About
Culture
Oyster is a marketing agency providing strategic marketing, design and advertising services that bridge the gap between you and your customers. We strive to enable, empower and grow every business we work with through engaging, successful communication.
In business since 1995, we are problem-solvers who deliver a proactive, fast and flexible service, sharing ideas and creating memorable content on time and on budget. As you would expect from a leading marketing agency, we not only aim for all our work to look fantastic and perform exceptionally, but we also make sure your business goals are always at the heart of everything we do.
At the same time we seek to challenge your expectations and encourage you to go further and achieve better results. Mediocrity and a ‘that will do’ attitude is not acceptable. Innovation, originality and creativity are the rule.
By taking the time to understand your business, competitors, target audiences and buyer behaviour, we develop strategies and create outstanding work that helps you achieve your goals. From our initial briefing meeting, right through to project completion, we will work closely with you to provide original creative solutions and offer expert advice.
Our experienced marketing agency team brings together many years of ‘big agency’ and marketing experience, yet as a small, agile business we operate with much lower overheads than larger agencies and clients find this combination means their budgets go further.
Facilitating your ‘bridge to market’ also provides the unique opportunity to raise standards of brand presentation and communications and it is this that underpins our passion to innovate and create original and compelling solutions, at the same time as delivering real and lasting change for our clients.
As an independent graphic design and marketing agency, we bring a fresh eye and new ideas to the table. Whether you’re looking for help with a one-off project or a dedicated out-of-house resource to operate as an extension to your own team, Oyster can help. Contact us today to discuss your requirements.
Leadership team
Roger Gosling
Chairman
Before joining Oyster Roger ran a successful agency, GKL Communications, for many years. Prior to that, he ran the technical division of one the UK’s leading agencies, with responsibility for launching major brands including Apple and Symantec in the UK. At GKL his focus was on technical markets such as Automotive, Building Services and Manufacturing. In this period Roger successfully worked with many major companies including Mitsubishi Electric, Drayton Controls, Mannesmann Tally, CC-Link Partner Association, HMS and Moog Controls.
Iain Humphrey
Creative Managing Partner
With over 30 years’ experience in the creative industry Iain has worked in various capacities for agencies including AMV BBDO and J Walter Thompson. Recent account experience includes StepStone Solutions, Tesco, Shell, Airbus and Mitsubishi Electric. He has direct experience in brand management, advertising, corporate communications and event support while keeping up to date with developments in the digital sector.
Janine Humphrey
Creative Managing Partner
With over 30 years’ experience in the design industry Janine has worked as a designer and creative lead for a wide range of agencies including Copywrite, Holmes & Marchant, J Walter Thompson and Interbrand. Her account experience includes Mattel, McDonald’s, Walkers and Tesco and she has direct experience in brand management, retail packaging, point of sale and licensed product development.
Michellee Johnson
Senior Digital Marketing Manager
Michellee is a strategic and results-driven digital marketing leader, now bringing her expertise to Oyster Studios as Senior Digital Marketing Manager. Michellee has over 18 years of experience leading brand strategy, digital marketing, communication strategies, and growth initiatives across the tech, charity and financial sectors. At Oyster, Michellee leads the development and execution of high-impact digital marketing strategies, managing paid media, SEO, PPC, social media, and email marketing to maximise engagement and ROI.
Clients
Testimonials
“As we come to the end of the campaign I want to thank you for all your hard work and understanding this year. I believe the marketing campaign has improved 10-fold and hope you will continue working with us to promote the 2021 event.”
Karen Cooke, Owner, Swan Events
“We have worked with Oyster for 12 months on developing our social and PPC results to drive more direct sales into our parks. We started with a goal of £1 spend creates an ROI of £2. The results from team Oyster have by far exceeded these initial goals with recent overall results 16 times spend [Update: this figure was 71.92 times in August 2020]. This was one of our great success stories in 2019. We continue to test, measure and learn from the campaigns and fully expect even greater results in 2020. This is without a doubt one of our top 2 marketing mediums that engage our customers and deliver strong results.”
Miranda Ray, Sales & Marketing Director, Go Jump In
“I presented everything that Andron & Oyster have been working on at the company meeting recently using the new PowerPoint presentation format you designed, and everything was very well-received by all employees. A great job is being done and I thank you all for your efforts. Our new brochure and website are looking great!”
Andy Thomson, Sales Manager, Andron HANDLING
