People
Work with Harvest and you'll be working with great people who are both talented and down-to-earth. You'll find people who want to look at the big picture, even if they are just designing a tiny banner or making some small amends to a search campaign.
You'll find people who hate spouting jargon - and who love it when we've cracked a tricky problem for a client.
Teams
Experience
The experience team is a collection of designers, information architects, coders and copywriters. What's the key quality we strive for? Empathy.
Whether we're talking to a boy racer in Essex looking for a new motor or to a concerned parent in Aberdeen trying to choose the best virus protection for her computer, we want to create work that is relevant, involving and interesting.
We work on everything from full site builds to the whole range of online marketing collateral, like email, banner advertising, video, microsites, widgets and games.
Media
The media team's job is to choose the best online channel to get your message across to your target audience.
And these days we have more and more choices than ever. A campaign could easily encompass site sponsorships, editorial support, display media, search campaigns, affiliate marketing and social media optimisation.
We'll work closely with our Experience Team or with your own creative agency or in-house team to make sure that the creative is matched to the media. And we'll help you to measure and test campaigns and to make continual efficiency improvements.
Key People
William
Director
At Harvest, William is responsible for account management and for ‘keeping the office on the rails’.
Looking back, he thinks that it was inevitable that he would end up working in digital, where the pace of change is matched by the immediacy and quality of the data.
Before Harvest
Before founding Harvest, William worked across the gamut of marketing services over a 15 year period; starting in above the line brand advertising before moving to sales promotion and direct marketing at Option One and then Tequila. His next step was to Carat, where he got to grips with the arena of media across all paid-for channels.
William's ideal day...
When it comes to an ideal day out, William has a pick and mix philosophy involving any or all of the following: fine food, music (listening or playing), swimming in clear water without human predators and the right people as company.
Mike
Planning Director
One of the founders of Harvest, Mike’s role as Planning Director is to lead top-level strategy across all of Harvest’s clients. He also manages Harvest’s own positioning in the market, including external communications and is driving the development of new value-added services for clients. A frequent commentator in the press and on his blog (indolent.com), Mike is one of the trainers on the IDM’s Digital Marketing Diploma, sits on the IAB’s Search Council and speaks frequently at industry events.
Before Harvest
Mike started his career as a copywriter at WWAV Rapp Collins and then in 1995 joined Tequila to set up their first web marketing division. In 1999 he moved to Answerthink, a global IT consultancy, to work as marketing consultant for clients like Abbey, Shell, IBM, Siemens and Motorola.
Mike's ideal day...
Mike likes to think of himself as having sophisticated tastes, but in reality his ideal day would involve watching a rare Newcastle United victory followed by a few beers.
Emma
Managing Director
Emma Wilson is the Managing Director of Harvest Digital, overseeing commercial aspects of the agency with a particular focus on media buying. At the tender age of 25 she was named in Media Week's "thirty under thirty" list of young high-flyers in the media industry. She was recently named as the 7th most powerful person in digital by Marketing Direct, who also commented that she is "scary - but in a good way"!
Before Harvest
Before setting up Harvest, she worked as a marketing consultant with Hyperlink, where she managed online marketing strategy for clients like Post Office Counters, RBS Commercial Services and Black and Decker.
Emma's ideal day...
We're not saying that Emma is competitive, but her ideal day out would probably be to fly her twin sister back from Australia and beat her at golf, followed by an evening out at a Dolly Parton concert.
Rob
Creative Director
Harvest Digital’s Creative Director, Rob is young, dynamic and improbably tall. He is a great team leader, and has helped us to identify and hire some fantastic talent into our Experience Team. Rob is that extremely rare creature, a creative who is very well organised – he is well-used to delivering complex projects on time and on budget without compromising creative standards.
Before Harvest
Rob’s career started as a designer with the Daily Telegraph, where he worked across online advertising and web design. He then moved across to the agency side, where he picked up a string of awards for his work, including Best Retail Site (2006), Best Airline Site (2006) and Best Financial Site (2007).
Rob's ideal day...
Rob’s hobby is racing classic cars, so his ideal day out would no doubt involve a sunny day on the race track, knee-deep in sump oil, trying to get an unwilling engine to spark into life.
Clare
Account Director
Clare is the Media Account Director who looks after planning and buying for Tesco, including Tesco.com and Tesco Personal Finance. Her role is to take a strategic overview of the ever-changing opportunities across all digital channels and ensure that we are getting best value at all times.
Before Harvest
Her journey into online media began in 2000 with a start up dotcom online gaming company and played a significant role in the company breaking even. Clare then moved onto bigger and better things working for Lycos and PHD Media, but has said that she much prefers working for a smaller, independent agency such as Harvest as she feels it’s where the best digital work is being produced.
Clare's ideal day...
Clare’s ideal day would be waking up in a beach bungalow in Thailand, quick dip in the sea, followed a Thai cookery course, the result of which to be devoured with a cold Singha beer.
Alice
Account Director
Alice is a Media Account Director, overseeing media planning and buying across Harvest’s travel, charity and telecoms clients. Her team is committed to delivering the best solutions for clients’ needs across the whole range of digital channels.
Before Harvest
One of the very few qualified lawyers to be working in digital media, Alice has worked for a wide range of previous agencies including TMP Worldwide, Big Picture Interactive, Agency.com and Havas. A notable previous client was MI5, where she worked on digital campaigns to recruit the next generation of spies. At Havas, Alice worked on the UK’s largest travel account; Thomson Holidays.
Alice's ideal day...
Away from her desk, Alice’s passion is photography and her ideal day out would be a trip to California to take photos of Death Valley with her hero, legendary photographer David Bailey.
