The annual NMA top 100 list of digital agencies has been released and the usual suspects are back on form.
LBI come out on top, at a declared UK turnover of £35,778,000, up from £31,921,000 for last year.
Eight out of the top ten companies increased their turnover from last years figures, which shows that the general growth trend in the industry is still going on which is nothing but good news. I suspect that as client’s begin to throw more and more cash into the digital mixing bowl this will continue as a trend. Only TEQUILA\ (7th) and Proximity (10th) showed a decrease in turnover from last year.
Just over half (11) of the top twenty class themselves as Marketing companies, with a further 7 being Design and Build, and the last 2 Technical.
If you compare like for like, with Marketing agencies in a list, we get LBI 1st, MRM 2nd, TEQUILA\ 3rd, AKQA 4th and Proximity running up in 5th.
I have a soft spot for 34th position, Lawton eMarketing, despite their aweful "e" name (which thankfully they’ve now changed to Five-by-Five Media), as they’re based in Southampton which is close to where I live. Always nice to see an agency from outside the capital (although they do now have a London satellite office) giving us big city boys a run for their money! Also good to see that Steve Sponder, who I spoke with about 6 years ago for a short period of time, still at the healm – that’s a long time in this world.
Howard
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