Oystercatchers | marketing agency search and selection

Experts in accelerating marketing performance.

Oystercatchers is an industry-leading consultancy with expertise in delivering marketing agency search and selection and pitch processes, to identify and hire the right capability for your business’s success.

We believe people and creativity are at the heart of every successful partnership, and focus on finding you the right team, the right ways of working and the right agency partners to transform your business performance.

Agency Search & Selection

Identifying and hiring the optimum agency to accelerate your business’ marketing performance.

Agency Model Optimisation & Commercial Reviews

From tactical project to full scale marketing transformation, we partner with marketers to enable you to radically transform your brands and people.

Creative Excellence Training

Turbo-charging creativity and agency partnerships through brief-writing and creative judgement.

Onboarding & Ways of Working

Setting you up for success through high efficiency and best practice process.

Investing in Creativity to accelerate Brand Impact

Andy Bargery, Client Director at Oystercatchers discusses the importance of investing in creativity and how a skilled agency partner can help in a brand’s quest to drive creative excellence. Does creativity build business results for brands? You bet it does, and that’s no secret. But how do you go about delivering truly great creative? Creative […]

Becky McKinlay joins Oystercatchers as Interim Managing Director

Oystercatchers are delighted to announce the appointment of Becky McKinlay into the newly created position of Interim Managing Director of Oystercatchers. Becky joins Oystercatchers from Alpha Grid (part of the Financial Times Group), where she was Managing Director for creative content and the storytelling studio. She has worked in both client side and agency roles […]

The X-Series: What’s Keeping CMOs Awake at Night?

The Oystercatchers team had the pleasure of hosting New Business and Marketing Teams from our Oystercatcher Club member agencies for our latest X-Series event, featuring Russell Parsons, Marketing Editor of Marketing Week, discussing the pressing concerns keeping CMOs awake at night. Led by Club Manager Ludo Graham, Russell delved into the challenges confronting brand marketers […]

Marketing won’t change’: Top marketers on the evolving CMO role

Oystercatchers’ first Club Evening of 2024 featured CMOs from Channel 4, Chelsea Football Club, Octopus Energy and the CEO of IPG Mediabrands discuss the trends impacting marketing’s top job, from reputational control to growth and tenure. This article was originally published on Marketing Week. Discussing how the CMO role is changing is a hot topic for […]

Experts in accelerating marketing performance.

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