mascot is not to be knocked. They really do love them – as do the parents who like to get their photo taken with them just as much. Partick Thistle sound like they have a few more surprises up their sleeve to continue this new brand message which they hope to really push […]
June 10, 2015

Why the rugby world cup is good for the team game

Club level rugby in England has strong support but the national team still dominates when it comes to drawing in the masses. Average attendances for Premiership games are around the 13,000 mark (that’s a total average audience of 156,000 on any given match day.) The rugby world cup is now just 100 days away and  is expected to attract a worldwide audience of over 4 billion and visitors are expected to spend up to £869m during the course of the tournament. How premiership rugby teams can increase their audiences The premiership teams should be gearing up, during this unique time period, to ensure they pull in new fans for the future, and also take advantage of the short term income increase the tournament could supply. Rugby is now played in 190 countries around the world so premiership rugby teams, who play in the most professional and oldest league in the world, should be using the world cup as an opportunity to draw in new audiences. The advantages are fairly obvious with increased merchandising sales and the opportunity to become more attractive to sponsors who see the opportunities behind the database of the club. The 11 host cities have the biggest potential in being able to attract new worldwide fans and engage with them, for the long term. Hopefully the clubs will use their own community structures to spread the word and engage with fans one-on-one. Using social media to increase attendances Social media is going to play an enormous part for the rest of the clubs where they should be utilising the ‘hero worship’ of their own world cup stars to draw attention to the club. Not just tweeting about their players but truly engaging with the new fans that avoids sales but which has warmth and a genuine feel […]
August 12, 2014

Sports Marketing: where the fan comes second!

The Premiership season is about to kick off in England. Excitement is high, nerves are on edge, predictions for the season have been discussed again and again. It's sweaty palm time. And that is just for the people who work in sports marketing! Being part of a commercial sports team is a constant juggle between being an illogical and passionate fan, combined with the sensible head you need to make sure fans keep coming week after week. Read more...
August 15, 2013

London Irish Kit Launch

Check out the video from our photo shoot with London Irish Rugby Club for their new kit launch