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Independent. By design.
We're majority owned by our Employee Trust, with no holding group above us. No channel to sell you. Every pound in your plan answers to a business outcome.
The Media People is an employee-owned media agency in London and Leeds, founded in 2015.
We bring people, insight and technology together to help your business grow.
Most media plans start with a channel. Ours start with your objective, your audience and what success looks like for your business. Then we follow the evidence to the mix that delivers it, across paid and organic, online and offline.
Independent. By design. We're majority owned by our Employee Trust, with no holding group above us. No channel to sell you. Every pound in your plan answers to a business outcome.
We can tell you how we work. We'd rather show you. Some of our client relationships have run for over a decade and it's what we are most proud of.
Media should be guided by evidence, not hype and not habit. These values shape how we plan for your business, how we develop our people and what we put our name to.
Data and technology can find opportunities. It takes experienced people to judge which ones matter and turn them into a plan that grows your business. So we ask sharper questions than the brief gives us, about your audience, your objective and what's really holding growth back, and follow where the answers lead.
We invest in our people's career development so you work with named experts who know your sector.
When every channel reports on itself, you get a dozen versions of the truth. We work from one, built around your audience and your results. Here’s what that looks like in practice.
Every channel. One set of numbers. Independent advice, connected data and delivery you can rely on. Plenty of agencies offer one of these. With The Media People, you get all three.
We start with your audience Before we talk channels, we map who you need to reach and what moves them. We use our bespoke audience-mapping tool to turn insight into a clear direction for your plan.
We plan from one source of truth Total Intelligence, built in-house, brings every channel's data and tracking into one place. So every plan starts by answering the question that matters most: what actually worked?
We connect your channels Connected Media lets your channels learn from each other. Signals pass between them, so the whole plan improves together, not one campaign at a time.
We deliver the detail Strategy only counts if it's delivered well. We take care of the detail, from tracking to reporting, and bring in specialist partners when a brief needs expertise beyond our own.
Short answers to the questions people ask most about who we are and where we work. If yours isn’t here, the full FAQ page has more. |
The Media People is an independent, employee-owned media agency with offices in London and Leeds, founded in 2015. We plan, buy and run media across paid and organic channels, online and offline, from search and AI search to paid social, programmatic and out of home.
The Media People is majority owned by its Employee Trust and has been employee-owned since August 2021. The agency isn’t part of a holding group, so no parent company gains when we recommend one channel over another.
The Media People has two offices: 50 Britton Street, Farringdon, London EC1M 5UP, and St James House, 28 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2SP. We’re based in the UK but also deliver global campaigns through our curated network of agencies. |
The Media People specialises in: property, travel, retail & ecommerce.
Awards are a useful outside check, but the measure that matters most is the one you set: did the plan grow your business?
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